MIKE CAHILL
MAYOR OF BEVERLY, MASSACHUSETTS
“Beverly is the community I love and am proud to call home. As your Mayor, I am focused on building a community where every resident is safe, valued and has equitable access to real opportunities. With your support, we have consistently delivered the city services Beverly residents need, and worked to improve our neighborhoods and city infrastructure, while strengthening our financial stability. We are taking bold steps to build a clean, renewable energy infrastructure, achieve carbon neutrality, and protect our coastline against flooding.
Please join me as we address the challenges and seize the opportunities to come.”
– Mike Cahill
Please join us in supporting Mike Cahill’s re-election campaign by requesting a lawn sign below. It’s a great way to publicly show your support for Mike Cahill’s continuing work and vision for the city of Beverly.
Thank You!
Hi Friends,
I want to say Thank You today to many, many people. Thank you to everyone who participated in Tuesday’s City Election. Thank you to everyone who voted to embrace and endorse all the outstanding, good faith work of our talented team of city staff, and my own leadership, by re-electing me to continue to serve as Beverly’s Mayor for the next two years.
Next, my great appreciation and everlasting gratitude goes out to the people who did the heavy lifting of running our re-election campaign, of volunteering and bringing our positive message to the voters of Beverly. To my family and friends old and new who won this election, Thank You!!!
Together as a community, we will continue to move forward. There is so much that is amazing and positive in Beverly. I am deeply honored that you – the people of Beverly – continue to place your trust and confidence in me to help guide our city as we meet our challenges and seize our opportunities. I will keep doing my very best to engage, to listen, and to lead this city we all love.
Thank you.
About Mike
- Beverly Public Schools graduate
- Middlebury College, BA; Suffolk University Law School, JD
- Accessible, collaborative, results-oriented leader, with deep,productive relationships with local, state, and federal leaders
- Strong management skills and budgetary expertise
Experience
- Beverly’s Mayor (2014-present)
- Beverly City Council President (2010-2011)
- Executive Director Alliance of Massachusetts YMCAs (2005-2013)
- Beverly’s State Representative (1993-2002)
Fighting for our Neighborhoods to:
- Clean up the Varian site
- Get federal and state agencies to work together, cut timelines, and replace Hall-Whitaker and Kernwood bridges
- Pave roads and improve sidewalks throughout city
- Has tripled annual paving spending since becoming Mayor
- Build roundabout at Brimbal Ave/Dunham Rd and advance Brimbal Ave Phase II plan
- Cut greenhouse gas emissions, transitioning city buildings to clean energy-based HVAC systems
A Sampling of Mike’s Accomplishments for Beverly:
- Improved traffic flow/safety for cars, bikes, and pedestrians, building Centerville and Brimbal Ave/Sohier Rd roundabouts, and rebuilding intersections throughout the city
- Opened new Beverly Middle School in 2018, and new Beverly Police Station in 2021
- Created and oversees city’s Summer Literacy Program, helping hundreds of our children build literacy skills and prevent summer learning loss
- Has worked continuously to help local businesses and non-profits recover and thrive
- Saved historic Briscoe Middle School, currently under reconstruction for 85 affordable senior apartments
- Added Solar arrays at six city sites totaling 4.5 MW, and 5 MW solar array at the former city landfill on Otis Rd.
- Added five Electric school buses to fleet, with four more arriving next year; committed to transition city vehicle fleets to EVs as older vehicles replaced
- Completed Race Equity Audit of city government; Implementing action steps
- Secured city funding for three new fire vehicles – one ladder and two pumper trucks
- Built city’s financial stabilization fund to over 10% of budget
- Upgraded the city’s bond rating twice; from AA- to AA+
- Created Grant Director position, bringing millions of dollars in additional resources annually to city
- Secured grants to evaluate flooding and erosion risks to Obear Park, Bass River, and city’s water and sewer infrastructure; future grants will help city implement action steps to better protect our coastline and infrastructure