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Your ConVal School Board and Administration are moving forward in planning the next ConVal Community Forum on Thursday, May 12, 2022 at 7-9 PM.
We are excited about providing you this opportunity for a constructive, open, informative and meaningful dialog. With an activity such as this there are lots of things to know so you can be prepared for participating in and making this a successful experience.
To learn all about this activity please see below:
Where and when is the Community Forum?
ConVal High School in the Lucy Hurlin Theater. Thursday, May 12, 2022 at 7-9PM.
What is a community forum?
A community forum is a meeting where people can discuss, share knowledge, and talk to each other about topics of mutual interest.
Why do we need a community forum?
School board meetings, being business meetings, provide a limited venue for The ConVal School Board and Administration to engage with our community. We believe in being open and transparent in all of our activities. We believe in ensuring that the ConVal community is engaged and informed. A community forum is one mechanism to achieve these goals.
How do I attend the Community forum?
We are providing two ways for the public to attend the community forum. You can come to the Lucy Hurlin Theater at ConVal high school to attend in person or you can attend the forum via a live stream feed from the forum.
How is the Community Forum organized?
We have selected three important topics to be presented. Each topic will start with a presentation and after the presentation there will be an opportunity for either audience to ask questions. Each question will be answered by the presenter or by a member of the School Board or Administration. After the three selected topics are over we have allowed time for the audiences to ask questions on any other school district relevant topic. There will be a moderator that will control the flow of information and activities at the community forum.
How are questions presented?
After each of the prepared topics are presented the in-person audience will have an opportunity to ask questions directly to the moderator who will direct the question to the appropriate person to answer. Members of the audience that are remote and on the live-stream will be able to submit their questions via email to community forum members. These folks will select questions from the emails received and give to the moderator who will direct the question to the appropriate person to answer.
How do I attend remotely via live stream and how do I submit questions?
The live stream will be done as a YouTube event. This will mean that the community forum will be recorded as a video on YouTube so that not only can it be viewed as it is taking place but it can be viewed at any time after the community forum is completed as it will be on YouTube servers forever.
To access this YouTube feed, click on this link ConVal Events. Or type in this link https://www.youtube.com/c/ConValEvents, then select the “2022 May 12 Community Forum” video from the list of available videos.
To send in a question via email please use the following email address: forum@conval.edu.
Why should I attend the ConVal community forum?
It is your money, it is your school district, it is the education of your children, and it is your community. Be involved. Make a difference.
How do I get some information about the presentations prior to the forum?
We will be posting, approx. one week in advance of the forum, an outline of each presentation so you will have time to formulate your questions and send them in advance of the forum, if you desire. We will also include in that communication the email address to use.
What topics are being presented?
There will be three presentations, as follows:
- Learning recovery
- Overarching Concerns
- Cumulative Learning Loss
- Widening Gaps in Performance
- Widening Gaps in Opportunity
- Long-term Impact
- Goal of Learning Recovery
- Layered approach to addressing learning loss: coaching, tutoring, expanded learning, SEL
- Programs in place to date
Presented by Administration
- Student Behavior, Positive Support and Policy
- Different issues for different schools/grades
- Causes
- Positive support
- Activities
- Progress
- Policy
Presented by Administration
- Pre-School For All
- What is pre-school for all, and why is it important?
- How many Children will be added?
- What schools and why?
- Staffing
- How will they get there?
- Costs?
- What does the program look like?
- Programs
Presented by School Board members
[post_title] => Everything You Wanted To Know About The ConVal Community Forum [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => open [post_password] => [post_name] => everything-you-wanted-to-know-community-forum [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2022-04-29 10:05:59 [post_modified_gmt] => 2022-04-29 14:05:59 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://schoolboard.convalsd.net/?p=6034 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [3] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 6028 [post_author] => 9 [post_date] => 2022-04-27 10:27:10 [post_date_gmt] => 2022-04-27 14:27:10 [post_content] =>In our continuing commitment to provide an open, transparent and informative dialog with the ConVal community your School Board and Administration is pleased to announce the next ConVal quarterly Community Forum. This forum will take place both at the Lucy Hurlin Theater at ConVal High School and via live stream on Thursday, May 12, 2022, 7-9 PM.
Learning from our previous two forums, we felt that the live stream community also needed to be heard and participate in the forum. Live stream participants will be able to submit questions to the forum presenters, school board and administration during the forum via email.
As we provided in the first two forums the live feed will be on YouTube so the forum can be viewed interactively or, if needed, at your convenience any time after the forum is over.
We will also be posting, in advance of the forum, an outline of each presentation so you will have time to formulate your questions and send them in advance of the forum.
We are putting together all the necessary logistics to make this community forum a success for all. We will send out a more comprehensive communication prior to the forum that will contain all of the needed details.
Schedule for communications:
Initial communications – 4/27 – This one
Main communication including all details about the forum - 4/29
Forum Agenda – 5/5
Preview and early questions - 5/5
Please mark your calendars for this forum. Thursday, May 12, 2022, 7-9 PM.
We thank you in advance for your participation.
Your ConVal School Board and Administration
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Vice Chairman, ConVal School Board
It’s that time of year--time to vote on the ConVal school budget. The day is March 8th in your local polling place. All households in the nine towns in our regional school district will receive the annual flyer with the budget and the warrant articles, and information on your voting locations and times.
We all know it’s crucial we make good decisions. If you have children enrolled in the district schools, if you are a community-oriented person who believes in investing in our children, or if you are simply thinking about real estate values and taxes-the school budget vote makes us sit up and pay attention. But the issues are complicated, and straight forward, understandable facts can sometimes be hard to come by. The ConVal School Board would like to offer some information that we believe is important to your decision. The Board has posted a series of articles on the ConVal website, under the School Board link on the budget development process. The information includes the proposed 2022-23 budget, a PowerPoint on the proposed budget, the warrant, a sample ballot, an explanation of the trust funds, the proposed teacher contract (collective bargaining agreement), and information on how property taxes are determined. You can find that information here: https://schoolboard.convalsd.net/budget/. Here is a link to the January 25th Community Forum, whose two topics were the 2022-23 budget and the PreK for All warrant article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWR78WOKlnU. You can also contact your school board representative with questions, those representatives are also listed under the school board link.
This year has seen the usual host of challenges, but with the addition of a sustained effort to manage the ongoing effects of COVID19, and a sustained effort to withstand a host of detrimental pieces of legislation and decisions coming from Concord. ConVal is developing its next five-year strategic plan, with an eye on recovering from the effects of the last two years, and using the lessons learned to move forward. Our communities have done a fine job of providing input, and still have opportunities to weigh in via focus groups. The draft plan will be available for community feedback.
Our schools continued to gain recognition and awards despite these challenges: Linda Compton, school nurse at Antrim Elementary School, was nominated for the “National Life Changer of the Year” award and Cindi Hodgdon was recognized with the “Outstanding German Educator” award by a national organization. The Region 14 Applied Technology Center at ConVal hosted a open house for close to 600 regional students and community members over the past week. The high school students earned 40 awards in the 2022 Scholastic Art Awards competition. ConVal Theatre Arts is alive and well with their stage production of “Frozen: Kids.” The ConVal athletics program has earned many achievements, including the unified basketball, boys basketball, soccer. Our elementary and middle schools sponsor many family and community involvement activities year-round.
The budget for which we are asking support is conservative: the operating budget has a .65% increase over the current year’s budget. The warrant articles include a new three-year teacher contract that the School Board fully supports as fair to the teachers and staff, and to taxpayers. Another warrant article requests the funds to expand the PreK For All program to the final three classrooms, giving the district the ability to accommodate all preschool children in a play-based program.
In the face of declining state revenues, the school board fully recognizes both its responsibility to tax payers and to the children and families of these nine communities. The need for an education that prepares our students for the rigors of independent and informed decisions and action in our democracy have never been greater. The Board is fully invested in comprehensively addressing one of our most pressing problems—managing the cost of education while maintaining excellence and equity in education for all students. We hope that you agree and vote yes for the budget.
[post_title] => Vote "Yes" To Support ConVal School Budget [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => open [post_password] => [post_name] => vote-yes-to-support-conval-school-budget [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2022-03-03 15:15:26 [post_modified_gmt] => 2022-03-03 20:15:26 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://schoolboard.convalsd.net/?p=5908 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [5] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 5891 [post_author] => 9 [post_date] => 2022-02-18 10:42:00 [post_date_gmt] => 2022-02-18 15:42:00 [post_content] =>The following is a primer on the ConVal School Board's recommendations regarding the adoption of warrant articles at the March 8th School District Budget vote:
- Article 1: Operating Budget-School District-SB2
- The School Board has voted to recommend a YES vote.
- Article 2: Accept the Collective Bargaining Agreement
- The School Board has voted to recommend a YES vote.
- Article 3: Special Meeting for Defeated/Amended Collective Bargaining Agreement
- The School Board has voted to recommend a YES vote.
- Article 4: Appropriate $744,112 to Expand the Current Preschool Program
- The School Board has voted to recommend a YES vote.
- Article 5: Establish and Appropriate a Technology Trust Fund from Fund Balance
- The School Board has voted to recommend a YES vote.
- Article 6:Appropriate to the School District Energy Trust Fund from Fund Balance
- The School Board has voted to recommend a YES vote.
- Article 7: Appropriate to the Building Capital Reserve Fund from Fund Balance
- The School Board has voted to recommend a YES vote.
- Article 8: Appropriate to the Health Trust Fund from Fund Balance
- The School Board has voted to Recommend a YES vote.
- Article 9: Appropriate to Building Capital Reserve Fund from Fund Balance
- The School Board has voted to recommend a YES vote.
- Article 10: Accept the Reports of Agents, Auditors, Committees, and Officers
- The School Board has voted to recommend a YES vote.
- Article 11: School Board Salaries
- The School Board has voted to recommend a YES vote.
- Article 12: Petitioned Warrant Article
- The School Board does not recommend adoption of this article.
For full details, please see the 2022 School District Budget mailer and the School Board budget page online.
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Chairman, Budget & Property Committee
ConVal School Board
The first, and arguably the most important, Warrant Article on your ballot determines the amount of expenses (costs) that the School District can incur during the 2022-23 school year that begins July 1.
If this Warrant Article is approved (with a simple majority across the District), the Gross Budget will be $53.766 million.
If the proposed budget is not approved, then the $52.842M “Default” will be used. This would require a significant reduction in planned programs, staffing, and/or facilities related activities.
For full details, please read the article here.
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Chairman, Budget & Property Committee
ConVal School Board
The fourth in the series of web posts regarding the financials of the ConVal School District is devoted to trust funds.
There are six established trust funds in the ConVal School District: the Special Education Reserve Trust Fund, the Building Capital Reserve Fund, the Energy Trust Fund, the Equipment Trust Fund, the Athletic Trust Fund, and the Health Trust Fund. Five separate Warrant Articles included on the March 8 ballot that are related to this subject.
Read about how trust funds work and about the new trust fund that is being proposed by clicking on the article here.
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Chairman, Budget & Property Committee
ConVal School Board
This article will address Warrant Articles 2 and 3 which are associated the proposed three-year contract between the School Board and the Contoocook Valley Education Association (CVEA).
The CVEA is the exclusive representative of district employees in the Collective Bargaining Unit which includes district teachers, specialized service professionals and paraprofessionals.
Please click here for the full article.
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Chairman, Budget & Property Committee
ConVal School Board
In previous District Financial articles, we’ve provided information about how the school budget is developed and how the District Assessment is used to calculate the “local education” portion of property taxes in the nine towns in the District. We also explained the concept of unreserved fund balance.
This article will cover similar ground but will walk you through the tax calculation from the other direction (start with the property tax rates rather than with the approved budget). We’ll also explain how the unprecedented “return” of over $4 million to the towns in the District resulted in a reduction of your recent property tax bill.
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Your ConVal School Board and Administration are moving forward in planning the next ConVal Community Forum on Thursday, May 12, 2022 at 7-9 PM.
We are excited about providing you this opportunity for a constructive, open, informative and meaningful dialog. With an activity such as this there are lots of things to know so you can be prepared for participating in and making this a successful experience.
Read More: Everything You Wanted To Know About The ConVal Community Forum
In our continuing commitment to provide an open, transparent and informative dialog with the ConVal community your School Board and Administration is pleased to announce the next ConVal quarterly Community Forum. This forum will take place both at the Lucy Hurlin Theater at ConVal High School and via live stream on Thursday, May 12, 2022,
by Janine Lesser
Vice Chairman, ConVal School Board
It’s that time of year–time to vote on the ConVal school budget. The day is March 8th in your local polling place. All households in the nine towns in our regional school district will receive the annual flyer with the budget and the warrant articles,
The following is a primer on the ConVal School Board’s recommendations regarding the adoption of warrant articles at the March 8th School District Budget vote:
- Article 1: Operating Budget-School District-SB2
- The School Board has voted to recommend a YES vote.
- Article 2: Accept the Collective Bargaining Agreement
- The School Board has voted to recommend a YES vote.
Read More: School Board Recommendations For March 8, 2022 School District Budget Vote
by Jim Fredrickson
Chairman, Budget & Property Committee
ConVal School Board
The first, and arguably the most important, Warrant Article on your ballot determines the amount of expenses (costs) that the School District can incur during the 2022-23 school year that begins July 1.
If this Warrant Article is approved (with a simple majority across the District),
by Jim Fredrickson
Chairman, Budget & Property Committee
ConVal School Board
The fourth in the series of web posts regarding the financials of the ConVal School District is devoted to trust funds.
There are six established trust funds in the ConVal School District: the Special Education Reserve Trust Fund,
by Jim Fredrickson
Chairman, Budget & Property Committee
ConVal School Board
This article will address Warrant Articles 2 and 3 which are associated the proposed three-year contract between the School Board and the Contoocook Valley Education Association (CVEA).
The CVEA is the exclusive representative of district employees in the Collective Bargaining Unit which includes district teachers,
Read More: The ConVal Education Association Collective Bargaining Agreement
by Jim Fredrickson
Chairman, Budget & Property Committee
ConVal School Board
In previous District Financial articles, we’ve provided information about how the school budget is developed and how the District Assessment is used to calculate the “local education” portion of property taxes in the nine towns in the District.