Call to Order

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▶ 0:00 Speaker 1: Oh, that was terrible.

▶ 0:04 Manjula Karamcheti: I'm doing it again. Much better. Good evening everyone. It's July 8th, 2024. This is a meeting of the Health Education and Welfare Committee. I'm Counselor Carm Chaney, the chair. Joining me tonight. Our counselor Hamilton, president Leila Elli, ex-Officio, and non-voting member Councilor Stewart. Currently, we have no counselors who are participating online, but if that changes, we will move to a, uh, roll call,

▶ 0:35 Speaker 2: vote for all of our votes.

▶ 0:38 Manjula Karamcheti: And I, for the record, I do want everyone to know that Councilor Romanul has just arrived and will be joining us as well as a voting member of HEW.

▶ 0:49 Manjula Karamcheti: And this also provides notice of a quorum for the record in accordance with Open Meeting Law. This meeting is being recorded and broadcast on our local cable access channel, MMTV, as well as live streamed through mmt v.org. This meeting will be available for future viewing through the City of Melrose website. Meeting portal is well,