Meway & Millis November 2017

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VOTE
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If the vote passes, the Massachusetts
School Board Association
will reimburse the town for
approximately 57% of eligible
costs, which translates to about
41% of total project costs. That
amounts to a cost for the Town
for $30.3 - $31 million for the
new school. The Millis Elementary
School Board Committee
had estimated that the cost of
“doing nothing,” or not approving
funding for the new school
would be a comparable $34.6
million in work needed to renovate
the existing school and bring
it up to code.
The Town of Millis was challenged
by citizen John Fitzgerald
following the vote on Article 13,
as he filed a lawsuit in Superior
Court against the town on June
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19th. Fitzgerald, who had motioned
at Spring Town Meeting
to table Article 13 in order
to have the town consider other
locations for the school and not
cut down trees, a motion that
did not pass and ended with the
vote proceeding, argued that the
Town Moderator had misled
voters by leading them to believe
that tabling the school vote
would jeopardize funding from
the Massachusetts School Board
Association.
Fitzgerald also complained to
the Massachusetts Environmental
Protection Agency (MEPA),
which placed the project on
hold pending a public commentary
period and review. On
September 22nd (EEA#15749),
the Mass. Executive Office of
Environmental and Energy Affairs
(EEA), in a letter signed by
Matthew Beaton after receiving
over 450 comments both for
and against the project by Millis
residents, decided that the Clyde
Brown School Elementary Project
would not require any further
MEPA review. It concluded:
“The ENF has sufficiently
defined the nature and general
elements of the project for the
purposes of MEPA review and
demonstrated that the project’s
environmental impacts will be
avoided, minimized and/or mitigated
to the extent practicable.
Based on the information in the
ENF and after consultation with
State Agencies, I find that no further
MEPA review is required at
this time.”
In a letter to Millis’ town attorney
on October 5th, Fitzgerald
threatened to take the matter
to federal court to defend his
constitutional right to sue.
“I had hoped to avoid the
necessity to reach constitutional
issues in federal court, but with
the MEPA process complete,
the builder having threatened at
the last Planning Board meeting
to begin construction as early
as November, the Town having
challenged the jurisdiction of the
Superior Court, and the Town
having opted not to place Article
13 before the voters for a clean
vote at the upcoming November
2017 Town Meeting, the town
left me with no choice but to proceed
with the federal suit,” wrote
Fitzgerald.
At the upcoming November
6th Millis Town Meeting,
Fitzgerald had added by petition,
two articles to the town
warrant, articles 28 and 29. The
first article petitioned asks voters
to “cease and desist from demolishing
the hill by the bandstand,
and from cutting down trees
thereupon, and block construction
of an elementary school on
that site;” the second, article 29,
requests that voters re-designate
“The Hill” as parkland, transferring
that 6.4 acre parcel of land
back to parks and recreation.
With Article 30, it seems, Millis
voters may once again have
the chance to decide on the fate
of the new elementary school.
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