← City Council · 2023-06-05 · City Council Regular Meeting
Public Comment
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▶ 55:51 Jen Grigoraitis: Seeing no objection, those minutes are now accepted. I will also motion by unanimous consent to open public comment. Seeing no objection, public comment is now open. Don't believe we have anyone joining us in person tonight.
▶ 56:06 Speaker 8: Do we have anyone online?
▶ 56:08 Speaker 2: Uh, there is a person online. If I could just, yep. Mm-hmm. Uh, if you're here for public comment, I think we do have a public commenter. Okay. Um,
▶ 56:27 Speaker 9: Ms. Small, can you hear us?
▶ 56:31 Speaker 8: Me? Yes, we can.
▶ 56:33 Speaker 1: Hello. I'm a, um, a, um, resident of Melrose and a taxpayer.
▶ 56:41 Jen Grigoraitis: You can proceed. This is public comment where you can speak to any item on our agenda.
▶ 56:48 Speaker 1: Yeah, I just wanna ask about the new, uh, MetroTech vocational school and the budget. Um, I know that right now there, um, clans are over budget from the original, uh, plan and I was wondering how Melrose is keeping, um, track of all the budget changes and how Melrose is staying involved. Because I've been going to the school committee meetings for the Vogue and I haven't seen, um, people from Melrose there other than Ward Hamilton And I have concerns about the, um, costs of the school. They continue to go up. So I was wondering if Melrose has a plan in place, um, to monitor those changes and what controls they'll be putting in place as the school continues to move forward with their design.
▶ 57:44 Jen Grigoraitis: Thank you for your comments. Just so you know, um, public comment is the ability for the public to speak, but it, the council does not respond to those questions. So your, your comments will be noted for the record.
▶ 57:54 Speaker 1: Okay. Thank you very much.
▶ 57:55 Jen Grigoraitis: Thank you. Do we have anyone else? Uh, not at this time. Okay. Seeing there's no one else I'll motion by unanimous consent to close public comment. Okay. Public comment is now closed and then I will now we have our operating budget hearing scheduled for 8:00 PM So I will now motion by unanimous consent to open