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As the current Strategic Plan for the ConVal School District near its end in June 2021, efforts are already underway to provide a new plan for the next five-year period which will end in 2026.
Since March, the District has been focused on adapting to the changes needed to continue to serve our students in the environment of COVID-19.
The Strategic Planning Committee has been meeting to formulate a framework for the development of a plan that will move ConVal through and past the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. With these additional exigencies in mind, this next plan will be very significant for students, staff, and the ConVal community as a whole.
For fuller details about the framework for the next strategic plan, please click here.
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by ConVal School Board Member Jim Fredrickson
December 14, 2020
This post will address the process and the timeline that is being followed to develop the budget for the 2021-2022 school year which will impact final tax bills issued a year from now.
For a detailed discussion of the budget guidance, the budget process, and the announcement of the two District Meeting dates, please click here.
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by ConVal School Board Member Jim Fredrickson
December 4, 2020
Each of the nine towns in the ConVal school district issues two tax bills every year.
In July, the preliminary tax bill is issued and in December the final tax bill is issued. The preliminary tax bill is based on the previous year's tax rates whereas the final December bill uses actual approved rates.
To learn in greater detail how the tax assessment is structured in the ConVal School District, please click this link.
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by ConVal School Board Member Jim Fredrickson
November 25, 2020
"Unreserved Fund Balance" is an important portion in our budget to understand since it represents the amount "returned" to the taxpayers every year in the form of a reduction in tax assessments for the following year.
Unanticipated expenses associated with COVID-19 have reduced the amount available to be returned this year, and recent state guidance allows Districts to retain more of the unreserved fund balance than normally allowed.
This article explains the concept in greater detail and what it means for future budgets.
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by ConVal School Board Member Jim Fredrickson
November 18, 2020
The COVID-19 emergency that started this past March has demanded that we all make significant adjustments in our lives in order to protect ourselves, our families and our neighbors. Last spring, with a few months left in the 2019-20 school year, we shifted to a remote learning model and this fall we started the school year following a hybrid learning model which includes both in-person and remote lessons.
We are now several months into the 2020-21 school year and are thoroughly impressed by the way students, staff and the community have adapted to the learning model we are following. The ConVal School Board and the Administration are committed to keeping everyone safe and we can assure you that this mission and philosophy has been paramount in any decision we’ve made over the past six months, and will continue to remain our top priority going forward.
This article is intended to provide a brief summary of the financial impacts of the pandemic on the recently completed (2019-20), the current (2020-21), and our next (2021-22) school years.
The financial situation is probably best described as fluid as our cost estimates change and, perhaps more significantly, as our federal and state authorities define the various relief packages that will offset some of the unanticipated costs.
These estimates are updated and reported on during our regular Board meetings.
2019-20 School Year
We were well into the fiscal year (July 1 – June 30) when Governor Sununu declared a state of emergency on March 13, just days after District voters approved our 2020-21 budget. ConVal started remote learning on the 18th and the effort to understand and quantify the financial impact began in earnest.
Closing the schools and moving to a remote model did not result in net savings. There were some savings associated with the shift (e.g. transportation and fuel, facility operations, special education services, supplies, furniture & equipment, etc.), but these costs were offset by others (e.g. technology).
Our auditor’s field work for the FY2019-20 school year was recently completed and our “MS-25 School Financial Report” was signed by the Superintendent and all Board members and submitted to NH Department of Revenue.
The key “take-aways” from this report include:
From a school operation point of view, our teachers, staff, and administrators demonstrated their ability to adapt and to effectively implement a decidedly different method of learning.
2020-21 School Year
Unfortunately, our budget for this school year was approved by District voters literally days before we had to implement remote learning and, as such, there are significant unanticipated costs that have to be addressed. There are a lot of “moving parts” in this ongoing activity on both the cost and the revenue sides of the financial equation.
Unanticipated Costs
Here is a high-level description of some of these estimated unanticipated costs ($$ not included since these are subject to change and are reported on during School Board meetings):
The largest unanticipated cost was associated with certain prescribed special education services we were required to provide last year but could not because of the situation. It should be noted that the State granted schedule relief but did not waive the requirement to provide these services. These must be provided and paid for this school year – and they will be, using “encumbered” funds that were carried forward from last year.
State laws and regulations require that our costs cannot exceed the budget approved by voters each March. There are several ways that we are able to accommodate the unanticipated costs associated with COVID:
We actually started last fiscal year by making several technology purchases in anticipation of the continuation of remote learning.
Revenues – Federal & State
Certain COVID-19-related expenses do or may qualify for reimbursement by the federal or state government. Unfortunately, the amount and timing of this revenue is somewhat unpredictable and some of the guidelines are fairly restrictive and/or lack full clarity.
Stay tuned for inevitable changes to the above.
2021-22 School Year
The Budget & Property Committee recently revised its FY21-22 Budget Guidance to the School Superintendent and made our current instructional model the baseline for next school year.
The school administration team is currently developing their recommendations and will present that to the School Board in early December. The Board will have until late January to revise, approve, and post our proposed budget (and default budget).
The budget will be available for review and amendment by the public is February. Voting by Ballot is scheduled for March 9, 2021.
Summary
We have all worked hard during the health crisis to ensure that the District meets all fiscal requirements and we will continue to do so with absolute focus on health and safety and with minimal impact on the quality of education we provide our students.
We encourage all interested community members to attend our School Board meetings to hear and participate in all discussions surrounding the ongoing response to the pandemic. All meeting information, such as agendas, times, and locations are posted online here. Thank you again for your interest, understanding, and cooperation.
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November 13, 2020
There’s a lot going on these days in the greater ConVal community with the operation of our schools amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the elections, and the fast-approaching winter.
The school year began on July 1, professional development for teachers and other staff in August, and classes in September. We’ve done our best to keep you informed as we reopened and implemented outdoor learning, monitored the presence of the coronavirus in the community, managed an issue with our tent supplier, and made decisions on fall and winter sports.
There’s also been a high level of financial activity going on behind the scenes. COVID-19 has had a significant impact on our budgets since March. The School Board and administration have implemented almost weekly meetings since March and we’ve made some significant changes in the way we manage our operations and expenses. Federal and state programs to help with some of the unanticipated expenses are ongoing and seemingly ever changing.
We also have some significant financial milestones coming up (or recently completed), including:
This may not be as newsworthy as some of the other activities mentioned above, but it’s all important and we want to keep you informed as we continue to manage the financial side of the house.
Between now and the end of January, we plan on issuing an array of financial communications including press releases and a series of relatively brief and targeted articles addressing some of the above financial topics. We will also be publishing our third annual “School Budget Primer” in January which will provide a more detailed discussion and analysis of the proposed budget and any other warrant articles.
These 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.
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Superintendent Kimberly Rizzo Saunders reports the ConVal School District has filed a lawsuit against Monadnock Tent and Event in order to recoup losses caused by unusable outdoor tents the district rented from the business to support in-person learning.
The suit was filed on Wednesday, Oct. 7 at Hillsborough County Superior Court.
In all, the district will be seeking $220,236.99 in total damages from Monadnock Tent and Event. This amount includes a refund for the money spent on tents that were not able to be permitted, labor costs, engineering costs, and electrical work.
“This lawsuit is meant to hold Monadnock Tent and Event responsible for their failure to live up to the responsibility of ensuring that the tents provided to the district could be permitted for use,” Superintendent Rizzo Saunders said. “This failure resulted in significant disruptions to the start of the school year, putting an increased burden on our staff, students, and their families during an already challenging time. After a good faith effort on our part to resolve this issue, this step is a last resort for the district as we work to recoup the taxpayer funding that went toward tents that we were ultimately unable to use.”
In late August and early September, the district became aware that tents over 400 square feet that it rented from Monadnock Tent and Event would not meet the permitting requirements set out by the state of New Hampshire. The permitting challenges were created by the vendor’s inability to provide the necessary data, certificates, and other required documentation to the necessary authorities per the contract and the representations made by the vendor.
As a result, the district had to modify its reopening plan and transitioned students at Great Brook, South Meadow and ConVal Regional High Schools to a remote learning model for the beginning of the school year.
As of this week, the District is fully implementing the Reopening Plan. On Monday, Oct. 5, South Meadow School seventh and eighth graders began attending classes in-person, as well as all ConVal High School students in the blue cohort. Students in grades 9-12 in the gold cohort will attend in-person together beginning on Oct. 13, and the two cohorts will rotate as scheduled going forward. In-person learning was scheduled to have begun for those students on Sept. 8.
The district will provide additional updates as they become available.
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The Monadnock region school districts are very busy developing and implementing our local school reopening. I’d like to highlight the work that went into ConVal’s reopening plan: it is the result of three months of community-wide efforts of the ConVal administration, the educators and school staff, the public health professionals, law enforcement, town administration, parents, and the school board.
This joint effort resulted in a plan that considers the safety and health of students and all school staff, and utilizes community resources to meet these needs. The plan utilizes research and data in identifying those practices that give the nine communities of ConVal its best chance at opening safely.
School districts across the state have reviewed the plan, and have also found the plan to be thorough and far-reaching, and have requested permission to use parts of the plan within their own.
ConVal parents have met with their individual school principals and teachers to get the information they need to make the right decision for their children.
I am most proud of our nine community collaboration that made this plan possible, and the support that has been evident between all parties throughout this process.
I’d also like to highlight that it is the commitment of our communities that make it possible for school districts to consider opening – the ability to open schools safely is dependent on the community transmission rate. When you wear a mask and maintain social distance guidelines, you are helping our schools to reopen and supporting families across the region.
Thank you to everyone and let’s keep up the good work!
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Safety. Safety first for our students, educators, parents/guardians, and the community at large.
This is the overarching theme of the ConVal reopening plan. Our ConVal administration has worked diligently to provide a plan that is both safe and flexible to ensure the best education environment achievable in these difficult times.
Committee teams, comprised of over 120 individuals representing all required disciplines plus outside stakeholders ConVal administration, have developed a comprehensive plan that best reflects the requirements of our ConVal Community. Using a combination of in-school, remote and distance learning environments the ConVal district will have the flexibility to adjust the learning model as COVID-19 situations develop.
The Reopening Implementation Team related four instructional modes to the CDC’s four levels of community transmission and mitigation. These levels are designated as Blue, Green, Yellow, and Red.
The decision to move from one level to another level will be analyzed in real time by the district's COVID-19 monitoring team which is made up of local health professionals and district staff. Data from on-site monitoring, local and state information will all factor into the decision process. We are currently planning on our opening in the Green level.
The School Board has also been extremely active in having input to the plan, approving of the plan and being active participants in the steering committee overseeing the development of the plan.
Since our plan has been published, ConVal administration has been contacted by other districts — both in-state and out-of-state — to seek permission to use areas of our plan to assist them in developing their own plans. This is a testament to the completeness and direction we have established.
As with any plan, it is only as good as the time it was written, with the information available at the time it was written. With the overarching goal being safety, we expect the plan to be a living entity. The plan is only as good as the leadership is to execute it and to adjust as the situation requires. The ConVal community is uniquely privileged to have both the plan and leadership to navigate us through these uncharted waters.
Flexibility is also a key component to this plan. Everything will not be as it was. The success of our school year depends on all being as flexible as possible in their needs and requirements. We are all in this together. We are ConVal.
Please go to the ConVal website (convalsd.net) to see the entire detailed plan. For a high-level informational overview, please see the Executive Overview section of the plan.
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Since the end of the 2019-2020 school year, the ConVal School Board has been working collaboratively with the district administration and a variety of committees made up of building administrators, staff, teachers, and community members to plan for the reopening of the District for 2020-2021.
In order to keep you informed about this comprehensive group effort, which is being undertaken by over 120 individuals throughout the summer, we have put together an overview document entitled COVID Reopening Communication. The .pdf file outlines which committees have been formed, what their focus areas are, and what fundamental principles are used to guide the work.
Over the coming weeks and months, we intend to keep you updated at regular intervals about the reopening plan and its implementation. Please check this space for future updates.
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Since March, the District has been focused on adapting to the changes needed to continue to serve our students in the environment of COVID-19.
The Strategic Planning Committee has been meeting to formulate a framework for the development of a plan that will move ConVal through and past the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. With these additional exigencies in mind, this next plan will be very significant for students, staff, and the ConVal community as a whole.
For fuller details about the framework for the next strategic plan, please click here.
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As the current Strategic Plan for the ConVal School District near its end in June 2021, efforts are already underway to provide a new plan for the next five-year period which will end in 2026.
Since March, the District has been focused on adapting to the changes needed to continue to serve our students in the environment of COVID-19.
by ConVal School Board Member Jim Fredrickson
December 14, 2020
This post will address the process and the timeline that is being followed to develop the budget for the 2021-2022 school year which will impact final tax bills issued a year from now.
For a detailed discussion of the budget guidance,
by ConVal School Board Member Jim Fredrickson
December 4, 2020
Each of the nine towns in the ConVal school district issues two tax bills every year.
In July, the preliminary tax bill is issued and in December the final tax bill is issued. The preliminary tax bill is based on the previous year’s tax rates whereas the final December bill uses actual approved rates.
by ConVal School Board Member Jim Fredrickson
November 25, 2020
“Unreserved Fund Balance” is an important portion in our budget to understand since it represents the amount “returned” to the taxpayers every year in the form of a reduction in tax assessments for the following year.
Unanticipated expenses associated with COVID-19 have reduced the amount available to be returned this year,
by ConVal School Board Member Jim Fredrickson
November 18, 2020
The COVID-19 emergency that started this past March has demanded that we all make significant adjustments in our lives in order to protect ourselves, our families and our neighbors. Last spring, with a few months left in the 2019-20 school year,
by ConVal School Board Member Jim Fredrickson
November 13, 2020
There’s a lot going on these days in the greater ConVal community with the operation of our schools amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the elections, and the fast-approaching winter.
The school year began on July 1, professional development for teachers and other staff in August,
Read More: No. 1: Financial Updates From The ConVal School Board
Superintendent Kimberly Rizzo Saunders reports the ConVal School District has filed a lawsuit against Monadnock Tent and Event in order to recoup losses caused by unusable outdoor tents the district rented from the business to support in-person learning.
The suit was filed on Wednesday, Oct. 7 at Hillsborough County Superior Court.
In all,
Read More: ConVal Files Lawsuit Against Tent Vendor To Recoup Taxpayer Dollars
by ConVal School Board Member Janine Lesser
The Monadnock region school districts are very busy developing and implementing our local school reopening. I’d like to highlight the work that went into ConVal’s reopening plan: it is the result of three months of community-wide efforts of the ConVal administration, the educators and school staff,
by ConVal School Board Member Alan Edelkind
Safety. Safety first for our students, educators, parents/guardians, and the community at large.
This is the overarching theme of the ConVal reopening plan. Our ConVal administration has worked diligently to provide a plan that is both safe and flexible to ensure the best education environment achievable in these difficult times.
by the Members of the ConVal School Board
Since the end of the 2019-2020 school year, the ConVal School Board has been working collaboratively with the district administration and a variety of committees made up of building administrators, staff, teachers, and community members to plan for the reopening of the District for 2020-2021.
Read More: Reopening The District For The 2020-2021 School Year