Page 4 THE REVERE ADVOCATE – Friday, January 17, 2020 Lash Extensions Mega Hair Elite Natural Classic Full Sets Only $60 Hybrid Full Sets Only $80 Council President Patrick Keefe assigns 2020 Subcommittees, Chairmanships By Tara Vocino T he 2020 Sub-Committee assignments were assigned during the start of Monday night’s City Council meeting in the Joseph A. DelGrosso City Council Chambers. According to City Clerk Ashley www.megahairelite.com Melnik, Ward 3 Councillor Arthur Guinasso will serve as Chairman for the Appointment and Personnel Administration Committee. Councillor-at-Large Jessica Giannino, Ward 1 Councillor Joanne McKenna, Ward 5 Councillor John Powers and Councillor-at-Large Gerry Visconti are also on the Appointment and Personnel Administration Committee. Councillor-at-Large Gerry Visconti will serve as Chairman of the Economic Development and Planning Committee. Councillor-at-Large Giannino, Ward 3 Councillor Guinasso, Ward 1 Councillor McKenna and Ward 6 Councillor Richard Serino will be Economic Development and Planning Committee members. Council Vice President Ira Novoselsky will serve as Chairman of the Public Works Committee. Ward 3 Councillor Guinasso and Councillors-at-Large Steven Morabito, George Rotondo and Anthony Zambuto are slated to be members of the Public Works Committee. McKenna was chosen to become Chairwoman of the Elder Aff airs Committee. Councillors-at-Large Giannino and Morabito will serve as members, along with City Council Vice President Novoselsky and Ward 6 Councillor Serino. Incoming Ward 6 Councillor Serino will be Chairman of the Veteran’s Affairs Committee. Ward Councillors McKenna and Novoselsky as well as Councillors-at-Large Rotondo and Zambuto will serve on the Veteran’s Aff airs Committee. Powers was penned chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. Councillors-at-Large Giannino, Morabito, Visconti and Zambuto and Ward 1 Councillor McKenna will serve on the Ways and Means Committee. Rotondo will serve as chairman of the Youth and Recreation Committee. Councillors-at-Large Giannino and Visconti along with Ward Councillors Novoselsky and Powers are also on the Youth and Recreation Committee. Zambuto will serve as chairman of the Zoning Committee. Councillors-at-Large Giannino, Morabito and Visconti and Ward 3 Councillor Guinasso are slated to serve on the Zoning Committee. Morabito will be chairman of the Legislative Aff airs Committee. Councillors-at-Large Zambuto and Ward Councillors Novoselsky, Powers and Serino are Legislative Affairs Committee members. Giannino is chairwoman of the Public Safety Committee. Councillor-at-Large Rotondo and Ward Councillors Guinasso, Powers and Serino are Public Safety Committee members. City Council President Patrick Keefe Jr. will serve as an ex-offi cio member of the above 10 sub-committees, according to Melnik. Carbon Tax Bill could increase taxes by $1,263, cut private sector jobs I n July 2019, the Fiscal Alliance Foundation announced the results of a study into the effects of House Bill 2810, An Act to promote green infrastructure and reduce carbon emissions. The study was commissioned by the Foundation and A FULL SERVICE REAL ESTATE GROUP Commercial Sales and Leasing Residential Home Sales Real Estate Consulting Apartment Rentals Real Estate Auctions Business Brokerage Personal Property Appraisals Mass Licensed Auctioneer conducted by the Beacon Hill Institute (BHI). Professor David Tuerck, BHI’s president, who was scheduled to testify on January 14 at the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy hearing on the carbon tax bill. The study found that the average Massachusetts household would see its tax bill increase by $755 in the fi rst year. By the fi fth year, that annual tax load would increase to $1,263. Massachusetts would see a loss of 11,090 private sector jobs in its fi rst year, increasing to 18,240 by its fi fth. The Massachusetts Fiscal Alli560 Broadway, Everett, MA 02149 | 617-512-5712 | sam@broadwayRE.com ADRIANA RESNICK DOMENICA RIGGIO SAM RESNICK ance (MassFiscal) made the following statement: “The Massachusetts carbon tax is just that, a tax and nothing more. It would eliminate tens of thousands of private sector jobs and result in a $755 tax per household. The only thing it wouldn’t significantly eliminate is carbon emissions. The study commissioned by the Foundation indicates the reduction would be negligible. It’s another example of a reckless proposal, echoing many points found in Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal, conceived without any thought to its consequences,” said MassFiscal Spokesperson/Board Member Paul D. Craney. Under the carbon tax bill, the environmental benefi ts to the Commonwealth would be insignifi cant. Massachusetts accounts for only 0.12 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, meaning the tax would reduce global emissions by 0.0027 percent in the fi rst year of implementation, increasing to 0.0035 percent by the fi fth year. Practically speaking, this diminutive benefi t would not mitigate sea water levels, cure asthma or impact the daily lives of any living creature on earth. “The Massachusetts carbon tax bill does not address the most obvious problem for the bill’s eff ectiveness, which is that Massachusetts cannot control what air enters the state and what air leaves the state,” said Craney. “As more lawmakers get swept into the hysteria of the climate alarmists, and tie their hopes behind a misguided and very expensive carbon tax bill, it means they are not working on solving other more important environmental problems facing the state like the clean-up of the polluted Merrimack River and addressing the recycling industry’s rising costs,” said Craney.
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