SPRINGFIELD – An effort to arrange a face-to-face meeting between Mayor Domenic Sarno and the Pioneer Valley Project was not successful, and Sarno has stuck to his previously stated position about more refugee resettlement in the city.
On Jan. 17, a number of the members of the organization along with Somali Bantu residents of Springfield went to the mayor’s office to ask for a meeting on his stance. According to the videos posted on the organization’s Facebook page, Sarno did not meet with them and Tom Ashe, his chief of staff, promised them an answer about the meeting by Jan. 21.
