Tom: At last night's South Lexington Civic Association candidates forum, you (and Jeanne) talked about malfunctioning HVAC systems at our new Harrington and...
Mr. Mehr, I will ask Dr. Ash to answer these questions. Tom ... Tom Díaz 7321 Lexington Ridge Drive Lexington, Massachusetts 02421 1.781.860.9549 If no...
The March 15th TMMA info session that I referenced in my earlier e-mail is not being held at Clarke. Instead it will be at Cary Hall to facilitate taping by...
If the public schools are cancelled tomorrow due to the impending storm, the LWV First Friday will be postponed. If schools are on, we will hold it. I will...
No, I do not believe that is correct. I think it would be a good idea to let the administration answer the question. ... Tom Díaz 7321 Lexington Ridge Drive ...
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tomg@...
Mar 1, 2007 6:28 pm
Colleagues: The Barry Griffiths (no relation to me) calculations David Kaufman forwarded to this list on Monday came without the data that would support the...
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tomg@...
Mar 2, 2007 3:31 pm
Colleagues: Sending this again, because first copy caught in queue. =========================================================== The Barry Griffiths (no...
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tomg@...
Mar 2, 2007 3:38 pm
Colleagues: Sorry. Trying to find out if TMMA list working. Tom Griffiths TMM Pct 7...
Below is Barry Griffiths' response to Tom Griffiths. If the Schools had a Long-range Planning (or Strategy, or Review of Operations, or whatever we wanted to...
Mr. Griffiths states the following in his lex-tmma posting: "The writer makes a pernicious suggestion that special education costs are not rising so fast as...
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John Rosenberg
john_rosenberg@...
Mar 2, 2007 6:52 pm
The special-education presentations last November suggested very significant increases in staffing, or headcount if you prefer, to bring services in-house;...
... I agree. Those "investments" to improve our in-house SPED capabilities are "productivity" investments (exactly like energy conservation investments) and...
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John Rosenberg
john_rosenberg@...
Mar 2, 2007 8:15 pm
Patrick, I "believe' because I am at work, and my town files are at home; I have a strong impression that the information on SPED employees and on incremental...
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Ruth Thomas
rthomas@...
Mar 2, 2007 9:46 pm
Thank you, John, for presenting the currently much-maligned Lexington employee point of view re: health benefits, compensation, etc. If bargaining units could...
Let's not belabor the "I believe". I don't know about you, but I'm not smart enough to figure out, even in a narrow area like SPED, the metrics driving our...
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Sam Berman
samberman@...
Mar 2, 2007 11:00 pm
Patrick, Be careful of what you wish for when you are dealing with a union contract. Anything you give as a one time gift may wind up being more than one time....
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Miriam Sousa
msousa@...
Mar 2, 2007 11:01 pm
Please find attached and in the body of this email below the agenda for the upcoming School Committee Meeting on Tuesday, March 6, 2007. Miriam Sousa ...
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ajfriedl@...
Mar 2, 2007 11:22 pm
Patrick et al: I would like to put my vote in against a "Strategy Committee". The last thing we need is for a group to be second guessing the School Committee...
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Dawn McKenna
DawnMcKenna@...
Mar 3, 2007 12:21 am
Dear Iang and Town Meeting Members: There was a second request contained in that email regarding the amount and source of the unpaid FY06 bills that would be...
Who says or why would you assume this Committee would be "second guessing" anyone? Is the Electric Utility Committee on which I am honored to serve "second...
My first name is spelled Jesse. No one is maligning Lexington public employees, and dismissing any and all concerns about town employee benefits as "maligning"...
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jrosenbe@...
Mar 3, 2007 2:21 pm
Dear Jim, No one feels more strongly than I that our dependence on property taxes is a severe problem; clearly, property taxes are NOT strictly related to the...
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Ellen McDonald
emcdonald@...
Mar 3, 2007 2:57 pm
It would be useful to bring our legislators into this discussion. Fargo, Havern, Stanley and Kaufman will be available for just that purpose this coming...
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Helen Cohen
helencohen@...
Mar 3, 2007 3:35 pm
Dear Jesse, Please let me know if and when I, as a member of what some people have referred to as the "majority" (and please go over School Committee votes to...
I have been told that Steve Doran is, or has been, seriously ill. Can anyone here confirm? For the late-late newcomers to Lexington, Steve was the boy-wonder...
Mary Jo Bohart has asked me to remind TMMA members that the last broadcast of the Chamber of Commerce Candidates Forum will be this evening, March 3, at 7:30...
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jrosenbe@...
Mar 3, 2007 7:43 pm
I appreciate your graceful gloss on my inadvertently glib comment about housing values, Jim, and thank you for helping me put what I meant in a better context,...