Public Comment

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▶ 9:34 Jen Grigoraitis: Good evening. Today is Thursday, June 16th. 2022. And the time is 7:18 PM. This is yet another meeting of the Appropriations and oversight committee. Joining me tonight are counselors Echols garapay. Jamala, Dean Stewart Karm Chaney and President sonella ex-officio and Vice chair Migliorelli asked me to note for the record that she is home recovering from covid and regrets that she cannot be here tonight. At this time, I will motion by unanimous consent to open public comment. Seeing no objection public comment is now open. This is the portion of our meeting where any member of the public can speak to any item on our agenda. Is there anyone in the audience wishing to speak tonight?

▶ 10:20 Jen Grigoraitis: Sir, you wishing to speak in public comment?

▶ 10:24 Speaker 4: No.

▶ 10:26 Jen Grigoraitis: Okay, do we have anyone online? Not the small one. Okay, so we do not have anyone in person or in line wishing to speak at this time. I will motion by unanimous consent to close public comment. Public comment is now closed and I do just want to go back. I fail to note that we do have a quorum for the record and that pursuant with the open meeting law. This meeting is being televised on mmtv website and cable channels and will be available for viewing at a future date on the city of Melrose website. We have a 11 orders before us tonight, and we have many special guests in the audience to come and speak on those orders. So I'm going to ask my colleagues to bear with me. I think I've done some reordering if we take some stuff out of order we can try to get some folks. Before us in an orderly manner, so my first request would be to entertain a motion to take order 2022-136. And appropriation for free cash account zero one dash three two, four zero zero one in the amount of 75,967.40 to various community service line items is set forth herein to take that out of order. So the second so we have a motion made by counselor Stewart seconded by President Snell to take order 2022-136 out of order. Is there any discussion