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Appointment of Gail Infurna, 12 Mt. Vernon Street, to the Melrose Elderly & Disabled Taxation Fund Committee

Passed · RECOMMEND [5 TO 0] Yes: Manjula Karamcheti, Cal Finocchiaro, Robb Stewart, Leila Migliorelli, Kimberly Vandiver. Absent: Maya Jamaleddine.

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(ID # 12635) Appointment/Reappointment Appointment of Gail Infurna, 12 Mt. Vernon Street, to the Melrose Elderly & Disabled Taxation Fund Committee Recommend City Council

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▶ 21:02 Kimberly Vandiver: Savage grilling. Thank You. So we have two more, three more items on our agenda. Thank you. Um, ID number, uh, 1 2 6 3 5.

▶ 21:11 Jen Grigoraitis: The appointment of gay in Ferna 12 Mount Vernon Street to the Melrose Elderly and Disabled Taxation Fund Committee. Uh, did you want to add anything about? Sure. Um, former mayor in Ferna, I know had a scheduling conflicts night and wasn't able to be here. I'm respectfully requesting you consider her appointment. I'd really like to get this group fully up and running. Um, I believe you're all familiar with her. She served as the mayor of the city of Melrose. She also is a longtime member of the city council representing Ward five. And she has, um, spent her entire professional career in nursing. She is heavily involved in many, um, organizations throughout Melrose, including the Bridge, um, the Chamber of Commerce she's on, or was, or currently is on the board of Melrose Wakefield Hospital. She brings broad expertise and connections to the community and is incredibly passionate about being engaged in this work on behalf of residents. And I'm really thrilled that she was willing to step up and she has agreed to serve as chair as well. I'm, oh,

▶ 22:04 Speaker 4: Go ahead. Thank you. Uh, is that Councillor Stewart? I was going to make a motion to recommend

▶ 22:10 Speaker 3: And I'm happy to second that motion.

▶ 22:12 Kimberly Vandiver: Recommend Councillor Stewart. Uh, second vice chair car. Shady. Anybody on discussion? All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? So that will also, that also passes and we'll go to the full council with a recommendation. Uh, the next item on our agenda is ID number 1 2 6 3 6. The appointment of Anne Ahern, 98 West Emerson Street to the Park Commission. And would you like to speak to her as Sure. I, It's possible she's outside. I'm not quite sure what's going on out there. Oh, yeah,