EVEEVERET Vol. 30, No.35 -FREERETT AADD Have a Safe & Happy Labor Day Weekend! e a S CATET CAT www.advocatenews.net Free Every Friday 617-387-2200 Friday, September 3, 2021 Long weekends... The best kind of weekends. Happy Labor Day from your friends at Everett Bank! We’ll be closed Monday September 6th in observance of the holiday. As always, you can access your accounts using our ATMs and Online & Mobile Banking. Jessica Zide, 9, started fourth grade at the Keverian School last Tuesday. See page 16 for photo highlights. (Advocate photo by Tara Vocino) School Committee wrestles with afterschool programming Mayor warns of possible bid-splitting By Christopher Roberson T 419 BROADWAY, EVERETT MA 02149 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 he School Committee, during its August 30 meetSINCE 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 ing, voted to postpone two agenda items pertaining to afterschool programs. The fi rst item was a request to sign a contract with AlphaBEST Education, the district’s choice for a new afterschool provider. The second item was a request to send out a Request for Proposals (RFP) for supplemental afterschool programming. The committee will revisit both matters during its next meeting on September 7. Regarding AlphaBEST, School Committee Member-atLarge Millie Cardello said that prior to signing the contract the committee should have the opportunity to review the scoring rubric that was used. Should the contract be signed, AlphaBEST would replace For Kids Only, which had been in Everett for 15 years. Speaking about supplemental programming, Superintendent of Schools Priya Tahiliani assured the committee that it would be separate from AlphaBEST. However, Mayor Carlo DeMaria pushed back, saying the timing of the RFP for supplemental programming would be close to the RFP that was sent out for a new afterschool provider. Therefore, such an action could be viewed as bid splitting. “There was an RFP that was put out; this is now a separate one,” he said. “It has to be one RFP.” According to the state Attorney General’s Offi ce, bid splitSCHOOL | SEE PAGE 4 Everett Students Go Back To School
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