Somerville-specific referendum questions?

[rmd.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen anything about it except for a couple of yard signs, but I gather there's a question on the ballot about construction of a new High School. I didn't see a link to it on the city elections department page, and I haven't seen it discussed here. Anyone have info or opinions?

we don't have a tag for 'elections' or 'politics'? I'm surprised.

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[rmd.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm in a childless household, so we're out of the immediate firehose of school related communications in general.

I am just curious if the referendum is a generic "let's build a school!" or a more specific "let's adopt this particular plan with this financial plan for loans/bonds to build a school and finance construction", since I'm all in favor of the former on the assumption that specifics would be hammered out later, but I would want a lot more information for the latter.

[francescadavis.livejournal.com]

The building plan and financial plan are basically adopted with some ideas for selling city property to mitigate the tax burden. But that's not a guarantee and was mentioned semi-casually by the mayor at the Ward 6 Resistat meeting. If you can't make the meeting mentioned above by Chenoameg, I'd try to catch one of the other Resistat meetings. In order for this to pass, they definitely need to get the word out...and as stated previously, the high school risks losing accreditation. And so, my question is, what happens if the question doesn't pass? That's worth knowing.