Time to get us back on track!

This will be a deciding vote on June 3. Are we prepared to let our town slip through the cracks due to petty politics or are we going to take the decision in our hands and show up to vote yes on June 3? 
Having being a member of the community for 12 years I still recall the reasons why we moved here. A great community, a wonderful place to bring up children, a town where I could enjoy the practice of medicine. 
Both our children have had schooling at private and public schools in Shrewsbury. We moved our children to public schools two years ago and never looked back. Our children are happy and well adjusted thanks to dedicated teachers and staff at Spring Street School. 
Shrewsbury has always prided ourselves on being the top of the line school district. But the landscape is changing. Our schools are slipping, moving from level one schools to level two schools in 2013. A neighbor of mine  recently sold her house and moved to a neighboring town citing class size as the main reason. Another family moved their child to a private school as the school could not keep up with the needs of the child. 
Basic infrastructure, emergency preparedness, school needs are the backbone of our community and our backbone is weakening. The current budget for our schools and our town is not enough to sustain our growing needs. 
Yes this means more money, roughly about 400 dollars more per household. But I look at this as an investment, an investment into our community, into people who are working night and day to keep us safe, schools trying to keep abreast with latest technology in educating our children, infrastructure in our town that  needs rebuilding......needs of ours that we cannot ignore any more. 
I spent my day today chaperoning third graders along with other parents enjoying every minute of our walk to Dean Park and Artemas Ward's House. 
As I stood in the big barn I marveled at the history of our town and the vision of our forefathers. I talked to parents and teachers alike on what this would vote would mean for all of us. 
I hope the vote on June 3 will be a historic vote. A vote in which we put the needs of our children and our town in front of us and vote in favor of the overide.