Haverhill City Hall Staff Puts Fiorentini on Holiday ‘Naughty List’

Fiorentini’s City Hall staff is getting into the holiday spirit with a naughty or nice list. (WHAV News photograph)

Fiorentini’s City Hall staff is getting into the holiday spirit with a naughty or nice list. (WHAV News photograph)

Maybe taxes also got raised on the North Pole…?

With three weeks to go until Christmas, the staff in Haverhill Mayor James J. Fiorentini’s City Hall office is getting into the holiday spirit while poking a bit of fun at their boss.

WHAV snapped this photograph of a playful “Holiday Status” board created by the husband of Fiorentini’s executive assistant Lisa Yarid Ferry. In addition to bearing the names of staff, a current tally of each employee’s Santa status is displayed.

Yarid Ferry and Fiorentini’s Chief of Staff Allison Heartquist are among those firmly on the “nice” list, but Fiorentini’s status with St. Nick is another story.

“I was put on the naughty list after last week’s City Council meeting,” Fiorentini joked to WHAV, referring to the Nov. 13 tax classification hearing that resulted in his vetoing councilors’ decision to tax to the state’s Proposition 2 ½ limit.

A compromise plan was agreed upon this week, setting the 2019 residential tax rate at $13.96 per thousand. According to new figures, the average single-family home sees a tax increase of $192, with the owner of a home valued at $330,000 paying an estimated $4,606 in taxes.