Right to Know – How Did Hudson Use Their COVID Money?

A Right to Know put in by a Hudson Resident asking what most of us should be doing more of: WHAT did you use that boatloads of COVID money on?

Perfectly executed. In chronological order:

From: Terry Stewart <yrrets@aol.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2023, 8:54 AM
To: Gary Gasdia <ggasdia@sau81.org>
Subject: [PROBABLE SPAM] Right to Know Request

January 10, 2023

Hudson School District
20 Library Street
Hudson NH

RE: Right to Know Request
RE: Right to Know Request per RSA-91A

Pursuant to the Right to Know Law (RSA. 91-A), I am requesting public access, within 5 business days, to the governmental records reasonably described as follows:

1. How much federal and state funds did the Hudson School district receive for Covid?
2. A breakdown on how those funds were spent.

Per RSA 91-A:4 IV(c) If you deny any portion of this request, please cite the specific exemption used to justify the denial to make each record, or part thereof, available for inspection along with a brief explanation of how the exemption applies to the information withheld.

Please let me know when these records are available for inspection, or you may email the records to me at yrrets@aol.com
Thank you for your lawful attention to this matter.

Sincerely,
Teresa Stewart
Hudson, NH 03051

From: Gary Gasdia <ggasdia@sau81.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2023 9:01 AM
To: Daniel Moulis <dmoulis@sau81.org>
Cc: yrrets@aol.com
Subject: Fwd: Right to Know Request

Ms. Stewart,

I am forwarding this on to the Superintendent who will be able to handle this request.

Thanks,

Gary

From: Daniel Moulis <dmoulis@sau81.org>
Date: 1/10/23 10:19 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: yrrets@aol.com
Cc: Gary Gasdia <ggasdia@sau81.org>, Jennifer Burk <jburk@sau81.org>
Subject: RE: Right to Know Request

Ms. Stewart,

I am in receipt of the Right to Know Request and I will provide this correspondence to Ms. Burk, Business Administrator to provide this information.

Dan Moulis

Superintendent

From: yrrets <yrrets@aol.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2023 6:32 PM
To: Daniel Moulis <dmoulis@sau81.org>
Cc: Gary Gasdia <ggasdia@sau81.org>; Jennifer Burk <jburk@sau81.org>
Subject: [PROBABLE SPAM] RE: Right to Know Request

The information I requested per my RTK was due today,  I have not received it.

From: Jennifer Burk jburk@sau81.org
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2023 9:47 AM
To: yrrets yrrets@aol.com; Daniel Moulis dmoulis@sau81.org
Cc: Gary Gasdia ggasdia@sau81.org
Subject: RE: [PROBABLE SPAM] RE: Right to Know Request

Please note that today is a school holiday and all schools & offices are closed.

We received $449,195.37 in CARES funding which was used in the following ways:

• To help with cleaning our buses ($37,089.50)
• Add hotspots for students ($2,035.70)
• Software for ELL students ($4,500)
• Stipends for summer work to support returning to school ($260.30)
• To purchase cleaning supplies for our buildings ($181,722.77)
• Purchase food for remote meals for students ($13,617.24)
• Purchase additional laptops for students ($89,274)
• Software for general remote learning ($72,868.81)
• Materials for Presentation of Mary Academy ($3,406.58)
• Equipment for Presentation of Mary Academy ($44,420.47)

We received an allocation of $1,816,122.62 from ESSER II, and to date we’ve budgeted $1,794,562.80 of it, and received $1,374,398.07 in reimbursements:

• Additional software to support staff & students ($338,224.81)
• Indirect costs (offset administrative expenses – $42,537.82)
• Summer Scholars (staff, materials, transportation & food service – $1,038,063.11)
• Signage for communications ($39,940.90)
• Teaching Assistants ($109,803.60)
• Instructional Coaches ($225,992.56)

The ESSER III allocation is $4,082,746.60, we’ve budgeted $3,579,401.04 and received $1,475,748.37 in reimbursement to date:

• Software to support staff & students ($455,955.87)
• Indirect costs ($62,977.48)
• Schoology Master Trainer stipend for staff ($25,730)
• Curriculum Materials, Programming & Setup ($116,240)
• Referral Bonus budget ($45,034.50)
• Retention Stipend budget ($631,312.07)
• Instructional Coach ($112,996.28)
• Curriculum Coordinator ($144,104.75)
• Website upgrade ($18,000)
• Laptop carts ($36,000)
• Facilities Cleaning ($32,000)
• Additional Staffing to support transition to in-person learning ($77,818.79)
• Pathways staffing for 2 years ($350,273.69)
• Class size reduction staffing ($201,381.42)
• High School summer programming ($49,216.28)
• SEL Interventionists for 2 years ($597,758.26)
• EBD Counselors ($325,261.58)
• Math & Reading Tutors ($297,340.07)

Jennifer Burk
Business Administrator
Hudson School District
jburk@sau81.org

From: Daniel Moulis <dmoulis@sau81.org>
Date: 1/17/23 8:09 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: yrrets <yrrets@aol.com>
Cc: Gary Gasdia <ggasdia@sau81.org>, Jennifer Burk <jburk@sau81.org>
Subject: RE: [PROBABLE SPAM] RE: Right to Know Request

Good evening,

The following message was sent yesterday by Ms. Burk regarding the Right to Know request.

Dan Moulis
Superintendent