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School committee members accuse Select Board chair of misleading remarks about school budget; formal no-confidence vote not possible
Summary
Multiple school committee members said the Select Board chair falsely claimed not to have seen the school department’s line-item budget, undermining trust during FY26 budget discussions; members said they cannot take a formal vote of no confidence at the committee level.
School committee members spent substantial time on April 10 criticizing a Select Board chair statement that she had not seen the school department’s line-item budget, saying the budget had been delivered and published before the Select Board meeting.
"When Mary Ellen Fletcher said she hadn't seen the school committee's line item budget, none of the at least 8 people that were in the room who knew this was not true said anything," a committee member said during comments, adding she had the budget in hand and that it was published in the town’s FY '26 budget book. The member…
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