Posted by the editor for Kenneth Hjulstrom Originally the Board of Finance had asked the Board of Education to reduce its budget by $350,000 and the Board of Education indicated that such a reduction would cause them to reduce teaching staff in the upper grades and to increase class sizes.  This drew a lot...
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I have been asked if I would do a website poll. I have given this great thought and I have run polls on other websites I run. I don’t think it is appropriate in the setting.  For one and the major reason is many senior citizens are not internet savvy. I don’t think a...
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Subject: BOF Input – Poll the Residents about the Revised Budget Dear BOF Members:  Please forward on to Cathi Gaudinski and other BOF members  - I don’t have their e-mail address. I read on Bob Clarke’s blog that during the special BOF meeting on Monday 5/11 the BOF was reading and categorizing the comments that residents wrote...
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Yesterday, the 11th of May, the day of the town vote, this website received over 1,500 unique hits. For a town the size of Marlborough this is incredible traffic. I will continue to provide timely Marlborough related info via these pages. If you have factual information you’d like out there, feel free to email...
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As requested at the Special Meeting last night, the comments written on town voting slips were as follows: Written comments that the budget was Too High: 41 of the people voting NO 6 of the people voting YES Written comments that the BOE budget was Too Low: 13 of the people voting NO 2...
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In a 188 to 171 vote, the Marlborough Town Budget was defeated. Apparently two political factions joined forces to defeat the budget for opposite reasons. Be careful what you wish for, sometimes you get it. The spend more crowd urged a No vote, in order to have the opportunity to vote on an increased...
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Few points that need clarification. 1) AHM provides programs that Marlborough School District and the Town of Marlborough decide to buy or not to buy. The Marlborough School district (BOE) does not and has not procured the services of the juvenile diversion program run by AHM.  In other words, the juvenile diversion program was...
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Is The Marlborough Budget Process Flawed? If so how? Multiple opportunities have been given for the public to speak and the public has spoken. The final recommended budget number has moved around as the BOF listened to the public. I have sat in on BOF meetings where everyone who wanted to speak was allowed...
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There are those would ask you not to buy into the “fear” and consequently bravely vote no on May 11th. Rather than voting on vague emotion coupled with vague threats of educational disaster.  Here are the facts. The originally proposed budget would have increased spending by 6.5%.  Coupled with the decrease in revenue from...
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