HomeMy WebLinkAboutSD-24-12 - Supplemental - 0500 Old Farm Road (22)efforts to add to its capital reserve fund, this year as the district strug-gled to cut costs and as residents demanded leaner spending, the board opted to forgo an addition-al $1.1 million allocation to the district’s capital reserve fund as a temporary solution to lessen the tax rate. But officials warned that the long-term impact for the district might mean even larger bond requests for future school renova-tions or new infrastructure.“We also are awaiting the results of PCB testing, and we have an insufficient reserve to address relocation or major remediation,” according to the school district. “We will need to put off the kitchen project and windows project at the high school. We had hoped to use the fiscal year 2024 and money for these, but costs have gone way up.”H.871 will set up a facility master plan grant program for districts that, unlike South Burling-ton, don’t have a current plan. “They don’t know the state of their facilities, they’re not ready to move forward once a chance for reconstruction or renovation comes in. For those who can’ afford it, this is going to help them hire some experts to figure out the state of their facilities and what they would like to do going forward,” Minier said.
The bill also establishes a working group to examine what exactly a construction aid fund would look like and how it would be implemented across the state. The group is expected to make recommendations to lawmakers by December in time for the start of the new biennium.
Additional legislation
Other legislation passed that affects schools this year includes S.25, a bill regulating consumer products containing perfluoroal-kyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) or other “forever chemi-cals.”While this bill does not inher-ently relate to just schools, Rep. Noah Hyman, D-Chittenden-8, a member of the House Commit-tee on Human Services explained that several things like sports equipment, uniforms and artificial turf used for athletic fields often contain the chemical. Lyons explained that, after 2026, the bill would prvent schools from intalling athletic turf that contain PFAS.“Banning PFAs in consum-er products is absolutely critical because it is a chemical that we find everywhere. If you have these chemicals added incidentally to athletic turf, it can affect kids at a
time when their cells are growing rapidly,” she said.Another bill, S. 220, will ensure that Vermont libraries — includ-ing those in schools — protect and promote the principles of free speech, inquiry, discovery and public accommodation.“This comes from politi-cized challenges of the holdings of libraries,” Minier said. This is going to help to protect the profes-sionals that run our libraries.”S. 204 supports young readers through evidence-based literacy instruction and institutes an annual universal literacy screen for every student in kindergarten through third grade, and mandates for professional development in liter-acy for educators in those grade levels.H.630 allows and encourage school districts to create boards of cooperative education services to provide shared education services and access grants on a county level.“How do you get, not just at a district level but at a regional level, more cooperation between districts so that you can see efficiencies of scale, not only in terms of ordering supplies, but also in terms of offer-ing upper-level courses that you might not have enough students for at your school?” Minier said. Superintendent Nichols said
that she is already having conver-sations with staff and board members about next year’s budget cycle. Concerns remain regarding the city’s common level of apprais-al — another compounding factor in the state’s education funding formula that compares the assessed value of properties on the grand list to actual property sale prices or their fair market value. For school board member Tim Warren, the city and state’s age demographics also played a large
part in the budget disarray this year. “I think one of the biggest areas of pushback we got with the budget was that (older) age group because they’re sort of frozen in place,” he said, adding that many residents, specifically in South Burlington, are “house-rich, but cash poor.” “That is going to be a signif-icant issue for the foreseeable future for us, especially in South Burlington and that just has to be tackled,” he said.
The Other Paper • June 13, 2024 • Page 13
PUBLIC HEARING
SOUTH BURLINGTON DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD
The South Burlington Development Review Board will hold a public hearing in the South Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 180 Market Street, South Burlington, Vermont, or online or by phone, on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, at 7:00 P.M. to consider the following:
1. Preliminary and final plat application #SD-24-12 of O’Brien Eastview LLC
to amend a previously approved plan for a planned unit development of
155 homes in single family, duplex, and three-family dwellings on eleven
(11) lots totaling 23.9 acres, twenty-four (24) commercial development lots
totaling 39.8 acres, and 25.2 acres of undeveloped or recreational open
spaces. The amendment consists of subdividing a 0.17 acre lot for the
purpose of a battery storage microgrid in an area previously approved for
open space, adding 14 units in two-family homes, replacing two large
single-family homes with four detached cottage style units, modifying the
approved phasing, and other minor amendments, 500 Old Farm Road.
2. Final plat application #SD-24-10 of Eric Sample to subdivide an existing
1.37 acre lot developed with a single family home and detached accessory
dwelling unit into two lots of 1.00 acres and 0.37 acres, for the purpose of
establishing the existing single family home and accessory dwelling unit
on Lot 1, and constructing a new single family or duplex home on Lot 2,
25 & 55 Highland Ter.
Board members will be participating in person. Applicants and members of the
public may participate in person or remotely either by interactive online meeting
or by telephone:
Interactive Online Meeting (audio & video): https://zoom.us/join By Telephone (audio only): (646) 931-3860 Meeting ID: 833 6071 2411
A copy of the application is available for public inspection by emailing Marla
Keene, Development Review Planner, mkeene@southburlingtonvt.gov.
June 13, 2024
NOTICE
SBSD Special Education Records Destruction ATTN: South Burlington High School Graduates who received
Special Education Services and graduated June 2019. The Vermont Department of Education’s State Board of Education Manual of Rights
and Practices, Section 2365.2.13(a) Destruction of Information, states:
“For purposes of an audit, when a participating agency has counted a child to justify
receipt of IDEA funds, the district shall retain copies of the child’s IEP and special
education eligibility evaluations, for a minimum of FIVE YEARS from the time the
student reaches the age of 22, graduates, transfers or withdraws from the school
district or the last date of services, whichever is sooner.”
If you were a graduate of the South Burlington High School, received Special Education Services, and graduated on or before June 2019, you are entitled to a
copy of your records. These students have reached their adulthood; therefore, only the student may request their records. The South Burlington School District will be destroying copies of these Special Education Paper on: July 1, 2024.
If you would like your student records, please contact Amanda Gasparini, of Student Support Systems, at 652-7253 or email
agasparini@sbschools.net. We must receive your request prior to June 28, 2024.
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case of Indigenous identity fraud in Vermont to the United Nations.What about the fair use of public funds? When citizens harvest benefits based on fictitious Native claims, including hundreds of thousands of dollars in recent federal grants, they take those benefits away from Indigenous people.This is a lot to digest for Vermont citizens, including the fact that so many well-meaning Vermonters, myself included, have been misled while trying to do good. Misled as well are the members of the four “tribes” whose leaders have led them to believe that they have a right to
claim Abenaki citizenship.As a professor at the state’s flagship university, it is my job to explore the historical record with colleagues and students, regardless of what facts are revealed or how disconcerting those truths may be. Vermonters who favor Indigenous justice will take these findings seriously.
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