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Lexington selectmen plan to recommend saying ‘no’ to Wayland

Lexington 10/22/15: Lexington selectmen plan to recommend saying ‘no’ to Wayland The majority of the Board of Selectmen will recommend to Town Meeting to reject…

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Wayland Town Meeting votes not to approve Minuteman agreement

Wayland Town Meeting votes not to approve Minuteman agreement. Current and former selectmen huddled before the start of the fourth and final night of Town…

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Minuteman High School proposed Renovation

Wayland Town Crier 2/28/13: Minuteman High School proposed Renovation. One of the many challenges that prompted the $50,000 grant and formation of the Minuteman Regional Vocational Technical School District Regional Agreement Amendment Subcommittee is the renovation of the high school building.

Wayland Town Crier 2/27/13: Subcommittee discuses future of Minuteman District. The first meeting of the Minuteman Regional Vocational Technical School District’s Regional Agreement Amendment Subcommittee left most of its members with a similar conclusion: there is a lot of work to be done.

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AG rules Minuteman School Committee chair violated OML

Wayland Town Crier 7/31/12: AG rules Minuteman School Committee chair violated OML. The Attorney General’s Office has ruled Minutemen Regional School Committee Chairman Alice DeLuca violated the state’s Open Meeting Law when she sent an email to a quorum of School Committee members in February.

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School project moves ahead

Boston Globe 5/31/12: School project moves ahead. A long-stalled feasibility study on renovating Minuteman Regional Vocational Technical High School is moving forward, but the conflicts that have delayed the project are far from resolved. Minuteman’s School Committee, which has representatives from each of the district’s 16 member communities, signed off on the study last week. District officials are hoping that the Massachusetts School Building Authority votes on June 6 to move the school from the initial eligibility phase to the study phase of its building program; approval would mean the authority would pay for 40 percent of the study’s estimated $724,000 cost.

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Revised Minuteman regional agreement remains up in the air

Wayland Town Crier 1/11/10: Revised Minuteman regional agreement remains up in the air. After months of steering a revised regional agreement toward spring Town Meetings, Minuteman Superintendent Ed Bouquillion on Jan. 11 pumped the breaks and signaled intentions to change course. While a forecasted snowstorm briefly threatened to wipe out a Minuteman School Committee meeting scheduled for Tuesday, Bouquillion said the meeting would take place as planned. The superintendent also said he would recommend that the board allow members more time review recommended changes to the agreement, which affects capital apportionments and assessments charged to the district’s 16 member towns. A letter from Wayland's representative to the Minuteman Regional Task Force on the amendment is on our Discussion Forum.

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Minuteman School Committee delays vote on revised agreement

Wayland Town Crier 1/5/11: Minuteman School Committee delays vote on revised agreement. The Minuteman Regional School Committee did not vote on a revised regional agreement for Minuteman Career and Technical High School in Lexington as expected on Jan. 4, despite pressure to get an article to 16 town meetings this spring. After more than an hour of discussion, featuring concerns about funding changes and pleas for unanimity, the committee decided to reconvene on Tuesday, Jan. 11, to take up the issue again and, most likely, put it to a vote.

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