Ken
O’Brien
At Monday night’s joint meeting of the Town Council
and the School Committee, committee member Jill Congdon made a succinct
observation.
“A School Committee member’s primary
responsibilities are policy, budget and overseeing the Superintendent “she noted.
Substitute the term ‘Town Manager” for “Superintendent”
and one could make the same statement about the Town Council with equal
validity.
This year for the first time in memory the Council
took the step of instituting a budgetary practice commensurate with that in
virtually every business and household. It took the (for a governmental body)
extraordinary action of imposing a limit on spending before establishing a budget.
