Advisory committee to draft two letters: one urging state action on local aid and another seeking town select board action on Royalston Road design funding

The Templeton Advisory Committee agreed to draft two separate advocacy letters: one modeled on a recently posted Lunenburg Select Board letter urging state lawmakers to increase local aid and Chapter 90 funding, and a second requesting that the Select Board provide a letter of commitment for additional design funding for the Royalston Road reconstruction so the Montachusett Regional Planning Commission and MassDOT will keep the project on the TIP priority list.

On the local-aid letter: committee member Jacqueline McCombra read a March letter from the Lunenburg Select Board that called on the state delegation to increase per-pupil funding, expand unrestricted general government aid, invest further in Chapter 90, and modernize the Chapter 70 school funding formula. Committee members discussed local fiscal context in…