Dear Voters,

I am reaching out to you as a member of CVSD's Board of Directors with information about the proposed 2024-2025 school year budget. I hope that you'll take the time to read this message and will access additional materials to get informed before voting.

This budget represents what we do have control over as a district. It continues to provide the programming and support that have served our students well, including consistent class sizes.

With that being said, we make changes when we need to. This budget does reduce five teaching positions and four unfilled paraprofessional positions while maintaining class sizes within CVSD recommendations.

In addition to maintaining programming, this budget continues some of the previously ESSER-funded positions, but not all. We've reduced this by 20% for the coming year.

These positions have provided critical social/emotional support to our students where the need has never been greater, and where finding support outside of the school has never been harder. We are committed to phasing them out over time and our strategy was to do it over five years. We may have to accelerate this going forward.

The final "add-on" in this budget is for certain one-time facilities projects- including some HVAC work that is needed to provide the learning environment needed for our students.

There is nothing in this budget that we consider to be irresponsible or unneeded spending.

I encourage you to get informed. 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.

Thanks,
Lindsay Colf

Please join the CVSD Annual Meeting on Monday, March 4, 2024, at 5:00 at CVU.

More information:
CVSD's Budget page www.cvsdvt.org/budget
CVSD Annual Report https://www.cvsdvt.org/Page/602

We encourage all eligible residents in Champlain Valley School District towns to vote on March 5th or earlier.

May 21, 2024, 6 PM

May 25, 2024, 9 AM to 12 PM

May 26, 2024, 10 AM to 2 PM