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Town manager outlines new benchmark-community methodology; school committee endorses list with caveat
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Town manager Christy Williams presented a revised methodology for selecting benchmark communities for budget and comparative reporting; the school committee endorsed the proposed list with a caveat allowing future tweaks and asked that outliers be flagged for departmental review.
Town Manager Christy Williams presented the school committee with a revised set of 15 ‘‘benchmark communities’’ and explained the methodology used to select them, and the committee voted to endorse the list with the ability to amend narrative outlier notes later.
Williams said the administration renamed the item “benchmark communities” (previously “data dashboard communities”) and revisited the 2019 list after receiving feedback that the earlier materials lacked a written methodology. The finance team gathered…
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