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Sal DeCola led a CSEP hearing.
Democrat Sal DeCola is the first candidate out of the box in filing papers to run for a Board of Alders seat this year, seeking a fifth two-year term representing Morris Cove’s Ward 18.
DeCola, a retired postal carrier, won his first term in the 2011 election. As chair of the Community Services & Environmental Policy Committee, he has carved out a leading role on the board as a green guardian.
He said Thursday that he plans to continue fighting against the plans by a local company, Murphy Road Recycling, to build a transfer station in the port district that would process domestic garbage from suburban towns within a 30-mile radius from New Haven. (Click here and here to read more about that.)
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DeCol with Alliance Children’s Theater (ACT)’s Ellen Maust at annual arts-scholarship fundraiser.
“They can do it in other cities,” DeCola suggested, noting already high asthma rates due to the concentration of polluting facilities near the I‑95/I‑95 junction.
DeCola has also helped organize an annual fundraiser at the Shubert to support scholarships for kids to participate in after-school arts programs.