School Committee v. Bergin-Andrews

OPINION

Chief Justice SUTTELL,

for the Court.

This appeal arises from a morass of budgetary woe in the City of Cranston. The plaintiffs, the School Committee of the City of Cranston, and Superintendent of Schools, Peter L. Nero (hereinafter collectively referred to as the school committee), appeal from a judgment in favor of the defendants, the members of the Cranston City Council, Mayor Allan Fung, and Director of Finance Robert F. Strom (hereinafter collectively referred to as the city). 1 The school committee sought additional appropriations for the Cranston School Department for fiscal year…