SEAN D. OSBORNE

SEAN D. OSBORNE

Name: Sean D. Osborne
Address: 822 Massachusetts Ave
Precinct: 2
e-mail address: sdo2591 [at] gmail.comweiss.betsey [at] gmail.com (
)phone number: 781-862-7940

Community Activities: 

Appointed Town Volunteer Activities

  • 2024 – Lowell Street Affordable Housing RFP Evaluation Team Member
    • Used experience as a civil engineering consultant who conducts peer reviews of housing developments for municipalities
  • 2024 – Town Manger Search Screening Committee, Appropriations Committee Liaison
    • Used experience as consultant to municipalities in MA & NH who has worked with several town managers
  • 2022 to Present – Appropriation Committee Member
    • Use experience as licensed professional civil engineer who develops capital improvement plans, designs and permits infrastructure projects and conducts water and sewer rate studies for municipal clients
  • 2014 to 2019 – Lexington Human Rights Committee Member
    • LHR Chair – 2015 to 2019
    • Chair of MLK Day Community Conversation on Race Subcommittee
    • Worked with Lexington Interfaith Clergy Association to bring Quabbin Mediation’s Training Active Bystanders (TAB) to Lexington and to train high schoolers and adults to be TAB trainers
  • 2013 to 2015 – Sidewalk Committee Member
    • Used experience as roads and sidewalk maintenance engineer while serving in the US Air Force in the 1990s

 Community Volunteer Activities

  •  2023 – Initiated Training Active Bystanders in Mandarin Course\
    • Using Community Endowment of Lexington grant to develop course
    • Worked with Quabbin Mediation staff and volunteers from CAAL and CALex
    • Co-taught initial classes
  • 2020 to Present – Lexington Historical Society Board of Directors
    • Chair of Governance Committee – 2021 to 2023
    • Slavery Interpretation Advisory Committee Member
  • 2018 – Initiated Dismantling Racism in Our Town course
    • Shared course outline and goals with members of Church of Our Redeemer and First Parish
    • Initial course title: White People Dismantling White Privilege and Institutional Racism in Lexington
  • 2017 to Present – Association of Black Citizens of Lexington Member
    • Founding President – 2017 to 2021
    • Historian – 2022 to Present
    • Drafted article to create, fund, advertise and fill the position of Diversity Officer. Lexington now has a Chief Equity Officer.
    • Created Black History Project of Lexington
      • Portrait Banners displayed in Downtown Lexington and Cary Library
      • LPS 3rd grade teachers use banner honoree short biographies
      • Produced Black History Portrait Banner Series
        • Gospel, Jazz and Classical concerts supported by grant from Community Endowment of Lexington
        • Produced annual MLK Day Concert at Follen Church
        • Chair of Quock Walker Day Community Celebration and Walk for Freedom Workgroup
    • Created Black Patriots of Lexington project
      • Supported by grant from Community Endowment of Lexington
      • Project will support goals of Lex250 Committee

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 the Bloom plan for the new high school.

The LPS plan appears to be well thought out with several contingencies built in. I appreciate that the planned LPS administration space can be relatively easily converted into classroom space if the student numbers exceed the planning number. And as a beacon for parents with children with special needs, LPS needs to upgrade the high school infrastructure to meet their needs and the educational goal of integrated learning.

Also, per the last Budget Summit, it appears that the capital stabilization fund will significantly mitigate the tax impact on Lexington residents.

It would be fair to describe the new high school as a relatively economical hybrid family car with an option for a third row of seats.