Nashua Board of Education Finance Committee meeting 10/19/26

The Nashua Board of Education Finance and Operations Committee met on October 19, 2026. The committee discussed replacement of four plant-operations vehicles, funded through the City’s Capital Equipment Reserve Fund (SURF), rather than the school district’s operating budget. Purchases discussed included a $90,000 dump truck and vehicles sourced through the New Hampshire state contract; an electric IT van was deferred because the district lacks charging capacity. The recorded motion approved a field tractor for $65,143.70. The committee also approved power-purchase agreements with Revision Energy for solar installations at Main Dunstable, Birch Hill, Bicentennial, and the school administration building, with payments to come from electricity savings. The discussion described a 20-year agreement model, vendor maintenance, and federal tax incentives requiring contracts by the end of 2026 and installation by the end of 2027.

The committee approved several contracted student-service staffing items charged to the operating budget, including ACM Staffing LLC speech-language services not to exceed $79,560; Beyond Words LLC, $46,800; Champion Speech Therapy and Contracting Services LLC, $90,935; and an SLP Mama to Be LLC amendment bringing that contract’s total ceiling to $76,930. It also approved special-education tutoring by Daniel Chick, up to $57,000, and additional behavior-support and out-of-district services; some related amounts or vendor details were unclear in the transcript. An upcoming copier/printer audit will inform a possible FY28 contract extension; the current contract is about $200,000 annually, and any proposal is to return for committee review. Separately, administrators previewed an approximately $9 million city-and-school ERP system budget request for finance, HR, payroll, recruiting, and timekeeping; it was not presented as an approved purchase at this meeting.