Call to Order

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▶ 0:00 Peter D. Mortimer: I don't know what the gavel is, but good evening, ladies and gentlemen. You don't know what the gavel is, do you? I think I saw it. Would you see it?

▶ 0:09 Speaker 1: Yes, almost. Plain sight.

▶ 0:13 Speaker 2: I'm going to log out and log back in.

▶ 0:14 Speaker 1: That was the worst head spot.

▶ 0:15 Speaker 3: I actually understood what he was doing when he got in.

▶ 0:17 Speaker 4: Maybe it was logged in from the last time.

▶ 0:19 Speaker 3: I just logged back in again.

▶ 0:20 Speaker 5: You're such a smart man.

▶ 0:23 Speaker 1: Slowly, I turned.

▶ 0:26 Speaker 6: Step by step.

▶ 0:30 Peter D. Mortimer: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is the Committee of Appropriations, the Committee of the Whole of the Melrose Board of Aldermen. This meeting is being recorded by MMTV and is available for future viewing by going onto the MMTV website or onto the City of Melrose website. And you can get a hard copy DVD from MMTV as well.

▶ 1:02 Peter D. Mortimer: We have one order on our agenda, but before we proceed to that order I will announce the members of our board who are here this evening. I am Peter Mortimer, I am the chair. The vice chair is Alderman Jacqueline Bird. We are also joined by Alderman Gail Inferna, Alderman John Tramontozzi, Alderman Monica Medeiros, Alderman Robert Boisselle, Alderman Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis, Alderman Jennifer Lemmerman, Alderman Scott Forbes, and President Donald L. Kahn, Jr. Is there a motion to open the floor for public participation, please? So moved. Second.