Times have changed, but the formula remains stuck in 1949. The wealth disparities between neighboring towns simply did not exist at anything like their current scale. The founders of the regional school system could not have foreseen the inequity their formula has imposed on most towns today.
Sen. Hinds, stated in an accompanying letter, that he '...wanted to take this opportunity to congratulate the [Lenox] community and the Chamber of Commerce on this designation.'
