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Robb Stewart

On record 2020-01-13 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 CouncilWard 3member 2020-01-132025-12-15153
Appropriations & Oversight CommitteeWard 3member 2020-01-212025-12-04173
Finance Committeevice-chair 2020-02-242021-10-1412
Protection & License Committeechair 2020-03-092020-12-146
Rules & Ordermember 2020-11-112021-09-085
Public Works Committeemember 2020-11-162021-11-298
Health, Education & Welfare Committeemember 2021-01-072024-08-1933
Protection & License Committeevice-chair 2021-02-082024-12-0940
Legal & Legislative CommitteeWard 3member 2021-08-162022-06-215
Public Service Committeechair 2022-04-112023-07-2412
Finance Committeemember 2023-01-302023-08-316
School CommitteeWard 3member 2023-05-102023-05-101
Finance Committeechair 2024-01-222025-09-0218
Public Service Committeemember 2024-03-182024-11-254
Boards & Commissions CommitteeWard 3member 2025-01-132025-11-1712

Votes

1879 votes cast: 1851 yes, 28 no, 0 abstain; 25 against the majority on 81 contested motions; moved 147, seconded 163; recorded absent for 213. 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

11 h 52 min of speech identified by voice across 222 recordings (3448 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).

▶ 2025-12-04 Thank you, Mr. Chair. Madam, uh, Mayor, thank you. Um, uh, is there any requirement for matching funding? No, there is not. Great. Thank you for answering that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
▶ 2025-12-04 when you have a plumber walk into your house, right- (laughs) ... it's like all of a sudden, you know, you gotta...
▶ 2025-12-04 ... like, take a mortgage on your house- Yeah. Right? So is this going to be enough, is my question.
▶ 2025-12-04 Okay, because I got a great wrench, in case.
▶ 2025-12-04 Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I will make a motion to recommend this to the full Council.
▶ 2025-12-04 It's recommended.
▶ 2025-12-04 Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I'll make a motion to amend, um,
▶ 2025-12-04 the ID 2025-77... um, sorry, 2025-769
▶ 2025-12-04 from $18,000 to $25,000.
▶ 2025-12-04 (laughs) Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, Chief, I've got a couple of great real locations for those handhelds if you're looking for some spots.

Attendance

From the attendance tables in full minutes (2013 onward): 420 present, 45 absent, 15 remote, 10 late, 1 excused. All rows (JSON).