Page 4 THE SAUGUS ADVOCATE – FRIDAY, JULY 8, 2022 Landfill subcommittee plans to meet with WIN Waste Innovations later this month WIN is expected to unveil a response to subcommittee’s “to do” list for improving trash-to-energy site and landfi ll By Mark E. Vogler W IN Waste Innovations is fi nally set to sit down with town officials and offer a proposal on what could be includGerry D’Ambrosio Attorney-at-Law Is Your Estate in Order? Do you have an update Will, Health Care Proxy or Power of Attorney? If Not, Please Call for a Free Consultation. 14 Proctor Avenue, Revere (781) 284-5657 We Sell Cigars & Accessories R.Y.O. TOBACCO ---------TUBES CIGAR SMOKERS DELIGHT! 15 Handmade Churchill Size Cigars including a Cohiba - Long wrapped $43.95 SUMMER SPECIALS! ALL BRANDS! HUMIDOR SPECIAL! $99.95 Complete! Reg. 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A meeting between the Board of Health’s Landfi ll Subcommittee and WIN Waste offi cials has been set for July 27 at 7 p.m. in the second fl oor auditorium at Saugus Town Hall, according to Board of Selectmen Chair Anthony Cogliano, who co-chairs the panel with Board of Health Chair William Heffernan. This is a rescheduling of the meeting that was originally planned for February, but was postponed indefinitely until the board was operating at full strength. Selectmen at their May 3 meeting voted 4-0 to approve Town Manager Scott C. Crabtree’s appointment of Anthony J. Bakopolus, DMD to fi ll the seat relinquished by former Committee Vice Chair Shawn Ayube when he moved away from Saugus last year. The seat had been vacant for around a year. The Board of Health subTake Advantage of all our HOLIDAY SPECIALS! Buy Cigars by the Box & SAVE! Competitive prices on all Brands, Great Selection committee, which in recent months has been referred to as the Landfi ll Committee, was created by the Board of Health in late 2020 to promote a better working relationship with WIN Waste (formerly Wheelabrator) on issues related to the incinerator and ash landfi ll. A main focus of the committee members over the past year has been the development of a new host agreement that addresses a wide range of health, safety, environmental and community issues. These are key issues that members want to see as part of the agreement: • All members agree health is most important, and company offi cials should verify they are doing all they can to make sure everyone is safe in Saugus and surrounding communities. • The Committee would like to look into a program like Massport with Winthrop with the noise issue there. • Continued testing for the public safety, continue to work with the committee, striving as much as possible for clean, quality air coming out of the stacks while lowering noise levels and testing what is in the ash. Water testing, especially around all three landfi lls • Co-Chair Cogliano wants to know about air quality monitors • Lower NOx (nitrogen oxides) levels without purchasing credits • Keep upgrading facility to invest in it to make it more modern • Plan Comprehensive Health Study, funding for air quality testing and small particle testing, funding for noise monitoring • Construction of a third fi re station to cover the west side of town • Free tipping fees • Striving for air quality for a better quality of life • Create a subcommittee for closing of the ash landfi ll. “Brats on Bikes” Police should confi scate the bikes of unruly kids, Town Meeting member Camuso says By Mark E. Vogler P recinct 2 Town Meeting Member Robert J. Camuso, Sr. says police and town offi cials need to do a better job in confronting unruly kids who have been terrorizing drivers and pedestrians on town streets recently. “Sadly, Saugus hasn’t stepped up to address it more aggressively to try to correct these few punks,” Camuso wrote in a text to The Saugus Advocate. It was Camuso who last year lobbied selectmen to take action in response to incidents involving kids on bicycles putting the public at risk and creating potentially dangerous situations. “The selectmen were supposed to follow up with the Peabody Police Department on how they are dealing with the same situation,” Camuso said. “Peabody is having the kids’ bikes towed to the police station for parents to pick up & giving them a violation that increases every time for repeat off enders,” he said. “So, parents who think the community is their babysitter get a towing bill, violation to pay every time their child is caught doing reckless acts. These kids ride their minibikes on the bike path with their group of bicyclists that’s been causing headaches in Saugus,” Camuso said. “Parents need to be parents and discipline some of their kids from right & wrongs. It’s been pretty bad in some areas of Saugus the disrespect from some of these kids towards the seniors is terrible with their foul language to observe jesters. Saugus needs to address this quickly & make an example that residents have had enough of these kids with the reckless acts in our streets & playgrounds.”
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