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I've been attending the SMMA meetings and it's painful...because the "Master Plans" they are floating are exactly the same "Master Plans" that were looked at, bandied about, and with the exception of the final "plan" in 2013, were set aside. The reason the other plans were "set aside" is because they were going to cost the district a tremendous amount of money..which they do not have. "Bond money?" Hah! The City of Warwick will never release the bond money from 2006 (2005?) because WPS were told that there is a need to consolidate to address the declining school-age population. That was 10 years ago! We closed some elementary schools, worked for years to come up with a decent plan to consolidate at the secondary level, and that "plan" was soundly rejected by the Warwick School Committee. Here we are, almost two years after the last "plan" was introduced, and we are being told the same thing, being shown the same plans...only now, there are even LESS children in our schools, and the Warwick School Committee has pissed away $250,000 that could have been used for more important things. One other thing to note, we have an airport in the middle of our City, and as long as it continues to expand, we will continue to see our population decline. That's to be expected. There will be no population "boom" in this City ever again, and people must face that. Change is inevitable, embrace it. Or not.