TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 2019 Outside legal fees cost New Saugus budget Saugus $2M since 2014 gives police salary bump By Thor Jourgensen “We never hear how much money has By Bridget Turcotte Operating Budget and a $60,477,061 ITEM STAFF been spent. Making the cost of lawsuits ITEM STAFF Municipal Town Department Operating public is an opportunity for greater Budget. SAUGUS — The town has spent al- transparency. The taxpayers are paying SAUGUS — Eight weeks after Town The Police Department got a $798,373 most $2 million since 2014 on special- for it; they deserve to know where every Meeting opened, voters passed a bump in salaries from a $6,802,606 ized attorneys to help provide advice or penny is going,” Riley said. $90,022,311 town budget Monday night revised Fiscal Year 2019 budget to ght legal battles and the amounts rival The 2019-2020 town budget includes that supports growing public safety de- $7,600,979. Three new police of cers similar spending by much larger com- $336,500 for outside counsel even as the partments. will be hired to create a dedicated traf c munities. town is gearing up to press forward with Members wrapped up the nal four unit within the department, said Town “Outside” legal counsel expenses un- its lawsuit against the city of Lynn, op- articles on the warrant, but the meeting Manager Scott Crabtree. derscore the need, said former Saugus posing a plan for a recreational marijua- likely won’t be the last of the year. The A $346,939 increase in Fire Depart- School Committee member and Board of na store in the former O’Brien’s Pub. Board of Selectmen will hear a request ment salaries will cover the cost of hir- Selectmen candidate Corinne Riley, for The city of Lynn’s budget includes for a Special Town Meeting to be held for ing two new re ghters. the town to post online reports detail- $206,000 for outside legal counsel for a member to read a non-binding resolu- “We are hiring three additional of cers ing how much is being spent on outside the 2019-2020 spending year. With a tion in support of the school custodians. with the idea that there will be a dedicated counsel and identifying the lawyers re- The budget passed Monday includes ceiving the money. FEES, A3 $29,575,250 for the School Department SAUGUS, A3 SEWER BREAK LEAVES Breakfast NAHANT HIGH AND DRY could be served in Lynn classrooms By Gayla Cawley ITEM STAFF LYNN — Next year, all elemen- tary students in the Lynn Public Schools will be able to eat break- fast for free in the classroom, part of a program aimed at ensuring no kids go hungry. The district will be serving Breakfast After the Bell in all el- ementary schools starting in Sep- tember. “For a lot of kids, this is their best opportunity to have a great meal,” said School Committee member Jared Nicholson. “For all kids, hav- ing great nutrition is a great way to prepare kids to learn. It’s hard to learn on an empty stomach.” The Community Eligibility Pro- vision (CEP) Program, which started this past school year and is part of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act, is aimed at ensuring no kids go hungry and reduces the stigma of low-income families who Crews work on may have otherwise had to apply Residents asked to limit water use the sewer main for free meals. All students can re- break on the ceive a free breakfast and lunch, By Bridget Turcotte muters coming from Boston, said Barletta. Lynnway Monday. regardless of their status. ITEM STAFF The extent of the break or the impact it will Lynn was approved for the CEP have on residents is still unclear. In the mean- ITEM PHOTO | program last summer by the Mas- OWEN O’ROURKE NAHANT — The town is asking residents time, residents are asked to conserve water in sachusetts Department of Elemen- to limit water use while crews work to repair an effort to reduce sewage, said Barletta. tary and Secondary Education an emergency sewer main break on the Lyn- An 18-inch pipe transports waste from (DESE). Results a year after its nway. Nahant to the Lynn Regional Wastewater implementation showed a 5 per- “We are asking residents to conserve as Treatment Plant off the Lynnway on a Com- cent increase in students who ate much water as possible and advising com- mercial Street extension. While the pipe is in at school districtwide from Sep- muters that there will be an impact to traf c,” Lynn, the agreement with Nahant requires tember to April, which was about said Town Administrator Tony Barletta. the town to make any repairs, according to 453 meals more per day, according A section of the Lynnway was reduced to Daniel O’Neill, executive director of the Lynn to Kevin McHugh, school business one lane Monday as crews worked to x the Water and Sewer Commission. administrator. break. When this happened two years ago, it caused a signi cant traf c backup for com- NAHANT, A3 BREAKFAST, A3 Brothers to put INSIDE Opinion Krause: Let’s stop talking new face on and start doing. A4 Entertainment old Bali Hai A Kool night at Lynn Auditorium. A7 By Thomas Grillo ITEM STAFF Sports St. Mary’s boys lacrosse LYNNFIELD — Less than six months after advances in Div. 3 North the Bali Hai restaurant served its last Mai tournament. B1 Tai, the shuttered landmark is coming back with an American menu. Classical girls tennis The Board of Selectmen unanimously ap- falls in rst round. B1 proved the transfer of the all-alcohol license to Matthew and David Polumbo, who pur- chased the Polynesian restaurant on Moulton Winthrop’s Carolyn Drive for $600,000. Kinsella, left, can’t The Lynn eld twins plan to renovate the stop St. Mary’s Codi 48-year-old restaurant, and open the Amer- Butt from running ican 160 Bar & Grill. The 273-seat pub will down the eld on serve comfort food, including steak tips, burg- Monday during their ers, sandwiches, salads, and feature a chil- Division 2 North rst dren’s menu. They promise the dishes will round matchup at be priced lower than restaurants at Market- Manning Field. The Street, the open-air mall just off Route 128. No. 12 Vikings pulled Matthew Polumbo said they will operate the off the upset over the restaurant while they battle in Land Court to No. 5 Spartans. For overturn the Zoning Board of Appeals’ decision story, see Sports, B1. LYNNFIELD, A3 ITEM PHOTO | OWEN O’ROURKE OBITUARIES ..............................A2 ENTERTAINMENT .......................A7 COMICS/DIVERSIONS ........... B4-5 HIGH 68° VOL. 141, ISSUE 150 OPINION ...................................A4 LOOK! .......................................A8 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 57° POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 BUSINESS ................................B8 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 2019 OBITUARIES Jean M. Mathews, 84 Catherine F. Franey, 97 LYNN — Mrs. Jean M. (Ship- LYNN — Mrs. Catherine F. per) Mathews, 84 years, of (Hughes) Franey, 97 years, for- Lynn, died on Saturday, June merly of Lynn, died on Friday, 1, 2019 in the Kaplan Family May 31, 2019 in a local nurs- Hospice House in Danvers af- ing home after a brief illness. ter a brief illness. She is the She was born in Boston, the wife of Mr. James R. Mathews, daughter of the late James with whom she shared 57 and Mary (Carey) Hughes. years of marriage. She was raised in Malden and She was born in Lynn, the was a graduate of Malden PHOTO | SHNS daughter of the late Charles S. High School. She lived in Mal- Students, advocates and others packed a State and Mary E. (Zamejtis) Ship- den, Lynn and Peabody. House hearing room Monday to testify before per. She was raised in Lynn She was employed as a the Education Committee on a series of bills, in- and lived in West Lynn all of secretary at the General Elec- cluding legislation that would require schools her life. She was a graduate of tric Company in Lynn for 15 years, retiring in 1984. She that teach sex education do so in an age-appro- Lynn Classical High School. She enjoyed sewing and enjoyed knitting and crochet- priate and medically accurate way. knitting, playing cards and ing. She loved music, dancing going to Foxwoods. She en- and reading. She loved trav- joyed bowling and doing puz- a sister, Catherine L. Penney eling and spending time with William F. Franey Sr. and sister Growing support zles. She was an avid Red Sox of Saugus; and several niec- her siblings. Most of all, she of the late Mary Harrington, fan, and loved Big Papi and es and nephews. She was enjoyed her family and her James and Thomas Hughes. Nomar. Most important to her the wife of the late William F. grandchildren. Service information: Her for sex ed bill gives was her family, who always Opiechowski and mother–in- She is survived by her sons funeral will be held on Friday, came rst. She was a loving law of the late Derek Durant. and daughters, Patricia Butler June 7, 2019 at 8 a.m. from and devoted wife, mother and Service information: Her and her husband Ernest of the SOLIMINE Funeral Home, its backers hope grandmother. funeral will be held on Friday, Salem, N.H., William Franey Jr. 426 Broadway (Route 129), June 7, 2019 at 9:30 a.m. and his wife June of Billerica, Lynn, followed by a funeral tatives have signed on to In addition to her husband, By Katie Lannan she leaves her six daughters, from the SOLIMINE Funeral Michael Franey and his wife Mass in St.