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Cogliano, Sr. Tamagna, Board of Health member Shawn Ayube and Heffernan then vote to establish the subcommittee, which will operate under the purview of the Board of Health. Members of the committee will include, but not be limited to, the Board of Selectmen chair, several Health Board members – including the chair, representatives and/or residents from Precinct 10 – the host neighborhood of the plant, Town Meeting members, the town manager and Wheelabrator, according to Heffernan. “There will obviously be more discussion of who will be on it. There will obviously be more discussion with Wheelabrator,” Heffernan said at Monday night’s Board of Health meeting. “Basically, what we are looking to do is get Wheelabrator to the table and talk about a closure date. 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Price includes Adm. + Roller Skates. Cake, soda, paper goods, 20 tokens for birthday person plus 100 Redemption Tickets and a gift from Roller World in one of our private BP Rooms. mittee is a good first step … Obviously, there will be a whole lot of discussion with some elected officials,” Heffernan said. “Just to be clear, the subcommittee will be under the Board of Health. We will be the ones driving this, and I think that it’s a good thing. And so we will see where we go from here. So, stay tuned.” “It has long been our desire to have a meaningful discussion with the town on how we can best continue to provide economic and environmental value to Saugus and the region,” saidJim Connolly, Wheelabrator’s Vice President, Environmental, Health and Safety. “We would be pleased to start that conversation with the Board of Health,” he said. “It’s not going to be a bash session” In an interview after the meeting, Heffernan said plans for the committee’s composition are yet to be determined. “There are a lot of moving parts, and I hope to get this started within the next six weeks. There’s a lot of public interest in this, but we don’t want to make this a freefor-all,” Heffernan said. “Hopefully, it will include some Town Meeting members from Precinct 1. I want to stress, it’s not going to be a bash session. It’s going to be a constructive session, centered around the closure of the landfill and getting a date for the closure.” The closure of the ash landfill at the Wheelabrator plant has been decided, then postponed for years, by the state Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP). Putting a definitive date on the closure of the ash landfill became an issue in last fall’s town elections. During her campaign, Board of Selectmen Vice Chair Corinne R. Riley promised that if elected, closing the ash landfill at the Wheelabrator trashto-energy plant by the year 2025 would be a top priority for her. Riley said she opposes any more extensions for the landfill and declared the town needs “to move onto another way” in disposal of the waste that the incinerator produces. Meanwhile, Cogliano said that if elected back on the board, he would press for a pact with the owners of the Wheelabrator plant so the town can receive financial benefits besides tax revenue for being the incinerator’s longtime home. “We pass up between three and five million-a-year by not having a host agreement. We need to get Saugus’ fair share,” Cogliano said. “We are the only community that has one of these facilities in its boundaries that receives no financial benefit besides taxes. It’s time to have a conversation to get what we rightfully deserve for having to deal with this in our backyard. There is a way to have a discussion without sacrificing safety. We just need the right people at the table.” In recent weeks, however, the discussion of creating a Wheelabrator subcommittee has centered exclusively on the closure of the ash landfill. All five selectmen oppose any further expansion of the ash landfill. 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