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Town Voter Information
Everything you need to be an informed voter!
Everything you need to be an informed voter!
Everything you need to be an informed voter!
March 17
7 PM
@ HBHS (in person to vote)
March 19
6:30 PM
@ HBHS (in person to vote)
Note about school district unassigned school fund balance: The Unassigned Fund Balance for the school district is different from the town. The town can accumulate the UFB. The school can retain up to 2.5%.
To see if the District will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $19,384,375 (gross budget)
to finance the design, demolition, construction, permitting, and equipping of renovations and additions to the Hollis Primary School to include improvements and renovations of the building interior and surrounding exterior site areas (the “Project”); to authorize $19,384,375 of such sum to be raised through the issuance of bonds or notes in accordance with the Municipal Finance Act (RSA Ch. 33); to authorize the School Board to issue and negotiate such bonds or notes and to determine the date, maturities, interest rate, and other details of such bonds or notes; to authorize the School Board to apply for, accept, and expend any federal, state, or private funds that may become available in respect of the Project to be applied toward the Project to reduce the amount that must be bonded or to pay debt service on such bonds or notes; and further to raise and appropriate the sum of $484,609 to make the first debt service payment due in the upcoming fiscal year. (3/5 ballot vote required.)
Note: Three Hollis Budget Committee members did not recommend this warrant article. This article elicited a lot of discussion on the expense and need of this expansion project during the Hollis Budget Committee meeting on Feb 10th. The costs are significant, and attempts to find other possible, more affordable solutions were not entertained by the person presenting the project (Public hearing minutes on this warrant can be found on the Hollis Budget Committee Minutes, pg. 5-20). READ HERE
Also from the meeting notes, the Hollis Budget Committee Chairman Tom Gehan's comments were transcribed as such (pg. 30): "Over the last three years the aggregate increase in our taxes is 34%. That is not the rate, that is the average tax bill. If everything this year goes through, schools and Town, our four-year run rate will be a 41% increase, something he does not believe is viable. He would support this bond perhaps in a few years when HSMART or HSTEP falls off, which would free up about $300,000. He just feels it is too big [of] an ask right now."
Hollis Budget Committee Minutes from Feb 10th hearing: READ HERE
Shall the School District vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $827,498 as the Hollis School District’s portion of the SAU budget of $2,560,328 for the forthcoming fiscal year? This year’s adjusted budget of $2,540,642 with $821,135 assigned to the school budget of this school district will be adopted if the article does not receive a majority vote of all the school district voters voting in this school administrative unit.
To see if the School District will vote to approve the cost items included in year two of the
three-year collective bargaining agreement reached between the Hollis School Board and the Hollis Education Support Staff Association for the 2026-27 school year, which calls for the following increases in support staff salaries and benefits at the current staffing levels:
Fiscal Year Estimated Increase
2026-27 $198,801
and further to raise and appropriate the sum of $198,801 for the second year (2026-27 school year), such sum representing the negotiated increase over the 2025-26 salaries and fringe benefits.
To see if the School District will vote to raise and appropriate up to the sum of $23,970 to be
added to the previously established Maintenance Expendable Trust Fund for Administrative and
Associated Structures at 4 Lund Lane in Hollis, Map 56, Lot 2. This sum to come from the Hollis School
District’s June 30, 2026 unassigned fund balance available for transfer on July 1 of this year, 2026. No amount to be raised by additional taxation.
To see if the School District will vote to raise and appropriate up to the sum of $125,000 to be
added to the previously established School Buildings Expendable Maintenance Trust Fund. This sum to come from the Hollis School District’s June 30, 2026 unassigned fund balance available for transfer on July 1, 2026. No amount to be raised by additional taxation.
To see if the School District will vote to establish a contingency fund for the current year for unanticipated expenses that may arise and further to raise and appropriate the sum of $95,000 to put into the fund. This sum to be raised by taxation. Any appropriation left in the fund at the end of the year will lapse to the general fund.
Shall the Hollis School District vote to adopt an open enrollment school program, designating both Hollis Primary School (HPS) and Hollis Upper Elementary School (HUES) as open enrollment schools pursuant to NH RSA 194-D, for the purpose of enabling the district to admit up to one (1) non-resident student to HPS or HUES under the provisions of RSA 194-D, with one hundred percent (100%) of its eligible resident pupils permitted to attend HPS and HUES and zero percent (0%) of its resident pupils permitted to attend open enrollment schools located outside of the District.
Note: There is a bill being heard at the State House about open enrollment (HB751). All school districts would need to receive students from other districts and allow their own students to attend other districts. In addition, the district losing a student would need to pay tuition to the district receiving that student. This warrant article would be rendered obsolete should the state bill pass. Read about HB175 here: READ HERE
To see if the School District will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $18,417,466 for the support of schools, for the payment of salaries for the school district officials and agents and for the payment of statutory obligations of the district. This appropriation does not include appropriations voted in other warrant articles. Estimated Tax Impact: $6.26/$1,000 or $4,663/$745,000 (average single-family residence)
To see if the School District will vote to require the Hollis School Board to prominently display current and previous year state assessment scores and state rankings on the school district website header, visible on every page, with said information to be updated within thirty (30) days of the official release of scores by the New Hampshire Department of Education.
Note: The school board is going to say this warrant article is unnecessary because there is already a plan to create a "data dashboard that will contain all of this information for all of the districts within SAU 41." Having said that, the SAU41 website has not been user friendly for some time, and displaying this information on each school website would ensure this information is more accessible to parents.
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