Jen Grigoraitis
Service
| Body | Seat | Role | From | To | Meetings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City Council | ex-officio | 2020-01-13 | 2021-01-04 | 29 | |
| Appropriations & Oversight Committee | ex-officio | 2020-01-21 | 2020-12-14 | 32 | |
| Finance Committee | ex-officio | 2020-02-24 | 2020-09-28 | 5 | |
| Protection & License Committee | ex-officio | 2020-03-09 | 2020-12-14 | 6 | |
| Legal & Legislative Committee | ex-officio | 2020-03-30 | 2020-11-16 | 4 | |
| Health, Education & Welfare Committee | ex-officio | 2020-05-04 | 2021-07-19 | 9 | |
| Rules & Order | ex-officio | 2020-11-11 | 2020-11-18 | 2 | |
| Public Works Committee | ex-officio | 2020-11-16 | 2021-07-19 | 2 | |
| Appropriations & Oversight Committee | member | 2021-01-11 | 2021-12-13 | 29 | |
| City Council | Ward 6 | member | 2021-01-19 | 2023-12-18 | 76 |
| Protection & License Committee | member | 2021-02-08 | 2021-11-15 | 8 | |
| Legal & Legislative Committee | chair | 2021-03-08 | 2021-12-13 | 8 | |
| Appropriations & Oversight Committee | chair | 2022-01-18 | 2022-12-19 | 27 | |
| Legal & Legislative Committee | member | 2022-03-07 | 2022-06-21 | 4 | |
| Appropriations & Oversight Committee | ex-officio | 2023-01-09 | 2023-12-11 | 33 | |
| Health, Education & Welfare Committee | ex-officio | 2023-01-09 | 2023-09-28 | 8 | |
| Protection & License Committee | ex-officio | 2023-01-09 | 2023-12-11 | 15 | |
| Public Service Committee | ex-officio | 2023-01-17 | 2023-07-24 | 7 | |
| Finance Committee | ex-officio | 2023-01-30 | 2023-08-31 | 6 | |
| Legal & Legislative Committee | ex-officio | 2023-03-02 | 2023-12-11 | 7 | |
| School Committee | Ward 6 | member | 2023-05-10 | 2023-05-10 | 1 |
| Public Works Committee | ex-officio | 2023-08-07 | 2023-12-04 | 2 | |
| School Committee | mayor | 2024-01-09 | 2026-09-15 | 54 |
Votes
yes
· To adjourn ·
ADJOURN
abstain
· To approve Regular Meeting Minutes of August 18, 2026 ·
ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE CHAIR
yes
· To approve the Protect Act Policy ·
Vote: Protect Act Policy
yes
· To suspend the usual rules around policy votes ·
Vote: Protect Act Policy
yes
· To approve the Monthly Budget Summary and Revolving Accounts ·
Vote: Monthly Budget Summary/Revolving Accounts
yes
· To approve the Consent Agenda. ·
CONSENT AGENDA
yes
· To adjourn ·
ADJOURN
yes
· To approve Warrant S27007 in the amount of $79,193.70 ·
Report: Rolling Agenda
yes
· To approve the School Committee calendar updates ·
Vote: Meeting Calendar Updates
yes
· To approve the Superintendent's Evaluation ·
Vote: Superintendent End of Cycle Evaluation
yes
· To approve the MVMMS School Improvement Plan ·
Vote: MVMMS School Improvement Plan
yes
· To approve the language "consistent with state law, school personnel will keep parents/guardians informed about their student's conduct concerns as appropriate" ·
Review: Policy KBA: School/Parent Relations Goals
yes
· To approve the budget summary, grants and revolving accounts ·
Budget Summary/Grants/Revolving Accounts
yes
· To approve the Consent Agenda ·
CONSENT AGENDA
yes
· To adjourn ·
ADJOURN
yes
· To approve the donation ·
ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE CHAIR
yes
· To approve the Melrose Public Schools' Policy KA as is. ·
Review: K Policies - Policy KA : School/Community Relations Goals, Policy KBA: School/Parent Relations Goals, Policy KCB: Community Involvement in Decision Making, and Policy KDB : Public’s Right to Know.
yes
· To approve the recommended amounts in categories : Franklin ECC, Elementary, Secondary, Athletics/EC, Teaching and Learning, and Special Education ·
Vote: MPS Additional Funding Update
yes
· To put $140,000 into the secondary category and $192,180 into the administration/ districtwide category. ·
Vote: MPS Additional Funding Update
yes
· To accept the additional funds ·
Vote: MPS Additional Funding Update
yes
· To approve the Grants Report ·
Monthly Budget/Grants
yes
· To approve the Consent Agenda ·
CONSENT AGENDA
yes
· To amend the agenda to move Executive Session after Public Comment ·
EXECUTIVE SESSION
yes
· To adjourn ·
ADJOURN
yes
· To approve the DC Field Trip ·
Report: Outreach
On video
▶ 2026-08-10
Good evening, Madam Chair and Councilors. Lovely to see you all. I'm thrilled to be here tonight with Dion, as I know many of us know him, for consideration of his appointment to the Human Rights Commission. I believe many of you, like...
▶ 2026-07-28
Just to your question about timeline, in the memo, the desire was to have this in place in September, so I would certainly want us to move forward to be able to meet that timeline. If that's sort of an expectation of the community, I...
▶ 2026-07-28
Can I say back what I think you're saying, Ms. Rozy-Thomas? Yes, of course. So your concern is that the added language allows it to be too broad, where basically someone could say, "I'm really curious about student conduct," period....
▶ 2026-07-28
Thank you for all of that, and it's really helpful to have your professional lens, but also the holistic data of how much time and resources we're putting toward implementing this policy. I'm not calling any of them out, but just do you...
▶ 2026-06-23
Thank you, Ms. Driscoll. More just a comment. Obviously, we're all watching closely what's happening at the federal level and that there's seems like a real movement afoot to move IDEA out of the Department of Education and into Health...
▶ 2026-06-23
Mayor Grigoris. Thank you. Not a question, just a comment. I'm really thrilled to see this kind of judicious and thoughtful distribution of the funds. I know this is front of mind for all of us, but we are one of few districts that is...
▶ 2026-06-23
Oh, thank you. Yeah. I was going to say through the chair, but you are the chair, so to the chair which is probably violating protocol. I'm very appreciative of your thoughts and reasoning and thinking about the need for mathematics. I...
▶ 2026-06-23
While I think that's a more inclusive term, I am going to push back because I do think parent and guardian actually comes with some legal rights that a caregiver may not have. So I think we want to be careful around, particularly when...
▶ 2026-06-23
get it, but I feel like we probably legally should stick with-- I would recommend we stick with parent/guardian.
▶ 2026-06-23
Mayor? Thank you. The fact that this is no longer in the MASC manual resonates with me. There's a lot of