Dear Champlain Valley School District Community Members and Voters,

I am reaching out to you as a member of CVSD's Board of Directors with information about the proposed FY24 budget. I hope that you'll take the time to read this message and will access additional materials to get informed before voting. This is another post in a series to update you on the upcoming 2023-2024 proposed school district budget. You can view the previous post on the school district's blog. http://cvsdstory.blogspot.com/

In that previous post, I provided voters with information about the school district's proposed budget. In addition to seeing the ballot article about the proposed budget, voters will also see these additional articles on the ballot.

Article VIII – The FUND BALANCE QUESTION: this question requests permission from the taxpayers to spend reserved money to offset budget increases. FY24 Article VIII asks: Shall the voters of the Champlain Valley School District authorize the Board of School Directors to allocate $600,000 of the school district's current fund balance as revenue for the 2023-2024 operating budget and assign the remaining balance as revenue for future budgets?

Article IX - The BUS QUESTION: This question asks taxpayers to approve the District's need to borrow funds for bus purchases. The article gives the District authorization to borrow up to $395,000 to maintain our fleet. This year it is proposed that we purchase three new buses to replace older buses. (These older models are 12-15 years old and each has more than 170,000 miles on the odometer).

I hope this is helpful information for you.

Please reach out to the CVSD School Board with any questions.cvsdschoolboard@cvsdvt.org or use the School Board or Budget Let's Talk topics https://www.cvsdvt.org/page/268. On behalf of the CVSD School Board, we appreciate your generous support.

Thank you!
Lindsay Colf

Please join the CVSD ANNUAL INFORMATIONAL MEETING on Monday, March 6, 2023, at 5:00 at CVU.

More information:
Budget page www.cvsdvt.org/budget
CVSD Annual Report https://www.cvsdvt.org/Page/602
2023-2024 Budget Booklet https://bit.ly/FY24CVSDbudget
Budget FAQ's https://bit.ly/CVSDBudgetFY23FAQs

See the Annual Warning on the budget page of our website for all of the ballot articles. We encourage all eligible residents in Champlain Valley School District towns to vote on March 7th or earlier.

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