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▶ 1:05:52 Bradley Freeman: Yeah. Good evening. The time is seven 50 on Tuesday, January 20th, 2026. My name is Council President Freeman. This meeting of the Melrose City Council is called to order in accordance with the Massachusetts Open Meeting Law. This meeting is being broadcast and recorded by Melrose Cable Access tv and will be available for viewing in its entirety on MMTV and throughout the city website. Madam Clerk, will you please call the role? Yes.

▶ 1:06:19 Speaker 10: Councilor Chen. Here. Councilor Occhio? Here. Councilor Jamal Ledine. Councillor. Karen Chetty. Here. Councillor Kowal? Here. Cremsky. Here. Councilor Park. Here. Councilor Romanul? Here. Councilor Vandiver? Here. Councilor Williams? Here. President Freeman Here. Okay. That makes for a quorum.

▶ 1:06:40 Bradley Freeman: Thank you. At this time, please rise if you're able to join in the Pledge of Allegiance.

▶ 1:06:45 Speaker 1: IP James Fly the United States of America and to Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice Spro.