Slate Valley budget reflects 2.65% increase

The proposed SVUUSD budget is scheduled for school board approval on Jan. 12.

Orwell voters will go to the polls on April 15 to consider a revised fiscal year 2026 Slate Valley School District that is $463,256 less than the spending plan voters rejected, 1,181-720, on Town Meeting Day.

District that serves Orwell students needed to pass spending plan before July 1 or else borrowing limit would be imposed.

Students from Orwell are among those affected as the district plans for the coming school year.

The absence of an approved FY’25 spending plan pushes SVUUSD closer to the prospect of having to borrow funds to at least begin the next budget cycle, which begins July 1.

Members of the school board have tried to gather information as to why this budget proposal, with an increase of less than one percent in spending per weighted pupil, and an equalized tax rate decrease of less than one percent, was unacceptable to 59% of … (read more)

Voters in the Orwell-area school district endorse 2022-23 school spending plans

ORWELL — Residents of the six towns in the Slate Valley Unified Union School District (SVUUSD) will vote as soon as this coming spring on a massive, $60 million capital improvements bond issue that would, among other things, pay for a new 8,200-square-foo … (read more)