Participants
Everyone heard or addressed on the recording. Names follow the speaker attribution in the dialogue file and the project's 2015-2023 roster; where a name rests on weak evidence, the participation cell says so. There are no minutes to check spellings against. The student representative, donors and grant recipients are described rather than named.
| Name | Role | Participation |
|---|
| Frank Sprague | Chair, presiding; budget subcommittee | Adds the city's lead-safety group to the agenda (0:02:09); defers the November 7 minutes as "truncated" (0:03:29); asks whether the board can direct how a gift is used (0:44:44); on federal funding, frames the budget work as sorting "what do we have to do and what are things that are optional" (1:16:33); explains why personnel reductions are held back (1:33:28); agrees to represent the board on the lead-safety group (2:09:30). The dialogue file also gives his label to several of the superintendent's rows on the athletic coordinator item (see method note). |
| Rebecca Zullo | Vice Chair | Asks how line items were moved (1:25:34); says she will "trust that you guys have, done exactly what you've said you were going to do" (1:37:55); suggests a budget debrief (1:42:09); asks for a clear athletic coordinator job description (2:03:25). |
| Jason Benware | Member; budget subcommittee | Moves the agenda, the October 30 minutes, each donation, the policies and adjournment; proposes using the new gifts "to stock those pantries" (0:41:53) and moves it (0:46:37); presents the budget subcommittee's draft (1:20:42). |
| Michael Petrin | Member; budget subcommittee | Seconds the food pantry motion (0:46:52) and the policy motion (1:45:47); says the withheld budget material is information "not ready to be public yet" (1:39:41); asks for a clearer athletic coordinator description before any approval (2:04:59). |
| Michelle Pierce | Member | Moves the moderator to the top of the agenda (0:01:57); asks whether the grant writer could seek arts and music grants (0:23:19); moves to split the gifts between food pantries and an escrow account, which gets no second (0:46:14, 0:46:33); says she feels left out of the budget process and raises board conduct concerns (1:34:10, 1:42:31); offers to serve on the lead-safety group, then defers to the chair (2:08:11, 2:09:27). |
| Carolyn Towle | Member | Seconds the conference grant (0:48:51); asks whether thank-you notes go out (0:51:30); gives the superintendent search update (0:52:06); presses again for a capital improvement program subcommittee (2:12:24). |
| Rob Lovett Jr. | Member (first meeting after appointment) | Suggests stamping hands to mark who has voted by secret ballot (0:34:26); argues the GoFundMe money should not be moved to athletics (2:04:39). |
| Tracy Pope | School district moderator | Addressed as "Mrs. Fuller [Pope]" and Tracy (0:24:49, 0:29:24). Debriefs the 2018 deliberative session (0:25:17 to 0:38:35). At the November 7 meeting the clerk had told the board the district did not have a moderator; this recording shows the moderator in office. |
| Keith Pfeifer | Interim Superintendent, SAU 6 | Superintendent's report on the budget, a middle school incident and storm-day protocol (0:09:16 to 0:14:28); requests and then withdraws a middle school athletic coordinator stipend (1:50:35, 2:03:43). |
| Cory LeClair | Assistant Superintendent, SAU 6 | Reports the hearing and deliberative dates (0:37:17); presents the donations (0:39:49 to 0:50:29); presents the analysis of eliminating federal funding (0:55:02 to 1:14:39); describes the budget packet (1:23:09); presents the policy subcommittee's work (1:44:21). |
| Michael O'Neill | Business Administrator, SAU 6 | Attribution medium (content). Says lunch statements have gone out and he will bring the negative-balance total next time (0:43:20, 0:43:27); adds the state's "dime for every lunch" (1:12:49). |
| Josh Malloy | Director of Instructional Technology (attribution uncertain) | Thanked for helping with the federal funding research; explains a projector purchase that came with a free television (1:20:08, 1:20:14). |
| Patricia Barry | Principal, Stevens High School (attribution medium) | Speaks for the middle school principal on the athletic coordinator stipend: a full-year figure of $8,000 (2:00:01 to 2:02:07). |
| Doug Beaupre | Athletic Director, Stevens High School | Invited to the podium (1:53:35); describes the former middle school athletic director's duties and what he can take on (1:53:58 to 1:57:49). Spelling unverified. |
| Student representative | Stevens High School | Student report on college application day, a drug-dog search that found nothing, and winter events (0:04:14 to 0:08:31). |
| Klein | Citizens' comments, Ward 3 (music director, Stevens High School) | Surname only, as given by the assistant superintendent (1:27:22); spelling unverified. Announces the winter concert and says the band is "twice the size it was two years ago" (0:19:32). |
| Maggie May | Citizens' comments, Ward 3 | Self-identified (0:20:07); a parent, musician and taxpayer "for 43 years"; asks the board to spend more on music and arts (0:21:16). |
| Mary Woodman | School district clerk (recording secretary) | Asked for the roll (0:00:52); named by the moderator as her partner in tallying the 2018 secret ballots (0:26:28). |
| Unidentified | Several voices | 137 of 863 dialogue rows (15.9%), including a member's thanks to the moderator (0:39:04) and several seconds and votes. |
Order of business (reconstructed)
No agenda for this meeting survives in any district share. The items below are reconstructed from the chair's transitions, including the two agenda changes made at the start.
| Taken up | Item | What happened |
|---|
| 0:00:27 | Call to order, Pledge, roll call | Roll requested of "Mrs. Woodman" (0:00:52); no names transcribed. |
| 0:01:47 | Approval of the agenda, as amended | Pierce: "I'd like to move Mrs. Pope to the first item on the agenda"; the chair adds the city's lead-safety group after the athletic coordinator item (0:02:09 to 0:03:06). Benware moves "to accept the agenda, as amended" (0:03:23); second; Aye. |
| 0:03:29 | Minutes of October 30; November 7 deferred | "We're going to wait on November 7th. A, what you have in front of you is sort of a truncated version. It's incomplete." Benware moves the October 30 minutes (0:03:55); voice vote (0:04:00). See flag 1. |
| 0:04:00 | Student representative's report | Report and a question from the chair. |
| 0:09:04 | Superintendent's report | Budget, safety incidents, storm protocol; questions from Pierce. |
| 0:18:28 | Citizens' comments | Two speakers from Ward 3; closed at 0:22:34. |
| 0:24:49 | School district moderator: deliberative session debrief | No action; secret ballots to go to the school district office (0:27:10, 0:27:18); hearing and deliberative dates confirmed with snow dates (0:37:17). |
| 0:39:44 | Acceptance of donations | (1) $2,311.93 in lunch-debt gifts: Benware's motion, Pierce's second (0:41:05, 0:41:15); Pierce's half-and-half amendment gets no second (0:46:33); Benware's amended motion to "use that money to, stock the food pantries in the four schools", Petrin seconding, carried (0:46:44 to 0:47:36). (2) $1,000 from the Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation for a middle school teacher's conference: Benware moves, Towle seconds, carried (0:48:40 to 0:49:45). (3) $1,000 through the Wellborn program for an elementary art teacher: Benware moves, second, carried (0:50:45 to 0:51:24). |
| 0:51:53 | Superintendent search update | Posted November 27; seven applicants; forums postponed to January. |
| 0:53:14 | Eliminating federal funding: discussion | Presentation by the assistant superintendent; no action. |
| 1:20:29 | Fiscal year 2020 budget discussion | Budget subcommittee draft handed out for the next meeting; personnel reductions not included; no action. |
| 1:44:14 | Policy subcommittee | Policies BA and BAA moved to "a second and final read" (Benware; second heard from Petrin and Zullo) and carried (1:45:58 to 1:47:46); a list of policies marked "reviewed and approved" (Benware; Zullo seconds; carried, 1:49:36 to 1:49:51). |
| 1:50:35 | CMS athletic coordinator position | Stipend request withdrawn pending a clearer job description (2:03:43). |
| 2:06:05 | City lead-safety community group (added) | The chair will represent the board (2:09:30); no vote. |
| 2:10:55 | Future agenda items | December 19: equipment disposal, the November 7 minutes, lunch balances, the FY2020 budget, policies, the athletic coordinator (2:10:57). |
| 2:12:09 | Good of the order | A request for a mid-meeting break; Towle's capital improvement subcommittee proposal, sent to the spring retreat (2:15:10). |
| 2:15:16 | Adjournment | Benware moves; second; voice vote. |
Discussion timeline
Times are taken from the dialogue transcript (Dialogue/10139 SchoolBoard120518.mp4.CSV) and link into the recording.
Topics in the order discussed. Quotations are as transcribed.
| Time | Topic | What was said | Flags |
|---|
| 0:03:29 | November 7 minutes not ready | The chair: "We're going to wait on November 7th. A, what you have in front of you is sort of a truncated version. It's incomplete. So we will be approving only the minutes of October 30th tonight." Under future agenda items, LeClair: "I'll connect with you about the November 7th minutes and get those back" (2:10:57). | MEDIUM |
| 0:04:14 | Student report | "We surpassed last year with 45 students applying to over 101 schools" on college application day (0:04:43); local police and drug-sniffing dogs "swept all four floors" and "no drugs or paraphernalia were found in our school" (0:05:08); winter concerts and a craft fair. | |
| 0:09:16 | Superintendent: budget and safety | "In Claremont, we are tempting to follow the board's guilt [guidance] or flatlining the budget. Other than one half of the cost of contract contractual increases already approved by the voters and the board." A middle school incident: "Two students were out of control in the hallways were cleared, and we sheltered in place" (0:09:49); single-school incidents get the principal's robocall or email (0:10:22). | |
| 0:11:10 | Storm days | Pfeifer: "We are buying chains for the busses that travel those routes"; "my day starts at 4 a.m." with calls to police dispatch, DPW, Unity's road agent and neighboring superintendents (0:11:10 to 0:12:21). To Pierce on complaints: "They're always complaints." (0:15:07). | |
| 0:18:28 | Citizens' comments: music and arts | The music director: "we have 60 kids performing, which is a large number. It's twice the size it was two years ago" (0:19:32). Maggie May: "when cuts are made to the budget, invariably music and arts are two of the first things that are affected" (0:20:07); asks the board "to please consider the positive effects of spending more time or more on the line item" (0:21:16). Pierce asks about arts grants; the chair points her to the budget draft coming later (0:23:52). | |
| 0:25:17 | Moderator's debrief | Pope: "I sent out an email to the board, and, I tried to highlight things that I thought went well and things that, I thought could use improvement." Went well: Stevens High School as the location, voter cards, colored secret ballots (0:25:42, 0:26:05), "the five minute and two minute time limits" (0:27:41). To improve: "I think we need to publicize a snow date" (0:27:41); entrances and seating (0:28:22, 0:28:43); keeping voters in their rows (0:30:31); marking voter cards so no one votes twice (0:31:10); her seat, from which "I couldn't see school board members raising their hands" (0:35:05). | POSITIVE |
| 0:26:28 | Where last year's secret ballots are | Pope: "after last year's secret ballots. I kept them all. Mary and I tallied them, and I bands around them, and I kept them, and I have them in a Ziploc bag at my home because I didn't know where they went." "what do I do with the secret ballots?" (0:26:52). An unidentified voice: "They all go to City Hall, those. But that would go to the school district office." (0:27:10). Pope: "So the school district office holds on to them." (0:27:18). | OBSERVATION |
| 0:37:17 | Hearing and deliberative dates | LeClair: "at the October 17th meeting of this board, the board determined January 2nd for the public hearing and February 6th for the deliberative session"; "January 3rd would be the snow date" and "February 7th is the designated snow date" (0:37:17, 0:37:46). Pope will update the rules of conduct to hand out at the session (0:38:35). | POSITIVE |
| 0:39:49 | More lunch-debt gifts | Four gifts "to pay down school lunch debt", including "$2,111.93 from the GoFundMe for Claremont School lunches" (0:40:05); "The total will be $2,311.93." (0:40:59). LeClair: they came in "after the first round. And acceptance and complete elimination of last year's school lunch debt" (0:41:36). O'Neill cannot yet give this year's negative balances (0:43:27). | OBSERVATION |
| 0:41:53 | Food pantries or an escrow account | Benware: "I would almost be in favor of of using that money to stock those pantries"; "we're not going to continually send a message that says there's money available to pay off if you don't pay" (0:42:19). The chair: "do we want to have an escrow account for future delinquencies, or do we want to put the money aside for feeding children?" (0:43:52) and "Is it within our purview to dictate the administration how to use that money?" (0:44:44). Pfeifer: "We will certainly follow that." (0:45:18). Pierce's split gets no second (0:46:33); Benware's amended motion carries, split equally across "all five schools" (0:47:22 to 0:47:36). | OBSERVATION |
| 0:47:53 | Two $1,000 grants for teachers | A Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation grant "in the value of $1,000" for a middle school health teacher's conference (0:48:13); a $1,000 Wellborn program award for an elementary art teacher's project-based curriculum work (0:49:48, 0:50:29). Both accepted. LeClair confirms thank-you notes go out "every time" (0:51:33). | |
| 0:52:06 | Superintendent search | Towle: "The job was posted on November 27th. We've had seven applicants come in"; an "actual evaluation marking system that we're learning" (0:52:34); forums "Been postponed to January" (0:52:53). | |
| 0:55:02 | What if the district refused federal funding? | LeClair: "What if we stopped accepting federal funding? And it was not an easy question to answer." "School approval is a mandatory process required by a state law. RSA 21-9N [citation garbled]" and attendance "by RSA 1931 [193:1]" (0:58:42); "accreditation is not required. School approval is required" (0:59:39); "not a single state nor territory refuses all of the federal funding" (1:08:29); civil rights duties remain (1:09:54). | OBSERVATION |
| 1:11:18 | The dollars | "in total we received $3,881,000" in 2018-19 federal allocations (1:11:18); "in state funding, we're about 12.5 million" (1:12:20); "So if we were to say no thank you to federal funding, you're also saying no thank you to state funding. You can't take one and not the other. And that total is about $16.4 million of a $32 million budget" (1:12:51). Local staff cost to administer: "about $323,000 is spent in order to get the 16.4 million" (1:13:51). The chair: "the requirement is through age 18 instead of age 21, right?" LeClair: Yes. (1:15:29). | OBSERVATION |
| 1:16:33 | Required versus optional | The chair: as the budget subcommittee looks at "the cutbacks and special ed aid" and "stabilization aid", it is "really starting to look at things that are what do we have to do and what are things that are optional", including accredited versus approved status; "this is the beginning of a conversation" (1:17:50). | |
| 1:20:42 | FY2020 budget draft | Benware: "we must have put in. I don't know, 20 plus hours in meetings doing this"; the retreat goal was "a level funded budget of the same of last year, with the addition of 50% of the fixed cost increases and any loss of revenue" (1:21:43). LeClair: a "64 page document" line-by-line report with prior budgets and actuals, a projected revenue sheet and a fixed-cost sheet (1:23:09 to 1:23:44); "you will not yet see the reductions that are being made to any staff or personnel" (1:24:33). Example of a cut: police coverage at athletic events (1:25:45). | MEDIUM |
| 1:29:07 | A member left out | Pierce: "we're policymakers and we don't control the budget"; "I feel like as a board member, I'm in the dark" (1:34:10); "why wouldn't I be able to have the full scope so that I can make decisions?" (1:36:34). LeClair: the rest comes "within board policy prior to the next board meeting" (1:37:33). Petrin: "once it's here in the packet, it's public information. What we've discussed there are small. There's a small piece that we don't feel is ready to be public yet" (1:39:55). Towle: "we voted for the subcommittee" (1:41:54). | MEDIUM |
| 1:42:31 | Board conduct | Pierce: guidance about being respectful "came down" and "that's continued. And there's been no stopping it tonight" (1:43:04); "there are people that just continue talking through" (1:43:53). The chair moves on to the policy subcommittee (1:44:14). | |
| 1:44:21 | Policies | BA and BAA had language changes in April that "never made it through the full policy process" (1:44:43); the change sets deadlines for goals and the evaluation "by the last board meeting in February" (1:47:00). Adopted. A list of unchanged policies marked reviewed (1:48:02 to 1:49:51). | |
| 1:50:35 | Middle school athletic coordinator | Pfeifer requests "a stipend, part time stipend, position"; the chair calls "3500 in my mind is very, very short money" (1:52:29). Barry, for the middle school principal: "in their opinion, it's an eight zero $0 stipend position" for a full year (2:00:23), "basically $10 an hour" for 800 hours (2:01:17). Zullo: two different job descriptions (2:03:25). Pfeifer: "I think it would be appropriate for me to withdraw my request" (2:03:43). Lovett: "that GoFundMe was specifically set up for food banks" (2:04:39). | OBSERVATION |
| 2:06:05 | City lead-safety group | The chair reads the city manager's description and asks for a volunteer; meetings are monthly and during the day (2:08:35, 2:08:47); "I will let the mayor in the city manager know that I'll be on that committee" (2:09:30). | |
| 2:11:41 | Spring retreat; capital improvement plan | The chair wants a retreat after the March 2019 election. Towle: "In year 2019, a subcommittee developed for the capital Improvement program" (2:12:24). The chair: voters will look more favorably at "expenditures that are part of an overall systemic plan" (2:14:35). | |
Items flagged for review
These flags are a reviewer's aid, not findings of violation and not legal advice. Each one names the rule it rests on, as that rule read on December 5, 2018, or is labeled an observation where no verified rule applies.
MEDIUM Four weeks after the November 7 meeting, its minutes were still "a truncated version" that the board could not approve
The chair deferred the November 7 minutes because "what you have in front of you is sort of a truncated version. It's incomplete" (0:03:29), and the assistant superintendent said she would "get those back" for December 19 (2:10:57). RSA 91-A:2, II, as it read in 2018, required minutes to be promptly recorded and open to public inspection not more than five business days after the meeting; a draft can satisfy that, but it must carry the names of members, persons appearing, and a brief description of the subject matter discussed and final decisions. November 7 was the meeting at which the board appointed a member after a nonpublic session and accepted $32,596.23 in gifts. The record does not say what the truncated draft lacked, so whether the five-day requirement was met cannot be decided here; a draft missing the appointment or the final decisions four weeks on would not meet it.
Sources: RSA 91-A:2, II (2017 codification; text in force for all of 2018)
MEDIUM No agenda or minutes for this meeting survive in any district share
MAP.md records no Drive material for this meeting: the district's shares hold no year folder older than 2022, and the Meeting Minutes share starts at 2023. RSA 91-A:2, II required minutes, open to inspection within five business days. This page applies the MEDIUM limb of the project's severity rule because the record mitigates the gap: the board approves the October 30 minutes (0:03:55) and the clerk is present, so minutes were being kept; their absence from shares that do not reach back before 2022 is not proof they were never made.
Sources: RSA 91-A:2, II (2017 codification)
MEDIUM The budget subcommittee did the line-by-line budget work in more than twenty hours of meetings that left no public record found
The budget subcommittee (Sprague, Petrin and Benware) put in "20 plus hours in meetings" with administrators and department heads (1:21:43), held its "next to last meeting yesterday" (1:36:12), and settled reductions it was not yet ready to make public (1:39:55). RSA 91-A:1-a, VI(d), in the text in force throughout this period, makes any committee or subcommittee of a school board a public body, so its meetings needed notice and minutes under RSA 91-A:2, II. No notice, minutes or recording of any subcommittee session was found in the district's shares or the Cablecast gallery mapped in MAP.md. The record mitigates the notice question in part, since at least one session was announced at the November 7 board meeting, which is why this page grades it MEDIUM rather than HIGH under the project's severity rule; it does not show that minutes were kept. Petrin's statement that material becomes "public information" only "once it's here in the packet" (1:39:55) describes the board packet, not the subcommittee's own records, which were public records of a public body in their own right. Holding personnel reductions back from the full board until the next meeting (1:24:33) is not itself a violation; RSA 91-A:3, II(a) would have allowed the board to discuss specific employees' dismissal in nonpublic session, as Pierce suggested (1:40:50).
Sources: RSA 91-A:1-a, VI(d) (2019 codification; source note ends 2008, 354:1, so in force in 2018); RSA 91-A:2, II (2017 codification); RSA 91-A:3, II(a) (2017 codification)
OBSERVATION The 2018 deliberative session's secret ballots had been kept at the moderator's home for ten months
The moderator told the board she and the clerk tallied the secret ballots from the February 2018 deliberative session and that she still had them "in a Ziploc bag at my home because I didn't know where they went" (0:26:28); after a brief exchange the ballots were to go to the school district office (0:27:10, 0:27:18). She kept them because "I didn't think they should just be tossed out", and the board settled custody in public, which is to its credit. No statute verified for this project fixes where or for how long a school district meeting's secret ballots must be kept; RSA 197:20 makes the district clerk responsible for keeping a true record of each district meeting, which is the natural home for them. A written custody rule for future sessions would settle the question.
Sources: RSA 197:20 (district clerk keeps a true record of each meeting; source note ends 1963, 120:5)
OBSERVATION Gifts described as given to pay down lunch debt were redirected to school food pantries
The assistant superintendent presented four gifts "to pay down school lunch debt", the largest "from the GoFundMe for Claremont School lunches" (0:40:05). Because the 2017-18 debt had already been cleared on November 7, the board voted to send the $2,311.93 to the school food pantries rather than hold it against new debt (0:46:37 to 0:47:36), on the reasoning that donors "were going on the assumption that it was going to be used to feed children" (0:42:19). The chair asked whether the board could direct the use of a gift at all (0:44:44). RSA 198:20-b, III(b) governs acceptance of gifts under $5,000 (agenda and minutes notice, acceptance in public session at a regular meeting), and this item was on the amended agenda; the statute does not address restricted purposes. The record does not say whether the donors or the GoFundMe organizer were asked. Members later described the GoFundMe as "specifically set up for food banks" (2:04:39), which differs from how it was presented earlier in the meeting. The donors' own descriptions of their gifts would settle which purpose they chose.
Sources: RSA 198:20-b, I and III(b) (2017 codification; source note ends 2005, 188:1)
OBSERVATION The federal funding analysis is the presenter's; its legal citations are garbled in the transcript, and its central conclusion cites no rule
The presentation put federal allocations at $3,881,000 and state aid at about $12.5 million, together "about $16.4 million of a $32 million budget" (1:11:18 to 1:12:51). Two of its legal points can be checked. The chair's observation that the attendance requirement runs "through age 18 instead of age 21" (1:15:29) is right: RSA 193:1, I, as codified in 2018, requires attendance for children at least 6 and under 18, while federal special education law makes a free appropriate public education available from 3 through 21. The citations as transcribed (RSA 21-9N, RSA 1931, 8306) are speech-recognition renderings and should not be relied on. The conclusion that "if we were to say no thank you to federal funding, you're also saying no thank you to state funding" (1:12:51) is not tied to any cited provision on the record, so this page treats it as the presenter's characterization. The 47-slide deck itself is not in any public share.
Sources: RSA 193:1, I (2018 codification; source note ends 2017, 182:2, eff. Aug. 28, 2017); 20 U.S.C. 1412(a)(1)(A) (FAPE for children aged 3 through 21)
POSITIVE The moderator debriefed the deliberative session in public, and the 2019 dates were set inside the statutory windows with snow dates
The moderator brought a written debrief of the 2018 deliberative session to the board and walked through what worked and what did not (0:25:17 to 0:36:52). No statute requires that. The 2019 dates she was told of fit RSA 40:13 as codified in 2018: the budget hearing on January 2 (snow date January 3) falls before the third Tuesday in January, January 15, as II-a(c) requires, and the deliberative session on February 6 (snow date February 7) falls within III's window, from the first through the second Saturday after the last Monday in January (February 2 to February 9, 2019). Publishing snow dates in advance, which the moderator asked for after the 2018 session had to be moved (0:28:03), goes beyond what the statute requires.
Sources: RSA 40:13, II-a(c) and III (2018 codification; source note ends 2018, 313:1, 2, eff. Aug. 24, 2018)
Appendix: source files
Official and public sources
- Cablecast: SCHOOL BOARD MEETING 12-5 (show 10139; run time from the Cablecast API not retrieved, the API returned 403 to this environment on 2026-10-02)
- Google Drive: no packet folder, agenda or minutes. MAP.md records that neither share holds a year folder older than 2022 and that the Meeting Minutes share starts at 2023 (checked 9/26/26). Not searched again for this page, per the run instructions for meetings with no Drive material.
Project files
Working files this page was built from. The dialogue file is linked; the others are not published with the page.
Dialogue/10139 SchoolBoard120518.mp4.CSV (863 attributed rows; the basis of this page)Input/Videos/10139 SchoolBoard120518.mp4Input/Transcripts/10139 SchoolBoard120518.mp4.jsonInput/SupportingDocuments/MAP.md, section 88Scripts/attribution_reports_2015_2023/10139 SchoolBoard120518.mp4.md (speaker attribution report)
Laws and rules cited on this page
- RSA 91-A:2, II, 2017 codification (in force Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2018): minutes content and five-business-day inspection
- RSA 91-A:1-a, VI(d): public bodies include any committee or subcommittee of a school board
- RSA 91-A:3, II(a), 2017 codification: nonpublic session for the dismissal, promotion or compensation of an employee
- RSA 197:20: the school district clerk keeps a true record of each meeting
- RSA 198:20-b, I and III(b), 2017 codification: acceptance of unanticipated money under $5,000
- RSA 193:1, I, 2018 codification: compulsory attendance from age 6 to under 18
- RSA 40:13, II-a(c) and III, 2018 codification: budget hearing deadline and first-session window in official-ballot districts
- 20 U.S.C. 1412(a)(1)(A): free appropriate public education for children with disabilities aged 3 through 21