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Brockton facilities subcommittee probes who controls school-adjacent parks under City Charter
Summary
Members asked city and school staff to identify every parcel the school department maintains after discovering the parks department has been operating and collecting fees on fields the committee says belong to Brockton Public Schools.
The Facilities Usage and Planning Subcommittee of the Brockton School Committee on May 27 asked staff to compile a complete list of school-owned properties after members said portions of parkland and athletic fields adjacent to schools have been maintained and rented by the city Parks Department for years.
Members said the matter matters because the City Charter’s language about parks adjacent to school grounds requires a written request from the Parks Commission and written authorization from the school committee when control of school grounds is turned over. Subcommittee members said they could not find documentary evidence that such written authorization was formally executed in recent decades.
Subcommittee Chair (Facilities Subcommittee) opened the topic by quoting the charter and…
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