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Peter D. Mortimer

On record 2012-02-06 to 2019-12-16. Also recorded as Peter D Mortimer. Derived from vote rosters and the minutes' attendance tables, not an official biography; the record of structured votes begins in 2012.

Service

BodySeatRoleFromToMeetings
City CouncilWard 6member 2012-02-062019-12-16184
Appropriations & Oversight CommitteeWard 6member 2012-02-092014-12-0862
Health, Education & Welfare CommitteeWard 6member 2012-02-092013-10-0716
Protection & License Committeevice-chair 2012-02-092012-10-1812
Public Works CommitteeWard 6member 2012-04-092012-08-235
Protection & License Committeechair 2013-02-252013-11-2113
Finance Committeechair 2014-02-032014-12-0813
Legal & Legislative Committeevice-chair 2014-03-172014-12-085
Public Service CommitteeWard 6member 2014-05-122016-03-2810
Finance CommitteeWard 6member 2015-01-292017-12-1125
Legal & Legislative CommitteeWard 6member 2015-01-292017-12-1117
Appropriations & Oversight CommitteeWard 6chair 2015-02-092017-12-1864
Appropriations & Oversight CommitteeWard 6member 2018-01-182019-12-1650
Protection & License CommitteeWard 6member 2018-01-182018-10-189
Health, Education & Welfare Committeechair 2018-02-052019-08-268
Legal & Legislative Committeevice-chair 2018-03-262018-07-162
Protection & License Committeevice-chair 2019-01-282019-10-079
Public Works Committeemember 2019-11-072019-11-182
Finance Committeemember 2019-11-252019-11-251

Votes

2218 votes cast: 2211 yes, 7 no, 0 abstain; 8 against the majority on 101 contested motions; moved 739, seconded 489; recorded absent for 105. All rows (JSON).

2019-12-02 · City Council yes · PLACED ON FILE [10 TO 0] · ORDER-2020-39 : Request for Update on the Status of the Community Mitigation Funds Grant
2019-11-25 · Appropriations & Oversight Committee absent · RECOMMEND PLACE ON FILE [9 TO 0] · ORDER-2020-39 : Request for Update on the Status of the Community Mitigation Funds Grant
2019-11-18 · City Council no dissent · LEAVE TO WITHDRAW [8 TO 2] · ORDER-2020-30 : Emergency Management Services - vehicle acquisition request
2019-11-18 · Public Works Committee yes dissent · OUGHT TO PASS [2 TO 4] · ORDER-2020-30 : Emergency Management Services - vehicle acquisition request

On video

23 h 23 min of speech identified by voice across 232 recordings (7201 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).

▶ 2022-07-13 Great. Thank you very much. My name is Peter maurama. I am an attorney at law in good standing I happen for 22 years. I'm still at my license, but I'm pretty much retired 65 years of all age. I was a city councilor in Melrose for 20...
▶ 2019-12-16 Council Member thank you madam chair we received a letter from the mayor
▶ 2019-12-16 warning us falls that could occur I've spoken to city solicitors from other
▶ 2019-12-16 cities and one thing that they said to be careful of is that the if we leave
▶ 2019-12-16 this up to the liquor Commission then the state legislature can overrule us
▶ 2019-12-16 but if we make this an ordinance of our city and send it forward then they cannot steamroll us on this also there's a lot of technical details to work out I
▶ 2019-12-16 think the new mayor should have a little time to study this and weigh in on it to
▶ 2019-12-16 further degree if if there's a problem and this isn't handled correctly under the rules of our City Council we would not be able to bring this up for another six months that's why I think at this time the prudent thing to do would be to...
▶ 2019-12-16 justice for all motion to open the floor for public comment mr president second council mortimer has
▶ 2019-12-16 in the future thank you thank you motion to close public comment yeah I'm kind of

Attendance

From the attendance tables in full minutes (2013 onward): 553 present, 20 absent, 2 remote, 2 late, 2 excused. All rows (JSON).