This is why I wouldn’t want to be mayor of Newburyport, Massachusetts or on the Newburyport City Council. It’s the budget. Not to repeat myself, but there are a lot of things in the City of Newburyport that I might possibly be able to arrive at some sort of solution to, but not this one.

Thank goodness for people who have the talent and the knowledge and the will to begin to be able to figure this one out. It would most definitely keep me up at night.

Looking at the choices that the schools face, it’s heart breaking. I can see why the Newburyport School Committee just could not bring themselves to cut anything more than they already have. Wow.

I’ve always felt that there were no easy answers when it came to the budget, and this year is obviously no exception.

So a very sincere “good luck” to Mayor John Moak and the Newburyport City Council. And “thank you” for all the time and effort and hard work that it takes to tackle something of this magnitude.

Mary Eaton, Newburyport