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Research and Studies of
Interest: |
The Prop 2 1/2
'Diet' Hamilton
resident Rick Sprenkle takes an in depth look at Proposition 2 1/2.
How does a diet of 2.5% increases compare to: Social Security Cost of
Living Adjustments (COLA); The Consumer Price Index; Professional and
Business Salary Growth.
View on the web at the H-W Chronicle;
View and download
the full study with charts
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School District and Town Comparison Study based on
Public Data
Report 1: Selected Eastern
Massachusetts School Districts and Towns Featuring a Profile of Hamilton
and Wenham. This is the first in a series of reports by CSC's
School Study Group.
Click here to view
as a web page.
Click here to view as a PDF file
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Private High School Tuition for
2004/2005 school year. Tuition
costs at 13 private high schools in the area (for the 2004-2005 school year).
Click here to view as a web
page.
Click here
to view as a PDF file
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The Boxford School Committee's Committee for
Academic Excellence (CAE) Conducted data-driven research
into a number of areas critical to achieving academic excellence in
their
elementary schools. They compared their schools to the top schools
in the region, including Hamilton-Wenham. There are two reports, done in
1998 and 2000.
http://www.boxfordschools.org/cae.html |
The
Hamilton-Wenham League of Women Voters
Statement of Consensus on Shared
Services
The League recently
completed a year long study on the possibility of combining the Police and
Fire Departments of Hamilton and Wenham. This is the report which they
presented to the community in November 2003:
Click here
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Comparative
Town Data
Hamilton resident
Ann Smith (CSC Committee member) volunteered
to do a research project on behalf of the Hamilton Board of Selectmen.
These spreadsheets, completed in September, list information about
demographics, property taxes, municipal spending, and basic school district
information for Hamilton and 32 towns that either neighbor Hamilton or are
similar in various ways. Click
here
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Report
of the Lincoln Schools K-8 Task Force
This study, completed November 2002 by the Lincoln K-8
Task Force, compared their elementary schools with 7 other elementary school
systems including Hamilton-Wenham:
Lincoln K-8 Report
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Starting in the fall of 2003, CSC "observers" started to attend regular meetings of various town boards and school committee meetings. Notes were taken through June of 2004. Graeme Lister was the only person to take notes in the fall of 2004 for School Committee meetings, which were published in the Chronicle when space permitted. Rather than delete the notes, I've left them below just in case anyone wants to look something up.
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Meeting Notes in downloadable
PDF
format |
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Hamilton Town Meeting |
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May 3, 2004 |
Ann Sierks Smith and Tom Rogers
for CSC |
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Hamilton Board of Selectmen |
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Date of Meeting |
Notes provided by |
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June 21, 2004 |
Ann Sierks
Smith for CSC,
Hamilton Wenham Chronicle, |
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June 14, 2004 |
Hamilton Wenham Chronicle |
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March
29, 2004 |
Steve Craig
for CSC |
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March
15, 2004 |
William Scofield
for CSC |
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March 8, 2004 |
Provided by the Hamilton BOS |
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March 1, 2004 |
Provided by the Hamilton BOS |
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February 17 2004 |
Richard Boroff
for CSC |
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February 9, 2004 |
Ann Sierks Smith
for CSC |
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February 2, 2004 |
Ruth Ryan
for CSC |
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January 26 2004 |
Provided by the Hamilton BOS |
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January 12, 2004 |
Provided by the Hamilton BOS |
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January 5, 2004 |
Ray Desroches
for CSC |
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December 22, 2003 |
Ruth Ryan and Ann Minois
for CSC |
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December 1, 2003 |
Steve Craig
for CSC |
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We have notes that go back to
9/22/03 |
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Wenham Board of Selectmen |
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May 4, 2004 |
League of Women Voters |
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June 21, 2004 |
Hamilton Wenham Chronicle |
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July 6, 2004 |
Hamilton Wenham Chronicle |
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Joint Boards of Selectmen (Hamilton and Wenham) |
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February
23, 2004 |
Ann Minois
for CSC |
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January 20, 2004 |
Steve Craig
for CSC |
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November 10, 2003 |
Kimberley Jaeger
for CSC |
| Joint
Finance Committees
of the School Committee, Hamilton and Wenham |
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March 2, 2004
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Ann Sierks Smith
for CSC |
| Hamilton
Wenham Regional School Committee |
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May 20, 2004 |
Steve Grasso
for CSC |
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March 31, 2004
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Richard Boroff for
CSC |
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March 18, 2004
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Grace Belfiore
for CSC |
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February 26, 2004
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Faith McClure
for CSC |
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January 22, 2004 |
Grace Belfiore
for CSC |
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January 8, 2004 |
Graeme Lister
for CSC |
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December 18, 2003 |
Richard Boroff
for CSC |
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December 4, 2003 |
Steve Grasso
for CSC |
| We have notes
that go back to 10/20/03 |
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Hamilton Wenham Regional School Committee's
Finance Sub-Committee |
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March 25, 2004 |
Richard Boroff
for CSC |
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January 26, 2004 |
Richard Boroff
for CSC |
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January
12, 2004 |
Richard Boroff
for CSC |
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January
5, 2004 |
Richard Boroff
for CSC |
| December 16, 2003 |
Richard Boroff
for CSC |
School
Committee's Community Forums,
Regarding the Proposed FY '05 School Budget |
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March 22, 2004 |
Margo Killoran
for CSC |
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March
18, 2004 |
Ann Sierks Smith
for CSC |
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School Committee - Miscellaneous |
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FY 05 Strategic Planning Overview |
Future
Management Systems |
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