Mayor Carlo DeMaria and the Everett City Council voted to use $5 million of city reserves to help the schools with a projected operating deficit of $9 million. However, that support did come with some strings attached, including a blue-ribbon…
Author: Joseph Domelowicz Jr.
DeMaria,City Council Give Schools $5 Million Bailout
With teachers, students, and parents protesting outside of Everett City Hall most of the day and into the evening on Monday, the Everett City Council went to work considering a proposal from Mayor Carlo DeMaria to provide an additional $5…
Schools Wrestle with $9 Million Budget Gap
A large crowd of anxious teachers, students and angry parents crowded into the Everett High School library Monday night to hear the school administration’s explanation of planned mid-year budget cuts in the Everett schools. In the end, most left still…
Unexpected Costs, Unrealized Revenues Blamed for Plan to Layoff 110 School Personnel
Assistant Superintendent Charles Obremski, who helps to manage the School Department budget, explained the financial predicament facing the schools to the School Committee and gathered crowd at Everett High School library on Monday night. According to Obremski, the deficit is…
Council Accepts PARC Grant for Whittier Playground
The Everett City Council voted Monday night to accept a $300,000 Parkland Acquisition and Renovations for Communities (PARC) grant from the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, which will help defray the cost of a planned $1.6 million renovation…
School Committee Adopts New Fiscal Policies
School Committee adopts new policies, fiscal controls for student activity accounts, to ensure accountability and conformance with other fiscal policies. Assistant Superintendent of Schools Charles Obremski made a brief presentation for the full School Committee on Monday night, related to…
Suspect in Stabbing of EHS Football Player Arrested
Everett Police last week arrested a 19-year old Everett man and charged him in the stabbing of a 16-year old Everett High football player on November 1. Osmin Murcia was arrested on December 2 and charged with assault and battery…
City Council Vote Sets New Anticipated Tax Rate for 2016:Average Residential Tax Bill Will Increase
The Everett City Council met in special session Monday night to adopt a new tax rate and set the differential between the residential and commercial property tax rates. Following a brief explanation by Chairman of the Board of Assessors Bill…
Council Votes to Adopt 20-Percent Exemption for Owner Occupied Residences
The Everett City Council met in special session on Monday night to set the tax rate for the coming year, but in doing so had several other decisions to make that affected that tax rate. As in year’s past, the…
Let the Shopping Begin:Gateway Center Stores Prepping for Black Friday Crowds
Once the turkey and stuffing and all the pies have been consumed, once the dads and grandfathers and small boys have had their fill of Thanksgiving Day football and before dawn has come, stores across the state and right here…