Belmont’s Vision 21 Implementation Committee and the Belmont Board of Selectmen (BOS) - have designed a special civic forum to examine the Town’s financial and civic processes.
The forum will ask these questions: "Has Belmont’s past success in meeting its residents’ needs trapped it into a process and mindset that is not in synch with 21st century life? Is the old way of setting priorities and determining a budget effective in the current climate? Are there other ways – better ways – Belmont might adopt?"
Harvard Business School Professor and local resident Clayton Christensen will deliver the keynote, and Belmont resident Trey Grayson (director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School and former Secretary of State of Kentucky), will moderate. A special panel will be convened at the event including Town of Wellesley Executive Director Hans Larsen, Kennedy School professor Linda Bilmes, Interim Superintendent for the Belmont Public Schools Dr. Thomas Kingston, School Committee member Laurie Slap, and Belmont Selectman Mark Paolillo.
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This forum is not about a specific solution or agenda. The meeting is open to the public, and all of Belmont’s stakeholders – and points-of-view – are welcome .