EV Vol. 32, No.9 -FREEEVE ER TT News in 7 Languages: Subscribe to Advocate Online! to discuss why real estate taxes went up so much in the ADDOCCO TEAT 4.50 www.advocatenews.net C ouncillor-At-Large John Hanlon put in a motion past year without notifi cation during Monday’s City Council meeting at City Hall. Hanlon asked why everyFree Every Friday Assessor: Tax increase largely due to Exelon relocation By Tara Vocino one got a tax increase come February. %APY* 9 Month CD Savings make dreams possible. NO MATTER WHAT YOU ARE SAVING FOR, THIS RATE IS HARD TO IGNORE. Here’s your chance to run the numbers in your favor. Everett Bank’s 9 Month CD with an amazing 4.50% APY* gets you closer to those financial goals much faster. Easily calculate better earnings with Everett Bank’s 9 Month CD. Go to everettbank. com to easily open your account on-line in just minutes. Open your account on-line in minutes! Shown from left to right: Chief Financial Offi cer Eric Demas, Mayor Carlo DaMaria and Assessor B.J. Devereux said Exelon’s relocation has contributed to an increase in taxes during Monday’s City Council meeting at City Hall. (Advocate photo by Tara Vocino) ways finalized and that July/ August were preliminary bills. “November comes around, the value approved by the state,” Devereux said. “We came up with the final tax rate.” Hanlon said Exelon, an electric company, is leaving the city in approximately 16 months, which largely contributed to the tax increase. Devereux said the city hired an expert to evaluate the Exelon property in a specialized deal. Hanlon said the reason that he put forth this clause was the company won’t be able to sell that property to produce electricity for 16 months. Exelon deactivated many of its generators. “I don’t know why someone would say the value is going down,” Hanlon said. “We’re giving them a 16-month break on their taxes, and TAX INCREASE | SEE PAGE 4 Marchese’s attempt to remove *Annual Percentage Yield (APY) is accurate as of the date posted and is subject to change without notice. APY assumes that interest remains on deposit until maturity. A withdrawal will reduce earnings. A penalty may be imposed for early withdrawal. Offer may be withdrawn at any time. Minimum of $500 is required to open a Certificate of Deposit and earn the advertised APY. mayor’s school board vote falls fl at By Tara Vocino T SINCE 1921 Messinger Insurance Agency 475 Broadway Everett, MA 02149 Phone: 617-387-2700 Fax: 617-387-7753 NEW COMPETITIVE AUTO RATES AND BENEFITS AVAILABLE ACCIDENT FORGIVENESS DISAPPEARING COLLISION DEDUCTIBLE 11% DISCOUNT WITH SUPPORTING POLICY 10% COMBINED PAY IN FULL DISCOUNT AND GREEN DISCOUNT 10% GOOD STUDENT DISCOUNT Celebrating 100 years of excellence! Monday thru Friday: 8am to 6pm Saturdays 9am to 1pm! Check out our NEW website! www.messingerinsurance.com he City Council voted 6-3 to keep the mayor as a voting member of the school committee. The council’s vote failed to move forward a home rule petition requesting the Mass. Legislature to authorize the city to place a binding ballot question on the November 7 municipal 2023 election concerning a charter amendment to remove the mayor as a voting member of the School Committee during Monday’s City Council meeting at City Hall. If it passed, it would make the mayor an ex offi cio non-voting member, according to City Clerk Sergio Cornelio. Since the vote failed, the mayor remained a voting member, as it is in hundreds of other municipalities throughout the state. Ward 6 City Councillor Alfred Lattanzi asked who would foot the bill for KP Law to develop the ballot question for the fall’s local election, which if approved by the voters, would remove the mayor as a voting member of the School Committee. Cornelio said there would not be a payment to KP Law since there’s already a fall city election. Councillor-At-Large Michael Marchese, with his tiresome anti-mayor agenda put forth the motion, once again, wasting taxpayer’s time and money, said it’s not the determining factor since the people would decide, as they did when he ran his own disastrous state rep campaign to unseat Rep. Joe McGonagle last year. Marchese was soundly defeated by McGonagle’s 4,629 votes to Marchese’s failed 1,946 votes. Addressing the council, Mayor Carlo DeMaria said in approximately 90 percent of cities and towns, the mayor serves as a voting member as well as chairman. “This should have been done a long, long time ago,” DeMaria said. “The superintendent at VOTE FALLS | SEE PAGE 8 “Why and how did it get changed,” Hanlon asked. “We don’t have amounts that come that high — ever.” The city’s Assessor BJ Devereux said the rate was al617-387-2200 Friday, March 3, 2023
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