BloggingBelmont contributor Adriana Poole provides an account of this week's Warrant Committee meeting, where discussion turned to reevaluating the allocation of funding for the School Dept. and the Town, and some mysterious cost overruns at the Fire Department.
A letter from Belmont High School Principal Mike Harvey details the cuts that would be necessary at the High School should the town fail to ask for or pass a Proposition 2 1/2 Override to repair a structural hole in the town's finances.
An op-ed in the Citizen Herald charges that the O'Neil and Cushing Square developments will send more than 200 new children to our schools. But will they? A 2003 study suggests that the link between development and school population is difficult to make.
There's good reason to be very, very, very suspicious of the Board of Selectmen's call to delay a vote on an override. In fact, the push to delay a vote on the override is part of a well worn strategy for sinking it, altogether.
The question for those of you who are planning to attend tonight's meeting of the Board of Selectmen should be "what has changed" for Belmont since last Spring, when both Selectman Jones and Paolillo ardently supported passage of an Override. If the town needed it in June, why is it suddenly unworthy in January...
Just a note, for those of you who didn't see the article in Friday's Boston Globe, that there's a good write up on the effort to get a Proposition 2 1/2 override on the ballot by Sarah Thomas. You can read the article on Boston.com.
