Last month, the Southborough School Committee submitted an Article for the Warrant for the Special Town Meeting in October. It requests borrowing over $4MM to replace Neary School’s roof.
This week, Select Board members raised the possibility of not including the Article on the Warrant. But in their discussion, they got a key fact wrong. Read the full article → from Fall Town Meeting: Neary Roof may (or may not) be on the Warrant
Last night, the Southborough Select Board unanimously voted against requesting an extension on the state grant for the Neary Building Project.
That kills any remaining hope that project supporters had for building a new 4-grade school at Neary to open for the school year 2028-2029. But this doesn’t mean the end of the Towns’ efforts to pursue a school building project of some kind. Read the full article → from Town won’t request MSBA funding extension for Neary Project
Tomorrow night, the Select Board will vote on whether to request an extension for getting voters’ approval to fund the Neary School Building project. The last time the question came up, the board was split. But the majority had been in favor of keeping the option alive, while the Town continues to explore how to handle school building issues. Read the full article → from Select Board to discuss extending MSBA funding to keep Neary project possibility alive (Updated)
This week, the PreK-8 School Building Committee discussed its work pulling together information on potential school building projects. Meanwhile, the Southborough School Committee has been discussing asking Town Meeting voters this fall to spend about $4M to replace Neary School’s roof. Read the full article → from Update on School Building plans
The Town is promoting a new survey on the the previously proposed school building project and potential future votes. Read the full article → from Take the School Building Survey (Updated)
Last night, the majority of the Select Board voted to appoint five “at-large” members to the PreK-8 School Building Committee.
At this point 8 of 9 seats have been appointed (and there’s news on who won’t be continuing in the 9th seat). While critics of the new process didn’t entirely get their way, it appears there will be almost no overlap with the prior committee. Read the full article → from Appointments made to new, expanded PreK-8 building committee
On July 1st, the Select Board will consider appointing applicants for 3 “at large” members of a new ad-hoc “Pre-K to 8 School Building Committee”.
This week the board approved the charge on the “revised Neary Building Committee”. The ambitious goal is for it to issue a final report to the board and community by the end of August. Read the full article → from Apply now to serve on new committee to research school building options for Pre-K to 8 (Updated)
The Committee discussed addressing parents’ immediate safety concerns, better analyzing buildings’ capacity and needs, and collaborating with the Select Board on next steps for school facilities planning. Read the full article → from School Committee’s next steps post-Neary vote
The Select Board is still grappling with how to move forward in the aftermath of failed votes for building a new 4-grade Neary School.
Members are still working on drafting a charge for a new K-8 school building/research committee they can find consensus on. Meanwhile two topics on the Southborough School Committee’s agenda this Wednesday could have a big impact on the potential options. Read the full article → from Update on Neary/school building project next steps (Updated)
My Southborough accepts signed letters to the editor submitted by Southborough residents. Letters may be emailed to mysouthborough@gmail.com. Read the full article → from Letter: Withdraw the MSBA application for a new Neary
I’m sharing constructive criticism of the Town’s maintenance of properties including Cordaville park, adding my own take, and asking for residents to weigh in with their thoughts. Read the full article → from Perspectives on what Cordaville Park says about Town governance
[Ed note: My Southborough accepts signed letters to the editor submitted by Southborough residents. Letters may be emailed to mysouthborough@gmail.com.
The following letter is from Beth A. Wittcoff.] Read the full article → from Letter: Neary Building Project
[Ed note: My Southborough accepts signed letters to the editor submitted by Southborough residents. Letters may be emailed to mysouthborough@gmail.com.
The following letter is from Becca Dente.] Read the full article → from Letter: Dialogue Regarding School Facilities
This week, the Select Board and the Neary Building Committee (NBC) had a follow up discussion on voters’ rejection of the big building project for a new 4 grade school to replace Neary School.
They agreed that more community input is needed on how to handle issues over Neary School building maintenance and safety issues, “housing” Southborough Public School PreK-8 students, and any potential maintenance investments, or building/renovation projects.
But there wasn’t agreement on the next steps needed. That included differences over how soon to start work and the pace for researching and communicating options to the public. Read the full article → from Select Board to determine “next steps” on school buildings following failed Neary vote