Page 4 THE EVERETT ADVOCATE – FRiDAy, FEbRuARy 24, 2023 Mayor announces new round of Everett Citizens Foundation Grant Funding Special to Th e Advocate M ayor Carlo DeMaria is pleased to announce that the Everett Citizens Foundation Grant Funding application for year four, round two is now available. The request limit for this round of funding is set at $10,000. All applications are due on Friday, March 31. Through Mayor DeMaria’s RESNEK | FROM PAGE 1 Kerby Roberson, Esquire contacted the plaintiff ’s counsel by email identifying himself as Carlo DeMaria Mayor $3.48 GALLON We accept: MasterCard * Visa * & Discover Price Subject to Change without notice 100 Gal. Min. 24 Hr. Service 781-286-2602 counsel for Ms. Alcy, requesting a postponement of Ms. Alcy’s deposition due to scheduling conflicts, and stating that Ms. Alcy was “working on the list of documents requested,” and that “she will make every effort to comply with your request prior to the next scheduled date for the deposition.” The plaintiff ’s counsel responded on August 18, 2022 agreeing to a date of September 30, 2022 for Ms. Alcy’s deposition and requested that the documents responsive to the Subpoena be produced in advance of the September 30, 2022 deposition. The plaintiff ’s counsel sent several follow-up emails to Ms. Alcy’s counsel requesting that Ms. Alcy produce the documents requestNeed a hall for your special event? The Schiavo Club, located at 71 Tileston Street, Everett is available for your Birthdays, Anniversaries, Sweet 16 parties and more? Call Dennis at (857) 249-7882 for details. Host Community Agreement with Wynn Resorts, which was approved by voters in 2013, the Everett Citizens Foundation was established. The Foundation, which consists of members appointed by Mayor DeMaria, the Everett City Council, State Senator Sal DiDomenico, and State Representative Joe McGonagle, is charged with supporting and promoting local groups, ased in the Subpoena, but there was evidently no response to those requests.” The mayor’s attorneys fi led a Motion to Compel on Sept. 13, 2022 demanding that Alcyproduce the documents within ten days of the entry and appear for her deposition within two weeks of the receipt of the documents, according to the motion. On or about Sept. 27, 2022, Alcy’s lawyer responded with a written response to the Subpeona and on Sept. 29, 2022 served an Opposition to the Motion to Compel objecting to the Subpeona and stating that she complied with the request for documents and that the “plaintiff’s request for documents were “overly broad and not intended to illicit (sic) relevant evidence, but to harass and punish Guerline Alcy for giving an interview to a local newspaper, [and] . . . to punish Guerline Alcy for exercising her right of free speech guaranteed by the fi rst Amendment to the US Constitution.” Ms. Alcy’s deposition was conducted by the plaintiff on September 30, 2022.” Alcy was interviewed by corrupt Everett Leader Herald publisher/reporter Joshua Resnek for his August 2020 story in which she claimed Mayor Carlo DeMaria sexually sociations and programs with important City initiatives that provide a direct benefi t to Everett residents. “This has been and continues to be a great opportunity for organizations to receive additional funding,” said Mayor DeMaria. “The Everett Citizens Foundation seeks to assist organizations that have a positive impact on the residents of Everett. I encourage harassed her while employed at the mayor’s offi ce in Everett City Hall. During her Sept. 30, 2022 deposition at Mayor DeMaria’s lawyers’ offices without the documents and communications, such as emails and cell phone texts between herself and Resnek, Alcy, when shown her email address, reacted evasively to its ownership, answering repeatedly, “That’s one of the emails.” Alcy resigned from her position in the city’s Constituent Services/311 department after being removed from her secretarial position in the Mayor’s Offi ce following, in her nine years of employment with the city, repeated reprimands for insubordination and bizarre behavior to her supervisor and residents. In one example of her odd behavior during the deposition, Alcy stated that she was upset when she was dismissed from her job in the Mayor’s Offi ce, away from the person that – she claims in an August 2022 Leader Herald newspaper article – sexually harassed her. When asked to name dates of when the principal incidents of harassment occurred, Alcy couldn’t even recall even the year that the event supposedly occured. When she was asked if she ever sent any communications to anyone about the alleged harassment, she stated she did not. “Do you have any text, ma’am, that you ever sent to anybody asserting that Mr. DeMaria harassed you in any way? Yes or no?” asked Robbins. “Text? Not that I can remember,” replied Alcy. “Do you have any e-mail of any kind that you ever sent to anybody asserting that Carlo DeMaria ever harassed you?” asked Robbins. “Not an e-mail,” she replied. “Do you have any writing of any kind that you submitted to anybody asserting that Carlo DeMaria harassed you? continued the attorney. “Yes,” she replied, stating that it was the Leader Herald article writall organizations in the community to apply.” Any nonprofi t organization in the community can apply. Applications can be found online at www.CityofEverett.com, then point to Business & Development and then click Everett Citizens Foundation. For questions or concerns regarding the application or eligibility, please email ECFoundation@ci.everett.ma.us. ten by Resnek. Alcy stated that she only spoke to people about the incidents but never wrote anything, or communicated in writing to anyone, including the city’s Human Resources Department or the City Solicitor’s Offi ce, in all of her nine years employed by the city. Throughout her testimony, Alcy continued to evade questioning by claiming to not understand the questions or not off ering any clear answers to the attorney’s questions. When asked about her claim of the mayor exposing himself to her, she again stated that she couldn’t even remember the year. With respect to her response to the subpoena to provide all documents and communications with Resnek relating to DeMaria, she only provided a draft document of the article written by Resnek about her allegations. She was confronted with an August 16, 2021, email in which Resnek suggests to her to say that she was shut out of any advancement because it was “all about being a woman, and a Black woman in a city hall run by a racist, misogynist mayor.” “If you can’t or won’t say this for the record – I will because it is the truth,” demands Resnek in the email. Resnek then asks her to get some quotes from her cousin, Councillor Gerly Adrian, because, according to Resnek, “who knows better than her about the mayor’s racism…and others on the city council.” Alcy would then email Resnek to suggest writing in his story that she (Alcy) “might have other reasons she is not ready to reveal yet as to why she was passed over for several promotions since Carlo does not like when people say no to him.” The response by Mayor DeMaria’s lawyers’ motion to compel Alcy to hand over documents she appeared to be withholding, the DiscovRESNEK | SEE PAGE 18
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