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Select board raises process concerns after school committee moves to extend Loop Road paving
Summary
Select board members questioned the school committee's decision to use existing project funds to pave the Loop Road this summer, arguing residents should have a chance to vote at town meeting; the select board recorded an opinion after a roll-call that split 3—61 against formal support and one in favor.
Hopkinton's select board criticized the school committee's decision to advance a change order to repave the Loop Road as part of the Hopkins Elementary/High School construction project, saying the community should have a chance to weigh in at town meeting.
The exchange came at a joint meeting March 26 after school committee members said the repaving would capture construction efficiencies and avoid higher costs if delayed. The committee said the work falls within a previously approved town-meeting appropriation and that engineering core samples showed sections of the road had a thinner pavement profile than expected.
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