Staff report
The Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union (RNESU) district school boards of Otter Valley Unified Union and Barstow Unified Union once again have retooled their budgets for a third revote June 11 and 12, respectively.
At the district level, RNESU approved an additional $150,250 reduction for Otter Valley and $26,337 for Barstow.
The Barstow School Board voted to reduce its fiscal year 2025 budget by an additional $187,000.
The original $6.27 million budget (a 12.1% increase over FY2024) was defeated by only four votes on Town Meeting Day in March (375-379). A subsequent recount confirmed the outcome.
Barstow’s first revote for a reduced budget of $6.25 million budget on April 30, however, failed by a wider margin of 60 votes (274-214).
The new budget being presented for the third revote is $6.06 million.
An informational meeting will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 6, and voting will be the following Wednesday, June 12.
The Otter Valley School Board approved additional cuts totaling $170,250 for its third revote.
Otter Valley Unified Union (OVUU) School District’s roughly $27 million budget failed 638-1,019 on April 30 — a margin of 381. The original budget failed 891-1,325 — a margin of 434. The board had trimmed about $269,000 from its original budget for the first revote. Now the total cuts made are about $438,000 from the budget that was first presented on Town Meeting Day.
The board will host an in-person and virtual informational meeting about the budget at 6 p.m. Thursdays, June 6, and voting will be the following Tuesday, June 11.
