I’ve lived in Lexington for fifty years. My husband and my children graduated from Lexington High School, and my husband taught there for the last fourteen years of his career. But I’m not sentimental or nostalgic about the building. I knew that LHS was overcrowded a long time ago, and I can see that at least parts of the school complex are in need of replacement. In all the years I’ve lived in Lexington, I have never voted against any override or debt exclusion. But I will vote against this debt exclusion on December 8.

Please take a minute to read my reasoning attached here.

Thank you,

Jean Williams

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  1. For those who are concerned about the shifting of the green space due to Bloom, please go to the Center Recreation Complex and see how often the football field, practice field and little league field actually get used. They are used almost exclusively for football and JV baseball and of course little league. They will be replaced by better fields. These fields are already cut off from the rest of the complex by bleachers and fences.
    The areas that are used the most; baseball, softball, playground, tennis, track, skate park, pool and basketball all remain unaffected and open during the construction.
    When I saw the original plans to build on the fields, including the softball and baseball fields, I pushed back along with others. They took our views into consideration and changed some aspects of the design.
    We won’t be losing any fields, we’ll be gaining a school that we can all be proud of and that will last Lexington through this century.

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