Special City Council Meeting 11-24-25

November 24, 2025

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Time / Speaker	Text
Stephanie Martins	procedural So good evening. I'd like to call this special meeting of the Everett City Council to order. Mr. Clerk, please call the roll.
Town Clerk	Councilor Alcy Jabouin.
Stephanie Martins	Present.
Town Clerk	Councilor DiPierro. Present. Councilor Garcia.
Stephanie Martins	Present.
Town Clerk	Councilor Marchese. Present. Rogers.
Stephanie Martins	Here.
Town Clerk	Councilor Van Campen. Present. Council President Martins.
Stephanie Martins	Present.
Town Clerk	We have seven members present.
Stephanie Martins	Members, we have a quorum. Please join us in saluting the quorum. Please read item number one.
Town Clerk	taxes procedural Our only item this evening is an order offered by Councilor Stephanie Martins as president. An order requesting approval of the adoption of the minimum residential factor of number not known yet, in setting the city's FY2026 tax rates. Just so you know, the DOR has not certified our tax rate number yet, so we're requesting to open the public hearing. Keep it open so that the The public can speak at the December 8th meeting at 6 p.m. and postpone it until then. So if we could get a motion for that, please. So moved.
Stephanie Martins	procedural Second. Motion has been made and seconded to open public hearing and to table to our next meeting. Postpone it. Postpone it to our next meeting of the eight. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. We have open public hearing and postponed to our next meeting of the 8th. Motion to adjourn. Second.
Anthony DiPierro	procedural Before we do that, we should probably take separate votes just to be safe now that it's opened. I move to postpone it to the meeting that was mentioned. Second.
Stephanie Martins	procedural Okay, so motion has been made and seconded for a separate vote to postpone the public hearing that we voted to open. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. And on the motion to adjourn, do we have a second? Second. which has been made and seconded to adjourn. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Thank you. We have adjourned and we'll be back at 7 p.m.

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