TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2019 Lynn 2020 budget near $368M By Gayla Cawley ITEM STAFF LYNN — Despite a projected $5 million de cit for next year, chief nancial of cer Michael Bertino said the city’s proposed BERGDORF $367.93 million scal year 2020 budget is balanced, but doesn’t factor in potential raises that could come GOOD MAN through ongoing union contract negotiations. WO Mayor Thomas M. McGee has submitted From 38 Coolidge Road in Lynn, the budget to the City Council, which rep- resents a $17.27 million Dawn Mello made her mark increase in spending over last year’s budget. on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan Bertino attributed the substantial bud- PHOTO | ROBERT PHILLIPS get increase over last Today, fashion designers Michael “Miss Mello loves Lynn. She said Ira Neimark and year to the anticipated Kors, Donna Karan, Giorgio Arma- her childhood was ideal, a lot of Dawn Mello turned comparable increase in Chapter 70 funding, the ni, Calvin Klein, Jean Paul Gaulti- fun, and really wonderful,” said the once dowdy major program of state er and Christian Lacroix are house- Tiffany. “When we were working BY BILL BROTHERTON Bergdorf Goodman aid to public schools. hold names. But when they were on the book, she drew a little map department store The proposed Senate starting out, it was Dawn Mello, of her street and the street up the Coolidge Road; her parents Blanche into New York City’s budget would allocate then fashion director and president and Anthony; riding bicycles with hill where her friend lived. She retail center of luxu- an increase of $18.15 of NYC luxury retailer Bergdorf best friend Betty Kramer and the loved her life growing up in Lynn. ry fashion. Her out t million in Chapter 70 Goodman, who saw their talent and two modeling matching oral print Her mom died in the early ‘90s, but is by Donna Karan. aid to Lynn in FY2020, gave each their big break. dresses they made themselves. A before that she went back to visit The mannequin for a total of $185.8 mil- Mello, who grew up in Lynn and page from the Red and Gray high often.” Tiffany said he drove past above the door mod- lion, according to g- graduated from English High school yearbook shows her head- Mello’s childhood home to get a feel els fox fur by Fendi. ures provided by State School in 1948, is the subject of the shot and the inscription “Vivacious for the city while he was writing Above left, the cover Sen. Brendan Crighton. new, lavishly illustrated hardcov- Dawn-e is known for her sharp the book, published by Pointed Leaf of “Dawn: The Ca- The projected bud- er book “Dawn: The Career of the sweaters. She has served on Prom Press. reer of the Legend- get for the Lynn Public Legendary Fashion Retailer Dawn committees and as a member of the Mello attended the Modern ary Fashion Retailer Schools is $159.3 mil- Mello” by John A. Tiffany. Art and Camera clubs.” School of Fashion and Design, then Dawn Mello” by John lion. The rst chapter details her Mello remembers “a perfect child- on Boylston Street in Boston, and A. Tiffany. The projected de cit days in Lynn, with splendid old hood, just the three of them in the came on the heels of ex- photos of her childhood home at 38 pretty little house in Lynn.” MELLO, A3 hausting a $14 million state loan to balance the last two years’ bud- gets. Bertino said the city was able to achieve a balanced budget through scaling back STEVE KRAUSE expenses “all around.” U.S.-China AT LARGE Department heads were instructed to level trade war fund their budgets. Total anticipated Slamming state aid is $211.7 mil- sends lion. “Everyone wants stocks home their more money, but there’s only so much to go around, so we have to plunging stories at do the best we can with what we have,” Bertino By Damian J. Troise said. “We’re trying to and Alex Veiga Classical get by right now un- ASSOCIATED PRESS til we can position the LYNN — There’s a method to what city. This is step one The Dow Jones Industri- seems to be the madness at Story Slam. and there’s many more al Average plunged more Monday’s contest at Lynn Classical steps to go.” than 600 points Monday gave 11 students a chance to talk, in a Bertino said there as investors sought shel- three-minute presentation, about dif- were no layoffs, but the ter from an escalating ferent events in their lives. All of them city was able to close trade war between the did their best to be entertaining, and the projected gap by U.S. and China. they all succeeded. not lling most open The selling was wide- But everyone associated with the positions. The only po- spread and heavy, hand- event agreed that if you want to get sitions that were lled ing the benchmark S&P a good idea of what kids think about, were public safety and 500 index its biggest loss and worry about, let them put it into a revenue generating since January. The sell- short Story Slam vignette. ones, which means off extended the market’s “Some of them can be pretty poi- there will be vacancies slide into a second week. gnant,” said Tony Toledo, one of the in numerous city de- The losses so far in May storytellers present Monday to help partments. have now erased the mar- move the event along. McGee wrote in a let- ket’s gains from April. “This program empowers the stu- ter to the City Council Technology companies, dents to share a personal story while that the proposed bud- which do a lot of business learning public speaking,” said Patty get includes $1 million with China, led the way Frey, a Classical English teacher/grant to meet the city’s stat- lower. Chipmakers were writer. utory required reserve, among the biggest declin- In its eighth year, the slam serves a $200,000 increase in ers. Apple also took heavy multiple purposes. Aside from being the annual reserve, a losses, tumbling 5.8 per- an excellent teaching tool, it affords $215,000 increase for cent. Farming equipment seniors at Classical one period of the snow and ice bud- maker Deere drove losses light-hearted entertainment. However, get, fully funds the in the industrial sector. the lessons come in unexpected ways. city’s net school spend- ITEM PHOTO | OWEN O’ROURKE The world’s two largest For example, three consecutive ing requirement for Skylar Crayton was one of the Lynn Classical students who education, and correct- STOCKS, A3 participated in the Story Slam contest on Monday. STORIES, A3 ly budgets its share of health insurance costs based on 100 percent utilization. Opinion LOOK! Sports “This document is a INSIDE Brotherton: These quiz shows MarketStreet hosts Codi Butt scores 300th goal are game changers. A4 Yappy Hour events. A8 in St. Mary’s win. B1 LYNN, A3 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 LOOK! .......................................A8 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 46° VOL. 141, ISSUE 133 OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 42° POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 COMICS ....................................B4 BUSINESS ................................B8 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2019 OBITUARIES Charles W. Medeiros, 80 Alice E. Mahoney, 81 1939-2019 1937-2019 NORTH READING — Charles LYNN — Mrs. Alice E. (LeB- W. “Charlie” Medeiros, age rasseur) Mahoney, 81, of Lynn, 80, of North Reading, passed passed away on Thursday, May away on Saturday, May 11, 9, 2019 after a lengthy illness. 2019 after an extended strug- She was the wife of the late gle with a lung disease (idio- Paul W. Mahoney Sr. pathic pulmonary brosis). He Alice was born in Lynn, fought bravely and went sur- Sept. 24, 1937. She is the rounded by family and friends daughter of the late Albert J. at the Kaplan Family Hospice and Beatrice E. (DesFosses) House in Danvers. LeBrasseur. She was a life- Charlie was the husband of long resident of the city of the late Virginia “Ginny” (Chris- Lynn and a graduated from St. tie) Medeiros. They shared Jean’s Grammar School and 37 years of loving marriage Classical High School. together until her sudden un- Alice worked as a home FILE PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS expected death in September health aide for Cushman Actress and singer Doris Day, seen with her 2018. He is survived by his Care at Home for many years husband and agent, Martin Melcher, died early son, Charlie H. Medeiros and until her retirement. She also Monday. his ancée Suzie Shaw of close relationships there, in- worked for Joe Esdra the “Tax six great-grandchildren; and North Reading; his daughters, cluding friends Billy Thomas, Man” for more than 50 years. many nieces and nephews. In Cheryl Flynn and her husband Dennis Tentindo, Bob O’Keefe, She was the warden during addition to her husband Paul and her parents, Alice is pre- Michael of Lynn, Wendy Dou- Ed Taylor, Joe Robichaud, Skip city elections serving at Dre- Doris Day, who Wiley, Bob Struckmeyer and deceased by her granddaugh- cette and her husband Kevin wicz for 60 years. Alice en- too many others to name. As a ter Katelynn Mahoney, her of Beverly, and Charlene Pe- joyed family BBQ’s. She was young man, he was into body- son-in-law Henry J. Wills-Ma- ters of St. Helena, Calif.; his a longtime communicant at honed wholesome building, and continued with honey, her brother Albert H.