Mayor: Days Inn situation a 'financial drain'
METHUEN — Officials are upset with how the situation with immigrant and homeless families at the Days Inn, at 159 Pelham St., is being handled by t...
METHUEN — Officials are upset with how the situation with immigrant and homeless families at the Days Inn, at 159 Pelham St., is being handled by the state, leaving the city to fund numerous police and fire calls and grapple with the management — or lack of — of the residents. 'It's a financial drain to the city,' Mayor Neil Perry said. 'I think it goes without saying that I speak for this council that no one in this room is happy about the way the state is treating them. No one.' Perry said there is support from the state for the educational costs of the families living in the Days Inn.