Call to Order

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▶ 0:03 Speaker 1: Good evening.

▶ 0:05 Jen Grigoraitis: Today is Monday, December 18th, 2023, and the time is 7:46 PM This meeting of the Melrose City Council is called to order. I am President Grigoraitis in accordance with the Massachusetts Open Meeting Law. This meeting is recorded by Melrose Cable Access and will be available for viewing in its entirety on MMTV and through the city website Link. And I just wanna say at the end of the year, thank you to our friends at MMTV for providing access to our meetings all year long.

▶ 0:31 Speaker 2: Madam Clerk, will you please call the role

▶ 0:35 Speaker 3: Here. Councilor EC Eccles. Here. Councilor Garipay? Here. Councilor Aldine. Here. Councilor Karen Shady. Here.

▶ 0:40 Speaker 4: Councilor McMaster? Here. Councilor Elli. Here.

▶ 0:47 Speaker 4: Councilor Reky. Councilor Stewart. Here. Councilor Williams. President Greg Reis. Here. Nine Present.

▶ 0:52 Jen Grigoraitis: Nine present, which is a quorum. So this meeting will continue at this time.

▶ 0:57 Speaker 2: Please rise as you are able to salute the flag. I pledge all

▶ 1:01 Speaker 1: Pledge allegiance to the flag