The Marlborough Board of Finance on a 4 to 2 vote approved a new town budget to be presented to the town for vote on June 1st. By decreasing the Board of Finance’s undesignated reserve account from 7.5% to 7.4% the board was able to move $20,000 to the Board of Education budget and...
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Letter to the Editor from Mike Appleton. I would like to first thank the BOF for its tireless and largely unappreciated efforts this year. On Monday, it was quite clear that roughly 50% of the Town was in favor of your proposed budget. Of the 50% opposed, roughly 2/3 of the voters, (120 people)...
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Dear Mr. Clarke: Needless to say, I and other Board of Finance members are disappointed in the budget defeat. This budget process has been the most difficult in all my years on the BOF; primarily due to the economic downturn and resulting economic hardships. Tomorrow the Board of Finance is holding its May meeting beginning...
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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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