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MINUTES APPROVAL
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CITY OF MELROSE APPROPRIATIONS & OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE MINUTES● OCTOBER 20, 2025 Council Chamber, First Floor, Melrose City Hall Committee Meeting 7:20 PM 562 Main Street, Melrose, MA 02176 I. CALL TO ORDER Meeting was Called to order by Chair Garipay at 7:20 PM Attendee Name Title Status Arrived Maya Jamaleddine Vice Chair Present Cal Finocchiaro Present Ward Hamilton Absent Manjula Karamcheti Present John Obremski Present Devin Romanul Present Robb Stewart Present Kimberly Vandiver Present Ryan Williams Present Leila Migliorelli President, Ex Oficio Present Mark Garipay Chair Present II. MINUTES APPROVAL 1. Appropriations and Oversight - Committee Meeting - Oct 6, 2025 7:30 PM Motion to Approve minutes without reading made by Chair Garipay RESULT: ACCEPTED [10 TO 0] AYES: Jamaleddine, Finocchiaro, Karamcheti, Obremski, Romanul, Stewart, Vandiver, Williams, Migliorelli, Garipay ABSENT: Ward Hamilton III. PUBLIC COMMENT Motion to Open public comment made by Chair Garipay at 7:21 PM There were no comments on the floor or via Zoom Motion to Close public comment made by Chair Garipay at 7:22 PM IV. APPROPRIATION 1. TRNSF-2026-2: Library Fines Appropriation FY2026 Appropriate the amount of $16,550.00 from account 29032-590000 (Library Fines Account) to account 016112-534200 (Lib Exp Books & Periodicals). City of Melrose Page 1 10/29/2025 5:36 PM Minutes Appropriations & Oversight Committee October 20, 2025 From: City Council ASSIGN TO COMMITTEE Motion to Recommend to full council made by Councilor Stewart Seconded by Councilor Karamcheti All were in favor and motion passed Comments by councilors on discus
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▶ 23:52 Mark Garipay: Councilor Romanul, councilor Vandiver, councilor Fanuc Chiro, counselor Reky Councilor Stewart and President, uh, Elli. This serves as a notice of the quorum for the record in accordance with Open Meeting law. This meeting's being recorded and broadcast live on MMTV. At this time, I'll motion by unanimous consent to approve the, without reading the minutes of the October 6th, 2025, uh, appropriation and oversight meeting. So you, no objections. Those minutes are now approved. Um, moving on to public comment. Uh, I will motion by unanimous consent to open the floor for public comment. Seeing no objections, the public comment portion of the meeting is open. Is there anyone in the gallery that would like to come forward and speak tonight?