Call to Order

Transcript (~2 min @ 27:48)

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▶ 27:47 Mark Garipay: There you go. Okay. Good evening. The time is 7 31 on Monday, February 10th. This is a joint public hearing of the Melrose City Council in the Melrose Planning Board, I am Mark Ape, the Chair of the Appropriations and Oversight Committee. I'm joined next to me by Greg Sampson, the chairperson of the Planning Board. We are also joined by other council members, and I'm gonna ask the clerk to take the role. Mm-hmm.

▶ 28:13 Speaker 9: I will start off with the city councilors. Councilor Jamal? Here. Councilor Fro? Here. Councilor Hamilton? Here. Councilor Karen Chetty. Here. Councilor Reky? Here. Councillor Romanul? Here. Councillor Stewart? Here. Councillor Vandiver. Here. Councilor Williams. President Elli. Here. Councilor Garipay Here. Okay. I will now move over to the board members for the planning board. Gregory Sampson here. And Susan Ward Here. Carla Marelli. She's

▶ 28:50 Speaker 4: not, she's not here tonight.

▶ 28:52 Speaker 9: Okay. Thank you. Paul King. Paul King. Here. Michael Leni. Here. Brian Gregory? Here. Tim Bailey. Here. Jack A. Welch Jr. Here. Beth Dele. Dhy Dhe. DHE D. Okay.

▶ 29:13 Mark Garipay: This serves as a notice of a quorum for the record. And the public hearing is now open in accordance with the Open Meeting law. This hearing is being recorded live, uh, and broadcast live on MMTV. Um, I gonna hold public comment until after we hear the presentation tonight. So just for anyone that may be online or in the gallery. Um, that will be after, after we hold the, uh, presentation. So we're gonna go on to the agenda, which is, uh, ID number the first one. 1 2 3 9 8 amending the Melrose Zoning Ordinance to allow for accessory dwelling units. And I will hand it over to Laurie Souza.