Agenda & Update for School Board 5/9

Hi All,

The agenda for tonight’s meeting can be found here. There is a Click Here button on the agenda that should take you straight through to the meeting with as little barriers as possible. 

A couple of changes since our last update. I got sick.. For obvious reasons, I will be zoom only for this meeting. Apologies for the late update due this.

Some changes since previous agendas, we are looking to run a tighter ship. Notably, I have attached times to each section of the agenda. The hope is we can provide information, hold discussion, and answer questions you may have in a more reasonable time-frame. 

On the docket, an update to our budget will be provided with our assumptions and most current methodology. For more information, prior to the meeting, please visit our Supervisory Union’s (SU) page for all the relevant documents for Windham that have been uploaded. Additionally, we are going to review / approve the FY23 Final Audit with Laurie Garland, the Director of Finance for the SU. After 2 reports (Principal and Superintendent) we will review / adopt the residency policy from previous meetings and have further discussion on the cameras at the school. 

One final note worth mentioning: We are looking at the ReVote Day timing currently and coordinating with the Town. There have been concerns about the warning time-frame. Once again, the legality has been questioned with conflicting standpoints within the community as well as within the Vermont Secretary of State’s Election office. I will note that our attorney previously spoke about these and other concerns at our last Special Meeting – describing them as “procedural gotcha” in open session.  Regardless, at this time, we are re-evaluating our options and the current ReVote Day of 5/18/24 may be moved. As a result, besides the budget discussion, we will not be holding an informational meeting today. As we have more information we will be sure to update the public as soon as details are more concrete. 

We welcome all that can join tonight and please excuse any coughing I may have during! 

Thanks,
Daniel Roth
Vice Chair
Windham School Board

UPDATE ADDED

Hello,

Here is the link to all the budget related documentation: Windham Budget Docs Thanks to Laurie for pulling this all together.

Also be sure to check out a recent article from Brattleboro Reformer: Windham schedules school building closure, clarifying vote – I gave an interview that is quote pulled about halfway through. Thanks to Chris Mays for taking the time to sit in with me and understand the issues at hand. 

See you at our meeting, 4 PM!

Thanks,
Daniel Roth
Vice Chair
Windham School Board