Horlick wants answers on subcommittee

SAUGUS-Selectman Stephen Horlick is looking for answers and he’s hoping to get them from Town Manager Andrew Bisignani Tuesday.When he learned of a subcommittee regarding walls and hillside protection, Horlick’s first reaction was he was glad an issue he raised more than a year ago was finally being addressed.He did not know, however, that a subcommittee had been formed.When rains caused a portion of a wall to wash away last year and took out a portion of a resident’s porch, Horlick said he asked Bisignani to look into the stability of all walls in town.”It’s nice to see that’s finally getting done,” he said.Bisignani said Horlick actually asked him for list of bridges with engineering reports, which he furnished.Horlick said he’s also sent the manager no less than three memos seeking information regarding money spent on engineering for a sewer project aimed at Cliff Road and Anderson Way. While the project was jettisoned in the end, Bisignani said a portion of the funding had been spent on engineering costs.”We never saw it, we never saw who the check was made out to,” Horlick said. “We’re only the sewer commissioners.”Horlick said he is simply tired of asking for information and being ignored so come Tuesday, during the board’s regular meeting, he plans to dump yet another list of requests on Bisignani.”I have them all,” he said. “I have a whole pile to give him.”Ranging from an update on the Hitching Hill Road retaining wall collapse to updates on Kasabuski Arena, Horlick said it’s time for Bisignani to put his actions in writing.Bisignani said Horlick’s claims are simply untrue. He said if the board asks him for a report he sends it to the chairman and it’s up to the chairman to distribute it.He also said it’s rare that Horlick ever picks up the phone and actually calls him with a question, which he could do at anytime.Horlick said he tends not to call because he wants to see things in writing and Tuesday he will once again request the answers to his questions in ink.”Go ahead,” Bisignani said in response. “I send the reports, he just doesn’t read them.”