TELL US: How Will You Vote on Turf Field, Town Hall Projects at Town Meeting?
How would you spend Foxborough’s $1 million surplus from the high school’s renovation project?
Voters at Foxborough’s Town Meeting this fall are likely to be asked to approve funding of roughly $500,000 to help build a turf field complex for the community and OK a funding plan for construction of a new Town Hall. But where’s the money coming from? A $1 million surplus from Foxborough High School’s renovation project had been linked to partially funding either the new Town Hall or the turf field project, or both, but Foxborough’s Finance Director Randy Scollins told selectmen last week the surplus cannot be used on the turf field project because the funds can only be used for renovation projects. To date, roughly $260,000 of the $3 million needed has been secured for the turf field project. Town Meeting voters will likely be asked to…
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Douglas Fuller
9:44 am on Friday, November 2, 2012
Kudos, The post office offers the best hope for a town hall. Sell the old firehouse or rent it to increase the town income.We do not want more debt ! Doug Fuller more ›