ORDER-2022-140 : Appointment of Kristin Thorp, of 77 Wentworth Road, to the City of Melrose Council on Aging Board, for a three-year term, said term to expire the last day of February 2025.

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▶ 3:17 Jack Eccles: recommend made by President. Sonella seconded by Vice chair Carm chady all in favor. I ordered 2022-139 is recommended to the full Council. The second and last item on our agenda tonight order 2022-140 appointment of Kristen Thorpe of 77 Wentworth road to the city of Melrose Council on Aging board for three year term said term to expire on the last day of February 2025. Starters with us tonight if you want to both like to speak.

▶ 3:48 Paul Brodeur: Again, thank you very much. Hopefully you all are very familiar with the work of Ms. Thorpe. I toured the idea of trying to get her back involved in the school committee in some way. That was a hard. No for those. You don't know she served in the hardest position in Melrose city government as a member of the school committee for I want to say 11 or 12 years many of those as chair didn't exemplary job both as an education Advocate and someone who could move forward to debate sometimes when it is very challenging to do so in her private sector she is essentially a software expert and you probably all know where most recently from her experience running SDM, which I will let her describe in more detail, but it is a incredible free resource for folks that may struggle with tech in all the ways that it can enter that can enter your life. She has she has offered this community a tremendous amount of her time. And energy and expertise and she is willing to step up again. So I suggest that we jump on this as fast as we can.

▶ 5:00 Speaker 2: Don't know how much I can say beyond what he said STM is a labor of love in the best job in the world. We help people of All walks they don't have to be Melrose citizens. They don't have to be old. They don't have to have income levels. Everything we do is free. We say that our clients skew older but you know, everybody has something to learn we have lots of kids classes over the summer. We help small businesses and nonprofits develop websites and figure out how to do social media and all of that but our bread and butter is helping people who need to use their phone or their emails not coming in on their computer or they want to learn Excel to get a better job or whatever it is. So total feel good job. I love it. I love this city. My husband's on the zoning board. We're we raised three kids here and Melrose schools did them proud and we're really happy to be here and I love our relationship with the senior center, and I'm really happy to be able to help in this way.

▶ 6:15 Robb Stewart: Counselor Stewart. Yeah, Mr. Chair. It's great to see a award 3 resident come to come to us again. And with that I'd like to make a recommendation to the full Board second.

▶ 6:27 Jack Eccles: and discussion any questions

▶ 6:30 Manjula Karamcheti: Just wanted to say thank you so much for offering more of your time to the community. It's appreciated. Thank you.

▶ 6:37 Jack Eccles: Oh after that is some new you and I was a student representative on the school Community around this community some very excited to see come back and serve the community even more. So we have a motion made by counselor Stewart in seconded by