Town of Braintree

Think about it

If those properties were sold they would generate money by their sale and then the new owners would have to pay taxes to the town instead of rent to the schools.

Exactly

And with the proceeds from the sale the school could fund their salary increases and do some repairs rather than those expenses coming from the town's general budget. And as you said the town would then reap the rewards of the new taxes generated.

My Premise Misunderstood!

My premise is that the school committee should get out of the landlord business, transfer each of these three buildings to the Selectmen as surplus properties no longer used as school houses for the town and then at public auction, bids are taken to sell the properties. Proceeds could be used by the town to bail us out of this logjam of underfunded capital improvements - and not all for the schools I might add. People don't understand that once a school house is abandoned as a public school (and rented or mothballed), before it could again reopen as a public school, it must be renovated up to state school standards - huge costs with new wiring, roofs, heating and ventilation, plumbing etc. Sell the damm unused properties instead of renting them because the School Committee shouldn't be in the landlord business as they have been for 26 years at the Foster School! Instead, they are renting school properties and using the income collected (bargain rates I might add) to offset some of their school operations expenses - a hidden revenue resource for the school department!

By Walter

so what is this going to take

a vote?let's get rid of this property.the town has shown it is not up to managing budgets and personnel.who would expected them to be proficient landlords?sell the property & fund the budget.easy fix

By THO