The city took its first steps toward establishing a Metropolitan Harbor Plan (MHP) with the state of Massachusetts on Monday night, when they kicked off the Harbor Planning process with the first of two public hearings at a meeting on the third floor of City Hall. According to James Errickson, the director of planning...
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Everett Vision Plan Set to Be Unveiled June 4
The City of Everett and the Metropolitan Area Planning Council are set to unveil their yearlong effort at creating a vision tool for future development in the city. According to Director of Planning and Community Development James Errickson, MAPC will present “Many Voices, One Future: The Everett Vision Plan” on Tuesday June 4 from...
Traffic Study Meeting Just One Step of Many
The public meeting that was scheduled Tuesday evening (last night), to unveil a traffic mitigation package for the proposed Wynn Resort Casino on lower Broadway is just one step in a process that will likely take the next few months and be decided by the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, if the proposal ultimately is approved....
Three Are Promoted at EPD: Hoenig Makes Lieutenant, Bagley and Fox Step Up to Sergeant
The Everett Board of Aldermen confirmed the promotions of three members of the Everett Police Department on Monday night, as patrol officers Sean Bagley and William Fox were promoted to Sergeant and Sergeant Frank Hoenig was promoted to Lieutenant. Mayor Carlo DeMaria, Chief Steven Mazzie and a packed gallery of family, friends and their...
Aldermen Approve School Transfers, Delay Raises: Motion to Increase School Committee Pay Sent Back to Finance Committee
The Board of Aldermen quickly voted to approve two transfer requests for the School Department totaling $1.37 million on Monday night, and then balked at approving an increase in the salary for Everett School Committee members, from $5,500 per member annually to $11,500 per member annually. The pay raises if passed would have totaled...
Council Votes to Approve Capital Improvement Expenditures: $914,400 Voted for 13 Projects in Coming Fiscal Year
The Everett Common Council approved $914,400 worth of capital improvement plan expenditures in the upcoming budget year (fiscal 2014) through the use of free cash, as was requested by Mayor Carlo DeMaria in his annual capital improvement plan. The use of free cash on one-time, capital purchases is consistent with current city policies of...
School Department Transfers Approved: $1.37 Million Approved for Projected Shortfalls in Current Fiscal Year
The Everett Common Council Monday night approved a pair of transfers from the city’s free cash accounts to make up expected shortfalls in the School department budget, for the current fiscal year. The first vote was to transfer $591,187.00 from the Free Cash I(Budgetary Fund Balance) to the Everett School Department Salary Account to...
Mayor Announces Everett Host Agreement: Proposal Would Bring $30M in One Time Payment and $25.25M/Year
Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria announced that the city had reached agreement with Wynbn Development on a host agreement for a resort casino in Everett, clearing another of the milestone’s necessary to gain state approval to develop a casino in the Eastern Region of the state. According to Mayor DeMaria, who unveiled some of the...
ECTV Online Programming Interrupted
According to Everett Communications Director Alyson Dell Isola, ECTVonline.com programming has been suspended because of a crash of the cable access channel’s broadcasting server. The $13,000 piece of computer equipment recently crashed, leaving the station with no way to store or broadcast its various program offerings when there is no one at the station...
Casino Opposition Surfaces: Everett United Addresses Board of Aldermen
The honeymoon, as they say is over. Local opponents to casino proposal began to surface, just as they have in every other Massachusetts community that is considering a casino proposal. Two local residents and two non-residents addressed the Board of Aldermen during the public comment period on Monday night to speak out against the...