Call to Order

Transcript (~2 min @ 0:05)

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▶ 0:05 Speaker 1: Okay folks, let's get started.

▶ 0:10 Speaker 1: Thank y'all for joining me today. Let me just switch my view so I can see everybody. Great. Okay. Gonna give Maya just a second to pop on. Here she comes. Wonderful.

▶ 0:22 Ryan Williams: Okay, I am going to get started. So, welcome everybody.

▶ 0:27 Speaker 2: Today is Thursday, May 23rd, 2023, and this is a meeting of the Legal and Legislative Committee of the City Council of Melrose. I'm the chair of the committee, Ryan Williams, and I'm joined today by voting members, counselors, John o' Briski,

▶ 0:41 Ryan Williams: Kristin Maya, Jamal Dean, and Jack Eckles. This serves as notice of a quorum for the record.

▶ 0:47 Speaker 2: Pursuant to the allowances under the open meeting, law enacted under chapter two of the Acts of 2023 signed into into Law by Governor Healy on March 29th, 2023. This meeting is being held remotely via the city's Zoom platform in accordance with the open meeting law.

▶ 1:02 Ryan Williams: The meeting will be recorded and will be broadcast on TV by our partners at MMT v as well as live streamed on their website, attv three.org. And we thank them for their service. Uh, so we have one order before us today.

▶ 1:23 Speaker 1: Oh, I lost your order. Just gimme a second here. Sorry.

▶ 1:41 Speaker 1: One second. Sorry about that. I had the tab open and I closed it.

▶ 1:47 Speaker 3: I can email it to you if you