The Sisson Street Task Force heard an earful during a three-hour meeting convened on Monday to help Mayor Brandon Scott decide where to move a bulk trash drop-off facility in Remington to make way for a grocery store-anchored commercial center — or whether to move it at all.
Approximately three dozen people spoke either in person or virtually to the 13-member panel that Scott formed to recommend the best way for the city to handle bulk trash and hazardous waste disposal if the Department of Public Works (DPW) closes the Sisson Street Sanitation Yard and Citizen Drop-Off Center at 2840-2842 Sisson Street.
Monday’s meeting started at 6:30 p.m. in City Hall and went past 9 p.m. It was the second of six scheduled for the task force and the first at which members of the general public were allowed to give testimony. Eleven of the task force members were at the meeting in City Hall and the other two were listening online. Several dozen people attended the meeting in City Council chambers and 24 spoke to the commission there. More than 50 people attended virtually, and more than a dozen spoke to the commission that way…