Boards & Commissions Committee — 2025-02-10
Attendance
Cal Finocchiaro ; Maya Jamaleddine ; Manjula Karamcheti ; Leila Migliorelli ; Robb Stewart ; Kimberly Vandiver
Agenda
- Call to Order
- Minutes Approval
- Public Comments
- Appointments/Reappointments
- APPT-2025-35 : Appointment of Chris Cinella, 69 Cranmore Road, to the Melrose Public Library Board of Trustees, to fill the remainder of Paul Fahey's three-year term, said term to expire on the last day of February, 2027.
- APPT-2025-29 : Reappointment of Susan Lawson Cann, 123 East Foster Street, Melrose MA, to the Cemetery Commission, for a three year term, said term to expire last day of February 2028.
- APPT-2025-30 : Reappointment of Rebecca Blumenthal, 50 Stillman Road, to the Historical Commission for a term of three years, said term to expire on the last day of February 2028.
- Reappointment of Thomas J. Champoux, 87 Crescent Avenue, Melrose MA, to the Historical Commission for a term of three years, said term to expire on the last day of February 2028.
- APPT-2025-31 : Reappointment of Eileen Hamblin, 150 Youle Street, Melrose MA to the Cemetery Commission for a three year term, said term to expire the last day of February 2028.
- Reappointment of Francisco Brincheiro, MD, 14 Geneva Road, Melrose MA to the Board of Health for a three year term, said term to expire the last day of February 2028.
- APPT-2025-32 : Reappointment of Carol Hoffman, 97 Cochrane Street, to the Library Board of Trustees for a three-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2028.
- Reappointment of Emily Anderson, 106 East Foster Street, to the City of Melrose Conservation Commission for a three-year term, said term to expire the last day of February 2028.
- APPT-2025-33 : Reappointment of Shane Egan, 21 Boston Rock Road, to the Melrose Historical Commission, for a three year term, said term to expire on the last day of February 2028.
- Reappointment of Margaret Ivins, 177 Ashland Street, to the Melrose Council on Aging (COA) for a 2-year term set to expire on the last day of February 2027.
- APPT-2025-34 : Reappointment of Kristin Thorp, 77 Wentworth Road, to the Melrose Council on Aging (COA) for a three year term, said term to expire the last day of February 2028.
- Adjournment
Minutes
CITY OF MELROSE BOARDS & COMMISSION CALENDAR● FEBRUARY 10, 2025 Council Chamber, First Floor, Melrose City Hall Regular 8:40 PM 562 Main Street, Melrose, MA 02176 Attendee Name Title Status Arrived Manjula Karamcheti Vice Chair Present Cal Finocchiaro Present Maya Jamaleddine Present Robb Stewart Present Leila Migliorelli Ex Officio Member Present Kimberly Vandiver Chair Present
(ID # 12420) Appointment/Reappointment Appointment of Chris Cinella, 69 Cranmore Road, to the Melrose Public Library Board of Trustees, to fill the remainder of Paul Fahey's three-year term, said term to expire on the last day of February, 2027. Recommend City Council
(ID # 12094) Appointment/Reappointment Reappointment of Susan Lawson Cann, 123 East Foster Street, Melrose MA, to the Cemetery Commission, for a three year term, said term to expire last day of February 2028. Recommend City Council
(ID # 12344) Appointment/Reappointment Reappointment of Rebecca Blumenthal, 50 Stillman Road, to the Historical Commission for a term of three years, said term to expire on the last day of February 2028. Recommend City Council
(ID # 12345) Appointment/Reappointment Reappointment of Thomas J. Champoux, 87 Crescent Avenue, Melrose MA, to the Historical Commission for a term of three years, said term to expire on the last day of February 2028. Place on File City Council
(ID # 12354) Appointment/Reappointment City of Melrose Page 1 2/13/2025 4:44 PM Minutes Boards & Commission February 10, 2025 Reappointment of Eileen Hamblin, 150 Youle Street, Melrose MA to the Cemetery Commission for a three year term, said term to expire the last day of February 2028. Recommend City Council
(ID # 12356) Appointment/Reappointment Reappointment of Francisco Brincheiro, MD, 14 Geneva Road, Melrose MA to the Board of Health for a three year term, said term to expire the last day of February 2028. Held in Committee
(ID # 12380) Appointment/Reappointment Reappointment of Carol Hoffman, 97 Cochrane Street, to the Library Board of Trustees for a three-year term; said term to expire on the last day of February 2028. Recommend City Council
(ID # 12412) Appointment/Reappointment Reappointment of Emily Anderson, 106 East Foster Street, to the City of Melrose Conservation Commission for a three-year term, said term to expire the last day of February 2028. Held in Committee
(ID # 12413) Appointment/Reappointment Reappointment of Shane Egan, 21 Boston Rock Road, to the Melrose Historical Commission, for a three year term, said term to expire on the last day of February 2028. Recommend City Council
(ID # 12418) Appointment/Reappointment Reappointment of Margaret Ivins, 177 Ashland Street, to the Melrose Council on Aging (COA) for a 2-year term set to expire on the last day of February 2027. Held in Committee City Council
(ID # 12419) Appointment/Reappointment City of Melrose Page 2 2/13/2025 4:44 PM Minutes Boards & Commission February 10, 2025 Reappointment of Kristin Thorp, 77 Wentworth Road, to the Melrose Council on Aging (COA) for a three year term, said term to expire the last day of February 2028. Recommend City Council City of Melrose Page 3 2/13/2025 4:44 PM
Transcript
▶ 1:34:31 Kimberly Vandiver: for an appointment, you may send a letter of interest in a resume to the mayor's office. I am Councilor Vandiver, the committee chair. Joining me tonight are Vice Care, vice Chair Karam Shady and voting members, councilors, Occhio, Jamine Stewart, and President Elli Ex-Officio. We're also joined by non-voting ME members, counselors Hamilton, um, Ramal, uh, and, and Reky. Um, this serves as a notice of a quorum for the record in accordance with the open meeting law. This meeting is being recorded and broadcast live on MMTV. I'll now motion by unanimous consent to open the floor for public comment. Seeing no objections, we are now in public comment. Is there anyone from the public wishing to speak
▶ 1:35:21 Kimberly Vandiver: on any item on tonight's agenda or express a viewpoint on other matters? See, um, Madam Clerk, is there anyone online? Um, I'll now motion by unanimous consent to close public comment and public comment is now closed. Um, at this time, I will motion by unanimous consent to approve the meeting minutes of January 27th. Um, seeing no objection, those minutes are now approved. Uh, tonight we have one appointment and 10 reappointments before us. Um, in the interest of, um, time for the appointee who is in attendance and the mayor, um, we'll go through that appointment and then take a recess back to the prior meeting that hasn't concluded. Uh, so the first, um, uh, the f the appointment on our agenda is, um,
▶ 1:36:18 Kimberly Vandiver: ID number 1, 2, 4 2 0 appointment of Chris Ella 69 Kenmore Road to the Melrose Public Library Board of Trustees to fill the remainder of Paul Fahe three year term, said term to expire in the last day of February, 2027. Um, so if the mayor and, uh, Mr. Ella would like to come up and, um, address us, be more than welcome. Thank you. Good evening, council and Planning Board. Nice to see you all. Um, I'm here tonight to present Christella for your consideration as an appointee to the, um, library board of trustees. Paul Fahey, who had served in this role, moved out of Melrose, um, and we, and we're grateful for his service, but we need someone to complete the term. I think many of you are familiar with Mr. Ella.
▶ 1:37:01 Jen Grigoraitis: He previously served two terms on the council, including, um, two times as council president, as appropriations chair. He's raising his family in Melrose where he also grew up. He owns a business on Main Street, has a professional background in financial management. And during the process for bonding for the library, was very effective at advocating for that project to move forward. Um, the board of library trustees has a great deal of oversight over the library, um, by statute. So there's both the financial management of funding that comes in from outside of the city and also developing policies and procedures for that building. And there's gonna be a big need for that as we move into a new and larger space.
▶ 1:37:38 Christopher Cinella: I think Mr. Ella brings a great deal of knowledge about how processes and procedures work, given his time on a legislative body, and also obviously bring substantial, uh, financial management experience. So I'm really grateful for his willingness to serve. I called him after he was one day beyond his one year cooling off period. It's time To get back in the saddle. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. You're welcome. I was about two years and two minutes outside of that window when I got the call. And, um, you know, I'm happy to step up and, and serve like many of you. Um, volunteerism is in, in My, my Blood, so I'll open it up to any questions. I know you got a busy night, but it's good to be back. Good to see you guys.
▶ 1:38:18 Maya Jamaleddine: Uh, counselor Jamine, I'll, um, do you usually thank you for, you know, for continuing your service? Uh, do you usually accept all requests? Usually, Would you consider running back? I'm gonna defer you to my, um, my wife on that one. I know It'll be enough. Well, uh, we do miss you here. We, you, I know. I wanted to thank you for all the services that you've done and what you are considering to, uh, give, uh, knowing that we are, uh, dealing with a lot of challenges. Um, and, but, um, I trust that you will be able to, uh, take that challenge. Uh, so thank you so much. Thank you. Any other counselors? Uh, counselor, uh, vice Chair Chetty, Welcome. It's great to see you back here. Um, I guess I would just love
▶ 1:39:09 Christopher Cinella: to hear a little bit about why you're excited to be on the, the library ward. You know, I, uh, like I said, I'm happy to step up when asked. And, um, I know one of the projects they have coming forward is gonna be looking at their bylaws. That's something I've done both on this body, um, with the Chamber of Commerce and with Rotary. So I have a little experience with that. Um, my grandmother was a librarian out in Lee Mass, and so it kind of runs in my, my Blood and, uh, oh, I'm happy to, I'm just happy to, to serve. And I was a big supporter as some of you that looking around the horseshoe that was on with me at the time. I think it was unanimous vote, uh, to move that that forward. Um, but, uh, but yeah,
▶ 1:39:55 Kimberly Vandiver: My mother-in-law was a librarian. So rock on. And I feel weirdly compelled to ask you what your favorite book is, but Well, uh, just recently finished, um, book by by Annie Jacobson Nuclear War. It's a pretty good read, so check it out. All set. Um, and, uh, councilor Occhio, I just wanna say thank you for stepping up and make a motion for to recommend. Second. Second, Uh, motion to Recommend by Councilor Occhio. Uh, second by everyone else. And second by, I am not sure who I heard first. Uh, counselor, it's one of us CAR jd. Yep. Um, and, uh, all in favor? Any opposed? Um, okay. That, um, will be recommended to, um, the full council. Uh, you're welcome to attend that meeting, but you do not need to.
▶ 1:40:48 Um, thank you so much for, for being willing to serve and coming before us tonight. Thank You. Thank You, Madam Chair. I'll make a motion to recess. Second Motion to recess by Councilor Stewart Second did by Vice Chair Carm Shady. Um, all in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? We are in recess. You look all right. Uh, three of the public hearing. I think we're gonna be good for a little while. Um, who do I, I'm sorry. Council Vander. Sorry. Thank you. Uh, I, the question I, uh, was asking was about this slide with the red circles. I hadn't followed what that one was. Sure. So, um, this map is showing the half mile radius around all of our bus stops and our, um, commuter real stations in Melrose. So those are, um, the bus stops are included in,
▶ 2:53:32 Kimberly Vandiver: president Magali, seconded by Councilor Ro. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? We are adjourned. Good evening. The time is 10:00 PM on Monday, February 10th, 2025. Um, we are back at Boards and commissions. Um, after a pause to finish another meeting, uh, we have already completed public comment, uh, minutes, approval, public comment, and an appointment, and remaining on our agenda. We have 10 reappointments tonight. Um, so we will go through those at this time. Uh, the mad Madame Chair, I would, uh, I would like to, uh, make a motion to, uh, conjoin those orders, uh, to reappoint. Um, we have a motion to conjoin orders. Second, um, and a, uh, by Councilor Jamine and a second by Councilor fro.
▶ 2:54:33 Manjula Karamcheti: Um, I will note that, uh, I, I will note that we have a few here. Um, that may be exceptions. So If I could ask you to, uh, point of order, if I could ask you to withdraw, I will conjoin the ones that are conjoin, because there are some that we cannot, that need to be held. So I'll, I would withdraw my motion. Thank you. Okay. Motion and seconder with John. Okay. Uh, through the chair. I would love to make a motion to conjoin ID 1 2 0 9 4. The reappointment of Susan Lawson, Conn, 1 23 East Foster Street. Um, ID number 1, 2, 3, 4. Four. The reappointment of Rebecca Blumenthal, 50 Stillman Road ID number 1, 2, 3, 5, 4 reappointment of Eileen Hamlin, one 50 ELL Street ID number 1, 2 3 8 0. The reappointment of Carol Hoffman, 97 Cochrane Street
▶ 2:55:42 Kimberly Vandiver: to the library board of trustees. And ID number 1, 2, 4, 1 3 Reappointment of Shane Egan to 21 Boston Rock Road on the Melrose Historical Commission. And ID number 1, 2, 4, 1 9 Reappointment of Kristen Thorpe, 77 Wentworth Road to the Melrose Council on Aging. Second. Hey, we have a motion by Councilor Chen and a second by Councilor Stewart to conjoin the listed, um, ID numbers all in anyone on discussion? All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? So those are now conjoined. Um, uh, so, uh, I would entertain a motion relative to that conjoined set of orders. Um, I would like to make a mo motion to recommend. Second. Okay. We have a motion to recommend by Vice Chair Carty and a second by Councilor Occhio for that set
▶ 2:56:44 Kimberly Vandiver: of orders on discussion. Um, all in favor? Aye. Any opposed? That, um, passes and will go, um, to full counsel with a recommendation for passage for that set of orders. Um, so remaining on our agenda, we have items numbers 4, 6, 8, and 10. Uh, um, Madam Chair, I would like to make a motion, um, to put ID 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, the reappointment of Thomas Shampoo 87 Crescent Avenue on file, um, for the historical Commission, as this candidate is no longer interested in the position. Second, A motion. A motion by Vice Chair Karm Shady, and a second by Councilor Stewart. Um, to put that on file on discussion. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? That will be placed on file. Um, and then on ID 1, 2, 3, 5, 6,
▶ 2:57:44 Manjula Karamcheti: the reappointment of Francisco Ranchero, uh, 14 Geneva Road. I'd like to make a motion to put, uh, this on hold so that Mr. Brachi has time to submit his, uh, accomplishments regarding this, um, position on the Board of Health. Second. Second, A motion by Vice Chair Carm Chitty. And a second by counselor Jamal Dean to, um, place that on hold, um, on discussion. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Um, that, um, is, um, on hold. Um, I'd like to make a motion, uh, for ID 1, 2, 4, 1 2, the reappointment of Emily Anderson, 1 0 6 East Foster Street to the city of Melrose, confirmation Conservation Commission. Um, want to put that on hold as well. So Ms. Anderson also has time to submit her accomplishments
▶ 2:58:46 Kimberly Vandiver: and interest in reappointment. Second, Um, uh, motion by Counselor Cheney and a second by Councilor Stewart. Um, to put that on hold on discussion, I'll, uh, yes. Um, Madam Chair, I just, the, with this, um, re-app appointee, they have their, uh, you know, a resume and information. Um, so I'm inclined not to support this motion. But, um, uh, So if I may, um, uh, I comment on that as the chair. Um, in discussion with, um, with the city, uh, there was a file uploaded that was actually from, oh, her prior appointment to that position two years ago. Okay. Um, and so that's why we wanted to, um, give them another chance to upload a more recent update. Mm-hmm. Thank you for that clarification. Um, anybody else on discussion on that one?
▶ 2:59:44 Kimberly Vandiver: Um, okay. All in favor? A aye. Any opposed? Um, okay, that, um, ID number 1, 2, 4, 1 2 will also be on hold. Finally, um, ID number 1, 2, 4, 1 8, the reappointment of Margaret Ivans, 1 77 Ashland Street to the Melrose Council on Aging. Um, would also recommend that we hold this one for the same reason of giving Ms. Ivans a chance to upload her accomplishments, um, for the Council on Aging. Second, second Motion by Councilor Carm Chidi. And a second by Councilor Stewart to put that on hold. Uh, discussion. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? That is also now on hold. Um, at this time, I would entertain a motion to adjourn as we have concluded our business motion To adjourn. Second. Motion to adjourn by council Karen jd.
▶ 3:00:41 Kimberly Vandiver: Second by Councilor Occhio, we are adjourned. Woo.