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Markyc,

Im fully aware of what the respective roles of the school committee and city council are. The school committees job is to prepare a budget that meets the educational needs of the schools/students (and most of us know that no budget is carved in stone). The city bases it allocation based on their own assumptions. You acknowledge that there should be a plan on school closing s but this decision was not part of any plan. I'm amazed that some just can't see what the point is here. Enrollment is declining, no one disputes that but the issue is how do we deal with that. Mist reasoable people know that schools have to close but the question is how do we go about it. I'll say it again, going to a middle school model better utilizes the three junior highs for the next 7-8 years. Elementary capacity is then reduced and consolidation can be had there. Closing an elementary saves roughly the same $ as closing a junior. I think you can close an elementary can close and there'd still be room for all day K. Once that's done, you turn to the high schools and the CTC. CTC should be expanded to include more Warwick kids and out of district kids (who pay

tuition to attend). By the way, we,re losing approximately 1000 kid every decade so if yo lose 100 kids this year they're spread out throughout the district, from a buildings perspective, you can't do too much the next year. That doesn't automatically mean that you spend less next year. If that we're true, the city side of the budget wouldn't have doubled over the last decade when we've lost over 3000 people.

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