To the editor:
I’ve had the distinct pleasure of working closely with Jennifer on the Lincoln School Committee for four years, and for three of those years as vice chair when Jennifer was chair (she has served for nine years on Lincoln School Committee but we only overlapped for four of those years).
She embodies all the attributes I would look for in great selectperson: extremely hard-working, fair, honest, tactful, transparent, asks tough questions, listens well, is collaborative, humble and great to work with, thinks deeply, and is strategic, analytic and persistent. A focus on student learning and engagement has been Jennifer’s lodestar. She cares deeply about Lincoln and its future. She was patient (far more so than I was) when the town narrowly failed to approve a school building project funded heavily by the Massachusetts School Building Authority.
Jennifer has persisted in the intervening years building broader support for a town-funded renovation or rebuild since MSBA funding has never rematerialized and explored how a school building project might be coordinated with a new community center to achieve some building cost savings. She has led contract negotiations with teachers, custodial and secretarial staff. She has helped oversee two school building projects at Hanscom, and has worked with Hanscom base leadership and state legislative leaders to craft long-term financial solutions around Hanscom. She has worked well with BOS, the Lincoln Finance Committee and the Capital Planning Committee throughout her time on School Committee and formed valuable ties with her Sudbury and Wayland counterparts to find opportunities for cost sharing, joint trainings and experience sharing.
We are extremely lucky that Jennifer is willing to lend all her many talents to the role of Selectmen. She will serve the town very well.
Please join me in enthusiastically voting for her on March 27; I cannot recommend her highly enough.
Sincerely,
Tom Sander
100 Lincoln Rd.
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