In April 2025, the Cohasset School Committee voted to reinstate Kindergarten tuition as well as levying various other athletics, activities, and parking fees. The common sentiment was “how can a town with this size tax base still need to instate fees for public school?” and that’s what initially brought together the group that would become Invest in Cohasset. 

Soon after, in June 2025, the town staff updated the Select Board on the costs of the public safety facility increasing from $10 million to $27 million. Again a common sentiment formed around questions of size and scale as well as budget management – how could we have missed the mark by so much? 

Next in the string of budget-related issues was the re-introduction of the RTF Enterprise Fund despite failing to gain approval at the May town meeting. After 30 years of managing the RTF through the general fund, the new line was that the revenues had to meet the expenses – which is just another way of increasing fees, getting around proposition 2 ½ and offloading town costs into a fund that can arbitrarily raise fees. 

a community momentum origin story

On August 5, 2025, we made statements at the Select Board meeting imploring town officials to look into redesigning the public safety building and provide transparency in the design and estimating process.

On August 26, 2025, we posted our first draft of space planning revisions proposed to get the public safety building back to the original scope. 

On September 2, 2025, we posted our review of peer towns budgeting and processes.