SAU 6 Board — September 13, 2018

OBSERVATION The nonpublic motion's citation was garbled on the agenda and on the floor before the board settled on II(a)

Horsky moved from the printed wording (2:51:28), members agreed it was a typo, and the motion was restated three times (2:52:07, 2:52:26, 2:53:20) before the chair and members settled on two A (2:53:48), the exemption RSA 91-A:3, II(a) describes as "the dismissal, promotion, or compensation of any public employee or the disciplining of such employee". RSA 91-A:3, I(b) required the motion to "state on its face the specific exemption" and a roll-call vote; both happened in the end, and the roll call begins at 2:54:27. McCormick's question (2:53:11) tracks a real limit in II(a): the exemption does not apply where the employee "has a right to a meeting" and "requests that the meeting be open". The recording does not show whether that was considered, and it ends before the nonpublic session, so its minutes and any seal vote are unknown.

Sources: RSA 91-A:3, I(b) and II(a) (2017 codification).

OBSERVATION Members said the board had voted to hold raises until evaluations were done; staff said July 1 raises rested on contracts issued before that directive

Lowe recalled "taking a vote that there wasn't going to be, those raises done until the merit pool system was in place and those evaluations were completed" (0:32:22). The business administrator confirmed "a merit pay increase at July 1st, 2018" (0:34:34), and the assistant superintendent explained that those raises "were based on contracts that had been distributed prior to July 1st and prior to that directive" (0:35:01). Job descriptions that members understood were due before the budget, or by July 1, were still being updated (2:32:01 to 2:36:18). The draft budget carries a 3% merit pool of $29,768 that staff themselves do not expect to be fully spent (0:36:46, 0:38:00).

The directive and its date are not on this recording and cannot be checked against minutes online, so this page cannot say whether any raise conflicted with it. No statute governing SAU pay was identified as breached. The observation is that the board's understanding of its own directive and staff's implementation of it diverged, on the record, while the next budget was being built.

Sources: the recording at 0:32:22 to 0:38:00 and 2:32:01 to 2:36:18.

OBSERVATION The search committee the board created is a committee of a public body; confidentiality in a search has to be managed within RSA 91-A

The board set a seven-member committee: two Claremont board members, two Unity board members, one SAU staff member, and one each from the Unity leadership team and the Claremont administrative team (2:15:39 to 2:19:01). The chair read the consultant's advice that "it's tougher to manage confidentiality which we would have to maintain in a search" and that non-board members sign "a confidentiality agreement" (1:47:57, 1:48:24). Horsky noted that three Unity members on a committee would be a Unity quorum (1:41:47).

RSA 91-A:1-a, VI(d) extends the Right-to-Know law to "any committee, subcommittee, or subordinate body thereof, or advisory committee thereto". A committee created by the SAU board therefore needs notice and minutes for its meetings. Confidential candidate discussion is available through nonpublic session under RSA 91-A:3, II(b), "The hiring of any person as a public employee", on a proper motion; a private confidentiality agreement does not by itself take a committee's meetings out of the statute. This page records no violation: the committee had not yet met. Its later meetings are the place to check.

Sources: RSA 91-A:1-a, VI(d) (2019 codification; source note ends 2008, 354:1, so the same text governed in 2018); RSA 91-A:3, II(b) (2017 codification).

OBSERVATION No agenda, packet or minutes for this meeting are posted online

MAP.md section 81 records that neither district Drive share holds anything older than 2022 (checked 9/26/26), so this page rests on the recording alone. That is a limit of what the district posts online now, not evidence that records were never made: the chair refers to an agenda "before you" (0:01:35), members work from a budget packet, and the August 23 minutes were on the SAU website in 2018 (0:03:26). The budget figures on this page come from the spoken presentation; the packet itself cannot be checked. The project's missing-records rule is applied on its online-availability limb.

Sources: RSA 91-A:2, II (2017 codification): minutes open to public inspection within 5 business days; Input/SupportingDocuments/MAP.md section 81.