Tom,
Thank you for the updates.
Todd
On 2019-03-10 21:23, Tom Wyatt wrote:
* Monday March 11, 6pm @ Warwick Town Hall. Warwick Selectboard &To unsubscribe write to warwicklist-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with Unsubcribe as the subject.
Finance Committee Meeting. Agenda attached, includes town budget,
school related matters and planning for the closure of WCS.
* Thursday March 14, 7pm @ PVRS Library. Agenda not posted yet. The
chair told me that the auditor will be present and audit discussed.
Consultant Steve Hemman will be present for discussion on
Gill-Montague grant. Follow-up to last week's joint HEART Committee
meeting and next steps on amending the regional agreement. Teacher
contract agreement (executive session).
* Monday March 18, 6:30pm @ Bernardston Senior Center. Joint meeting
of the Selectboards & Finance Committees of the 4 PV district towns.
The PV Superintendent told a Task Force member on Friday that he has
heard that the loan funds will be in the district accounts on Friday
March 15th. Once that happens the School Committee (SC) will be able
to discuss and vote on possible school closures. Assuming this timing
is accurate, then school closure discussion will NOT happen at the
March 14th SC meeting. A another meeting is likely to be scheduled for
shortly after the 15th.
If a school or two are voted to be closed, the budget that was
approved at this past week's SC meeting would then be reviewed in
light of the potential savings and subsequent changes voted upon. The
deadline for school budget notice fo the towns annual meetings is
March 25th.
The SC learned last week that the suggested move of 6th grade students
from the elementary schools to PVRS may well not be possible this
coming fall. The section of the current district agreement that says
K-6 are educated in their own towns cannot only be overidden by the
SC.
The HEART Committee and their consultant, Mac Reid, made a
presentation to the SC last week. Members of both committee discussed
sections and language but considerable more review is needed. If it is
to go to towns for approval at annual town meetings, then the SC needs
to be finalize the agreement document by March 25th as well.
Tom Wyatt
HEART Committee & Warwick Community Education Task Force
PS Links to recent related articles from Max Marcus in the Greenfield
Recorder:
Kids, Senator go to bat for schools [1]
Pioneer school board OKs budget that may be subject to change [2]
Proposed Pioneer pact would allow school closings [3]
Grant yields $80K in school energy savings [4]
Pioneer ponders budget in face of possible closings [5]
Links:
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[1]
https://www.recorder.com/Jo-Comerford-visits-Warwick-Community-School-24002305
[2]
https://www.recorder.com/Pioneer-budget-fairly-stable-even-with-potential-closures-23979447
[3] https://www.recorder.com/New-Pioneer-district-agreement-23843003
[4]
http://greenfieldrecorder.ma.newsmemory.com/publink.php?shareid=1b4f1e7d0&fbclid=IwAR0ydicK-rEwiYRe7WVdfAup8yWT-lhf-e_NcREPHO1j_YgEx0gQIZ3xVf8
[5] https://www.recorder.com/Pioneer-hearing-23825303
