School board will ask voters to okay $32.5M budget for next year

The Mountain Views Supervisory Union (MVSU) School Board will ask voters in Barnard, Bridgewater, Killington, Plymouth, Pomfret, Reading, and Woodstock to approve a $32.47 million school budget for the 2026-27 fiscal year on Town Meeting Day on Tuesday, March 3.

School board representative Matt Stout of Woodstock, the chair of the school district’s Finance Committee, and MVSU director of finance and operations James Fenn offered a final presentation on the proposed 2026-27 school budget at a special public meeting on Monday evening. Following the final budget workshop, MVSU school board members overwhelmingly okayed the $32.47 million budget proposal, with only Plymouth representative Josh Linton dissenting. The school district governing body will approve the final wording for the school budget question on the Town Meeting ballot at its next regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, Jan. 5.

For more on this, please see our Dec. 18 edition of the Vermont Standard.