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Appointment of Assistant City Clerk for a One Year Term City Clerk would like to select Linda Reed
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(ID # 12408) Appointment/Reappointment Appointment of Assistant City Clerk for a One Year Term City Clerk would like to select Linda Reed Ought to Pass City Council City of Melrose Page 1 2/3/2025 6:06 PM
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▶ 3:54 Speaker 3: Madam Clerk.
▶ 3:56 Speaker 1: Good evening. Thank you for being here. Um, I just wanted to take a few minutes, um, to introduce everybody to Linda Reed, who has been working here almost a year as of Wednesday. Um, she is been a huge asset to the 30 Clerk's office. I started there beginning of September, I mean, beginning of October. And, um, she was just holding up the fort for the city clerk's office for the city, for the elections office. Um, I can't say enough things about her. She is the, probably one of the first ones in this building, and she would be one of the last ones in this building if, um, if I allowed her to be. Um, so she has an amazing, strong work ethic. Um, she has a heart of gold. Um, she's very well equipped for this position. Um, great disposition with the, with the residents in town, with the department heads, um, with anyone who calls in. And the phone never stops ringing all day long. So she has the patience of a saint. Um, she was extremely patient with me coming on board along with others from the outside, stopping what she's doing throughout the day and making sure that she took the time to train us on what the procedures and policies were within the organization. She never complained once about that. Um, I can't tell We were only successful because of her. Truly. Um, she is, um, a, a, a great teammate and we work extremely well together, and I strongly, strongly endorse, um, Linda Reed to be the assistant city clerk for the City of Melrose. Do Ms. Reed, Would you like to do anything to say Linda Reed? No, I've
▶ 5:38 Speaker 6: Just been enjoy working with you. It's been great. Mm-hmm.
▶ 5:41 Speaker 1: I didn't know if I wanted to open it up to all of you, so any of you could, you know, ask her any questions. And I wanted to make sure that I put, um, a face and name together for all of you.
▶ 5:50 Robb Stewart: Thank you, Madam Clerk. Any questions from the committee?
▶ 5:58 Robb Stewart: Nope. President Elli.
▶ 5:59 Leila Migliorelli: Thank you. Um, Ms. Reed, thank you Linda, for being here. And, um, I really appreciate Tangie's recommendation, hearing all the great work you, um, have done in the clerk's office. And, um, just curious if there's something that, in your position, having that kind of like bird's eye view of a lot of projects going on that you're looking forward to, maybe digging into more as the assistant city clerk?
▶ 6:23 Speaker 6: Absolutely. Yes. Yeah.
▶ 6:25 Speaker 4: Um, I dunno if you could give an example of, of something in particular.
▶ 6:29 Speaker 6: Um, I'm looking forward to getting into like more, um, administrative type things. Mm-hmm. Um, I, I feel like I was more of doing the daily routine, but getting more into like, maybe a, um, supervisory role for the next person who's taking my position. Mm-hmm. So, great.
▶ 6:54 Speaker 3: Yeah. Thank you Vice. Yeah. Thank
▶ 6:56 Ryan Williams: You. I just wanted to say thank you for coming in. You're certainly gonna be one of the last people to leave today because it's after seven o'clock. Um, and thanks to JI for the recommendation, and it's just great to see you here to show up until like, you know, get to see it face to face. Mm-hmm. Um, and since there were no other questions, I'll motion to recommend this to the full council.
▶ 7:18 Robb Stewart: Second. Okay. So we have a motion to recommend to the full council made by Vice Chair Williams, seconded by Council Romanul. Under discussion, um, Madam Clerk, you'll need to run back there and do a roll call for us.
▶ 7:34 Speaker 6: Thank you. Look forward to it. Thank you.
▶ 7:47 Speaker 1: Okay. Council Williams? Yes. Council Jamal Ledine. President Elli? Yes. Cremsky Councilor Romanul. Yes. Chair Stewart? Yes. Motion passes.
▶ 7:59 Robb Stewart: Thank you Madam Clerk. And Ms. Reed. This will go to the full council for the final vote. You do not need to be present there. Um, you're welcome to join, um, and we're that will be presented again to the full council. Uh, with that, that concludes our, uh, items on the agenda. Um, I will entertain a motion to adjourn.