Great news. As announced by the School Committee yesterday, Hamilton-Wenham Regional School District employees have agreed to a salary concession of one day without pay for the 2009-2010 school year.
Two unions were involved in negotiations – the Hamilton-Wenham Education Association, which represents teachers, secretaries and nurses, and the Hamilton-Wenham Custodians’ union. A majority of [...]
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Please join SOS at our monthly meeting as we host members of the Wenham and Hamilton Boards of Selectmen.
Agenda items include:
Dialogue on the Hamilton/Wenham police merger
A brief presentation from the Hamilton Government Study group
Information on the Capital Debt Exclusion that’s been requested for school building repair and maintenance
Update on FY10 School Budget [...]
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Please join SOS at our monthly meeting, open to everyone, as we host members of the Wenham and Hamilton Boards of Selectmen, who will talk about the proposed merger of the two town’s police departments and how such a move might affect town and school finances. Other agenda items include:
A brief presentation from the Hamilton [...]
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March 30, 2009
Hamilton-Wenham School Committee
775 Bay Road
Hamilton, MA 01982
Dear members of the Hamilton-Wenham School Committee:
As members of SOS, we have followed this year’s school budget process closely and have been genuinely impressed by your hard work and dedication. We commend you for your extraordinary efforts and leadership in these challenging [...]
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10.6 Teaching Positions Hang in the Balance
On March 31 — six days from today — the School Committee is required by law to submit its finalized budget. As of today, 10.6 teaching positions are still on the line to be eliminated — including 2.4 positions from the High School and 4.8 positions from the Middle [...]
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The School Committee is holding its one and only Public Forum on the Fiscal Year 2010 budget today, Thursday, March 19, at 7 p.m. in the Buker Multipurpose Room.
This public forum is your last and best chance to ask questions and share your opinions about what’s getting cut, what schools and [...]
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John Kotch
Local President
Massachusetts Teachers Association
Dear John,
Since our inception, Hamilton-Wenham SOS (Support our Schools) has been fully dedicated to protecting and supporting one of our towns’ greatest assets — our school teachers.
We, and the citizens’ organizations that came before us, managed to pass seven overrides in increasingly difficult economic times on the strength of our commitment [...]
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For many years, improvements and repairs to our school buildings have not been initiated due to tight funding. Now the situation for a few buildings has reached a critical stage. On Thursday, the School Committee will discuss options for funding long-delayed, much-required physical improvements. Please attend to hear what we face and how we might [...]
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1) This Thursday, March 5, at 7 p.m. at Buker School the School Committee will address three issues of importance to school supporters:
A revised FY10 school budget and a revised list of proposed cuts to school personnel and services. The numbers have changed now that the towns have made a preliminary vote to contribute [...]
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At the next SC meeting, there will be a presentation of possible cuts in $500,000 incremental groupings by programs.
If the towns level fund the schools, and all other assumptions from the state remain, the school budget the will have a funding gap of approximately $2 million, which includes unemployment and associated costs.
To learn [...]
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