The district reorganization advisory committee is an open public meeting. Required to be posted, it is how ever a district rather than a Town committee so do not look for it on the Town website. There should also be minutes of the meetings. You can tape, record etc., those meetings. While you do have a right to attend any open pubic meeting, you do not have a right to speak or ask questions. That is at the discretion of the chairman, per the Massachusetts Open Meeting law.

Remembering that the selectmen already do not routinely take questions at workshops and they recently discussed limiting questions and public input at their regular selectmen meetings, stating that residents could reach out off line and residents can have their say at Town Meeting seems to be indicating the current selectmen want less input and questions from residents, meaning just where and when are residents/taxpayers suppose to be able to have their say?

As for finding the posting, all members have have been emailed informing them when, where, etc the meeting will take place.

I posted "the what if" item (s) concerning the placing of the students - assignment of students resulting in more than 10% of the pupils of the whole school being from out of town requires approval of the school committee by a 7/8ths vote, per the regional school agreement.

Per the same agreement, pupils shall be assigned by the superintendent of schools, who shall take into account but not be bound by any recommendations of the school committee, consistent with the educational reform act of 1993. So the superintendent could assign all Phillipston students to Templeton elementary school, but if that results in more than 10 % of students being from out of Town (excluding school choice) the school committee could vote in favor of that, hence al Phillipston students could end up in the new school. Since the subject of a regional elementary school was brought up several times at a meeting, I thought it was worth mentioning, as I feel people should be aware of what could happen per the school agreement that many have probably never seen never mind read. That is not a conspiracy, that is a possibility.

There is also a proposed committee to discuss moving the Town's election and I have received an email from the school district informing me of such. Templeton Advisory Committee received an email (2) from Templeton T/A concerning this committee requesting who the representative will be from Advisory. If you are to pan for things, you should be aware of all the possibilities, whether you think they are realistic or not, they should be considered or at least be aware of.