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Ward Hamilton

On record 2024-01-08 to 2025-12-15. Derived from vote rosters and the minutes' attendance tables, not an official biography; the record of structured votes begins in 2012.

Service

BodySeatRoleFromToMeetings
City CouncilAt-Largemember 2024-01-082025-12-1548
Appropriations & Oversight CommitteeAt-Largemember 2024-01-222025-12-0452
Protection & License CommitteeAt-Largemember 2024-01-222025-11-1719
Health, Education & Welfare Committeemember 2024-02-122024-12-099
Public Works Committeevice-chair 2024-02-202024-12-023
Finance Committeemember 2024-10-072024-10-071
Public Service Committeemember 2024-11-122024-11-121

Votes

628 votes cast: 621 yes, 7 no, 0 abstain; 6 against the majority on 14 contested motions; moved 9, seconded 13; recorded absent for 53. All rows (JSON).

2025-12-15 · City Council yes · Send Back to Commitee · Revise the existing Animal Leash Law to REMOVE this language : The Animal Control Officer may, at his/her discretion, waive the provisions of Subsection A if a determination is made that the owner or keeper has a valid reason to have the dog unleashed or untethered for training, exhibition or show purposes. [Amended 8-21-2017 by Ord. No. 2018-4]
2025-12-15 · City Council yes · Passed · Intermunicipal Agreement for Regional Emergency Planning Services with the Mystic Regional Emergency Planning Committee
2025-12-15 · City Council yes · Passed · Acceptance of FEMA/MEMA Grant for Lebanon/Sylvan Drainage Design
2025-12-15 · City Council yes · Passed · Police_State Earmark 50K Police Cruiser
2025-12-15 · City Council yes · Passed · Police_State Earmark 25K Equipment
2025-12-15 · City Council yes · Passed · Acceptance of Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection RDP Grant plus Additional Award for Organics Collection Carts
2025-12-15 · City Council yes · Passed · FFY26 Municipal Road Safety Program - MPD has been awarded $19,290.00 to enable additional traffic enforcement and equipment. This includes extra officers for motor vehicle and pedestrian crosswalk enforcement. Equipment includes portable hand-held radars or traffic data recorders.
2025-12-15 · City Council yes · Passed · State 911 Training Grant - MPD has been awarded $82,903.80 for 16 hours of dispatch specific continuing education as well as the training class fees for all certified dispatch personnel.
2025-12-15 · City Council yes · Passed · State 911 Support & Incentive Grant - MPD has been awarded $90,505.00 to defray the cost of the dispatch specific equipment (new and existing) and the straight-time cost of dispatch personnel.
2025-12-15 · City Council yes · Passed · State 911 EMD Grant - MPD has been awarded $25,000.00 to defray the cost of 1 year of emergency service from the Armstrong Ambulance Services.
2025-12-15 · City Council yes · Passed · Title III B FY26 Grant for $5000. The funds will be used for funding Milano Center social programming.
2025-12-15 · City Council yes · Passed · Field Demonstration Grant - Memory Cafe for the amount of $4860. Funds will be used to provide a monthly Memory Cafe which would provide respite programming for those living with dementia and their caregivers.
2025-12-15 · City Council yes · Passed · Field Demonstration Grant- Senior Center Modernization for the amount of $9500 to replace aging toilets at the Milano Center with chair height models for accessibility. Replace worn countertops in 2 restrooms. Installation of grab bars in restrooms. Purchase and installation of a digital media board on the Milano Center lobby used to advertise programming, schedule changes and as a means of wayfinding within the building.
2025-12-15 · City Council yes · Passed · FY26 Earmark for Playing Fields
2025-12-15 · City Council yes · Passed · Appropriation from the Peg Access Fund in the amount of $282,640.36 to MMTV and Melrose Public Schools.
2025-12-15 · City Council yes · Passed · A Resolution Recognizing and Honoring President Leila Migliorelli, Councilor Mark Garipay, Councilor Robert Stewart and Councilor Ward Hamilton for their Exemplary Service to the Melrose City Council.
2025-12-15 · City Council yes · Approve · City Council Regular Meeting December 1, 2025 7:45 PM
2025-12-04 · Appropriations & Oversight Committee yes · Recommend · Intermunicipal Agreement for Regional Emergency Planning Services with the Mystic Regional Emergency Planning Committee
2025-12-04 · Appropriations & Oversight Committee yes · Recommend · Police_State Earmark 50K Police Cruiser
2025-12-04 · Appropriations & Oversight Committee yes · Recommend · Police_State Earmark 25K Equipment
2025-12-04 · Appropriations & Oversight Committee yes · Recommend · Acceptance of Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection RDP Grant plus Additional Award for Organics Collection Carts
2025-12-04 · Appropriations & Oversight Committee yes · Recommend · FFY26 Municipal Road Safety Program - MPD has been awarded $19,290.00 to enable additional traffic enforcement and equipment. This includes extra officers for motor vehicle and pedestrian crosswalk enforcement. Equipment includes portable hand-held radars or traffic data recorders.
2025-12-04 · Appropriations & Oversight Committee yes · Recommend · State 911 Training Grant - MPD has been awarded $82,903.80 for 16 hours of dispatch specific continuing education as well as the training class fees for all certified dispatch personnel.
2025-12-04 · Appropriations & Oversight Committee yes · Recommend · State 911 Support & Incentive Grant - MPD has been awarded $90,505.00 to defray the cost of the dispatch specific equipment (new and existing) and the straight-time cost of dispatch personnel.
2025-12-04 · Appropriations & Oversight Committee yes · Recommend as Amended · State 911 EMD Grant - MPD has been awarded $25,000.00 to defray the cost of 1 year of emergency service from the Armstrong Ambulance Services.

On video

2 h 57 min of speech identified by voice across 59 recordings (702 turns). Attribution is by voice match against this person's enrolled voice, not a human transcript; each clip links to the moment. All rows (JSON).

▶ 2026-06-01 Thank you for having us here this evening.
▶ 2026-06-01 It's my pleasure to introduce Jay Picone, who's the finance director at Northeast.
▶ 2026-06-01 yeah, that's why we're- There's also an easily explainable phenomenon that happens when a new vocational school has been opened in Massachusetts, where there's already a high demand in the sending communities, but they've seen it...
▶ 2026-06-01 our kids taking those spots. And so you're going to have the challenges that you just identified.
▶ 2026-06-01 You're welcome. For some context on that, when I first got involved at the school, I was elected in 2020, and I think in 2020, 2021, we had 22 students. So
▶ 2026-06-01 before the lottery, there was a more rigorous criteria, and it was more difficult. So you might have 24 Melrose seats, we could have 36 applicants, and we might only have, and I don't know the exact numbers, say 18 kids who apply that...
▶ 2025-12-04 what MMTV provides to Melrose. Uh, we all enjoy and benefit from it, and, um, at this moment, at this time I make a motion to recommend. Thanks.
▶ 2025-12-04 Councilor Hamilton. Thank you, Mayor. Uh, and thank you for what we have before us, which I think is, uh, a slate of
▶ 2025-12-04 important things that we need to take care of and at this motio- at this moment, I make a motion to recommend. Second.
▶ 2025-12-04 Thank you. Um, Counselor Hamilton? Thank you, Chair Garipay. I make a motion to recommend.

Attendance

From the attendance tables in full minutes (2013 onward): 111 present, 20 absent, 1 remote, 0 late, 0 excused. All rows (JSON).