To the editor:

If people have the right to vote they must have an election to do so at their polling places. 

There can be no gerrymandering which is what the FTMs feel like to many of us.

After having said this, can we all look at the town budget, every segment of it including the school “budget” seriously? We do not have endless funds to spend. 

This asking for more and more each year can not continue. Example, asking for a full time school resource officer for $107,786 dollars is mind boggling. Suppose this officer is at the middle school when there is an incident just starting at another school on the other side of town. If the person is there to protect it will be a stretch, if protection is the job description. 

Why can’t our police department have a duty roster where officers take turns on a rotating schedule at each school mixed in with normal monthly scheduled duties? 

Seemingly making the school system big business and hanging on to antiquated ways like of our FTMs

is slowly diminishing the town.

Barbara Flanders

Barrington