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City Council — 2020-06-29

City Council Special Meeting

This meeting starts at 1:14:11 in a recording that covers several meetings.

Attendance

Christopher Cinella remote · At-Large; Jack Eccles remote · At-Large; Mark Garipay remote · Ward 4; Jen Grigoraitis remote · President, ex oficio; Maya Jamaleddine remote · At-Large; Shawn M. MacMaster remote · Ward 5; Jeff McNaught remote · Ward 2; Leila Migliorelli remote · At-Large; Robb Stewart remote · Ward 3; Cory Thomas remote · Ward 7; John N. Tramontozzi remote · Ward 1

Agenda

  1. Call to Order (1:13:45)
  2. Remote Meeting Information (1:14:10)
  3. Public Comment (1:15:12)
  4. Communications from His Honor, The Mayor And Other City Officials (2:14:12)
  5. New Business (2:14:22)
  6. Orders Out of Order (2:14:28)
  7. Orders from Committee (2:14:38)
  8. Calendar (2:16:40)
  9. ORDER-2020-83 : An Order to Provide Real Estate Tax Relief (2:16:46)
  10. ORDER-2020-77 : An Order to Provide Motor Vehicle Excise Tax Relief (2:17:42)
  11. ORDER-2020-129 : Appointment of Elizabeth Ryan, 17 East Highland Ave., to the Historic District Commission for a term to expire on the last day of February 2022 (2:18:36)
  12. ORDER-2020-128 : Appointment of Garin Boyd, 12 Mt. Vernon St., Unit 31, to the Commission on Disability for a three-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2023 (2:19:38)
  13. ORDER-2020-127 : Reappointment of C. Joseph Hunt, 132 Mt. Vernon Ave., to the Historical Commission for a three-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2023 (2:20:55)
  14. ORDER-2020-126 : Reappointment of Kristina Racek Pechulis to the Commission on Women for a term to expire on the last day of February 2022. (2:21:25)
  15. ORDER-2020-125 : Reappointment of Jessica Joy Buster, 164 Derby Road, to the Commission on Women for a three-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2023. (2:23:35)
  16. ORDER-2020-124 : Appointment of Joseph Phillips, 1 Hillside Ave., to the Human Rights Commission for a three-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2023. (2:23:54)
  17. ORDER-2020-116 : Reappointment of Rita Mercado, 4 Birch Hill Road, to the Board of Appeals for a five-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2025. (2:24:10)
  18. ORDER-2020-111 : Appointment of Katherine Moore, 35 Laurel St., to the Board of Appeals to fill the unexpired term of James Bradley; said term to expire on the last day of February 2023. (2:24:25)
  19. Adjournment (2:26:00)

Minutes

CITY OF MELROSE CITY COUNCIL BULLETIN● JUNE 29, 2020 Web-based remote meeting Special Meeting 7:45 PM , Melrose, MA 02176 Attendee Name Title Status Arrived Jen Grigoraitis President, ex oficio Remote John N. Tramontozzi Ward 1 Remote Jeff McNaught Ward 2 Remote Robb Stewart Ward 3 Remote Mark Garipay Ward 4 Remote Shawn M. MacMaster Ward 5 Remote Cory Thomas Ward 7 Remote Jack Eccles At-Large Remote Christopher Cinella At-Large Remote Leila Migliorelli At-Large Remote Maya Jamaleddine At-Large Remote

ORDER-2020-134 Grant Acceptance of an Emergency Management Performance Grant in the amount of $6,500. Passed

ORDER-2020-83 Resolution An Order to Provide Real Estate Tax Relief Passed as Amended

ORDER-2020-77 A Resolution An Order to Provide Motor Vehicle Excise Tax Relief Passed as Amended

ORDER-2020-129 Appointment Appointment of Elizabeth Ryan, 17 East Highland Ave., to the Historic District Commission for a term to expire on the last day of February 2022 Passed

ORDER-2020-128 Appointment Appointment of Garin Boyd, 12 Mt. Vernon St., Unit 31, to the Commission on Disability for a three-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2023 Passed

ORDER-2020-127 Appointment City of Melrose Page 1 7/6/2020 1:40 PM Minutes City Council June 29, 2020 Reappointment of C. Joseph Hunt, 132 Mt. Vernon Ave., to the Historical Commission for a three-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2023 Passed

ORDER-2020-126 Appointment Reappointment of Kristina Racek Pechulis to the Commission on Women for a term to expire on the last day of February 2022. Passed

ORDER-2020-125 Appointment Reappointment of Jessica Joy Buster, 164 Derby Road, to the Commission on Women for a three-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2023. Passed

ORDER-2020-124 Appointment Appointment of Joseph Phillips, 1 Hillside Ave., to the Human Rights Commission for a three-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2023. Passed

ORDER-2020-116 Appointment Reappointment of Rita Mercado, 4 Birch Hill Road, to the Board of Appeals for a five-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2025. Passed

ORDER-2020-111 Appointment Appointment of Katherine Moore, 35 Laurel St., to the Board of Appeals to fill the unexpired term of James Bradley; said term to expire on the last day of February 2023. Passed City of Melrose Page 2 7/6/2020 1:40 PM

Transcript

▶ 1:14:11 Jen Grigoraitis: President Grigoraitis. Pursuant to Governor Baker's March 12, 2020 order suspending certain provisions of the open meeting law and the Governor's March 15, 2020 order imposing strict limitation on the number of people that may gather in one place, this meeting of the City Council will be conducted via remote participation to the greatest extent possible. We will post an audio or video recording, transcript, or other comprehensive record of these proceedings as soon as possible after the meeting on the city of Melrose website and on mmtv3.org. Adam Clark, can you please call the roll? Councilor Sinella? Here. Councilor Eccles? Here. Councilor Garipay? Here. Councilor DeMoladine? Here. Councilor McMaster? Here. Councilor McNaught? Here. Councilor Migliorelli?

▶ 1:15:07 Jen Grigoraitis: Here. Councillor Stewart? Here. Councillor Thomas? Here. Councillor Ciamantosi? Here. President Grigoraitis? Here. 11 present. 11 present. We have a quorum at this time. I'll entertain a motion for public comment. Motion for public comment. We have a motion for public comment by Councillor Sonnella, seconded by Councillor Stewart. Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll? Sonnella? Yes. Eccles? Yes. Garipay? Yes. Tmolodin? Yes. McMaster? Yes. McNaught? Yes. Migliorelli? Yes. Stewart? Yes. Thomas? Yes. Tramontozzi? Yes. Rigoritis? Yes. 11 yes. 11 yes. So we're now in the public comment portion of our meeting where any member of the public who wishes to speak to any item of our agenda may do so.

▶ 1:16:07 Jen Grigoraitis: If you are logged in as a participant and wish to speak, please raise your digital hand. If we have anyone wishing to speak. Motion to close public comment. Second. We have a motion to close public comment by Councilor Cinella, seconded by Councilor Stewart. Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll? Councilor Cinella. Yes. Councilor Eccles. Yes. Councilor Garipay. Yes. Councilor Jamaleddine. Yes. councillor mcmaster yes councillor mcnaught yes councillor Migliorelli yes councillor stewart yes councillor thomas yes councillor Tramontozzi yes president Grigoraitis yes 11 yes 11 yes public comment is now closed is there a motion to recess so we can return to appropriations we have a motion to recess by councillor mcnaught seconded

▶ 1:17:15 Maya Jamaleddine: by councillor Thomas I madam clerk can you please call the roll Sonnella yes Eccles yes Garipay yes Jamaleddine yes McMaster yes If not, yes, maybe really. Yes, Stuart. Yes. Thomas yes, chairman. Yes. Yes 11. yes 11. yes. So the council is now in recess and we will return to appropriations chairman. Okay, welcome back left off. We have a conversation. Thank you chairman. Thank you for joining us tonight and answering all these questions and for your presentation, you know, a few of the questions left for me, and, you know, many were answered asked by other counselors. What is the capacity of the gymnasium? especially during COVID, you know, how many person we can have at a time? So, I asked the health director that same question.

▶ 2:14:49 yep that comes from uh preparations with a motion uh for recommendation of passage okay so do we have a motion to call excuse me motion to pull from committee Second. We have a motion to pull from committee by Councilor Cinella, seconded by Councilor Tramontozzi. Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll? Councilor Cinella? Yes. Councilor Eccles? Yes. Councilor Garipay? Yes. Councilor DeMoledine? Yes. Councilor McMaster? Yes. Councilor McNaught? Yes. Councilor Migliorelli? Yes. Councilor Stewart? Yes. Councilor Thomas? Yes. Councilor Cinella? Yes. Yes, yes, present Grigoraitis. Yes, 11. Yes. 11. Yes. So the motion is before us counselor. Yes, that's the order for us. Yeah, this comes with a motion for a recommendation of passage.

▶ 2:15:48 So, we have a motion for passage by counselor. 2nd, for the 2nd, by counselor, not. Is there any discussion? Madam clerk, can you please call the role? Yes. Councillor Sinella. Yes. Councillor Eccles. Yes. Councillor Garipay. Yes. Councillor DeMoledine. Yes. Councillor McMaster. Yes. Councillor McNaught. Yes. Councillor Migliorelli. Yes. Councillor Stewart. Yes. Councillor Thomas. Yes. Councillor Tramontozzi. Yes. President Grigoraitis. Yes. 11 yes. Thank you. Yes, present Grigoraitis. Yes. 11, yes, 11. Yes. So the motion carries. Do we have any other orders from committee? Okay, see none Adam Parker committees. What do we have on the calendar? We have order 2020 dash 83 in order to provide real estate tax relief.

▶ 2:16:50 Motion for passage 2nd. So, we have a motion for passage of order 2020-83 by Councillor Tramontozzi, seconded by Councillor Sonnella. Is there any discussion? Okay, seeing none, Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll? Councillor Sonnella? Yes. Councillor Eccles? Yes. Councillor Garipay? Yes. Councillor Jamaleddine? Yes. Councillor McMaster? Yes. Councillor McNaught? Yes. Counselor. Yes. Counselor Stewart. Yes, counselor Thomas. Yes. Counselor chairman yes, president Grigoraitis. Yes, 11. Yes. 11, yes, the motion carries order 2020 dash 129. I'm sorry 77 in order to provide motor vehicle excise tax. Come to appropriation with a motion for recommendation passage. Motion for passage 2nd, so we have a motion for passage for order 2020 dash 77.

▶ 2:18:01 A, made by council and McMaster seconded by counselor trim and Jersey. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, Madam clerk, can you please call the role? Counselor, yes, counselor. Yes, counselor. Yes. Counselor. Yes. Counselor McMaster. Yes. Counselor. Yes. Counselor. Yes. Counselor Stewart. Yes, counselor Thomas. Yes. Counselor, yes, present. Yes, 11. Yes. 11. Yes. The motion passes. what are 2020-129 appointment of elizabeth ryan 17 east highland ave to the historic district commission for a term to expire on the last day of february 2022. i'd like to make a motion for passage i'm present okay we have a motion for passage of order 2020-129 by councillor eccles second the second by councillor mcnaught is there any discussion

▶ 2:19:09 Madam Clark, can you please call the roll? Councilor Sinella? Yes. Councilor Eccles? Yes. Councilor Garipay? Yes. Councilor Jamaleddine? Yes. Councilor McMaster? Yes. Councilor McNaught? Yes. Councilor Migliorelli? Yes. Councilor Stewart? Yes. Councilor Thomas? Yes. Councilor Ciamantosi? Yes. president Grigoraitis yes 11 yes 11 yes the motion passes order 2020-128 appointment of garen boyd 12 mount vernon street unit 31 to the commission on disability for a three-year term said term to expire on the last day of february 2023. councilor eccles Councilor Jamal? Councilor Jamaleddine? No, nothing. This comes to the Council with the unanimous recommendation for passage. I would like to move for passage now.

▶ 2:20:15 Second. We have a motion by Councilor Eccles, seconded by Councilor Cinella for passage. Is there any discussion? Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll? Councilor Cinella? Yes. Councilor Eccles? yes councillor Garipay yes sorry councillor demoladine yeah councillor mcmaster yes councillor mcnaught yes councillor Migliorelli yes councillor stewart yes councillor thomas yes councillor Tramontozzi yes president Grigoraitis yes 11 yes 11 yes the motion carried folder 2020-127 reappointment of c joseph hunt 132 mount vernon ave to the historical commission for a three-year term said term to expire on the last day of february 2023 what is the will of the council oh councillor Garipay can i be can i make a motion to uh combine um the last

▶ 2:21:24 Jen Grigoraitis: six orders um order 2020-127 order 2020-126 2020-125 order 2020-124 and order 2020-116 second so we have a motion by councillor Garipay seconded by councillor stewart to combine 9 orders 120-126, 125, 124, and 116. Did I get all those correctly? Or am I missing? It was 127. 127, if that. Yeah, 127 also. 27. Okay. Is there any point of order? I think there's 111. Yeah. So, yes, there is 1 more. Do you wish to amend your add that to your motion? Okay. So there's. Is that okay with you? Counselor Stewart is the 2nd, I will still 2nd, man. Okay. So that's the motion before us. Is there any discussion? Just a point of order. It's fine. We can quote, quote, join them for voting, but I think they all have to be read into it. Okay. Yes. Thank you. I was going to say that next. So.

▶ 2:22:37 Is, but on this issue, is there any additional discussion before we vote to conjoin. Okay, seeing them, Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. No. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Grigoraitis yes, 10. yes. So, 10, yes, the motion carries, so the orders are now conjoined and Madam clerk of committees. Can you please read each 1 into the record order? 2020 dash? 126 reappointment of to the commission on women for a term to expire on the last day of February 2022. Order twenty, twenty dash one, twenty five reappointment of Jessica Joy Buster one, sixty four Derby road to the commission on women for three year term term to expire on the last day of February. Twenty, twenty three, twenty, twenty four appointment of Joseph Phillips, one hillside of the rights commission for a three year term term to expire on the last day of February.

▶ 2:23:52 Jen Grigoraitis: Twenty, twenty three twenty, twenty dash one, one, six reappointment of Rita Mercado. For virtual road to the board of appeals for a 5 year term, so term to expire on the last day of February 2025. And order 2020 dash 111 appointment of Catherine more 35, Laurel street to the board of appeals to fill the unexpired term of James Bradley. So, term to expire on the last day of February 2023. President, you're muted. Sorry did we vote as a point of information? Did we already we already voted on 2020 dash 127. I read that one okay I wasn't sure okay I was trying to keep track including we have a motion for passage of the conjoined orders by councillor Stella seconded by councillor Thomas is there any discussion have you seen none madam

▶ 2:24:56 Clerk, can you please call the roll? Councilor Sonnella? Yes. Councilor Eccles? Yes. Councilor Garipay? Yes. Councilor Jamaleddine? Yes. Councilor McMaster? Yes. Councilor McNaught? Yes. Councilor Migliorelli? Yes. Councilor Stewart? Yes. Councilor Thomas? Yes. Councilor Tramontozzi? Yes. President Grigoraitis? Yes. 11, yes. 11, yes, the motion carries. Councillor McMaster. Thank you, Madam President. We did receive citizen correspondence regarding order number 125. At this time, I'd make a motion to attach it to the order. Second. So we have a motion by Councillor McMaster, seconded by Councillor Tramontozzi to add citizen communication to the record for order 2020-125. Is there any discussion?

▶ 2:25:55 Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll? Sanella? Yes. Eccles? Yes. Garipay? Yes. Jamaleddine? Yes. McMaster? Yes. McNaught? Yes. Migliorelli? Yes. Stewart? Yes. Thomas? Yes. Tramontozzi? Yes. rigoritis yes 11 yes 11 yes the motion carries this time we'll enter second we have a motion to adjourn by councillor senella seconded by councillor eccles madam clerk can you please call the roll snella yes eccles yes Garipay Yes. Jamaleddine? Yes. McMaster? Yes. McNaught? Yes. Migliorelli? Yes. Stewart? Yes. Thomas? Yes. Tramontozzi? Yes. Grigoraitis? Yes. 11 yes. 11 yes. We are adjourned. Happy 4th of July. See you all on Monday.

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