The City Council meets at 7 p.m. tonight in the third-floor chambers at 484 Broadway, and the item most residents will feel is near the bottom of the agenda. Sgt. Joe Gaff of the police department, public works director Bob Knox and parking director Adriana Indrisano are scheduled to present a Winter Parking Ban Pilot Program and the rules for 2027 resident stickers. The 128-page agenda packet includes their slides.
One-sided parking on 95 streets
The slides open with a page titled “January 2026 Memory Lane” and then two columns of numbers. In the 2025 snow season the city towed 200 vehicles, tagged 794, took 64 calls to 311 and 21 calls to 911 about snow parking. In 2026 the tows doubled to 400, tags were 757, 311 calls rose to 575 and 911 calls to 90.
The pilot would put one-sided parking on designated streets from January 1 through February 28. “A total of 95 streets in Everett will be affected by the change,” the slide says. Main arteries would stay as they are and would only require cars to move during an officially declared snow emergency. The departments propose issuing warnings for the first few weeks “to allow residents time to adjust,” after which violators would be ticketed and could be towed. The slides list the benefits as more efficient plowing, cleaner streets, faster snow emergency response and safer conditions for residents, police, the parking department and public works crews. The 95 streets are not named in the packet.
Free stickers until March, $10 after
The 2027 resident sticker rules are also in the slides. Stickers will be free in January and February. “Beginning March 1: Resident parking stickers cost $10.” Residents must register online, must be in good standing with the city, and will have the sticker mailed once the registration is complete. Help is available through 311 or at Constituent Services in City Hall. Each household is limited to one commercial vehicle sticker. The senior meter sticker program continues for residents 65 and older, who must visit the collector’s office in person with their registration.
Tonight’s item is a resolution asking the three officials to speak, not a vote to adopt the ban. Any ordinance change would come later.
$50,000 more for legal bills
Before the regular meeting, at 6:30 p.m., Council President Stephanie Smith, Councilors Peter Pietrantonio, Vivian Nguyen and Katy Rogers, City Solicitor Jaclyn Munson and chief administrative and financial officer Omar Boukili are scheduled to go over an order moving $50,000 from the capital stabilization fund to the solicitor’s litigation and professional services line.
In an October 21 letter in the packet, Mayor Robert Van Campen wrote that the council had budgeted $100,000 for that line in fiscal 2027 and that the new money is needed “to resolve outstanding financial liabilities incurred under the prior administration.” He wrote that Munson has brought nearly all legal matters, including litigation in district, state and federal court, back in-house by hiring Mark Assad as assistant city solicitor and Nieve Anjomi as deputy city solicitor, and that the savings “may not be fully realized until the next fiscal year.”
The prior administration, he wrote, “relied heavily on KP Law,” and some of those matters, including the Devens School eminent domain case, were not resolved or paid until after Munson was appointed. The city also “was recently obligated to retain outside counsel on a highly specialized and unanticipated labor matter” that drew the line down. The office is working with a legal auditor, Hinckley Allen, to gather records back to 2008, and Munson is expected to give the council a verbal update on that audit tonight.
A second order would move $14,000 inside the purchasing office from personnel to operating expenses for equipment, furniture contracts and contract management.
The Housing Authority’s new director
On Councilor Holly Garcia’s resolution, the mayor, Everett Housing Authority board chairman David Ela and the authority’s newly appointed executive director, James Holt, are invited to give an update. The council office’s notice says the three will introduce themselves, “talk about any changes they’re hoping to make in their new roles,” and share updates for residents of affordable housing units. The invitation was issued at the October 26 meeting. Last week the city confirmed that Section 8 and MRVP voucher holders cannot apply for its federally funded rental assistance, a question raised by a Housing Authority employee.
Sick banks, 11 questions
Human resources director Ellen Collins is invited to answer Councilor Peter Pietrantonio’s questions about sick banks for the 911, clerical and public works unions and for non-union employees. His October 5 email, reproduced in the packet, asks 11 questions: whether each group has a sick bank, how many employees are enrolled, how many hours are available, how hours are contributed, who approves requests, whether there are limits, whether hours can move between bargaining units, and whether a written policy exists. This is his second invitation; the first went unanswered at the October 26 meeting.
ARPA money for small businesses: refer back to sponsor
The committee report on the resolution by Councilors Stephanie Martins, Guerline Alcy Jabouin and Michael Marchese to steer recovered ARPA money to small businesses that never got to apply recommends sending it back to its sponsors. At the October 26 committee meeting, chief development officer Monica Lamboy walked through the program’s history: $33.3 million in fiscal 2021, another $13.9 million in 2022 and 2023, $47.2 million in all, obligated to 25 projects that had to be in place by December 31, 2024, with spending to be identified by December 31, 2026. She said 42 of 48 businesses that applied were eligible, that the timelines leave no room for new rounds, and that any returned money would go to the city’s building projects. Everett MA News has traced where the $47.2 million went.
Public hearing: a Recreation and Youth Commission
The meeting opens with a public hearing on replacing the Youth Commission with a Recreation and Youth Commission. The mayor’s October 7 letter says the Youth Commission the council created in April 2019 was never properly formed, because the state law it relied on requires a vote to accept the statute locally and the council’s records show no such vote. The new nine-member body would include the high school athletic director, the director of youth development and enrichment, the public works director and the police chief or their designees, one councilor named by the council president, and four members from local youth sports and recreation groups appointed by the mayor and confirmed by the council. It would be advisory only. The mayor credited Garcia with helping draft it. The council voted 10-0 on October 26 to strip the old commission from the ordinances.
Also on the agenda
- The ordinance letting the treasurer sign payment agreements with owners in tax title, enrolled 11-0 on October 26, is on the unfinished business list. Owners would put 10 percent down and pay the balance over up to five years, with interest accrued during the agreement waived if every payment is made.
- The mayor’s citywide data center zoning ordinance, filed April 27, remains on unfinished business.
- Pietrantonio has a one-line resolution “requesting to eliminate TDM.” The city’s Transportation Demand Management ordinance, Section 35 of the zoning code, dates to 2021. According to the city’s applicant guide, it applies to projects of 10 or more residential units, hotel rooms or classrooms, 10,000 square feet of commercial space, 500 daily trip ends, or parking above or below the zoning minimum, and requires them to join a transportation management association and pay annual dues. No memo accompanies the resolution.
- Appointments: Matthew Ruggiero to the police department; Michael Diorio to a one-year Historical Commission vacancy ending November 3, 2027; Camille DiPerri, Laurence Arinello and Patricia Ells reappointed to the commission through November 3, 2029.
- Licenses: a one-day beer and wine license for Theresa Audre for a December 12 fundraiser at the Connolly Center, 7 to 11 p.m., to help a hospital in Haiti; extended hours renewals for Passarela Espetinho at 2029 Revere Beach Parkway, Thursday through Sunday, 11 p.m. to 4 a.m., and Love Dog Hot Dog Buffet at 1865 Revere Beach Parkway, Wednesday through Sunday, 8 p.m. to 4 a.m.; second class motor vehicle dealer renewals for Below 10 Auto Sale at 47 Mystic Street, NE Body Works at 39-43 and 36R Mystic Street, and Rocco Vigorito at 353 Third Street.
- Minutes of the October 13 meeting.
The meeting is carried live by ECTV and streamed on the city’s YouTube channel.
The rest of the week
The Veterans Day ceremony is Wednesday at 10 a.m. at the Connolly Center, 90 Chelsea Street, with Lt. Col. (Ret.) Karin Killeen of the Massachusetts Air National Guard as guest speaker. On Thursday the High School Building Committee meets by Zoom at 1 p.m.; its agenda includes October invoices, a first amendment to the designer’s contract and a budget revision for a site survey, a three-month schedule and “test fits with plan layouts.” The DPW Commission meets Thursday at 6 p.m. in the Keverian Room; its agenda has three cemetery deeds, water abatements of $968 for 69 Swan Street, $11,500 for 87 Behan Street and $5,000 for 64 Lexington Street, water and sewer liens, and a draft of a revised abatement application. Holiday assistance applications close November 19 and rental and mortgage assistance applications close November 25.
