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January 22, 2021 Integrity is printed on the outside of every Everett Fire vehicle.On Wednesday we passed along a report issued on December 28th, 2020 from the Washington State Auditor’s Office into the City’s handling of an investigation conducted in 2019 by the Everett Fire Department into allegations of fraud by an inspector in the Fire Marshal’s Office. The end result of the case is the inspector resigned and paid $12,759.13 to the City, the equivalent of 229 hours in pay. The inspector resigned on January 21, 2020. On January 15, 2021 Everett Fire Chief Dave DeMarco sent an email to Everett City Council members advising of the investigation and attached what he called an executive and detailed summary of the fraud investigation. He also attached a summary of the findings presented to the employee. You can find each below as received from the City of Everett today (1/22/2021) with redactions of employees names by the City. ....
January 21, 2021 Mayor Cassie Franklin, Photo credit City of Everett. Last year Everett Mayor Cassie Franklin asked 13 community leaders to join a Fiscal Sustainability Advisory Committee. “I called together this stakeholder committee to explore our fiscal options and advise City leadership on ways we can address the very serious revenue challenges we face,” said Franklin. On December 2nd the committee issued their final report with two dozen recommendations on ways the City could deal with what has been called a structural deficit. The budget outlook is bleak. Graphic from City of Everett finance department. Click to enlarge. On January 14th Chris Dugovich, President and Executive Director Washington State Council of County and City Employees AFSCME, AFL-CIO sent a letter to Everett, Washington Mayor Cassie Franklin and all of the members of the Everett City Council in which he expressed surprise at the content of the committee’s final report. He wrote in part, ....
Citywide Zoning Reform Approved in Everett Few cities are accomplishing such a swift and sweeping overhaul of its land use regulations as Everett, Washington, which just wrapped up its second major planning initiative in as many years on its way to launching a third. December 17, 2020, 9am PST | James Brasuell | The city council of Everett, Washington approved the Rethink Zoning ordinance in November, ushering in a suit of zoning changes designed to simplify the land use code and encourage urban infill development under one Unified Development Code. Stephen Fesler reports on the zoning changes and previews the next big reform effort already underway in the city the Rethink Housing Action Plan Process, which would pave the way for additional affordable housing development in the city. ....