Warwick appoints six members to Pro Tempore School Governance Committee
The entrance to the former Warwick Community School, which town officials hope to reopen as an independent elementary school. Staff File Photo/PAUL FRANZ
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WARWICK Continuing discussions from two weeks ago, the Selectboard voted to create a Pro Tempore School Governance Committee that will develop plans for an independent elementary school, and appointed six new members.
The Pioneer Valley Regional School District School Committee voted in January 2020 to cease use of the Warwick Community School building and its 25-acre property, which is owned by Warwick, as a cost-saving measure, a decision that Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) Commissioner Jeffrey Riley later approved. Since then, members of the Warwick Education Committee have been holding regular meetings in hopes of reopening the Warwick Community School as an independent elementary school.
Public outreach on potential Pioneer, Gill-Montague merger aimed for fall
Pioneer Valley Regional School in Northfield. Staff File Photo
Turners Falls High School and Great Falls Middle School. Staff File Photo/PAUL FRANZ
Published: 4/7/2021 3:07:14 PM
A potential merger of the Gill-Montague Regional School District and the Pioneer Valley Regional School District is still being investigated, though plans for public outreach last year were interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The committee investigating the merger now expects to hold public outreach sessions this fall.
The Six Town Regionalization Planning Board, which has members from all six towns in the two school districts, has been working since the fall of 2019. The exploratory committee has previously explained that the vision for the new district would be to reorganize Pioneer Valley Regional School and Turners Falls High School, so that one would be a middle school and the other a high school. All the currently open e
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Following Open Meeting Law complaint, Pioneer to hold Budget Subcommittee meeting again
Pioneer Valley Regional School. STAFF FILE PHOTO/SHELBY ASHLINE
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NORTHFIELD After meeting in executive session to discuss an Open Meeting Law complaint, members of the Pioneer Valley Regional School District School Committee determined there was an error posting last month’s Budget Subcommittee meeting, and the meeting will be re-held on Tuesday, March 9.
Warwick Finance Committee Chair Diana Noble filed the complaint that the Feb. 4 Budget Subcommittee meeting was “not posted or held in a manner that allowed the public to attend.”
“The topics and deliberations of these meetings is of keen importance to the financial well-being of our towns and residents,” Noble wrote in her complaint. “The intent of the Open Meeting Law is to allow the community to understand the topics at hand and governing decisions being made.”
Pioneer’s proposed FY22 budget fails in tied School Committee votes
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NORTHFIELD A motion to pass the proposed fiscal year 2022 budget for the Pioneer Valley Regional School District hit a road block last week, failing twice in consecutive 6-6 votes from the School Committee.
The four-hour meeting on Thursday saw over two hours of discussion on the budget and a 7-5 December vote to move sixth-graders to Pioneer Valley Regional School for the coming fall. During an earlier public hearing on the proposed $14,851,290 budget, School Committee member David Young of Warwick had urged fellow members not to vote in favor of the budget which requires a two-thirds majority to be approved in an effort to delay the sixth-grade move.