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Had enough, I agree with your sentiments 100%. This action, in my view, is cheap, political grandstanding led by a member who has been on the Council for all of five minutes. This whole charade is nothing more than a small part of a larger diversion to mask the fact that the schools have been level funded over the last several years and virtually every extra tax dollar we've paid has not gone to the school side of the ledger. Facts are stubborn things, right? Perhaps the most ludicrous statement made was "I want to give the school committee the ammunition they need to help remove Mr. Ferrucci." Really? Then perhaps the good Councilman should have run for School Committee instead of Council, though it seems that over the past couple of weeks, Warwick's School Committee has grown from five members to nearly fourteen. Further, Councilman ascribes comments to Mr. Ferrucci from last year's hearings that Mr. Ferrucci never made. The Finance Chair, who'd love nothing more than to have an appointed School committee and whose dogged commitment to due diligence didn't uncover the fact that two firefighter contracts did not contain the City's 2011 pension language that the Council insisted be part of all municipal contracts, blasts the efforts that resulted in the best funded pension in the city. Well, they are, after all, a part time council. Even though the city's auditors received highly detailed (and audited) pension contribution data every year from the school dept. But perhaps the most ridiculous charge came from Councilman Rix when he attempted to tie Mr. Ferrucci job performance to the Holliman and Norwood fire alarm issues from 2017! During the time of that issue none of Mr. Rix's comments ever mentioned Mr. Ferrucci (rightly so) but suddenly now, he somehow had a hand in that? Sorry, as they say down South, 'that dog won't hunt'. The sad truth is that the schools, in response to their funding starvation and declining population, have had to cut their way to remaining solvent. The city, who has lost more people than the schools have, has seen it's budget double. Maybe the city could actually learn something from the schools when it comes to budgeting? I've lived here for 27 years and put kids through, and still have a child in, our schools and have witnessed this Wizard of Oz-like diversion virtually every year since my kids first started school in 2002. My kids have also witnessed and experienced what level funding has wrought too during their time in our schools.