Page 2 THE EVERETT ADVOCATE – WEDnEsDAy, July 3, 2024 Five candidates vie for fire chief position; councillors seek Glendale Sq. Shopping Plaza plan By Neil Zolot F ive candidates participated in Assessment Center testing Tuesday, June 11, to become the new Fire Chief to succeed Sabato LoRusso, the Mayor’s Chief of Staff, Erin Deveney, told the City Council at their meeting Monday, June 24. Information will be submitted to the Civil Service Commission, which she estimates will take up to six weeks to verify background information provided by the candidates. Only Fire Department employees at the Deputy Chief level were eligible to apply. “We’re waiting for the Civil Service Commission to take action,” Deveney explained. “Once that is done the Civil Service will publish the candidate scores and the eligible list needed for the City to proceed with the appointment at the local level. The Mayor will make a recommendation to the City Council for approval based on the candidates’ scoring on the Assessment Center Process. His intention is to use the scoring list of the Assessment Center barring any reasons candidates were determined to be ineligible.” Various people have been Acting Fire Chief since the retirement of David Butler in 2016, including Anthony Carli (also was a permanent Fire Chief), Scott Dalrymple and LoRusso. Among other items on the City Council agenda on June 24, a resolution from Councillor-at-Large Michael Marchese and Ward 3 Councillor Anthony DiPierro “requesting the Planning and Development Department engage the owners of the Glendale Square Shopping CenEVERETT KIWANIS 38th ANNUAL FRANK E. WOODWARD GOLF TOURNAMENT!!! Supporting Scholarships for Everett High School Students Register online to play and to buy tee box signs at www.everettkiwanisgolf.com Date: July 26, 2024 Time: 7:00AM Registration – 8:00 AM Shotgun Start Location: Mount Hood Golf Course – 100 Slayton Rd. Melrose, MA Fee: $150.00 per golfer – includes 18-hole best ball scramble format, cart, greens fees, lunch, and prizes Please buy a tee box sign for $125.00 per hole Questions: Contact David LaRovere at david@larovere.com or 617-387-2700 Online registration gives option to be invoiced or pay online ter, on Ferry Street at the corner of Broadway, to discuss future plans for the plaza and potentially form a public/private partnership,” was referred back to the sponsors for additional work. “We’re told empty storefronts will soon be rented, but I would like the Administration to continue to engage property owners in the area to develop a long-term plan for the redevelopment of Glendale Square,” DiPierro told The Advocate. The last order of business on the agenda was a resolution by Councillor-at-Large Katy Rogers “to recognize the City as a Blue Carbon Community to promote the conservation, restoration and sustainable management of our water and wetlands.” Blue Carbon refers to aquatic environments, as opposed to Green Carbon references to woodlands. “Tonight, we heard from an environmental group about Blue Carbon,” she said, in reference to earlier comments in Public Participation from members of the World Mission SoCANDIDATES | SEE PAGE 8 Everett, MA or Everett, WA – The “other Everett” 3,000 miles away By Neil Zolot P eople looking for the City’s website on the Internet sometimes come across Everett, Washington, in their searches. “We get calls for them from people who think they’ve reached Everett, Washington,” City Clerk Sergio Cornelio reported. “They come up before us on Google because they’re bigger.” “Everett, Washington always comes up first on Google,” City Council President Robert Van Campen confirmed. Everett, Washington, is a city of 110,000 located 25 miles north of Seattle along Interstate Route 5. It is not quite a suburb, but is considered part of the greater Seattle metropolitan region. A good local parallel might be Framingham, which is 22.8 miles from Boston or Lowell, which is 30.1 miles away. Everett is 5.6 miles from Boston. “Plenty of people commute from here to Seattle to work and vice versa,” Everett, Washington, Executive Assistant to the City Council Angela Ely reported. Naturally they root for Seattle’s sports teams: the Mariners in baseball and the Seahawks in football. They were undoubtedly disappointed when the New England Patriots beat the Seahawks in the Super Bowl in February 2015. The Seahawks coach was Pete Carroll, who had been the Patriots’ coach in the late 1990s. There is one newspaper, The Daily Herald, which is owned by Sound Publishing, a subsidiary of Black Press of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The two Everetts are 3,070.8 miles from each other. Travel time is estimated at 45 hours – mainly along Interstate Route 90. Everett, Washington, hosts a Boeing airplane plant, so it’s a bit of a company town. Transportation Planner Jay Monty has been there. “I visited there once to take a tour of the Boeing aircraft plant, but didn’t really spend any time in the city proper, nor do I know anyone there,” he said. “Occasionally I get a misdirected email intended for Everett, Washington.” Confusion may be the result of the similarities between abbreviations WA and MA. Mayor Carlo DeMaria’s Chiefof-Staff, Erin Deveney, reported, “Sometimes job applicants will see our vacancy announcements and apply for OTHER EVERETT | SEE PAGE 16
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