WPCNR SCHOOL DAYS. March 15, 2006: After hearing the Superintendent of Schools Timothy Connors, questioning Russell Davidson of Kaeyer, Garment and Davidson, architects, twenty members of the Annual Budget Committee endorsed the school district plan to bond for a series of projects that would upgrade the infrastructure for $15 Million, build a new Post Road School for $36 Million, and install synthetic turf and new grandstands at Parker Stadium and Loucks Field at a cost of $9 Million. Nineteen of 20 members of the 30-member committee present endorsed the plan, with only one member firmly opposed. Twelve were for executing all three projects without delay.

The Board of Education will hold a public work session Thursday evening to consider which of the three projects to execute, whether to go to the public with a referendum on the bond issue in May simultaneously with the $166.1 Million School Budget, or hold the referendum in the fall. In public comments from each member, there was a strong support for extensive communications between the district and the public to explain the need to execute these projects.