School buildings...final report

The School Building Needs Assessment Committee has completed its report and will be presenting it to the City Council and School Committee at tonight's joint meeting (FATV-10, 7:30 PM). I've made the full report available for download here (Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0 required).

We won't be giving much of a presentation tonight, basically we'll be there to answer questions. But I will say this - there's no finger pointing here - it's a systemic failure of every Mayor, City Councilor and School Committee member over the past twenty years. The question is, what are we going to do about it?

The other committee members - Bill Walsh, Councilor Boisvert, Mark Force and Patrick Magnan put a great deal of time and effort into this report. For those of you who have taken a few whacks at some of these people, take the time to give them some kudos on this one - they did a great job.