ORDER-2022-84 : Appointment of Kimberly Marolda, 811 Franklin Street, to the Historical Commission for a term to expire on the last day of February 2024.

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▶ 18:25 Jack Eccles: all opposed third item on our agenda order 2022-84 appointment of kimberly marolda 811 franklin street to the historical commission for a term to expire on the last day of february 2024.

▶ 18:47 Paul Brodeur: mr roll is with us hi so again uh members of the committee and uh and other counselors uh miss marolda doesn't quite uh have the roots that mr biblios does but i think you'll find she's still a fantastic choice uh she too came uh reached out to us about a uh about a position on the historic commission her term would expire in february of 2024. kim has lived in melrose since 2016 but interestingly and she can tell you this for herself but she grew up in rural wisconsin which is a little bit of a different perspective than i think a lot of folks in and around melrose have in terms of her educational background she graduated from the university of wisconsin with a get this with a triple bachelor of arts in anthropology classical history and ethnic studies she spent a decade in milwaukee immersed in historical museum studies and during that time she developed a passion for researching presenting and archiving archiving items items and stories of historical uh significance it's like she's quite frankly picture like she had in mind years ago in wisconsin that someday she would move to boston or the boston suburbs and then seek a position on the melrose historic commission she is dedicated to building cultures that value people and promotes progress and productivity something she developed developed over a 13 plus year career in human resources i'm very excited that she stepped forward and i offer a field consideration

▶ 20:26 Speaker 5: I'm just really excited to be here. This is my first venture into any sort of City Hall participation in turn other than voting of course, but When I saw that one of my favorite pages that I follow on Facebook in addition to old-time Melrose and a variety of other similarly themed pages

▶ 20:49 Speaker 5: But I was really excited because I have a three and a half year old son who's starting to become significantly more self-sufficient and it's a huge breath of fresh air for me to reclaim my identity as well as time and I really want to make sure that I'm using it wisely having a child can really change your life and your perspective on things and the frivolous nature of just sitting around on your couch doing nothing staring at your phone at the Facebook pages it really made me realize I want to do something more with my time that matches my interests and my strengths and I feel as if I could contribute a of that to this particular commission and i hope you guys feel the same and i would note that as

▶ 21:26 Paul Brodeur: everyone here i think is apparent with the exception of chairman eccles and the fact that you have a a three and a half year old that you can even moderately describe as semi-self-sufficient

▶ 21:44 Speaker 5: today was not a model day of that feather in the cat that's for sure yeah um he knows how to push a lot of uh digital buttons and if that's what self-sufficiency is this day he's got it down pat

▶ 21:55 Ryan Williams: so councilor williams i have two questions uh where in rural wisconsin northwoods it's about

▶ 22:00 Speaker 5: two hours south of lake superior and about two and a half hours to the east of the twin cities so the biggest town we were a town of eight thousand and the nearest town was an hour away that was thirty thousand and that was the biggest town in all of northern wisconsin what time was

▶ 22:18 Ryan Williams: What town was that? I'm sorry? What town was that, the big one? Eau Claire. Okay. All right. I happen to spend my entire youth basically in the Dubuque area.

▶ 22:27 Speaker 5: Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. Got it. My great grandmother lived in Platteville, Wisconsin, so not too far from Dubuque. Very familiar with that area.

▶ 22:33 Ryan Williams: Yeah. It's good to see another Midwesterner stepping up.

▶ 22:35 Speaker 5: That's right. We need more of them.

▶ 22:37 Ryan Williams: We're good. I know. I wanted to ask a substantive question about what you think the role of your passion for archiving and archaeology, I'm sorry, anthropology would be. How would you bring that into the Historical Commission?

▶ 22:50 Speaker 5: One of the things that I found that was kind of a subset of the anthropological research and study was going through and educating yourself and then sharing that education with other people and really taking the kind of gleam off of this, these intangible, kind of intimidating, overwhelming, somewhat insignificant to many people aspects of our history and reframing that narrative to show that, hey, this stuff is actually really interesting And it's really cool, and it's really applicable to your daily life in ways that you may not even realize, and being able to work really closely with the various education departments of the two museums in Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Public Museum and the Milwaukee Art Museum, I worked very, very closely with our education teams, and being able to watch certain elements come to life, not only from an adult perspective with seminars, but also from a children's perspective with their weekend classes and their summer-long, week-long programs. being able to bring it to life in a way that made sense to people it made it really valuable to me and allowed me to take a lot more pleasure in diving even deeper into things and learning different ways that it can be presented to people so they can learn to value it and protect it and cherish it just as

▶ 24:04 Jack Eccles: much as I do thank you Thank You councillor Williams before we vote I would also like to say I think that the Melrose Historical Commission Facebook is probably one of the better educational resources out there what is the will of the committee at this time vice chair come to motion to approve second motion approved by vice chair Karim Chetty seconded by council Williams on favor all right all opposed congratulations

▶ 24:34 Speaker 5: energy and enthusiasm to the historic commission oh no problem to see what you come up with it's