ORDER-2015-74 : A Resolution honoring the Melrose High School Football Team for making it to the Super Bowl at Gillette Stadium on Saturday, December 6, 2014

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▶ 10:38 Speaker 7: moves to return the orders to the table the motion is seconded by alderman Boisselle on the motion all All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Motion passes. Those two orders will be returned to the table.

▶ 10:51 Speaker 3: Order 2015-74, a resolution honoring the Melrose High School football team for making it to the Super Bowl at Gillette Stadium on Saturday, December 6, 2014.

▶ 11:03 Peter D. Mortimer: Mr. President, I rise to request immediate consideration.

▶ 11:06 Speaker 7: Alderman Mortimer asks for immediate consideration of Order 21574. Is there an objection to immediate consideration? There is not.

▶ 11:16 Peter D. Mortimer: Mr. President, I make a motion to amend the order to include the words further declaring the week of December 1st through December 6th, 2014, as Melrose Red Raiders Week. Second. Second.

▶ 11:29 Speaker 7: Alderman Mortimer makes a motion to amend the order. The motion is seconded by Alderman Medeiros. Is there any discussion on the motion? All those in favor of the motion to amend indicate by saying aye. Aye. Anyone opposed?

▶ 11:42 Peter D. Mortimer: Mr. President, I have the resolution before us. I'm going to read the part just for tonight, very quick and simple. And then there'll be a more extensive honorific ceremony on December 15th in these chambers. Be it resolved, whereas the Melrose High School football team has qualified for the state championship Super Bowl for the first time in over 30 years. The Melrose Board of Aldermen hereby join Mayor Robert Dolan in declaring the week of December 1st through December 6th, Melrose Red Raiders Week. People are asked to wear red, especially on Friday and Saturday during the home for the holidays. And we also want to extend congratulations to the Melrose High football team for winning their game on Friday, which was postponed. And they faced what seemed to be unnecessarily adverse conditions, to put it mildly, and that's the resolution. Thank you, Walden and Mortimer. Mr. President, I make a motion to lay the balance of the order on the table until December 15th.

▶ 12:44 Speaker 7: Second. Alderman Mortimer makes a motion to table Order 215-74, seconded by Alderman Boisselle. On the motion, all those in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? That order will be laid on the table until our next full board meeting, which is scheduled for December 15th.