FM #1215 - Franklin Current Issues Q&A Part 1 of 3 - 05/16/24

This session of the radio show shares my conversation with Jay Horrigan, Franklin resident, Franklin TV & Radio talent and fellow Board of Directors member for the Franklin Community Cable Access organization. We met to record this conversation in the studio on Thursday, May 16, 2024.  

We spent enough time in the studio discussing current events that our wives were sending out queries as to where we were. The conversation is split into 3 sections to better enable sharing via the radio time slot (less than an hour).

We talk about 

• Jay’s story and what he keeps busy with
• Spend time to answer current issue questions 
• June 11 override vote
• How the $6.8M was determined
• What is an override vs a debt exclusion
• Development of the ‘fiscal cliff’ post COVID
• State vs Commonwealth (no real difference in operation)
• Fund allocation from the override in FY 2025 and following
• Coordination of Town and School
• Explanation of the bigger ‘pie’, budget, etc.
• Franklin TV video archives of Town, School, and other committee meetings
• Condense the Town Council and School Committee meetings via audio as Town Council Quarterbacking and Chalkboard Chat answering the 2 questions: What just happened? What does that mean for us as residents and taxpayers?
• Does the override tie to the redistricting plan?
• School ‘master plan’ vs Town Master Plan
• Modular units helped to accommodate the school ‘population bubble’
• Mr. G’s analogy on how the redistricting was done, stepping back to better align students with the better school facilities
• How the “Portrait of the Graduate” plays into this
• Teachers are being reduced gradually to account for the decline in school enrollment

Part 1 of this conversation runs about 53 minutes. Let’s listen to my conversation with Jay.