A group of school supporters is looking to strip the budget committee of its ability to rewrite budgets, a knee-jerk reaction to last year’s standoff over an 11 percent cut. We think this is a bad idea, and we urge the voters to reject this effort if it makes it onto this year’s ballot, or any ballot in the future.
The budget committee is the only board that takes a hard look at the finances of the various local boards. Supporters of the warrant article argue the school board and the selectmen are in the best position to make decisions about their budgets, but that is leaving the wolf to tend the sheep. The police commission, when left to its own devices in 2008 and 2009, did nothing to reel in superfluous spending by the administration. Why would residents expect officials to behave any different in the future?
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