City Council — 2015-11-09

City Council Regular Meeting

Attendance

Jaclyn L. Bird present · Alderman at Large; Robert A. Boisselle present · Ward 4 Alderman; Donald L. Conn Jr. present · President, Alderman at Large; Scott M. Forbes present · Ward 7 Alderman; Gail Infurna present · Ward 5 Alderman; Jennifer L. Lemmerman absent · Ward 2 Alderman; Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis absent · Alderman at Large; Monica C. Medeiros present · Alderman at Large; Peter D. Mortimer present · Ward 6 Alderman; John N. Tramontozzi present · Ward 1 Alderman; Francis X. Wright Jr. present · Ward 3 Alderman

Agenda

Minutes

CITY OF MELROSE BOARD OF ALDERMEN BULLETIN● NOVEMBER 9, 2015 Aldermanic Chamber Regular Meeting 7:45 PM

ORDER-2016-43 Opening Statement Regular Meeting of the Board of Aldermen to be held on Monday, November 9, 2015 at 7:45 P.M. in the Aldermanic Chamber, City Hall, Melrose, MA Attendee Name Title Status Arrived Jaclyn L. Bird Alderman at Large Present Robert A. Boisselle Ward 4 Alderman Present Scott M. Forbes Ward 7 Alderman Present Gail M. Infurna Ward 5 Alderman Present Jennifer L. Lemmerman Ward 2 Alderman Absent Mary Beth McAteer-Margolis Alderman at Large Absent Monica C. Medeiros Alderman at Large Present Peter D. Mortimer Ward 6 Alderman Present John N. Tramontozzi Ward 1 Alderman Present Francis X. Wright Jr. Ward 3 Alderman Present Donald L. Conn Jr. President, Alderman at Large Present

ORDER-2016-44 Appropriation Appropriate from account 01-123012 (Overlay FY12) in the amount of $60,000.00; and Appropriate to account 011412-529300 (Assess Exp Revaluation) in the amount of $60,000.00 for 2016 Revaluation Measure and List Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2016-45 Classification of Property Request to set a Public Hearing on Classification of Property for November 23, 2015 at 7:30 P.M. and subsequently determine the Classification of Property Assigned to Committee Appropriations Committee

ORDER-2016-46 License - Common Victualler Application of Elisabetta Auciello for a Common Victualler License: Sonnys Fire and Wood LLC. dba Wood and Fire at 35-37 Essex Street, Melrose, MA Assigned to Committee Protection and License Committee

ORDER-2015-195 Amending Revised Ordinances City of Melrose Page 1 12/2/2015 4:33 PM Minutes Board of Aldermen November 9, 2015 Amending Melrose Revised Ordinances, Chapter 228-30 by adding paragraph F relative to Sewer Proration as set forth herein Recommitted to Committee Legal & Legislative Committee

ORDER-2015-194 Amending Revised Ordinances Amending Melrose Revised Ordinances, Chapter 228-15 by adding paragraph C relative to Water Proration as set forth herein Recommitted to Committee Legal & Legislative Committee

ORDER-2015-192 Amending Revised Ordinances Amending Melrose Revised Ordinances, Chapter 228-14 by adding paragraph C relative to Water Meters as set forth herein. Recommitted to Committee Legal & Legislative Committee

ORDER-2015-104 Amending Revised Ordinances Amend Melrose Revised Ordinances, Chapter 177-12: Snow and ice removal as set forth herein. Recommitted to Committee Legal & Legislative Committee

ORDER-2015-193 Amending Revised Ordinances Amending Melrose Revised Ordinances, Chapter 228-15 by adding paragraph A (3) relative to Unit Averaging as set forth herein. Recommitted to Committee Legal & Legislative Committee

ORDER-2016-33 Request BE IT ORDERED that the City shall cause all water meters in the City to be read between June 15th and June 30th of each year for the purpose of issuing water and sewer bills for the quarter ending June 30th. Recommitted to Committee Legal & Legislative Committee City of Melrose Page 2 12/2/2015 4:33 PM

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▶ 0:00 The Board of Aldermen for November 9th, 2015. Ms. O'Shea, could you call the roll, please? Alderman DeRivere. Here. Alderman Boisselle. Here. Alderman Boisselle. Here. Alderman DeFord. Here. Alderman DeFord. Here. Alderman McAteer-Margolis. Here. Alderman Davis. Here. Alderman Ward. Here. Alderman DeFord. Here. Alderman Wright. Here. Alderman Kahn. Here. We have a quorum, please stand and join me in saluting the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. President, I make a motion to open the floor for public participation. Alderman Mortimer moves that we commence public participation for this evening.

▶ 1:00 And the motion is seconded by Alderman Boisselle. All those in favor of the motion, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Motion passes. Public participation is commenced pursuant to our rules. Anybody who wishes to speak on any matter that is on our agenda this evening is welcome to do so. And I also would remind everyone that our meeting will be rebroadcast on Melrose Cable Television in accordance with the laws of the commonwealth. Hi, I'm Jerry Moroz. I've been in front of this board a number of times the last few years regarding water and sewer issues, and I attended the water and sewer committee meeting the other day on last Thursday. I was discouraged that the water and sewer committee wants to just have public comment

▶ 2:05 for five minutes and hear what i have to say and then go on and do whatever they do we're not going to fix things without dialogue here the city on its own hasn't done the job i was looking through a report sent from the mwra to the u.s epa it's an annual report on the state of the sewer system um because obviously we have um we had some problems with our sewer system years ago in the eps there's a metric that the mwra uses it's using the industry to establish how leaky are our sewer pipes in melrose and the metric is has an engineering calculation and and there's some, it gives an estimate, but the metric takes the number of miles of sewer we have, and it takes how large the pipes are in those miles of sewerage,

▶ 3:05 and they come up with this thing called an inch diameter mile. And what they do is they try, by doing that they can compare us and Boston and Newton and Quincy and all the 43 communities in the MWRA, and how much infiltration into the sewer pipes we have because obviously we look great compared to Boston in absolute flow rate, but the question is how leaky are our pipes? So on this metric of gallons per day of leakage of infiltration per inch diameter mile, and again it's a result of a number of engineering calculations and estimates, but Melrose comes in of the 43 MWRA sewer communities, Melrose comes in number one as the highest rate of infiltration in gallons per day per inch diameter mile of the whole mwra district

▶ 3:58 4 431 gallons per day per inch diameter mile that's not good since everybody loves to compare us to the middlesex league and since 43 things there's a lot to show on a thing i did a graph of the middlesex league and and i want to be clear it starts at zero here and it goes up to where we are at 4431 gallons per day the next closest to us in the middlesex league is wakefield at about 3 000 gallons per day per inch diameter mile stoneham then we go all the way down to burlington which is actually at about looks like about 1200 gallons per day we are not doing well in infiltration in melrose this is why three years ago i was begging you to invest the money from bonding into our sewer system rather than

▶ 4:50 buying water meters that's gone by now but the question is what are we going to do about this because this impacts us hugely in our sewer bills on your agenda tonight you have some ordinances regarding water and sewer all the games that have been played around water and sewer the last few years have caused you to do things here that have been talking about minutiae. The big issue is infiltration, as I'm showing here, and the second big issue is, I want to define infiltration for everybody here, infiltration would be what you would call non-point source leakage, where around the city, underground, there's all little separate areas where this water comes in. Some are big areas where water comes in, some not so much, but it's not point source.

▶ 5:45 There's another thing that we call inflow, which is basically point source water coming into our sewer system that doesn't belong there. It typically comes from people who have some pumps, who don't even know some of them, that there's some pump that's pumping into the sewerage system, or who don't know that there's another thing you can do with the water, or maybe they know and they just feel that they don't know what they could do to do differently. And in the 30 years, about 30 years the MWRA has been talking about these issues, Melrose has never made any effort at all to control the inflow from houses into the sewage system, which gives us, we are better off on inflow. We're only fifth out of the 43 communities in how high our inflow is.

▶ 6:38 This is, by the way, these numbers are calendar year 2014. They were just reported to the EPA in August of this year. But both inflow and infiltration, we're at the top. With infiltration, we're at the top. With inflow alone, we're fifth in the whole MWRA district. When you go and play, when you go and set the rates, you're acting as if there's nothing you can do about our costs. we hear a lot of people in this room say oh well you know we got to get on the MWRA and make them lower their rates they're not accountable MWRA is doing a pretty good job you can find fault with them like you can find fault with any agency but we can control a lot of what we do by controlling what we put into our sewer system both intentionally and unintentionally but either way you know

▶ 7:34 we're all consciously letting this water flow there at least since I've been been talking about it for a number of years in terms of the ordinances on the table tonight and I didn't even go back and look at them all I just saw there was a whole bunch of them there you know get rid of the games of tiered rates a flat rate water system will work just fine and if anybody cares to have a conversation about it so you can understand why a flat rate system works just fine and it actually does penalize high volume users more than low volume users because even with a flat rate system high volume users pay more than their proportionate share of the fixed cost the capital cost of our own water system and of our sewer system itself these are all red herrings that have

▶ 8:21 been introduced into the process and they inure to the detriment of Melrose and our water and sewer rates I come to you here tonight in part because as I've done the last three years i went to the water and sewer committee meeting i don't see a process there that's going to get to these issues what i hear there as well maybe instead of doing a project every few years at inflow infiltration we'll make it a program and we'll do a little bit year by year that's not good enough we have an opportunity to get ahead of other communities this is our we're actually in competition with not just the middlesex league we're in competition with 43 other 43 communities in total 42 others in the MWRA district the sooner we lower

▶ 9:06 our inflow and infiltration relative to them the less share we pay of the huge debt service for MWRA that's what we can make a huge impact and if we don't act we're not going to and if we just keep using now the phase 9 and phase 10 funds the MWRA provides back to us to help us incentivize working on our system if we just use those funds like every other town is doing we're all gonna do better but at the same level we're still paying that high proportionate share higher than what we really should pay I don't know where to go with this because I've come here a number of years I've gone to the Water and Sewer Committee a number of years and where do we at with top in the hold MWRA top in the Middlesex

▶ 9:56 League it's not working something has to change somebody here needs to make certain that we do something about it or it's not going to change and we're still going to be sitting here but next June I don't want to hear anybody in this room whining about the MWRA costs they are billing us appropriately because we are a wasteful user of sewer services the MWRA sewer system is sized for three times the capacity of what they really need to have for treating sewage on a on a daily basis, and they size it for that because of towns like Melrose that when there's a rain event, we're the ones dumping three times the amount of water than what we should be dumping down there. We had on December 6th last year, we had about an inch of rain, and December 9th, we had

▶ 10:41 about an inch and a half of rain, and I didn't look at the exact dates, but it was about the same time that Melrose football team was playing in the Super Bowl, and you remember the rain that day. I think most of you were pretty soaked. Because of those couple of rain events in December, our average daily use that month was about 9 million gallons per day because of all the excess inflow and infiltration. It ordinarily would have been an average of about, even with our regular I&I that's always going in, it would have been maybe about, say, 3 million gallons a day on average. So do the math, 6 million extra gallons a day times 30 days, what's that, 180 million gallons extra that went down our sewer pipes that we not only were billed for the use of

▶ 11:34 it, we were also penalized because that was our high month in 2014 by far above all our are the months but that's the month the MWRA uses to calculate along with the high month in 2013 in 2012 they do a three-year average to calculate how much of those capital costs in part we're going to pay we have the opportunity to control what we do we need to seize that opportunity we didn't do it in my view unfortunately with the water meter bond that two and a half million dollars we'd already be seeing a payoff in that by now if we had bonded to do I&I work but I don't know where to go I've come here I've gone there I'm not getting any warm fuzzy feelings that people are listening and wanting to do something about it so

▶ 12:24 please when you consider the things to do again if what I would like you to do is get rid of the tiered system and decide that right now for next year there's gonna be no tiered system you're gonna do a true accurate real pricing that is transparent everybody knows when they use them water how much it's going to be get that off the table and I can tell you why it's unfair in a hundred different ways but if you get that off the table we can start to do some real work about what we can do to actually control our costs in Melrose so that in theory maybe those high rates that you're embarrassed to have maybe could come down and not be so high one other thing from the meeting the other day that I want to make certain that everybody here in this room understands

▶ 13:08 It took a little bit of time, but thanks to Alderman Tramontozzi, the city admitted that all the city water use for City Hall, for all the schools, the fire station, the police station, the senior center, all the city use of water and sewer is actually being put on the water and sewer rate payers. The city's not paying its water bill to the water and sewer enterprise funds. And I don't think that's appropriate. I think that the city costs ought to be borne by our regular tax base as is appropriate for most city expenses, and all of you that are city solicitors, you know, let me know. But to say that a family with five kids and a couple grandparents living with them are paying more than their proportionate share of city expenses

▶ 14:03 because you're paying the city things through the water bills is not appropriate in my view. And I think that it's time to be open and transparent and, at some level, honest about the costs of the city being borne by the city and the revenues from property taxes and other miscellaneous revenues, rather than by inappropriately and disproportionately taxing people through their water usage. I think that's not right. I'd like to see how we can make a difference in this. I'm open for suggestions. I know this is not the time for you to talk to me. I'd like you to respond at some point. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Anybody else who wishes to address the Board on public participation this evening? Motion to close public participation, Mr. President.

▶ 14:54 Second. Alderman Mortimer moves to conclude public participation. The motion is seconded by Alderman Boisselle. On the motion, all those in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? Motion passes. Public participation is hereby concluded for this evening. mr president i have before me the minutes of our october 5th board of alderman meeting i move that they be accepted without reading alderman mortimer moves that we accept the most uh the minutes from our october 5th meeting without reading is there a second second second by alderman Boisselle is there any discussion relative to the motion all those in favor of the motion please indicate by saying aye aye motion passes the october 5th minutes are accepted Order 2016-44, Appropriate from Account 01-123012, Overlay Fiscal Year 12 in the amount of $60,000 and Appropriate to Account 011412-529300, Assessors' Expenses Revaluation in the amount of $60,000 for a 2016 revaluation measure and list.

▶ 16:04 Order 216-44 will go to the Committee on Appropriations. Order 2016-45, request to set a public hearing on classification of property for November 23rd, 2015 at 7.30 p.m. and subsequently determine the classification of property. Request for immediate consideration, Mr. President. Alderman Mortimer requests immediate consideration of Order 216.45 for the purpose of setting a public hearing. Is there an objection to immediate consideration of the order? There is not. motion to suspend the rules mr president second alderman mortimer moves to suspend the rules motion is seconded by alderman Boisselle on the motion to suspend all those in favor anyone opposed motion passes the order is before you mr president i make a motion that we set the

▶ 16:54 hearing for the classification of property for november 23rd 2015 at 7 30 p.m alderman mortimer requests that we set a public hearing for september 23rd at 7 30 p.m second motion is seconded by alderman Boisselle if this motion passes the hearing would be conducted in the appropriations committee is there discussion relative to the motion to set the public hearing alderman medeiros thank you i just i realized this is the week of thanksgiving i know our calendar dates are short i was wondering if other dates were looked at or My understanding from the administration is that we need to act on this. And if we didn't consider it by that time, we would run into a problem with setting the tax rate. Thank you, Mr. President.

▶ 17:45 On the motion to schedule the public hearing, is there any further discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? Motion passes. Motion to send the remainder of the order to the Appropriations Committee. Second. Alderman Mortimer moves to refer the order to the Appropriations Committee. The motion is seconded by Alderman Boisselle on the motion. All those in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? Motion passes. That order will go to the Committee on Appropriations. Order 2016-46, application of Elisabetta Arcello for a common victual license, Sonny's Fire and Wood, LLC, doing business as Wood and Fire at 35-37 Essex Street, Melrose, Mass. That order will go to the Committee on Protection and License.

▶ 18:32 Do we have any Order out of order this evening? Are there any Order from committee? Mr. President. Alderman Tramontozzi. I make a motion to take concurrent action on the following Order. Order 215-195, 215-194, 215-192, 215-193, and 216-33 for the purpose of removing them from committee for discussion on these are the water and sewer Order that are currently before the Water and Sewer Committee. I'll second the motion for concurrent action, Mr. President. Alderman Tramontozzi requests for concurrent action relative to the five Order that he mentioned in his motion. The motion is seconded by Alderman Mortimer. On the motion for concurrent action, all those in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed?

▶ 19:36 Motion passes, the Order are joined. Motion to remove them from committee, bring them forth from unfinished business. in the motion to remove the Order from committee mr president alderman treyman tozy moves to remove water 215 195 215 194 215 193 215 192 and 216 33 from the appropriations committee the motion has been seconded by alderman mortimer legal and legislative excuse me sorry that's from legal and legislative committee i'm sorry you're right um on the motion to remove the Order from committee is their discussion all those in favor of the motion please indicate by saying aye aye anyone opposed motion passes the Order are before you mr. president if I if it's the will of the the board I can give a summary of what

▶ 20:33 John N. Tramontozzi: occurred at the water and sewer committee meeting do you have the floor Alderman Tramontozzi. Thank you. On Thursday, November 5th, I attended, as the Board of Aldermen representative, the Water and Sewer Committee meeting. You all have in front of you copies of documents that I had received at this meeting for your viewing. In attendance for the city, among others, was Mr. John Schenner, Director of Public Works, Mr. Patrick De La Russo the auditor and chief financial officer and mr. Arthur Flavin the city treasurer the five board of alderman Order sent to the water and sewer committee were read into the record and there were some discussions no action was taken in the Order remain in the committee the concern expressed

▶ 21:26 John N. Tramontozzi: by the city officials was that they did not know what the financial impact the Order would have and that this needed to be addressed it was also noted that the city contract with pioneer consulting the previous consulting on the water and sewer matters had expired and it was the intent of the committee to put a new contract out for bid and once the new consultant is retained the issues presented in our Order will be addressed in the financial impact will be known I got the sense that our Order would be ready for discussion maybe sometime in March about 2016 so they're gonna put the this bid out retain a new consultant I review the the issues involving our Order and then present to our board some recommendations additionally at this meeting was

▶ 22:26 John N. Tramontozzi: discussions about addressing the water infiltration problems in the status of the meter replacement program specifically as to the water infiltration problems there was a recognition by the committee that there are problems some areas of the city have been addressed other areas will be addressed and is anticipated that the water and sewer committee will be presenting this board with proposals on how they will handle these problems there was discussion about I mean obviously that there are costs associated with this these programs that there are MWRA funds available these are interest-free loans but I remember that there is cost we need to do what we can to get funds available and start making these repairs and move on this the

▶ 23:25 John N. Tramontozzi: problems with the infiltration the what you have before you is just some of the materials that was presented including the letters of various citizens the next meeting of the water and sewer committee is Thursday December 10th at 9 a.m. in the mayor's conference room i think that's a brief summary alderman Tramontozzi you've handed out a number of documents uh to the members of the board are you seeking to make these documents part of the public record relative to these Order yes i will um i moved there are um some documents could you please identify the documents sure uh the first document is entitled the ii project results in future program possibilities this involves the infiltration in flow

▶ 24:22 John N. Tramontozzi: the the the copy of the diagram is not color so you don't really get a good sense first the color copy did show areas of the city that have been tackled and repaired and unfortunately doesn't come out in the copies but the The idea is that they are addressing or looking into the area of infiltration. There's also a letter presented to the committee from Alderman at Lodge Monica Medeiros who was present and spoke at the committee meeting. That's the second thing. There's a third, there's a letter from Mr. Jerry Meraz, who was also present at the committee hearing and that presented his letter and spoke as well. There's also a email from Leo Norton of the MWRA addressing some of the wastewater flow reports.

▶ 25:34 John N. Tramontozzi: And that's an attached, there's an attachment to that email. Also, there's two additional pages, both front and back, of graphs. One, these are from the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, showing the total water supply to all of the MWRA revenue customers. And in the back of that sheet is just specifically Meadows water consumption for time frame of from 2013 2014 2015 and then finally there is MWRA water supplied to various districts a comparison rate sheet showing where a marrow stands in comparison with other cities and towns in the MWRA system and on the reverse of that sheet is some water sewer billing in revenue for fiscal year 2016 and this is as of October 31 2015 this is specifically

▶ 26:38 John N. Tramontozzi: Melrose City of Melrose the water bill the revenue and what the fund expenses in the sewer fund the water fund expenses and sewer fund expenses in a comparison of fiscal years 2015 and fiscal year 2016 as of the dates indicated I think one other thing is in my notes if I took it down correctly because there's always a question of what we have in the reserve fund and I I think I can say that I, if I remember correctly, I wrote it down, that we was asked about what we have currently in the reserve fund, and we were told that there's $241,208.12 currently in the reserve water, and there's $225,229.32 currently in the reserve sewer account. are those up to date figures alderman i i believe so i think they seem curiously similar to

▶ 27:53 last year's figures yeah that was i don't recall specifically the date but that's what was presented by um this auditor if you could confirm that with the committee please i believe and somebody can correct me if i'm wrong but i think i authored an order that was passed by the board that indicated that we were supposed to get a communication each october relative to the amounts that were certified to these funds but i'll i'll check that out before our next meeting okay very good and i i would suggest that somebody might want to make the chart that was uh submitted during public participation part of our record for this order but uh i'll move yep second alderman mortimer moves that we uh adopt the graph that was given to us on public

▶ 28:40 John N. Tramontozzi: participation motion seconded by um alderman forbes on that motion all those in favor that will become part of the record of these Order as well one final thing if i could um upon questioning by myself and i can confirm with what the public speaker spoke about this evening uh relative to the billing practice of the city for water and sewer municipal buildings and schools my understanding is we can measure the usage of the city municipal buildings because they are meted but that they don't the city itself the city doesn't bill itself for the water usage and the sewer usage of its municipal buildings discussion by I remember the treasurer saying that you know it's it's a it's a billing thing um and i don't know how that could be worked through but i'm sure it could

▶ 29:41 John N. Tramontozzi: be um it's like taking from one left pocket and putting into the right pocket you're billing the city uh for its own usage but the uh the speaker did make a good point in the sense that if the water and sewer enterprise funds uh are paying it then it is part of the uh the rate that the water and sewer rate pay his pay um so that's um so that i can confirm that that that is the case when best i understand and whether or not that's uh to be changed um you know that's certainly something we can consider and talk about how the billing uh should be done in the future thank you further discussion relative to these Order we have a motion relative to the Order um motion to wait to retain in committee return to committee alderman Tramontozzi moves to return

▶ 30:41 Gail Infurna: the five Order to the legal and legislative committee to await response from the water and sewer committee motion is seconded by alderman Boisselle on the motion alderman inferno on the motion um yes just um maybe some clarification because maybe i misunderstood along the way but um through you mr president to alderman Tramontozzi did you say that we wouldn't probably get any word back on this until like march because of the new consultant coming in and whatnot that we wouldn't have a lot more information until that time or or did i that's my sense is that they want to wait for a new consultant to be retained and then at that point which which probably means going into the you know the into the 2016 early 2016 by this time the bids are

▶ 31:34 Gail Infurna: um are opened in the consultant chosen and then the consultant has to do their work uh so yeah i don't think that we're going to get these uh any responses from the water and sewer committee before then so my question to you then mr president is um and correct me if i'm wrong on on this one also do we have our Order good for 90 days well this rule if we keep on tabling like you know how is that for our process well rule 8 requires that after 90 days they would show on the calendar for the for the regular Board of Aldermen meeting the Order would remain viable they don't they don't die oh okay where I was going with that if they did die I thought well maybe if we want to just file these and then as we get information back in March

▶ 32:24 Gail Infurna: if Alderman Medeiros wanted to maybe go with that information make some more appropriate or more current Order regarding to whatever information came out of the water sewer committee but if they're going to stay alive then I mean I guess we can just keep on as the maker of one of the Order is I want my order to go back okay so that can be discussed I was just thinking that might clean it up if they were going to be you know dead issues or whatever at that point thanks okay motions been made and duly seconded to return these Order to the legal and legislative committee on the vote motion all those in favor all right anyone opposed motion the Order are returned to committee do we have any

▶ 33:07 other Order from committee this evening unfinished business order 2015 dash 104 amend Melrose revised ordinances chapter 177 dash 12 snow and ice removal as set forth herein this is an order that was filed some time ago by Alderman Wright and it is on our calendar as unfinished business Alderman Wright Thank You mr. president I would ask that we return this order to committee for the purposes of further discussion at next Monday evening's legal legislative committee meeting second the motion alderman wright is moving that we return the order to committee the motion is seconded by alderman forbes is their discussion on the motion all those in favor right aye anyone opposed motion passes that order will go back to the

▶ 34:04 Scott M. Forbes: legal and legislative committee i think that concludes all of the business on our agenda for this evening motion to adjourn mr president before that the chair would recognize alderman Yes, Mr. President. Thank you. Before we adjourn this evening, for anybody watching at home, we do have the Veterans Breakfast and Assembly tomorrow at the Melrose Veterans Memorial Middle School starting at 8 a.m. Also on Wednesday, Veterans Day ceremonies will begin with Honor Roll Memorial on Main Street. That'll begin at 10 a.m. And following that, they'll have a Veterans Day luncheon at the VFW Prince Post on Main Street at noontime. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you. We encourage everybody to attend any or all of these ceremonies and support our veterans.

▶ 34:54 I'll be in Florida. Motion to adjourn, Mr. President. Second. Alderman Forbes moves to adjourn. The motion is seconded by Alderman Mortimer on the motion. All those in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? Motion passes. The meeting is hereby adjourned.

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