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Monday, December 10, 2012

AdCom’s Recommendations for Tuesday’s Special Town Meeting

Here’s an overview of the warrant articles on Foxborough's Special Town Meeting warrant and the article-by-article recommendations the Advisory Committee is expected to make Tuesday.

In advance of Tuesday’s Special Town Meeting at Foxborough High School, the town’s Advisory Committee has taken positions on each of the warrant’s 13 articles. Of the 13 articles on the warrant, AdCom will recommend approval on seven, no action on three and disapproval on three, including Article 6, the community turf field project. Below is a summary of AdCom’s recommendations for Special Town Meeting, which will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of Foxborough High School on Tuesday, Dec. 11. To view the Special Town Meeting warrant, click here. This article proposes funding for the collective bargaining agreement recently negotiated by and between the Town of Foxborough and the Foxborough Highway and Water Employees Union for Fiscal …

Monday, December 3, 2012

A Closer Look at Proposed Funding for Foxborough’s Turf Field Project

Here’s a breakdown of how Phase I of the proposed community turf field will be funded if approved at the Dec. 11 Special Town Meeting.

When voters review the proposed community turf field project at the Dec. 11 Special Town Meeting they will be deciding whether or not to appropriate $125,000 from the town’s Overlay Surplus account and use the remaining $1 million from the high school renovation project to help fund the $1,619,000 of the project. "Basically, we are looking at $430,000 between donations, in-kind services and the NFL grant," said Foxborough Schools Business Manager Bill Yukna. "We are looking at $1 million that is the current balance of the high school renovation project, which the town has already funded and appropriated." Furthermore, Foxborough's School Committee voted its Nov. 26 meeting to appropriate $75,000 from the school’s building revolving account…

Dennis Naughton

11:37 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012

Suggestion: The New England Council of Schools and Colleges visited and evaluated Foxborough High School March 25-28, 2012. Subsequently, they wrote a comprehensive evaluative report. The entire 87 page report is available on the Foxborough High School website. While there was a mention of playing fields (see p. 75, 78, 82-83, 87 for anything relating to the fields of any subsance), it was hardly…   more ›

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