Meeting Recaps
Coverage of Everett City Council, Planning Board, School Committee, and other public bodies.
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Everett School Committee (Monday June 1, 2026)
The Everett School Committee’s June 1 meeting was really two events stitched together: a long Everett High School showcase and scholarship night up front, then a short stretch of actual committee business before the body disappeared into executive session for litigation talk.
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Everett School Committee (Tuesday April 28, 2026)
The Everett School Committee’s special meeting Tuesday night was short, orderly, and almost aggressively non-dramatic.
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Everett School Committee-Budget Committee of the Whole (Thursday April 16, 2026)
The Everett School Committee’s budget meeting Thursday night was mostly what a budget meeting should be: numbers, tradeoffs, and a few plain admissions about what the district can and cannot keep paying for.
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Everett School Committee (Monday April 6, 2026)
The Everett School Committee met Monday night and, for once, there was not much drama to decode.
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Everett City Council Budget Hearing Admin and Finance (Wednesday May 27, 2026)
The most useful thing said at Wednesday’s budget hearing came early, and it did not come wrapped in the usual miracle-talk.
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Everett City Council (Tuesday May 26, 2026)
The Everett City Council spent much of Tuesday night doing Everett government in miniature: a nice recognition up front, a clean fire promotion, a stack of unanimous reappointments, a couple million here and a couple million there in borrowing, an Encore license discussion full of requests for better follow-through, an Everett Square presentation built around grant deadlines, and then — because apparently this city cannot help itself — another round of fighting over a hypothetical data center nobody has proposed.
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Everett City Council Budget Hearing (Small Departments) (Wednesday May 20, 2026)
The small-departments budget hearing on May 20 had a little of everything Everett budget season usually hides in the weeds: useful program details, a few honest admissions about old messes, and one more round of council drama over staffing that should have been sorted out cleanly weeks ago.
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Everett City Council Budget Hearing (Schools) (Tuesday May 19, 2026)
The school budget hearing on May 19 was mostly what these hearings are supposed to be when nobody is trying to turn them into theater: a long, useful walk through staffing, space, salaries, and the basic fact that Everett Public Schools are trying to do too much in too little room.
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Everett City Council (Monday April 27, 2026)
The Everett City Council spent Monday night doing what local government often does best: postponing a routine utility petition, letting outside speakers flood the room on a labor ordinance, and then passing that ordinance after the usual round of “don’t worry, this definitely won’t affect the people you’re worried about.
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Everett City Council (Monday April 13, 2026)
The Everett City Council managed to do what it usually does on a long Monday night: hand out a nice citation, move a stack of appointments around, pass a couple of routine items, and then wander into the city’s favorite modern hobby — arguing over a hypothetical data center no one has actually proposed.
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Everett Special City Council (Thursday April 9, 2026)
The Everett City Council called a special meeting on April 9 to do one main thing: install Mike Mangan as assistant city clerk.
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Everett Committee on Ways and Means (Tuesday May 26, 2026)
Ways and Means got more useful in 16 minutes Tuesday than it did in some longer meetings, mostly because Peter Pietrantonio kept asking the question nobody in government ever seems eager to answer once the word “borrowing” shows up: what exactly are we borrowing for.
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Everett Ways and Means Committee (Monday April 27, 2026)
Ways and Means met for barely a minute and a half Monday and did the rarest thing in local government: almost nothing.
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Everett Ways and Means Committee (Monday April 13, 2026)
Ways and Means had one of those useful little meetings where somebody actually looked at the numbers before waving money through.
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Everett Medal of Valor Ceremony for EPD Detective Dan Wall (Tuesday May 26, 2026)
This was not a policy meeting, not a zoning fight, and not one of those “we’ll circle back” specials where everybody talks for an hour and says nothing.
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Everett Government Operations (Monday April 27, 2026)
The whole meeting was one National Grid street-cut petition, and for once the useful part was not hidden under three layers of ceremonial nonsense.
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Everett Legislative Affairs (Monday April 27, 2026)
This Legislative Affairs meeting was another speed-run through appointments, with one exception: the Licensing Commission seat actually got a few questions.
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Everett Legislative Affairs Meeting (Monday April 13, 2026)
This Legislative Affairs meeting lasted about as long as it takes to microwave leftovers, but it still managed to show how Everett handles appointments: sometimes with questions first, sometimes with a shrug and a phone call later.
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Everett School Building Committee Meeting (Wednesday April 8, 2026)
The Everett School Building Committee spent its April 8 meeting doing two things at once: moving the paperwork along and selling a very large idea about what the next school building is supposed to be.