EV Vol. 31, No.23 -FREEEVE ER TT Congratulations EHS Class of 2022! ADDOCCO TEAT www.advocatenews.net Free Every Friday 617-387-2200 Friday, June 10, 2022 EHS Class of 2022 graduates Hats off to the Class of 2022 NO MATTER WHERE YOUR JOURNEY TAKES YOU NEXT, YOU’LL ALWAYS BE PART OF OUR COMMUNITY. 419 BROADWAY, EVERETT MA 02149 Right by you. 61 7-38 7 - 1 1 10 7 7 1 SALEM ST, LYNNFIELD MA 01940 7 8 1 - 7 7 6 - 4444 WWW.EVERETTBANK .COM Member FDIC Member DIF IVY LEAGUE BOUND: School Committee Chair Jeanne Cristiano is shown awarding EHS Class President Shawn Shiek his diploma during the Class of 2022 commencement on Saturday. Sheik plans to attend Princeton University in the Fall. See graduation coverage beginning on page 12. (Advocate photo by Tara Vocino) School Board members deny contract changes By Stephen Hagan “A contract is a contract”— School Committee Member Marcony Almeida-Barros E 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 verett School Committee members voted 7-2 on Monday to deny any amendments to existing contracts that result in increased costs of contracted services. Board members later agreed unanimously to “refer back to [the] sponsor” a measure that would have amended the existing contract between the Everett School Department and Malden Trans, Inc. (MTI) to include a four and a half percent fuel surcharge. The request for the surcharge – originally made by Malden Trans – was later rescinded by the company. In an email to board members, Malden Trans officials said they had “become very disheartened” by the public debate at School Board meetings regarding the matter. “… we were simply seeking the surcharge based on the unprecedented infl ationary environment we are facing and the fact that over 90 percent of MTI’s school bus fl eet is dedicated to Everett students,” the e-mail reads. “We are not immune to these historic economic events.“We have been caught in the middle of a political cross-fi re.” Superintendent Priya Tahiliani told board members CONTRACT | SEE PAGE 8
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