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Revere Committee of the Whole moves into executive session on school food-service contract
Summary
On April 7, 2025, the Revere Committee of the Whole voted to enter executive session under M.G.L. c.30A §21(a)(7) to discuss confidential price and non-price proposal information related to the Revere Public Schools food-service management contract; a formal vote on the contract was postponed until after the closed session.
The Revere Committee of the Whole voted April 7, 2025, to enter executive session under Massachusetts General Laws chapter 30A, section 21(a)(7), to discuss confidential price and non-price proposal information related to the food-service management company contract for Revere Public Schools.
The motion to meet in executive session was made during the Committee of the Whole meeting; a second was recorded. Roll-call votes recorded “yes” from Committee member Montero, Committee member Caggiano, Committee member Sunella and Mayor Patrick Keefe. The committee said it would return after the executive session to hold the official vote on the school food-service contract.
Diane Kelly, superintendent of Revere Public Schools, and Matt Cruz, chief financial officer of the school department, were present at the meeting when the motion was made. The transcript also records Committee members Rizzo and Ayesha Mulbury Ellis as not joining the meeting.
The committee cited M.G.L. c.30A, §21(a)(7), the exemption that allows a governmental body to meet in executive session to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining or litigation or to conduct contract negotiations and review confidential proposals. The committee did not discuss the content of the proposals in the open meeting and postponed any formal contract action until after the closed session.
The meeting record contains inconsistent attendance notations: an early roll-call exchange in the transcript references “Miss Monterosso/Montero” as present and later notes that “Miss Monterosso” was not able to join. The transcript records a recorded “yes” vote attributed to “Miss Montero” during the roll call on the executive-session motion; because the transcript is internally inconsistent on that person’s attendance, this article reports the vote as it appears in the meeting record and flags the inconsistency.
The committee did not take any other public votes on the food-service contract during the open portion of the meeting. The public portion of the meeting adjourned into executive session for the stated purpose; the committee indicated it would reconvene afterward to record the official contractual vote.
