Janey doesn't quite call the mayor of Revere a liar, but she gets pretty close

Yesterday, Revere Mayor Brian Arrigo declared the Boston Public Health Commission a battalion of disorganized buffoons trying to foist Boston's Methadone Mile problems connected his just metropolis by sticking immoderate Mass-and-Cass radical successful a presently unused Quality Inn determination - with nary anterior announcement to him.

Today, acting Boston Mayor Kim Janey says Arrigo knew astir the plans:

For the past 3 weeks, unit from the Boston Public Health Commission and Eliot Community Human Services person met with Mayor Arrigo and his team. They person reviewed plans and followed up connected requests.

At contented are 30 radical who would beryllium housed astatine Quality Inn.

Janey said the opioid situation is simply a determination one, which volition instrumentality determination solutions, not simply letting each past idiosyncratic with an addiction autumn into the maelstrom astatine the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard.

As the largest metropolis successful New England, we person appropriately built an adjacent larger information net, assisting those cities and towns who person not made akin commitments to enactment their residents. We volition not backmost distant from this motivation obligation, but Boston indispensable person beardown partners passim the Commonwealth to tackle this crisis.

We cognize that good implicit 60% of the radical we service travel from extracurricular of Boston. To assistance supply services person to the places that radical telephone home, we request different cities and towns to measurement up.

This includes Revere.

She added:

Standing against this connection means lasting against 30 radical having a spot to telephone home. It means denying 30 radical the wellness attraction they merit astatine a clip they request it most.

Municipal leaders who accidental that we request to bash this enactment arsenic a portion but who neglect to instrumentality work successful their ain metropolis oregon municipality whitethorn beryllium making a bully dependable bite. But, it does not lick the problem.

We request to basal up unneurotic to enactment our friends, household members and neighbors battling substance usage disorder. I privation to convey each the cities and towns who person already done so, and I anticipation Revere is consenting to articulation that list.