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Committee debates whether to use town preservation funds for a cluster of school playgrounds
Summary
Members discussed whether to allocate community-preservation–style funds to multiple school playground and recreation projects totaling about $750,000, raising questions about fairness, maintenance responsibility and whether schools or PTA fundraising should lead.
A Town of Norwood committee spent much of its meeting weighing whether to fund several school playground and recreation projects that members estimate together could cost about $750,000.
Committee members said they wanted a clearer picture of priorities before committing funds. Several members argued that playgrounds are important public-health and recreation investments and pointed to other towns where preservation-style funds have covered playground work. Others voiced concern that asking parents and PTAs to raise money while the…
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