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November 16, 2021
It is my duty as the Chair to inform the ConVal community that Board Member Jerry Wilson (Peterborough) tendered his resignation from the Board, effective November 30, 2021, or earlier if a replacement could be found before that date.
I would like to take this time to thank Jerry for his years of service devoted to the students and communities of ConVal during his tenure. Please join me in thanking Jerry if you see him around town.
Under Board policy BBBE, the three remaining Board Members from Peterborough have selected Tom Burgess to fill the vacancy until the next District elections in March 2022. Mr. Burgess has accepted the position and will be sworn into office at the School Board meeting on Tuesday, November 16, 2021.
Thank you, Jerry for your service, and welcome to the Board, Tom.
Tim Theberge
Chair – ConVal School Board
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It’s that time of year again from a school budget and property tax bill point of view. And it’s time to start our annual series of articles regarding the financial aspects of running the District.
We’re going to take a different approach this year. The past two years, our articles built a base of knowledge about the school budget and the property tax process. Instead of repeating some of the basics, we’re going to address aspects of these that are either new or specific to this year. As before, we won’t address any non-financial aspect of the ongoing Covid pandemic.
With that, here’s a brief preview of some of the articles we’ll be publishing between now and the vote in March:
- Overview of Budget Schedule (included in this article)
- 2022 Property Tax Bills and Funds “returned” to towns in the District
- Summary of the recently negotiated three-year Collective Bargaining Agreement (subject to voter approval in March)
- Details of proposed FY23 School Budget (also subject to voter approval in March)
- Summary of current funding of education by the State of New Hampshire.
These new articles (as well as all previous financial publications) will all be available on the ConVal School Board website: schoolboard.convalsd.net
We’ll let you know when we post new material. Stay tuned.
Jim Fredrickson (Sharon)
Chairman, Budget & Property Committee
ConVal School Board
FY23 ConVal School Budget Schedule
These are the key dates and events associated with this budget cycle:
- July 1, 2021 - 1st day of FY22
- August 2021 – Board developed and approved “FY23 Budget Guidance” to be used by the Superintendent and staff to develop the proposed School Budget for FY23
- November 6, 2021 – Annual School Board Budget Meeting
- November/December – Towns issue 2022 Property Tax bills
- January 2022 – Board finalizes and “approves” Proposed FY23 Budget
- Public hearing on proposed Budget – January 11, 2022
- January 2022 – 2nd Board sponsored Community Forum (date TBD)
- February 8, 2022 – Deliberative Session
- March 8, 2022 – Voting day
- July 1, 2022 – 1st day of FY23
The two most significant changes this budget cycle include:
- the “return” of a significant amount of funds from FY21. This will be covered in detail in the next article
- the 2nd Community Forum – to be held in late January after the Board “approves” the proposed budget and before the Deliberative Session in February. This new event is intended to provide a more informal discussion of the proposed budget (and several other topic of interest) - with community members. If you’ve ever been to a Public Hearing or Deliberative Session, you’ll appreciate the use of the word “informal”. More on this later.
Annual School Board Budget Meeting
The annual School Board Budget meeting was held on Saturday, November 6th, at the District offices. The Superintendent and staff presented the initial proposed budget. The Board discussed several of the proposed changes including: curriculum, planned expansion of the District’s pre-school program, and several other options. This was an informative meeting – decisions on specific aspects of the budget will be discussed and voted on at regularly scheduled Board meetings.
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As a quick recap to the survey results:
There were 135 survey respondents with 92 noting they will be attending the Community Forum in person.
The survey topics in ranked order of selection by the community:
- Masking and COVID 19
- Protocols when staff and students test positive
- Changes in curriculum
- Budget, how is it paid for and what happens to money not spent?
- Learning recovery plan
- Small community schools and sustainability
- Legal mandates and ConVal
We had made the commitment to selecting the top four ranked choices for presentation and questions/answers (a dialog). As we analyzed the results we saw that the top five topics were very close in rankings. We decided that we would expand our presentations to the top five vs. the top four.
There is also an hour set aside (8-9 PM) for the audience to ask questions of the on-stage panel that are not in the presentation topics above.
It was satisfying to also see that the question of which level of school the respondent had students in contained approx. 15% who noted none. This means that not only are parents interested in our district school system but so are community members that do not have students in our district.
Important to note from our previous correspondence. Due to physical distancing requirements we had to limit the number of community members attending in-person at the Lucy Hurlin theatre to less than 100. As you can see above we are close to capacity and cannot accommodate community members attend in-person that did not respond in the survey. We are providing a livestream for those who cannot be accommodated in the Lucy Hurlin Theatre. You can view the live stream from your own environment.
To assist those whose home environment does not support live stream we will make available an overflow room at the high school for community members to view the forum as a live stream. Remember, live stream is “view only” and does not allow for interaction with the does not allow for interaction with the presenters. Seating in this “overflow” area will be on a first come, first seat basis and as soon as it is at capacity we will not be able to seat any more.
THE AGENDA
The below agenda outlines the sequence of topic presentations and the presenters. It is important to note that others members of the ConVal school board, who are not presenting will also be on stage to assist in answering any questions. Included in the agenda (at the bottom) is the link to click on to access the live stream.
We are looking forward to a productive forum.
AGENDA
ConVal School Board and Administration
COMMUNITY FORUM
September 30, 2021
Lucy Hurlin Theatre
ConVal High School
7 P.M. to 9 P.M.
Opening remarks – Alan Edelkind
Moderator remarks – Tim Theberge_
Presentations
- Masking and COVID 19, Protocols when staff and/or Students test positive
- Presenters: Tim Theberge, Keira Christian
- Q/A to follow presentations
- Budget, how it is paid for and what happens to money not spent
- Presenter – Jim Fredrickson
- Q/A to follow presentation
- Learning recovery plan, Changes in Curriculum
- Presenters Dr. Kimberly Rizzo-Saunders. Dr. Ann Forrest
- Q/A to follow presentations
Open forum
- Questions and discussions
- Participants – ConVal community, School board and administration
Closing remarks – Janine Lesser
To access the forum via live stream please click on the below link
Click here to watch the live stream of the Community Forum
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Each section explains a specific aspect of the forum and will give you a full understanding of what will be happening and how to participate.
Background
Communication is the key component of our commitment to be fully transparent with our community in matters critical to them and to have a dialog where we can share our information and engage in a question-and-answer session. School board meetings, being business meetings, provide limited opportunities for dialogue. Our answer to this need is a Community Forum.
What is our Community Forum and how is it organized?
It is the opportunity for the public, the School Board and the administration to engage in a dialogue on topics that have been chosen by the community to be important to them. The forum will be held in the Lucy Hurlin Theater at the ConVal High School. We will have both in-theater and live stream audiences. A survey that will be sent to the ConVal community will provide, amongst other questions, the opportunity for each respondent to select from suggested topics and add another if not included. More on the Survey later in this note.
The forum will be two hours in length. There will be a moderator that will be responsible for controlling the flow of information and ensuring good organization to make this a positive experience for all. Dialogue will only take place between the in-theater audience and the school board and administration. The live-stream audience will be view only.
The first hour will be focused on presenting each selected topic and allowing for a question and answer dialogue for each.
The second hour will give the in-theater audience the opportunity to ask questions on any topic of their choosing.
The school board and administration will respond to these questions and note whether they relate to issues already discussed by the school board, or if the board member responding is providing their own personal opinion.
The survey
The most important part of our Community Forum.
The survey is designed to solicit information from each respondent household for information about the ConVal town they live in, what level of school their children attend (if they do), their email address for communications, whether or not they would like us to provide childcare.
Most importantly there is a section on the survey for the respondent to select three topics that they find are most important for discussion at the Community Forum. We have provided seven topics that the school board believes reflect the most important areas for discussion. We have also left open a topic area to enter, if you wish, another topic that you feel is important to you and the ConVal community. Please select a total of three (three) topics including your topic, if you entered one. We will select from the responses to the survey the top four most requested topics for inclusion in the forum.
The survey, to be counted, must be completed and submitted no later than Monday, Sept. 20.
The link to the survey is provided at the end of this note.
COVID protocols
The Lucy Hurlin Theater is located in the ConVal High School on ConVal property. As such we will follow the protocols required by the Green Phase we are currently in as relates to physical distancing in the Theater, mandatory mask use requirements, and the screening process and question upon entry.
There is also one further COVID imposed restriction. To maintain proper physical distancing there will be allowed no more than 100 ConVal community folks to be in-theater. If, based on surveys received, we find that there are more than 100 folks noting that they will be in-theater, we will have to select the first 100 returned surveys as those being the ones that will be able to attend in-theater. Based on the email address you provided to us in the survey we will contact those selected and those not selected to be in-theater.
If others, that were not a part of the 100 first come first serve selected do arrive at the theater we will provide access to the Cafe for their viewing of the forum thru a live stream feed. This live stream feed will not allow for direct participation in the forum.
As responsible members of the ConVal community we support these protocols.
Links
To complete the survey please click on this link, fill out the survey and submit no later than end of day Monday, September 20th. Click here to access the survey.
To attend the Community Forum via Live-Streaming please use this link at the time of the forum. Click here to watch the live stream of the Community Forum.
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It is my duty as the Chair to inform the ConVal community that Board Member Jerry Wilson (Peterborough) tendered his resignation from the Board, effective November 30, 2021, or earlier if a replacement could be found before that date.
I would like to take this time to thank Jerry for his years of service devoted to the students and communities of ConVal during his tenure. Please join me in thanking Jerry if you see him around town.
Under Board policy BBBE, the three remaining Board Members from Peterborough have selected Tom Burgess to fill the vacancy until the next District elections in March 2022. Mr. Burgess has accepted the position and will be sworn into office at the School Board meeting on Tuesday, November 16, 2021.
Thank you, Jerry for your service, and welcome to the Board, Tom.
Tim Theberge
Chair – ConVal School Board
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November 16, 2021
It is my duty as the Chair to inform the ConVal community that Board Member Jerry Wilson (Peterborough) tendered his resignation from the Board, effective November 30, 2021, or earlier if a replacement could be found before that date.
I would like to take this time to thank Jerry for his years of service devoted to the students and communities of ConVal during his tenure.
It’s that time of year again from a school budget and property tax bill point of view. And it’s time to start our annual series of articles regarding the financial aspects of running the District.
We’re going to take a different approach this year. The past two years, our articles built a base of knowledge about the school budget and the property tax process.
We have received excellent response to the Community Forum survey we provided for community input.
As a quick recap to the survey results:
There were 135 survey respondents with 92 noting they will be attending the Community Forum in person.
The survey topics in ranked order of selection by the community:
- Masking and COVID 19
The ConVal School Board and Administration are moving forward in the planning for the first ConVal Community Forum. We are excited about providing you this opportunity for a constructive, open, informative, and meaningful dialogue.
Each section explains a specific aspect of the forum and will give you a full understanding of what will be happening and how to participate.
Upcoming Events
2021-2022 School Board Goals
1. Strategic Plan
The Board will actively engage in the development of a Strategic Plan that is forward thinking, addresses the ConVal mission and vision, includes a defined pathway forward for consolidation / reorganization of the District schools for consideration by District voters, and a thorough identification of maintenance and capital needs for development of a bond proposal in March 2023.
2. Budget and Finance
The Board, in cooperation with the administration, will propose a budget that meets the needs of the District with sensitivity to the burden on taxpayers that we can present to the voters with full transparency and confidence.
3. Communication
The Board, working with the Superintendent, will increase Board communication including proactive communication with the community on Board matters, engagement of the community via forums that allow for a question and answer format, and will develop strong and supportive community connections and strong partnerships with community organizations, state and local agencies, service providers, and businesses.
4. Learning Recovery / Reopening
The Board will support the District’s learning recovery efforts to address the ongoing negative impact of the pandemic on the academic progress of our students.