It’s go-time on the campaign trail.
It’s go-time on the campaign trail. There’s a lot of information spinning out there, so let’s get back to basics.
Voting No on Q1 — to get a revised plan for Pierce — is as easy as A, B, C and 1, 2, 3.
VOTE NO on QUESTION 1 BECAUSE:
A. It would raise residential property taxes substantially for 25 years and make Brookline more elite and less inclusive.
B. The Pierce building committee disregarded cheaper options (that its own reports say met their standards) and chose an enormous, extravagant, climate-unfriendly design.
C. Not one dollar goes to teachers or educational programming. $212,000,000 for brick and mortar.
…AND KEEP YOUR NUMBERS STRAIGHT:
Ballot Question 1: Pierce School building. Technically this is called a ‘debt exclusion’. This is NOT ‘the override.’ Q1 is not about teacher jobs, not about senior services, not about trees, roads, or rodent control (that’s all in Q2). Q1 is ONLY about the Pierce building, unrelated to the rest.
Ballot Question 2: The Override. This is about the Town and School Department budgets. Completely different from the Pierce building question.
Ballot Question 3: A cap on storefront retail cannabis.
It’s easy. 1, 2, 3. Building, Budget, Bud.
You vote as you wish, and you vote on each one separately.
We hope you’ll be well-informed, and we hope you’ll vote NO on Q1 for all the reasons we describe on our web site.
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