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Vote for School Committee Chair and Vice Chair (10 minutes) vote required
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(ID # 11364) Announcements - Superintendent Vote for School Committee Chair and Vice Chair (10 minutes) vote required
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▶ 6:48 Margaret Raymond Driscoll: Seeing none without objection, public comment is now closed. The next item on the agenda is the announcements of the Superintendent of schools and will be, uh, ably presented this evening by, um, the, uh, the Superintendent's Designee and School Committee Council. Amy Linquist.
▶ 7:12 Speaker 2: Alright, guest star. Let's go.
▶ 7:13 Speaker 5: I have to reopen the search. This goes what?
▶ 7:34 Speaker 1: Good evening. In accordance with, um, section 4.2 A of the Melrose City Charter, along with Article three, section 3.2 of the school committee bylaws. It is incumbent upon the school committee to elect a chair and vice chair in my capacity as designee of the Executive Secretary and as school committee council, I shall conduct the straw poll election of chair and vice chair for calendar year 2024. I invite the newly elected members to join us up at the horseshoe.
▶ 8:18 Speaker 1: Are there any nominations for the position of chair?
▶ 8:23 Speaker 4: I, I would like to nominate Margaret Driscoll for the position of Chair
▶ 8:27 Speaker 1: Dory with the nominates, um, Margaret Driscoll. Ms. Hogan, would you please call the role, uh, for nomination as Ms. Driscoll to serve as chair of the Melrose School Committee for 2024. Ms. O'Connell? Yes. Mayor Broder? Yes. Ms. RA Thomas? Yes. Ms. Driscoll? Yes. Mr. Hotman? Yes. Sorry. Mr. Kelly? Yes. Mr. sel? Yes. Ms. Vy? Yes. Ms. Mickey Andrew? Yes.
▶ 9:01 Speaker 1: That was, that's a unanimous vote for Ms. Driscoll as chair. Are there any nominations for the position of Vice-Chair?
▶ 9:11 Speaker 3: It would be my honor to nominate Ms. Withy as Vice Chair
▶ 9:17 Speaker 1: Ms. Withy nominated, um, by Ms. Sal, Ms. Hogan, will you please call the roll call Mr. O'Connell? Yes. Mayor Broder? Yes. Ms. Ozzie Thomas? Yes. Ms. Driscoll? Yes. Mr. Kelly? Yes. Mr. Hockman? Yes. Mr. sel? Yes. Ms. withy? Yes. Ms. McAndrew? Yes. A unanimous vote for Ms. Withy as Vice-chair at the January 9th meeting, the superintendent tell the superintendent will preside over the official election where the newly formed committee will vote. The process will operate in the same manner as it did tonight with the STR hall vote. STR hall vote. Once the vote is complete, the newly voted chair will begin the selection of a subcommittee Chairman for 2024 and prepare for the January, 2023 meeting. Members should indicate interest in subcommittee and liaison positions to the incoming chair by January 12th. Please. Are there any further business in this regard, Ms. Resco?
▶ 10:24 Margaret Raymond Driscoll: Um, I just wanted to express my appreciation in your support, and I'm grateful to all of you. I look forward to serving in this capacity next year, and, um, looking forward to a very productive and rewarding and exciting year on behalf of all of our students. So, thank you,
▶ 10:41 Speaker 4: Ms. Great. Thank you. I'm also honored to be serving. Thank you so much. And I look forward to the year to come.
▶ 10:49 Speaker 1: Great. There being no further business in this regard. The agenda item is complete and the chair will retake the gavel.
▶ 11:06 Speaker 2: I should thank you.
▶ 11:09 Speaker 5: Practically a judge with the guy. Yeah.
▶ 11:11 Margaret Raymond Driscoll: Thank you so much. Attorney Lindquist. Next on our agenda is the consent agenda, which tonight, uh, includes, uh, six items. The, uh, school committee regular meeting, minutes of November 28th, 2023, the school committee's special meeting, uh, minutes of December 5th, 2023, a surplus materials memo, donations, and M-H-S-M-V-M-M-S field trip request and the personnel report. Would anyone like to remove anything from the consent agenda? Seeing none. Do I have a motion for approval made by Mr. O'Connell? Seconded by Ms. Razzi Thomas. All in favor? Opposed? And that motion carries unanimously. Next on our agenda is, uh, are the reports of our subcommittees, and I would invite Ms. Rozi Thomas, forward for Finance and Facilities.