Neil Zolot / Special to the Melrose Free Press
The City Council is back at City Hall. With restrictions on public interaction based on the COVID-19 pandemic lifted, the body met in chambers for the first time in over a year.
Members of the public were also allowed to attend the June 21 meeting.
“It’s great; it’s nice to see faces and be together,” Council President and at-large member Christopher Cinella said. “It’s been a strange 18 months, but we were able to move the city’s business forward in a remote capacity.”
“Video-conferencing worked well, but it’s time to get back to some normalcy,” Ward 4 Councilor Mark Garipay added.
UpdatedFri, May 7, 2021 at 8:22 am ET
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MELROSE, MA Every City Council seat has one person vying for it after two incumbents declared their intention to seek re-election.
Jeff McNaught and Robb Stewart, who represent Wards 2 and 3, respectively, pulled papers Wednesday to get back on the ballot. They were the only two councilors who had not made their intentions publicly known after a flurry of activity in the previous two days.
The City Council will have at least two new councilors after John Tramontozzi in Ward 1 and Cory Thomas in Ward 7 said they will not run again; Manjula Karamcheti and Ryan Williams pulled papers in Wards 1 and 7, respectively.
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