Perfect summary of last nights too long meeting. I agree 100% with your comments about the TP&Z – why are they not held accountable for any of this? The reason our schools are overcrowding, esp. at the beach, is the constant building. I’m s sick of our kids paying the price for greed.

Excellent report! You are very correct in stating there is “no student bubble in this town,” but that a long-term trend toward higher school enrollment is highly evident.

What is needed next if you ask me is that all members of all the Town boards and commissions that can impact redistricting come out of their respective silos and truly hash out this issue.

I seriously doubt that is feasible, but if we could get individual office-holders to at lest consider looking at the challenge in this way, that might better inform some of the key decisions Town bodies must make.

And the best place to start– as you pointed out– would indeed be with one set of enrollment figures/projections that ALL parties have agreed upon to be the baseline before moving ahead with any conversations let alone any votes on this issue.

David Cullen
Representative Town Meeting, District 7