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| By Natasha Clark Reminder Assistant Editor EAST LONGMEADOW Citizens signed a petition to call for a town meeting to talk more about the new trash program. On July 5, a petition with 1,000 signatures, according to Concerned Citizens member Al Celetti. Celetti said residents are looking to hold a town meeting to talk trash and are also looking to defer the contract with Central Mass Disposal, Inc. Celetti said a petition needs 200 signatures but they collected 1,000. "Concerned residents of East Longmeadow took them to soccer games and collected over 500 [signatures] in three days," he told Reminder Publications. Celetti believes that the signing of petitions says something about democracy. "[This is] the truest sense of democracy anywhere. The discussion, the anger, it's an exciting time," said Celetti. Executive Secretary Nick Breault acknowledged that a petition was indeed turned it. "A petition was turned in on Tuesday and it was stamped by the Board of Selectman (BOS), forwarded to the Town Clerk for verification of signatures, and our office is still waiting for verification," Breault explained. "We anticipate the Board discussing the petition with town counsel at Tuesday nights regular meeting, which is a normal course of events for any petition submitted." Breault went on to say that the BOS has 45 days from when the petition was stamped to set a town meeting, pending verification. |