Letter: Barrington's FTM — there has to be a better way

Posted 3/22/19

To the editor:   

Another 2 million-plus is requested for the schools. A tendency toward entitlement and privilege is running rampant in our educational system. And here, in our town, …

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Letter: Barrington's FTM — there has to be a better way

Posted

To the editor:   

Another 2 million-plus is requested for the schools. A tendency toward entitlement and privilege is running rampant in our educational system. And here, in our town, other problems emanate from that because of the huge emphasis on our school system. 

The financial town meeting extends the power to choose via voting on issues that will affect all of us only to the number of people who can be seated in the building, therefore excluding everyone else in town that has a stake in what is passed without their voice being heard. So the expectation that a majority of the citizens of Barrington will have to pay by rising taxes without their vote is unacceptable. 

There has to be a better way.

I also see that mooring fees will be raised. There are moorings in areas where boaters have to plan their time precisely to set sail with the timing of high tides to get out to the bay, sail for a while and be able to get back to their mooring before the tide lowers or else they might have to wait hours to get close enough to tie up to their mooring. In that area at low tide a person would be able to almost walk to their boat from the shore. The question is, why are fees being raised?

Barbara Flanders

Barrington

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