# October 7, 2026 School Board Meeting


**Body:** South Burlington School District
**Date:** October 06, 2026
**Jurisdiction:** SLED

**Tags:** Education, Construction & Infrastructure, Physical Infrastructure


The South Burlington School District School Board met on October 7, 2026. Procurement and facilities matters included approval of a bid for a Ford F-550 Super Duty campus salter vehicle; board members discussed a roughly $60,000 vehicle cost, maintenance, and possible future shared snow-removal services with the city or neighboring districts. The board also approved AP voucher checks to AC Hawthorne Company for $348,904.35, New England Floor Covering for $70,851.00, and Vermont Mechanical for $316,323.89. These payments were associated with summer building work, including roofing, the South Point program space, and mechanical work such as boiler replacement and valves. The superintendent also reported that state- and federally funded stormwater mitigation work is underway with vendor Cutting Edge, with remaining work expected next summer.

The superintendent described a shift in budget planning toward reviewing staffing against enrollment, class sizes, student needs, and programming, and a board member raised centralized purchasing as a possible way to reduce costs and improve materials management. The board adopted its updated ENDS policy with edits, designated Michelle Boyer as a third member of the ACT 170 Merger Committee and Elissa Galvez as alternate, and held first readings of two student-protection policies. No contract award amount for the F-550 was stated, and no formal action was taken on shared services or centralized purchasing.

**Source:** South Burlington School District