THE SAUGUS ADVOCATE – FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2021 Page 17 REAL ESTATE TRANSAC TIONS Copyrighted material previously published in Banker & Tradesman/The Commercial Record, a weekly trade newspaper. It is reprinted with permission from the publisher, The Warren Group. For a searchable database of real estate transactions and property information visit: www.thewarrengroup.com. BUYER1 BUYER2 Alves, Mario R Desalvo, Donna Desalvo, Donna BHRC | FROM PAGE 15 on 70 (60.9 percent) of them. Sen. Spilka’s office did not respond to repeated requests by Beacon Hill Roll Call to comment on her voting record. We specifically asked if Spilka was in the Statehouse building for all the formal and informal sessions; how the tradition developed that the president rarely votes; has she ever thought of breaking that tradition and being recorded on all roll calls; and how does she choose on which roll calls she will vote? “Sen. Spilka follows the tradition that many before her followed,” said LEGISLATURE | FROM PAGE 2 Desalvo, Robert Desalvo, Robert SELLER1 Jevic Franchise Dev LLC Nguyen, Kim-Sinh Nguyen, Kim-Sinh Paul Craney. “In this particular case, it’s not necessarily a bad tradition but unfortunately a much worse trend in the state senate is quickly emerging, and that is its opaqueness. The Statehouse has been closed for over 600 days, and now major budget decisions are being done behind closed doors and when lawmakers are on recess. The Massachusetts Legislature, including the State Senate, is the most opaque legislative body in the United States. There is no other state legislature this secretive.” SENATORS’ 2021 ROLL CALL ATTENDANCE RECORDS The percentage listed next to the • $50M for nursing facilities, including $25M for capital support senator’s name is the percentage of roll call votes on which the senator voted. The number in parentheses represents the number of roll calls that he or she missed. Sen. Brendan Crighton 100 percent (0) HOW LONG WAS LAST WEEK’S SESSION? Beacon Hill Roll Call tracks the length of time that the House and Senate were in session each week. Many legislators say that legislative sessions are only one aspect of the Legislature’s job and that a lot of important work is done outside of the House and Senate chambers. They note that their jobs also involve committo increase the quality of patient care and $25M for workforce initiatives • $25M for youth-at-risk supports and grant programs for community violence prevention and reentry organizations, focused on communities disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic • $25M for youth summer and school-year jobs • $5M for Health Care For All to conduct a community-based MassHealth redetermination and vaccination outreach, education and access campaign targeted in communities disproportionately impacted by the pandemic • $5M for the Disabled Persons Protection Commission to study and review the interrelationship between service-providing agencies for individuals with disabilities within the Commonwealth and to design and implement a system for an interconnected network that will provide a continuum of care for those individuals • $2M for unreimbursed COVID-19 costs for Early Intervention providers • $500,000 to establish transMEETING | FROM PAGE 16 some concerns about why close to $15,000 more is needed to complete an audit of the new PEG Access Studio of Saugus Cable TV. “This has nothing to do with the town or this administration,” Crabtree reassured Town Meeting. The money comes from an Enterprise Fund that includes ratepayers’ money from Comcast. Initially, the $25,000 approved by Town Meeting last year was a “placeholder,” not based on any auSELLER2 ADDRESS 48 Wonderland Ter 46 Wonderland Ter CITY DATE PRICE 87 Hammersmith Dr Saugus 16.11.2021 $980 000,00 Saugus 16.11.2021 $115 000,00 Saugus 16.11.2021 $115 000,00 tee work, research, constituent work and other matters that are important to their districts. Critics say that the Legislature does not meet regularly or long enough to debate and vote in public view on the thousands of pieces of legislation that have been fi led. They note that the infrequency and brief length of sessions are misguided and lead to irresponsible late-night sessions and a mad rush to act on dozens of bills in the days immediately preceding the end of an annual session. During the week of November 29-December 3, the House met for a total of one hour and 30 minutes portation services for participants in the Massachusetts Veterans’ Treatment Courts Climate preparedness: • $100M for water and sewer infrastructure investments through the Clean Water Trust • $100M for environmental infrastructure grants, including the Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) program • $90M for marine port infrastructure investments focused on the promotion of off shore wind development • $25M for the Greening the Gateway Cities program to support tree planting • $15M for parks and recreational assets • $7.5M for community colleges to help train underserved populations for green jobs • $6.5M for clean energy retrofi tting in aff ordable housing units • $5M for the advancement of geothermal technologies Education: • $100M to improve indoor air quality in schools and support healthy learning environments for grants to public school districts with high concentrations of low-income students, English dit quote or estimate of the actual cost, he said. “This money is coming from a fund that is charged from the Comcast bills in Saugus,” he said. And selectmen are responsible for overseeing how a nonprofit board operates the fund. Selectmen must approve all the expenses. Precinct 10 Town Meeting Member Peter Manoogian noted that he did some preliminary work with Selectman Jeff Cicolini, who is a partner in a respected auditing fi rm, in research that led to last year’s Town while the Senate met for a total of one hour and 22 minutes. Mon. Nov. 29 House 11:00 a.m. to 11:12 a.m. Senate 11:14 a.m. to 11:18 a.m. Tues. Nov. 30 No House session No Senate session Wed. Dec. 1 No House session No Senate session Thurs. Dec. 2 House 11:11 a.m. to 11:21 a.m. Senate 11:07 a.m. to 11:14 a.m. Fri. Dec 3 House 11:03 a.m. to 12:11 p.m. Senate 11:03 a.m. to 12:14 p.m. Bob Katzen welcomes feedback at bob@beaconhillrollcall.com language learners, and communities disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 • $75M for capital and maintenance projects for higher education • $25M for the Endowment Incentive Program at the University of Massachusetts, state universities and community colleges • $20M for special education, including $10M for workforce development • $10M for programs focused on recruiting and retaining educators of color Accountability and oversight: To support communities disproportionately impacted by the pandemic and prioritize historically underserved populations, the bill establishes an equity and accountability review panel for federal funds to track in near real time the amount and percentage of ARPA funds spent in these communities and awarded to minority-owned and women-owned business enterprises. The bill also takes steps to ensure minority-owned and women-owned business have fair participation on procurements issued under the act. Meeting article for the $25,000 audit. “The cost of this project went up by a third,” Manoogian acknowledged. He also said he has no problems with the cost overrun. “Auditing is the best money we can spend as a community to instill confi dence in how money is spent and that we’re getting the biggest bang for our buck,” he said. “This isn’t taxpayers’ money. It’s ratepayers’ money. We have a fi duciary responsibility to those ratepayers,” he said.
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