Call to Order

Transcript (~2 min @ 8:42)

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▶ 8:41 Speaker 6: and in four minutes we will start the full council meeting. Thank you.

▶ 8:49 Leila Migliorelli: Great. Good evening. The time is 7 45 on Monday, January 6th, 2025. I am President Elli and this meeting of the Melrose City Council is called to order in accordance with Massachusetts Open Meeting Law. This meeting is being broadcast and recorded by Melrose Cable Access tv and will be available for viewing in its entirety,

▶ 9:10 Speaker 6: um, online.

▶ 9:10 Speaker 9: And, um, on the MMTV site. Madam Clerk, will you please call the role?

▶ 9:19 Speaker 5: Absolutely. Councilor Occhio.

▶ 9:23 Speaker 2: Councilor Garipay? Here. Councilor Hamilton? Here. Councilor Jamal Ledine. Here. Councilor Karen Chetty. Here. Brisky. Councilor Stewart? Here. Council Vve? Here.

▶ 9:39 Speaker 2: Council Williams? Here. President Mili. Here. Okay.

▶ 9:42 Speaker 4: That makes I'm also here. What's that? I'm sorry.

▶ 9:45 Speaker 5: Nobody cares. I'm here too. My, oh my gosh.

▶ 9:48 Speaker 4: I just want that, that's all. But not least.

▶ 9:50 Speaker 5: Um, council, the Ramon.

▶ 9:54 Speaker 4: Sorry I haven't been kicked out yet, have I?

▶ 9:55 Speaker 2: Okay. That makes a quorum.

▶ 9:57 Leila Migliorelli: All right. At this time please rise. If you were able to join us in the Pledge of Allegiance, I pledge p

▶ 10:05 Speaker 4: To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. For all.