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The Operating Budget is rising 5.4%, or $6,699,514, over $124,007,902 in FY 2024, while the SPED Transportation Budget is falling .10%, or $4,462, from $4,604,462 in FY 2024. In the new budget Chapter 70 education aid is rising $6,187,378, or 5.54%, from $111,682,212 to $117,869,590, leaving $43,738,229 as the Required Local Contribution, a 6.78% increase over $40,961,068 in FY 2024. This is offset by a $4,114,162, or 14.37%, increase in chargebacks to City Hall for administrative and retirement expenses, among others things, from $28,635,378 to $32,749,540, plus a new Additional City Appropriation of $1,849,137. Part of the increase is a result of annual salary and cost of living adjustments for employees, increased costs for utilities and retaining 35 positions formerly funded by Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds allocated during and after the pandemic. As a result, the FY 2025 budget can be characterized as providing at least “level service.” A stabilizing factor is a small increase in the number of students from 7,345 to 7,358. The student population has been BUDGET | SEE PAGE 2 IN HAPPIER DAYS: City Clerk Sergio Cornelio listens to his former attorney John Tocci during his reappointment before the City Council in July 2022. Atty. Tocci has requested to be removed as Cornelio’s lawyer during his ongoing defamation lawsuit with the mayor.(Advocate fi le photo) By James Mitchell I n a surprising twist in the ongoing defamation lawsuit fi led by Mayor Carlo DeMaria, Sergio Cornelio, a defendant and counterclaim plaintiff , has apparently dropped his legal counsel in the middle of the ongoing lawsuit, according to an affi davit fi led in Middlesex Superior Court by John F. Tocci, Esq., a partner at the fi rm of Tocci & Lee, LLC. 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The priorities of this budget refl ect the priorities of our schools.” Chapter 70 funds, outside those raised locally, include $1.9 million from the Student Opportunity Act Plan (SOA) enacted in 2019 to provide funds for students with the greatest needs. “The SOA Plan addresses a subset of a district’s overall initiatives focusing on evidence-based programs and strategies that will improve the educational experiences and outcomes of students, including English Learners, students with disabilities and low-income students,” a memo for the School Committee prepared by Superintendent William Hart reads. “At the heart of the SOA plan is the selection of Evidence-Based Programs we will use to drive improvements for selected student groups. This year, EBPs are aligned with DESE’s [Mass. Dept. of Elementary & Secondary Education] new Educational Vision and Strategic Objectives, along with the recommended menu of metrics we can choose to include in their plans. This year’s guidance establishes an improvement target for districts to include in their SOA plans that focus on the lowest performing student group, along with the option to establish additional targets to support individual student groups as needed based on data analysis. “To that end, our SOA Plan will spotlight critical, actionable evidence-based programs and strategies that are focused on rapidly improving outcomes for students with low academic performance whether we are enhancing ongoing eff orts or introducing new initiatives.” Over the course of three years, SOA funds will total $5.7 million. “The district was given guidance from DESE as to which student group should be most impacted by the SOA Plans,” Director of Instruction Anne Auger elaborated for the School Committee at their meeting Monday, March 18. “Based on those guidelines and the district’s academic outcome data, we’ll address English as a Learned Language in Grades K-8. 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This segment on @Issue, which is on after Face the Nation, aired on Easter Sunday PART WAYS | FROM PAGE 1 Cornelio’s turbulent appearance before the city council for his reappointment as city clerk for the City of Everett. According to the affidavit, Cornelio’s attorney has stated that over the course of the last 18 months, Cornelio and his counsel have “consistently and frequently communicated regarding issues relating to this litigation, other litigation and legal matters relating to his employment with the City of Everett and his dispute with Mayor Carlo DeMaria and others.” But according to the attorney, Cornelio has broken off communication and payment of legal fees. “It has become apparent to me that the attorney-client relationship has broken down,” stated Tocci, in the affidavit. “I do not feel that my client and I can effectively communicate regarding the course of this litigation.” The affadavit continued, stating that Cornelio has indicated to him that he “will not pay legal fees for services rendered to date or to be rendered in the future.” Tocci added that his firm cannot continue representing Cornelio under “these difficult circumstances” and without remuneration of services, including unreimbursed expenses that will present both “an unreasonable emotional burden on at 11:30 a.m. “Countless people across Massachusetts go hungry every day, but we have the resources to address hunger in a significant way – we just need to generate the political power to do it,” said DiDomenico, who is Assistant Majority Leader of the Massachusetts Senate. “I am proud to advocate for more SNAP funding, expandmyself and the other attorneys involved and an unreasonable financial burden on the firm.” Atty. Tocci added that since his firm has provided reasonable notice to Cornelio’s failure to abide by his obligations that the firm should be allowed to withdraw as his legal representation. “Cornelio has not acted on these notices, and has indicated that he intends to retain new counsel,” stated the affidavit. Since his reappointment by the city council in July 2022, ing investments in our emergency food assistance program, and increasing cash benefits for people in need, among many other legislative proposals, to fight this crisis. I want to thank the NBC team, including reporters Sue O’Connell and Matt Prichard, for hosting us and for focusing on one of the most pressing issues facing our Commonwealth.” Cornelio, along with Philbin and Resnek, have been facing serious legal action filed by the mayor over allegations made by Resnek in a series of stories and editorials leading up the 2021 election, where Resnek published articles claiming Cornelio accused the mayor of extortion in an Everett real estate deal. 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This month’s program was titled “Neurodiversity in the Work Place: Great Minds DON’T Always Think Alike.” City employees were pleased to be joined by MGH Aspire Senior Program Manager Dr. Elise Wulff to discuss neurodiversity, which is an umbrella term that can include attention-defi cit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism or other learning differences, such as dyslexia. Those who participated Mid-grade Regular $3.88 3.05 64 87 Over 45 Years of Excellence! Full Service $3.45 Order online at angelosoil.com City employees learned about and discussed strategies to be more inclusive to neurodiversity in the workplace Elise Wulff and the City of Everett’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Offi cer, Simone Holyfi eld. Law Offices of JOSEPH D. CATALDO, P.C. “ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW” • ESTATE/MEDICAID PLANNING • WILLS/TRUSTS/ESTATES • INCOME TAX PREPARATION • WEALTH MANAGEMENT • RETIREMENT PLANNING • ELDER LAW 369 Broadway Everett, MA 02149 (617)381-9600 JOSEPH D. 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In a March council Ways & Means subcommittee meeting, one city councillor questioned Cornelio’s $70,000 vacation payout. Prior to his appointment as city clerk, Cornelio was working as a delivery driver for a local sandwich shop and had also served one term as city councillor. Many political insiders found it strange that he brought an attorney to his city clerk reappointment meeting with the city council – as if he were a defendant. But given his lifelong family background in the city, it carried him through to be reappointed to another term. But his relationship with the corrupt reporter, Joshua Resnek and Leader-Herald owner Matthew Philbin, both codefendants in the mayor’s defamation lawsuit, cast a shadow on his reputation. Cornelio had participated in two depositions, denying that he made any accusations against the mayor pertaining to their mutual real estate deal and that Resnek told him that he was going to write the sworn testimony to meeting with Philbin and a former Boston Globe reporter Andrea Estes, along with his parents, at a restaurant during the election year after Resnek wrote and published his stories about the real estate deal. Possible new legal representation has been speculated for Cornelio. One possibility is Atty. Joseph Marchese, brother of city councillor Michael Marchese, who sold his 85 Elsie St. home to Cornelio’s wife, a Somerville police detective – in the summer of 2021 – during the contentious election year. Cornelio admitted during his deposition that he did not disclose to the state Ethics Commission, as Chairman of the City of Everett’s Election Commission and City Clerk, that he purchased a home from a city councillor who was also a candidate for reelection. Cornelio also admitted in his deposition that about the time Michael Marchese approached him about buying his property – he was recommended by Marchese to talk to his attorney brother about his Corey St. real estate deal with the mayor. It was in September 2021 – just a month or two after his wife purchased Marchese’s property and meeting with his attorney brother when the inflammatory stories about the mayor started appearing in the Everett Leader-Herald. Cornelio admitted that Michael Marchese approached him about speaking to his brother if he wanted to take legal action against the mayor. In the Leader-Herald articles, Resnek wrote that Cornelio told him that the mayor had extorted him of $96,000 for the sale of property located on Corey St., and that DeMaria never had any participation in the sale or ownership of the property. Through sworn testimony from multiple depositions with Resnek, it was discovered that the mayor was a legitimate partner in the land deal with Cornelio and that all the accusations and quotations attributed to Cornelio were fabricated and facts about the land deal were admitted by Resnek to be false. The Marchese brothers, once fervent supporters of the mayor, have been openly critical of DeMaria for allegedly not supporting Joseph Marchese’s business ventures in the city and may have been upset with the mayor after police raided in 2003, McDonald’s Café on Ferry St., which is owned by Michael Marchese, who was then an alderman, following multiple arrests for drug dealing, arresting eight suspects. The bar was ordered closed by the state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission. The brothers also supported his political opponents including Frederick Capone who lost to the mayor in the 2021 election with political advertisements in the Everett Leader-Herald. 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