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Resident urges transparency in Braintree school building plan, cites maintenance and enrollment concerns
Summary
At the June 9 Braintree School Committee meeting, a longtime resident urged clearer public reporting in the district's upcoming school building plan, raised maintenance shortfalls across town facilities and questioned recent enrollment figures submitted to the state and the MSBA.
Mr. Cass, a Braintree resident speaking during public comment at the June 9 School Committee meeting, urged the district to make the forthcoming school building plan "transparent" and to include clearer, year-by-year estimates of what the district should be spending on school maintenance.
"What I would like to see from this school building plan is, or even before that... exactly is the right amount of money that we need to be spending on maintenance for the school buildings every year," Cass said, pressing the committee to distinguish between the district's current base maintenance rate and the true maintenance cost required to stop long-term deterioration.
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