My issue is that the numbers just don't add up. [Grades] preK to 2 numbers are trending down. MCAS scores are down. The amount of surplus property the city owns is growing.
Disingenuous people sending their children to private schools while claiming the need for a new school. Additional burden to taxpayers for the need of a new public safety complex.
Sitting city councilor profiting from his documented pro new school position. The omission of up-to-date enrollment numbers.
City employee running a private business in a public building that NAPS oversees. A member of the School Committee that has voted for increases to his employer's bus contract. (Editor's note: the member recused themself. )
These numbers just don't add up for me.
What does add up is the average of $270 a year increase to my tax bill.
Multiply that by four for me, $1,100 a year, on average ... and it's not going to go down.
Those numbers add up to me.
When McCann Tech comes calling for an increase in the upcoming years that will add on as well.
Maybe I'm out of my mind but I'm not willing to subsidize a 30-year mortgage for a declining enrollment.
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