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Committee flags discrepancies in school-options matrix, asks staff to remove misplaced 'NEARIE' entry

Town of Southborough committee · October 15, 2025
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Summary

Committee members identified inconsistencies between versions of the school-options matrices — including conflicting entries on whether modules are temporary or permanent and an erroneous 'NEARIE deferred maintenance only' line in Option B1 — and asked Kelly to remove the misplaced entry and reconcile differences before public dissemination.

Committee members reviewed redlined edits to a school-options matrix and highlighted multiple discrepancies between the committee’s matrix and a v4 educational matrix submitted by the schools. Tim Fling, committee member, said the differences "explain adding a large renovation to the buildings" in one version while another version assumes "there's no renovation to be done," and he flagged the mismatches for correction.

The committee discussed specific content issues: omission of adjacency notes regarding a landfill and required well maintenance in the Neary options; wetlands…

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