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In all these articles and letters on Framingham's Fuller middle school,
I find it very strange that no one has brought up the issue of Farley
middle school. Built in 1974 as a middle school (whatever that means),
it was apparently abandoned by the Framingham school committee as a school
in 1993 and the town has been leasing it out to Mass Bay Community College for
well over twenty five (25) years? This year's rent was a mere $750,000.
The question is why are we building schools at taxpayers expense in
order to lease them out to other agencies at a loss? Read this article
about Farley
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How much money has Framingham spent to keep Farley from falling apart
while we lease it out?
Farley seems to be a modern looking school and actually has a larger capacity than the suggested new Fuller school building. The city of Framingham's borrowing capacity is nearly $300 million. In case the Fuller override fails, is the city council/school committee willing to borrow $60 million in order to get the $40 million MSBA carrot on the stick. The answer seems to be a resounding NO, since the Framingham school committee prefers that the taxpayers shell out more monies on this ridiculous and unnecessary $60 million override. Meanwhite, the yesonfuller.com crowd prides itself on being fiscally responsible by raising your taxes for a mere twenty years. At age 69, I will not be present on this side of the ground in 2038, so I'm voting NO!
We are about to spend $900,000 in Farley renovations |
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