Finance Committee rejects full Shawsheen Tech budget, approves 5/12th alternative.
Finance Committee rejects full Shawsheen Tech budget, approves 5/12th alternative. The committee voted 4-3 to recommend funding the district at five-twelfths of its $9,560,993 request, avoiding a special town meeting while pressing for fiscal accountability. Chair Richard Levasseur and members
Finance Committee · Meeting of May 4, 2026
TEWKSBURY — Finance Committee rejects full Shawsheen Tech budget, approves 5/12th alternative. The committee voted 4-3 to recommend funding the district at five-twelfths of its $9,560,993 request, avoiding a special town meeting while pressing for fiscal accountability. Chair Richard Levasseur and members cited unreconciled accounts, unresolved financial discrepancies, and a ten-month-old state audit with no results.
The committee also adopted a 5-2 statement rejecting the requested appropriation and demanding a comprehensive written recovery plan with clear milestones before any future capital project of the estimated $350 million scale could be supported.
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Source: the Finance Committee meeting of May 4, 2026, compiled from the official minutes.
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