KINGSTON - June 11, 2026 - The Silver Lake Regional School Committee moved swiftly to address a critical $585,000 infrastructure failure tonight, leveraging a capital stabilization fund to greenlight emergency repairs on the middle school’s primary auditory rooftop heating and cooling unit. Vice Chair Amy Cortright presided over a packed agenda that formalized a municipal liaison role to secure town funding, finalized multiple labor agreements, and transitioned a controversial high school schedule from a pilot to permanent implementation.
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The meeting opened with an immediate shift in leadership as the committee conducted its annual reorganization. The slate was approved unanimously, installing Gordon Laws as Chair, Amy Cortright as Vice Chair, Lukasz Kowalski as Secretary, and Mark Guidoboni as Assistant Treasurer. With Chair Laws absent, Vice Chair Cortright took the gavel to lead the committee through a series of major fiscal and operational decisions.
The single most critical development of the evening centered on the long-term maintenance of the district’s 21-year-old facilities. Committee Member Mark Guidoboni provided a comprehensive update from the Safety, Fees and Revenues Subcommittee (SFFR) subcommittee, highlighting a major financial milestone for the region. Through a collaborative effort with the finance committees and select boards of Halifax, Kingston, and Plympton, the district successfully recaptured expiring debt capacity to establish a dedicated Silver Lake Stabilization Fund.
This stabilization fund balance sits at approximately $700,000 and can begin to address a daunting backlog of deferred maintenance. Guidoboni warned that while the district’s facilities staff, led by Director Mike Lawless, saved taxpayers an estimated $136,000 by handling items internally, the total remaining “house doctor’s” capital list still sits at a staggering $53 million.
