Call to Order

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▶ 0:06 Speaker 1: they're just funny to listen.

▶ 0:10 Jen Grigoraitis: Good evening. Today is Tuesday, April 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 pursuant to current allowances under the open meeting law and acted under chapter 2 of the acts of 2023 signed into law by Governor Healy on March 29th. 2023 City councilor. Geometry is participating in this meeting tonight remotely via the city Zoom platform all votes. This evening will be taken by roll call and members must be clearly audible to each other and to the public at this time, please rise in salute the flag.

▶ 1:05 Speaker 2: For which it stands one nation

▶ 1:11 Speaker 3: under God indivisible with

▶ 1:15 Speaker 4: liberty and justice for all.

▶ 1:20 Jen Grigoraitis: Thank you madam. Clerk. Will you please call the roll

▶ 1:23 Speaker 5: counselor? Sonella? Yeah counselor Eccles your counselor Garipay here counselor. Jamaladin.

▶ 1:31 Speaker 5: Here Council Karim chitty here. Counselor McMaster here. Councilman Migliorelli here counselor. Oh

▶ 1:37 Speaker 6: bremski councilor Stewart here counselor Williams

▶ 1:40 Speaker 7: here president Grigoraitis here 10 president 10

▶ 1:42 Jen Grigoraitis: present. So please know that this is a quorum for the record at this time. We will move on to the reading of the minutes at this time. I will entertain a motion to accept without reading the city council joint meeting with the school committee meeting minutes from March 3rd, 2023 and the city council regular meeting minutes from April 3rd, 2023. So moved second. So we have a motion made by counselor. Sonella seconded by counselor Eccles. Mr. Clerk, can you please call the roll?