Call to Order

Transcript (~1 min @ 36:20)

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▶ 36:13 Mark Garipay: Good evening. The time is 8, 8 10 on Thursday, May 15th. This is a joint public hearing of the Melrose City Council and the Melrose Planning Board. I'm Mark Ape, the chair of, um, appropriations and oversight. I'm joined by Greg Sampson, who is the chair of the planning board. We are also joined tonight by, uh, vice chair of appropriations, Jamal Ledine, counselor, uh, Williams, Hamilton Chetty, Reky, Stewart, Vandiver Al, um, RO and President Elli. Um, this, uh, serves actually, why don't we take a roll call, vote for, uh, the planning board.

▶ 36:54 Speaker 5: Uh, sure. So for the planning board, um, I see Paul King, um, Brian Gregory. Tim Bailey. Beth dhe. Gonna never get that close. Okay. And, um, a new member whose name I don't even know yet. Mm-hmm. Steven Barron. Steven Barron. Thank you Steve. This is a quorum of the planning board. Welcome.

▶ 37:14 Mark Garipay: This, uh, this serves as a notice of a quorum for the public record. The public hearing is now open in accordance with the open meeting law. This hearing is being recorded, live and broadcast live on, um, MMTB. Um, I will open the public comment portion of the hearing, um, by unanimous consent. If there are no objections, seeing no objections, public comment is now open. This is the portion of the meeting or the hearing where anyone can speak to the items in front of us. Um, seeing no one in the gallery looking to speak, is there anyone on online?