5 Things You Need To Know Today in Framingham: May 15

1. Framingham Town Meeting voted 128-9-2 to approve a $115.7 million Framingham Public Schools budget for the 2015-16 school year,last night.

The Standing Committee on Education made a motion to increase the budget amount to $116 million plus but Town Meeting members rejected the amendment 41-84-7.

Last week the Framingham Selectmen, School Committee, Town Manager and CFO had agreed to a compromise budget amount of $115.7 million for the schools. In the agreement, the Selectmen and School Committee agreed to speak against any amendment to lower or raise the compromise amount.

Framingham’s Chief Financial Officer Mary Ellen Kelley originally was recommending Framingham Town Meeting approve a public school budget of $114.9 million for the 2015-16 school year.

Framingham Superintendent of Schools Stacy Scott was recommending a $116 million budget for the 2015-16 school year, a $6.6 million increase over the current budget of $109.4 million.

Framingham Patch was live blogging during Night 9 of Town Meeting. Click here to read.

2. FLYERS in action today:

• Baseball team will host Holliston at 3:45 p.m. at Bowditch Field
• Boys volleyball team will host Wellesley at 5:15 p.m. for a match at the high school
  

3. Sunday is the last day to view the Fractured Visions exhibit at Danforth Art.

This exhibition brings together the paintings and photographs of two artists, Prilla Smith Brackett and Amy Ragus, who have employed fragmentation and multiplicity in their works long before we could re-frame our world view with just a click of a finger. This exhibition offers a unique look at the dialogue between painting and photography at a time of increasingly evolving new media.

4. Today is National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day.

Ruth Graves Wakefield who invented Toll House chocolate chip cookie in 1938, earned a degree in household arts at Framingham State.

5. Plan ahead: Tomorrow is the Friends of the Framingham Public Library’s monthly book sale. Members can shop at 9:30 a.m. the public can shop from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.