Name: Rita Goldberg
Address: 10 Independence Avenue
Precinct: 2
e-mail address: goldberg [at] fas.harvard.eduweiss.betsey [at] gmail.com (
)phone number: 781-454-5374

Community Activities: 

• Member of Town Meeting since 2009 (pct. 2)
• Member, Cary Lecture Committee
• Wrote the description of Lexington as part of the Town’s application to the Massachusetts Council for the Arts, resulting in the creation of our Lexington Cultural District
• Supporter of Stop Private Jet Expansion at Hanscom (or anywhere)

The School Building Committee has approved a plan, “Bloom” for the new high school and building on the current playing fields in the Center. Do you support this decision? If not, what would you propose as an alternative?

I support this decision. Here’s what I wrote in another context about the plans for the high school:

"The new high school is a necessity. It's expensive because we've waited so long, during a time when prices have been rising, to begin work, but the work MUST be done. Our sons went through the Lexington system, one of them during a previous stop-gap renovation that affected his time there but was quickly obsolete. That's what happens when you postpone, delay, or reject the present opportunity to benefit from the MSBA's approval. I understand that the taxes to follow may be a hardship for many and sympathize. But for myself, I don't believe the responsibility of parenthood ends when our own children graduate. We have a responsibility to the children of the future as well. What better investment in the well-being of our young people and in the future of our country could there be?"