ORDER-2016-35 : Proclaiming the month of October 2015 as Domestic Violence Awareness Month and Recognize the accomplishments of the Melrose Alliance Against Violence on its 20 Year Anniversary.

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▶ 8:49 Speaker 3: here who wants to speak okay has a motion been made by alderman mortimer seconded by alderman Boisselle to conclude public participation all those in favor of the motion aye aye anyone opposed motion passes the public participation portion of our meeting is concluded order 2016-35

▶ 9:04 Speaker 7: proclaiming the month of october 2015 as domestic violence awareness month and recognize the accomplishments of the melrose alliance against violence on its 20-year anniversary

▶ 9:19 Gail Infurna: thank you very much mr president i ask for immediate consideration on this resolution

▶ 9:23 Speaker 3: this evening alderman inferno is asking the uh for immediate consideration on order 216-35 is there any objection to immediate consideration there is not suspension of the applicable rules second

▶ 9:38 Speaker 3: the motion to suspend the rules alderman inferno moves to suspend the rules for the purpose i assume of reading the resolution and presenting it the motion is seconded by alderman mortimer on the motion all those in favor aye anyone opposed motion passes the rules are suspended

▶ 9:52 Gail Infurna: thank you mr president may i approach the podium along with our members of the uh maeve

▶ 10:31 Gail Infurna: organization as many of you know this is the 20th year anniversary of maeve so we're doing special um celebrations this year and i just want to congratulate um rebecca mooney on all the work that she has done through the years through those 20 years we have seen those numbers go down while one victim is still one too many it is nice to see that each year the number is going down so and i i say locally that i'm sure it has to do with all the work that your group has been doing so we thank you for that so for our proclamation we have whereas the domestic violence is one of the most critical and far-reaching issues of our time affecting individuals of every age culture class gender race and religion and whereas according to the u.s department of justice domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women between the ages of 15 to 44 every 21 days a woman is killed by domestic violence and more than 3 million children witness acts of domestic violence each year and whereas since last October 16 people have died in Massachusetts as a result of domestic violence including 14 women and two men and whereas for the past 20 years the Melrose Alliance against violence in conjunction with the police department and the Melrose public schools has taken important steps to reduce the best domestic violence in our communities through education outreach and referral services as well as programs to prevent violence such as mentoring teen dating violence and bullying prevention now therefore I Robert Dolan mayor of the city of Melrose Massachusetts and the Melrose Board of Aldermen do hereby proclaim the month of October 2015 as domestic violence awareness month and and recognize the accomplishments of the melrose alliance against violence on its 20th year anniversary signed by robert j dolan and donald khan president thank you and you have this

▶ 12:24 Gail Infurna: opportunity to say what you need to say advertise maybe the walk let that go by well first of all

▶ 12:31 Speaker 8: thank you so much i want to thank the board of aldermen for your sponsorship of the walk again this year and just your ongoing support over the years really means a lot to us i want to just briefly introduce the rest of the team here most of you probably know joan bell and meredith baker our president and vice president and also the co-chairs of this year's walk let's see we've got reverend dominic taranak taranowski he just joined our wars i'm still learning how to say his name Outreach Coordinator Leanne Cassavoy, and Mike Zwerko, Maria Drago, and Joe Colozzo who are all part of our walk committee. We would like to invite all of you as well as the folks at home to our annual walk in Candlelight Vigil. It's also the celebration of our 20th anniversary this year. It will be on Sunday, October 18th at 4 o'clock p.m. And this year it will be at Memorial Hall, which is where the very first Candlelight Vigil took place 20 years ago. ago. They just stood on the steps and there were just about 50 people. We're hoping for close to 500 this year will be inside. And we have lots of special touches planned. We have a special retrospective video. We're honoring our founders. We have a musical performance, children's activities, a community weaving project, an after party, and more. So we really hope all of you will join us our theme this year is weaving together a stronger community it's all of us and we really want to acknowledge the fact that it's because of people like you and so many people in the community that made made made part of the fabric of the community that we want to celebrate that with everyone I think that's it I just I was just going to say that you know our work is not we're proud of what we've accomplished but our work is not over there are actually 16 victims this year last year there were nine we were hoping it would go down every year but it's back up a little bit and so we're proud of what we've accomplished but our work is not done and until that number is zero we will be here um did i forget anything okay thank you very much

▶ 14:44 Speaker 8: Thank you.

▶ 14:56 Speaker 8: Second.

▶ 14:58 Speaker 3: We have a motion before the board that I made by Alderman Inferna, seconded by Alderman McAteer-Margolis. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed?