About Us
Invest in Cohasset is a citizen-led community group dedicated to supporting a fiscally responsible and sustainable funding plan for the Town of Cohasset and Cohasset Public Schools.
Our Mission
Our mission is to demystify the inner workings of local governance—bringing clarity to rules, regulations, and financial decisions that shape our shared future.
Our Approach
Invest in Cohasset is a citizen-led community group dedicated to fostering fiscal responsibility, ethical transparency, and accountability in our town government. Our mission is to demystify the inner workings of local governance—bringing clarity to rules, regulations, and financial decisions that shape our shared future.
We advocate for top-down budget auditing and open communication to ensure that all spending is transparent, responsible, and aligned with the best interests of our community. By holding our town leaders accountable as stewards of public trust, we seek to safeguard and strengthen the services and resources that matter most: public education, town infrastructure, support for children and seniors, and the vitality of small businesses.
But we do more than ask questions—we roll up our sleeves and provide solutions at their core. By leveraging the collective professional training and experience of our own citizens, we dig from within to address our town’s most foundational challenges directly. We refuse to accept “unacceptable solutions” that only burden residents financially when more fiscally responsible alternatives exist.
Through collaboration, oversight, and civic engagement, Invest in Cohasset works to ensure that our town is responsibly managed today and sustainably prepared for tomorrow.
How we started
In April 2025, the Cohasset School Committee voted to reinstate Kindergarten tuition as well as levying various other athletics, activities, and parking fees. The common sentiment was “how can a town with this size tax base still need to instate fees for public school?” and that’s what initially brought together the group that would become Invest in Cohasset.
Soon after, in June 2025, the town staff updated the Select Board on the costs of the public safety facility increasing from $10 million to $27 million. Again a comment sentiment formed around questions of size and scale as well as budget management – how could we have missed the mark by so much?
Next in the string of budget-related issues was the re-introduction of the RTF Enterprise Fund despite failing to gain approval at the May town meeting. After 30 years of managing the RTF through the general fund, the new line was that the revenues had to meet the expenses – which is just another way of increasing fees, getting around proposition 2 ½ and offloading town costs into a fund that can arbitrarily raise fees.
On August 5th, we made statements at the Select Board meeting imploring town officials to look into redesigning the public safety building and provide transparency in the design and estimating process.
On August 26th, we posted our first draft of space planning revisions proposed to get the public safety building back to the original scope.
On September 2nd, we posted our review of peer towns budgeting and processes.
We then created this website to be a resource for residents as they try to understand the various budget issues facing our town.
