A Resolution 4-Driscoll, the Ananian Motion, Main Motion

Annual Town Meeting, May 2019

WHEREAS there is broad agreement in Town Meeting that the reconstruction and enlargement of the Driscoll School is urgently needed and long overdue, with Article 2 in the December 13, 2018 Special Town Meeting having passed by a vote of 220-2, and

WHEREAS, the expansion of Driscoll from a 3- to 4-section school represents a significant and timely step toward alleviating overcrowding in Brookline's schools, and

WHEREAS the plan for Driscoll's reconstruction as a 4-section school has wide-ranging support within the Driscoll community of parents and neighbors, as well as among voters across Brookline, and is the first step in a plan which continues with renovation of Pierce, and

WHEREAS the architects were told to stop work on May 9, 2019 with significant unspent funds remaining from the 1,500,000 appropriated for schematic design under Article 2 of the December 13, 2018 Special Town Meeting, now therefore

BE IT RESOLVED that Town Meeting urges the Select Board to prepare a debt exclusion question specifically for a 4-section Driscoll School and to place said question on the ballot of a special town election, to be held no later than the Special Town Meeting in Fall 2019, and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Town Meeting urges the Select Board to release the unspent funds appropriated under Article 2 of the December 13, 2018 Special Town Meeting, along with other fund transfers as needed, to ensure the 4-section Driscoll School project is not delayed.

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