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Hello, I’m Murat Bicer and I’m running for School Committee. My family and I deeply value public school education and I’m grateful that my children will benefit from Belmont’s excellent schools.
Over the next term of office, the School Committee will be faced with a number of important challenges.
Primary among these challenges are:
- The need to manage rapidly increasing enrollment
- The opportunity to build a new high school and share the costs with the Commonwealth
- Teacher contract negotiations
Some of these challenges are structural which means we need to find long-term, sustainable solutions, and not just short-term fixes. We need to stretch our override dollars as far as they will go and question all the assumptions in our budget.
As an experienced venture capitalist and a father of two, I believe I’m uniquely qualified to do just that. And that’s why I am running.
I have over a decade of professional experience in financial management, strategic planning, and contract negotiations. Specifically, I have served on the boards of over a dozen companies. I routinely review and approve financial and operational plans. I have negotiated numerous employment contracts, as well as investment deals. And finally, I’ve served as the Treasurer of my children’s preschool for the last five years.
It is this range of experience that I can bring to the School Committee to make a difference for the future of Belmont’s schools.
I appreciate your support and, if elected, look forward to working hard for Belmont.
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