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City Council rejects request for hotel room increase By Sara Brown
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PARADE READY: The Jets baseball team members are lined up and ready to march in the St. Mary’s Baseball & Softball League Opening Day parade on Saturday morning to Papasodora Field at Griswold Park. See pages 12 & 13 for photo highlights. (Advocate photo by JD Mitchell)
Friday, May 4, 2018
he Revere City Council rejected plans for a hotel developer to acquire more hotel rooms than in its original proposal. At the April 23 council meeting, RBP Hotel LLC requested a change to a hotel at 245 Revere Beach Pkwy., the former Shaw’s site that is already under construction. Currently, RBP is building a 132-room, extended-stay hotel. The council approved their original project two years ago for typical hotel rooms and extended stay hotel. They now wanted to change it to 160 rooms, turning it into a dual branded hotel. “This is the direction of the hospitality industry: sharing one common space and two
separate buildings,” Christine Thomas of RBP Hotel said. Councillor-at-Large Dan Rizzo said a change of plans is not best for the residents of the city. “I have a fundamental problem with moving the goalpost as we go along. Developers come before us, ask for something, then they come back and ask for more,” Rizzo said. “I represent the people who are here every day fighting the traffic. The extra tax dollars are great from a financial point. But what does that cost in quality of life?” Ward 6 Councillor Charles Patch agreed. “I didn’t vote for the original plan and I’m voting no on this,” said Patch. Ward 4 Councillor Patrick
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Councillor-at-Large Daniel Rizzo resolves recordkeeping, reporting issues with OCPF O
n May 1, Councillor-atLarge Daniel Rizzo, a former mayor of Revere, entered into a disposition agreement between himself, the Committee to Elect Daniel Rizzo,
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and the Office of Campaign and Political Finance (OCPF) to resolve recordkeeping and reporting issues before and through 2017. A disposition agreement is a voluntary writ-
ten agreement entered into between the subject of a review and OCPF, in which the subject agrees to take certain specific actions. To resolve the matter, Rizzo agreed to reduce by $25,000 a portion of the liability that the Committee owes to him personally. The Committee agreed to file additional campaign finance reports with OCPF and to provide bank statements, checks and other records with each report filed through Dec. 31, 2019. The Committee will continue to file with the Revere Election Commission on the regular schedule for Revere City Council candidates. OCPF’s review of the Com-
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mittee’s reports and bank records determined that it did not disclose $7,325 in contributions and reported another $2,250 in receipts that were not deposited into the campaign account. The Committee also did not disclose $8,407 in expenditures, and reported two expenditures that never cleared the account: one for $9,000 and the other for $250. OCPF’s review also noted the following issues: • The Committee received and deposited $1,260 in checks from business entities. Candidate committees are prohibited from accepting contributions from corporations, LLCs, LLPs and part-
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nerships. • The Committee carried forward an incorrect balance that preceded 2013, which overstated its reported ending balance by approximately $17,850 on its 2012 year-end report. Consequently, each subsequent report filed by the Committee also reflected significant incorrect starting and ending balances. • During 2016 and 2017, the Committee inadvertently posted duplicate entries for nine expenditures, totaling $4,477. • The Committee filed an inaccurate 2015 year-end report by disclosing that it paid $9,000 to a scholarship fund on Oct. 21, 2015, to disgorge prohibited funds it unknowingly received from employees of a waste disposal company. The payment was actually made on Jan. 25, 2016, using the candidate’s personal funds. The Committee amended its campaign finance reports and made a one-time accounting adjustment of approximately $19,000. The disposition agreement was signed by Rizzo and OCPF Director Michael J. Sullivan.