Call to Order

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▶ 0:25 Speaker 2: Okay. Thank you.

▶ 0:28 Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

▶ 0:30 Speaker 1: Thank you. I'm going to sit in this chair, I'm going to stand for the whole meeting.

▶ 0:34 Speaker 5: Okay, that'll be good.

▶ 0:38 Peter D. Mortimer: All right, good evening ladies and gentlemen. This is the Appropriations Committee of the Melrose Board of Aldermen.

▶ 0:48 Peter D. Mortimer: I am the chairman of the Appropriations Committee, Peter Mortimer. The vice chairman is Jacqueline Bird. It's a committee of the whole consisting of every Board of Alderman member, including Gail Inferna, John Tramantozzi, Monica Medeiros, Robert Boycelle, Frances Wright, Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis, Jennifer Lemmerman, Scott Forbes, and Donald Kahn. I would like to point out that this meeting is being recorded and is available on the MMTV and our local website, if someone would like to see this meeting at a future date. I would now welcome a motion to open the floor for public participation has been made. Alderman Inferna, was that you, Alderman Lemmerman, or you, that was Alderman Lemmerman, has seconded the motion. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed?