ORDER-2018-168 : A Resolution Recognizing National Police Week 2018

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▶ 42:51 Speaker 5: and other city officials. Order 2018-168, a resolution recognizing National

▶ 42:59 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: Police Week 2018. Alderman Lemmerman. Thank you, Mr. President. I'd like to ask for

▶ 43:04 Michael P. Zwirko: immediate consideration of this order. Alderman Lemmerman proposes immediate consideration of this order. Is there an objection? Hearing none. A motion to

▶ 43:10 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: suspend the rules so that we may read the order and bring up the members of the Melrose Police Department who are here tonight, including Chief Lyle. Second the

▶ 43:19 Michael P. Zwirko: motion to suspend Alderman Lemmerman moves to suspend the rules pursuant to the order 2 0 1 8 dash 1 6 8 it has been seconded by Alderman Forbes all those in favor aye any opposed would you like to come up

▶ 44:00 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: thank you very much to the members of the board for allowing for immediate consideration of this order so we may read the resolution into the record with the members of the police department here with us tonight and thank you to Lyle and the officers for coming tonight to join us I know there are several officers that were here as well and they were called away to another situation to respond to a situation in the city which I think is just indicative of why we present this resolution every year so before I read it as in past years I'd like to give a quick bit of background and also give Chief Lyle an opportunity to speak as well National Police Week takes place every year within the calendar week of May 15th which is known as Peace Officers Memorial Day. This is a special day to recognize those law enforcement officers who lost their lives in the line of duty. Here in Melrose, we remember three people in particular. Melrose Police Officer Joseph Paul Martin worked in the department for 10 years and on May 31st, 1969, Officer Martin responded to a call that resulted in a foot chase with two suspects. As a result of that chase, Officer Martin suffered a heart attack and later died, leaving behind a wife and two children. On September 5, 1985, Melrose Crossing guard Mary Foley stepped between a group of children and a speeding car. She saved the kids by pushing them out of the way, but in the process was struck and killed herself. Officer Garrett Swayze grew up in Melrose and graduated from Melrose High School in 1989. In 2009, he became an officer with the University of Colorado Police Department, and on November 27, 2015, he responded to a report of an active shooter, and he was shot and killed protecting his community. Police Week is also a time to recognize the incredible duty and responsibility taken on by all police officers and the sacrifices they make to do this job. We are thankful to the Melrose Police for the work that they do every single day that allows us to live in safely in this community and for the many additional ways that they contribute to our community through coffee with a cop events, educational community meetings, an annual golf tournament just to name a few and this is also a good time to plug that the second annual golf tournament is now open for registrations and will take place on august 24th so for all of these reasons through this resolution we hope to show our gratitude for all law enforcement officers who regularly put the safety of their communities ahead of their own including those with us here tonight so before we read the resolution i'd like

▶ 46:20 Speaker 11: to ask chief lyle if you have a few words um just a couple couple things thank you so much This has been kind of a tough year for Massachusetts, New England, and law enforcement in general. We've lost 47 officers since January 1. Most recently, Sergeant Gannon of the Yarmouth Police Department, and today they buried Corporal Eugene Cole from the Somerset County Sheriff's Department up in Maine. Melrose Police Department went up there today. We were down in Yarmouth, representatives of the department. so please you see an officer it's just he is a member of your community I'm a memory of community all these gentlemen here and the guys that are working the shift we're members of the community and we care about our community thank you

▶ 47:14 Jennifer L. Lemmerman: well now read the resolution a resolution recognizing National Police Week 2018 whereas there are approximately 900,000 law enforcement officers certainly serving communities across the United States including the dedicated members of the Melrose Police Department, and whereas the Melrose Board of Aldermen honors and commends all those who risk their lives while serving the citizens of Melrose in order to protect our safety and welfare, and whereas May 15th is designated as Peace Officers Memorial Day in honor of all fallen officers and their families, and whereas the names of these dedicated public servants are engraved on the walls of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C., and whereas 360 names of fallen heroes are being added to the Law Enforcement Officers Memorial this spring and whereas among the names included on the memorial are those of morrow's police officer Joseph Martin and morrow's native University of Colorado police officer Garrett Swayze and whereas the service and sacrifice of officers Martin and Swayze and all officers killed in the line of duty will be honored during the national law enforcement officers memorial funds 30th annual candlelight vigil as part of National Police Week which takes place this year on May 13th to 19th now therefore be it resolved that the Mauro's Board of Aldermen formally designates May 13th through 19th 2018 as Police Week in the City of Mauro's and publicly salutes those men and women who have committed their lives to public safety in our community and in communities across the nation on this seventh day of May 2018.

▶ 49:02 Speaker 12: Thank you so much.

▶ 49:15 Peter D. Mortimer: Motion to place the order on file Mr. President.

▶ 49:18 Speaker 3: Second.

▶ 49:18 Michael P. Zwirko: The motion to place the order on file by Alderman Mortimer, second by Alderman Lemmerman all those in favor any opposed file next item order 2018