Dear Members of the Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee:
We are greatly concerned about the proposed AB School assessment and we urge both of your boards to NOT RECOMMEND the assessment for Acton. Our reasons are detailed as follows.
(1) Town Meeting was misled about the full financial effects of regionalization.
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The voters at Town Meeting were given several clear messages which influenced their vote to approve full regionalization. They were told that there would be educational advantages, they were told that there would be efficiencies, and they were told that Acton would save at least a million dollars per year. All of these promises were kept.
What they were not told was that their assessments would greatly increase while Boxborough's assessments would greatly decrease. This is an important point that was either left out of the presentation or was unknown by the proponents. (We have heard conflicting information on this but we hope it was the latter.)
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Voters were simply told that full regionalization was a good financial deal for Acton....
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