Claremont School Board, April 3, 2019

Regular meeting preceded by a public hearing on two sources of unanticipated revenue (a $21,150 Couch Family Foundation grant and state Public School Infrastructure Fund money for the security warrant article). The board went into nonpublic session on a confidential-financial-information ground and voted to seal those minutes for 99 years, approved a July 2020 Stevens music trip, accepted a $760 American Legion donation, heard that the first draft of the incoming superintendent's contract went out that day, and passed around the FY2020 MS-22 ($35,524,063) for signature. The page is built from the CCTV recording's dialogue transcript; no agenda, packet or minutes survive in the district's online shares. Timestamps link to the same moment in the Cablecast recording.

Body
Claremont School Board (Claremont School District, SAU 6)
Date
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Start time
Not stated in available records. The recording opens on the public hearing (0:00:16); the chair calls the regular meeting to order after it (0:05:16). Adjournment is moved at 0:48:46 and carried at 0:48:50.
Location
Not stated in available records. The acting superintendent says the SAU 6 board meeting of April 11 "will be held here" (0:41:50), but the building is not named.
Recording
Cablecast: SCHOOL BOARD meeting of 4-3-19 (transcript runs to 0:48:58; the nonpublic session is not on the tape, which jumps 29 seconds from the entry roll call to the vote on leaving it)
Minutes
None located. MAP.md records no Drive material for this meeting: neither district share holds a year folder older than 2022, and the Meeting Minutes share starts at 2023 (checked 9/26/26). The board approved these minutes as amended on April 17, 2019 (see the April 17, 2019 page), so they existed.
Board composition
Seven members in the 2019–20 reconstruction: Frank Sprague (chair), Rebecca Zullo (vice chair), Jason Benware, Rob Lovett Jr., Michael Petrin, Carolyn Towle and Heather Whitney (sworn in March 20, 2019). Only Jason, Michael, Towle and Whitney are distinguishable in the roll calls (0:05:51, 0:22:38, 0:22:40); seven affirmative answers are audible on the nonpublic roll call, which fits a full board, but Lovett is never named on the tape.

Participants

Everyone heard on the recording. Names follow the project's 2015–2023 roster and attribution report for this show; there are no minutes to check spellings against. Where the attribution report rates a label below high confidence, the row says so.
NameRoleParticipation
Frank SpragueChairOpens with the unanticipated-revenue hearing, "a public hearing under RSA 198 colon 20 D" [198:20-b] (0:00:41); moves the school-funding lawsuit item to follow the nonpublic session (0:06:02); the dialogue file labels him as seconding the nonpublic motion (0:22:17); reports the board is "on hold as far as this for the present time" on the lawsuit (0:28:39); supports wider board communication but says "I don't think it should all be on you to do it" (0:45:22).
Rebecca ZulloVice ChairReports that superintendent "Contract. Negotiations have officially started" and that the first draft "was sent out today with the attachment A" (0:30:33, 0:31:14); on the ConVal item asks to "make it very clear no decision has been made" (0:28:46); asks the acting superintendent whether the district climate survey carries a comment section and how a parent can see a child's survey answers (0:46:02, 0:47:52).
Michael PetrinMemberLabel rated medium confidence in the attribution report (it rests on his running the board's Facebook page; one roll-call answer sits where Benware would answer). Reads the Couch grant as "2000 or 21,150" (0:02:39) and the infrastructure grant as "$564,000" (0:04:35); moves the nonpublic session (0:21:48) and approval of the music trip (0:27:48); says "I put the agendas up, we put the, the video of the meetings up" on the board's Facebook page and proposes a post-meeting synopsis (0:44:12).
Carolyn TowleMemberMoves approval of the March 20 minutes (0:07:09) and notes the clerk "spelled my name wrong" (0:07:28); the chair credits her (Caroline) with the second on the $760 donation (0:30:12); asks during the nonpublic roll call "Who are you inviting in?" (0:22:45).
Jason BenwareMemberCalled as Jason in attendance (0:05:51). No speech can be attributed to him; the attribution report could not separate him from Whitney and Lovett among four unidentified board-member clusters.
Heather WhitneyMemberCalled Whitney on the nonpublic roll call, followed by Yes. (0:22:40). The words "I choose Heather" follow the motion to seal (0:23:40) and may be her second; that reading is not confirmed.
Rob Lovett Jr.MemberNot named on the recording. Attendance cannot be established from the tape.
Mary WoodmanClerk and recording secretaryTakes attendance (0:05:51) and calls the nonpublic roll (0:22:38); accepts corrections to the March 20 minutes (0:07:42).
Cory LeClairActing Superintendent, SAU 6Presents both unanticipated-revenue items (0:00:55, 0:03:27); superintendent's report on the Dartmouth-sponsored Montshire Museum trip and kindergarten registration (0:15:48); presents the $760 donation (0:29:00); retreat and future-agenda planning, including a proposed Maple Avenue to Moody Park bridge for the May 6 joint meeting (0:36:48, 0:42:55).
Michael O'NeillBusiness Administrator, SAU 6The chair calls him Mike (0:36:00); surname spelling from the roster only. Presents the MS-22 with a "total appropriation 35524063" for fiscal 2020 (0:32:30) and a revenue projection "favorable about 59,000" (0:33:40).
Jesse (surname not established)Student representative, Stevens High SchoolDelivers the district student report (0:08:12); the chair afterwards says "Mr. Barrel" (0:13:41), which the attribution report treats as an unresolved surname.
Katya (surname not stated)Band and chorus teacher, Stevens High SchoolPresents a July 2020 EF Tours trip to "Berlin, Prague, Krakow and Budapest" (0:25:13, 0:25:35).
Unidentified residentCitizens' comments, Ward 3Name not audible; the chair says "And Ward three" (0:18:18). Says the audience cannot hear the board (0:18:20) and asks why people do not come to meetings (0:20:27).
Unidentified board membersMembers (not separable)Move to seal the nonpublic minutes (0:23:31), to accept the $760 donation (0:30:05) and to adjourn (0:48:46); one seconds the adjournment (0:48:48).

Order of business (reconstructed)

No agenda survives. The items below follow the chair's transitions. The chair refers to "item D, which is a school funding slash con lawsuit" under discussion and action items (0:06:02), so a printed agenda existed.

Taken upItemDisposition
0:00:16Public hearing: unanticipated revenueTwo sources: the Couch Family Foundation grant for an early childhood and building trades project (amount read as "2000 or 21,150", 0:02:39) and Public School Infrastructure Fund matching money for the security warrant article (0:03:27). No citizen spoke on either (0:03:15, 0:04:49). No vote to accept either is on the tape.
0:05:16Call to order; Pledge; attendance"Okay. If you call this meeting to order, please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance." (0:05:16); attendance by the clerk (0:05:51).
0:06:02Agenda changesItem D (school funding lawsuit) moved to immediately after the nonpublic session; the music trip held pending the presenter's arrival (0:06:32). No vote on the change is recorded.
0:07:04Approval of minutes, March 20, 2019Moved by Towle (0:07:09); a second labeled Petrin (0:07:23); spelling corrections noted; voice vote, one Aye. audible (0:08:04).
0:08:07Student representative reportSchool-by-school calendar report (0:08:12 to 0:13:34).
0:15:42Superintendent's reportMontshire Museum trip; kindergarten registration (0:15:48 to 0:17:55).
0:17:59Citizens' commentsOne speaker, Ward 3 (0:18:20); closed at 0:21:32.
0:21:32Nonpublic sessionMotion under RSA 91-A:3, II, quoting the confidential commercial or financial information ground (0:21:48); second (0:22:17); roll call, all audible answers Yes. (0:22:31 to 0:22:44). The session is not on the tape. Roll-call answers on return (0:23:14 to 0:23:25); motion to seal the minutes "for 99 years" carried by voice (0:23:31, 0:23:59). See flag 1 and flag 4.
0:24:08Stevens High School music trip, July 2020Approved: moved by Petrin (0:27:48), seconded by an unidentified member (0:27:52), voice vote (0:28:01).
0:28:12School funding (ConVal) lawsuitDiscussion only; the board is "on hold as far as this for the present time" (0:28:39); "no decision has been made" (0:28:46).
0:28:52Acceptance of donations$760 from American Legion Post 29 auxiliary for six students' eighth-grade Boston trip dues; moved by an unidentified member, second credited to Towle, voice vote (0:30:05, 0:30:12).
0:30:28Update on superintendent search processContract negotiations started; first draft sent that day (0:30:33, 0:31:14).
0:31:46MS-22Fiscal 2020 total appropriation $35,524,063; circulated for members' signatures (0:32:30, 0:32:53). See flag 2.
0:33:17Budget versus actual, end-of-year projectionRevenue projection favorable by about $59,000; expenditure projection not ready (0:33:27, 0:33:40).
0:36:34Transition; April board retreatRetreat set for Sunday, April 14, 10 to 1, at the Claremont Savings Bank community center (0:39:09, 0:39:46).
0:40:13Future agenda itemsGeneral assurances, a Goshen tuition agreement, the E-Rate hearing, the Bluff fourth-grade trip; SAU 6 meeting April 11; joint meeting with the City Council May 6 (0:40:13, 0:41:50).
0:44:09For the good of the orderBoard communication through Facebook (0:44:12); survey questions (0:46:02).
0:48:46AdjournmentMoved and seconded by unidentified members; voice vote (0:48:46 to 0:48:53).

Discussion timeline

Times are taken from the dialogue transcript (Dialogue/10310 SchoolBoard040319.mp4.CSV) and link into the recording.

TimeTopicWhat was saidFlags
0:00:16Why a hearingChair: "whenever we receive a, a gift over a certain threshold, we have to have open up the opportunity for the public to weigh in on how those funds would be used. And so it's unanticipated revenue." He cites "RSA 198 colon 20 D" (0:00:41); the unanticipated-funds statute is RSA 198:20-b.OBSERVATION
0:00:55Couch Family Foundation grantLeClair: the grant "partners our early childhood learning center with our current building trades program", funding the building of equipment for the early childhood program. She first estimates "approximately $23,000" (0:01:38); Petrin then reads the figure from earlier minutes: "it's the amount of 2000 or 21,150" (0:02:39) and "21,001 50" (0:02:53). LeClair: "Just the couch. Family Foundation donation was over the threshold." (0:02:49); "So we are asking that the board, except [accept] those funds." (0:02:59). No citizen comment (0:03:15).OBSERVATION
0:03:27Public School Infrastructure FundLeClair: grant funding for security upgrades matching last March's warrant article, "approximately $141,000, if memory serves correctly"; the hearing is needed "because they are above and beyond, what we included in revenue" (0:03:58). Petrin: "This wasn't it 8020. So it should be four times what we laid out." and "$564,000." (0:04:29, 0:04:35); the chair: "Okay. So it's 470,000." and 04771. (0:04:39, 0:04:45). No amount is settled on the tape. No citizen comment; hearing closed (0:04:49).OBSERVATION
0:05:16Call to order; attendancePledge; the clerk's attendance is mostly inaudible: "Jason. Here, here. Michael. Here." (0:05:51).
0:06:02Agenda changeChair: item D, "a school funding slash con lawsuit", is "going to be moved up, up right immediately after we come out of our nonpublic." LeClair: the music department asked to be on the agenda but has not arrived (0:06:32).OBSERVATION
0:07:04March 20 minutesTowle moves; corrections to spellings of her name; the clerk says "I have corrected them" (0:07:42); approved by voice.MEDIUM
0:08:12Student reportDonkey basketball proceeds for Project Red and Blue, a July leadership program for sixth graders; honor society inductions April 11; blood drive May 1; community service day April 19; a district climate survey of students, families and staff; a visit by Senator Maggie Hassan to the technical center (0:11:09); Middle School running club; statewide assessment testing at Bluff (0:12:42).
0:13:55GEAR UP and Play 60Student: "I do know that Kira is here to play 60" [GEAR UP; Play 60, reading uncertain]; LeClair explains GEAR UP as a grant that "Helps students get connected with college and collegial opportunities" for students who are "perhaps first generation college students" (0:14:26).
0:15:48Superintendent's reportThanks the Dartmouth Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity that rents the "Manchester Museum" [Montshire Museum] for elementary students, the third year of the trip (0:15:58); kindergarten registration in April for any child who turns five by September 30, 2019 (0:17:03).
0:18:20Citizens' comment, Ward 3"Those sitting in the audience are straining their ears, and my lip reading is going away if you keep looking down at your computer." (0:18:20); "I can't sit at home and watch you on TV." (0:18:44); "Coming to these meetings, you don't make people feel wanted." (0:19:40). The chair: "Typically when it's your turn to talk so we don't talk during citizens comments." (0:20:23).OBSERVATION
0:21:48Motion for nonpublic session"I'd like to make a motion to go in a nonpublic session for RSA 91, a colon, three paragraph two. Consideration of confidential commercial or financial information that is exempt from public disclosure under RSA 91 a colon, five comma four. In a judicial proceeding pursuant to RSA 541 or RSA 541, a thank you." Second at 0:22:17; "And we need a roll call." (0:22:20).OBSERVATION
0:22:31Entry roll callSeven Yes. answers are audible between 0:22:31 and 0:22:44; the clerk is heard calling only Michael and Whitney. Towle: "Question. Who are you inviting in?" (0:22:45). The next row is 29 seconds later.
0:23:14Return from nonpublicA second string of Yes. answers (0:23:14 to 0:23:25); no motion to leave the session is audible.
0:23:28Sealing the nonpublic minutesChair: "Can I have a motion to seal the." Member: "I would like to make a motion to save [seal] the nonpublic minutes for 99 years." (0:23:31); "I choose Heather." (0:23:40). The chair asks whether a voice vote suffices: "Hard time. We do a voice call for you. Forward on this, or do we have two." (0:23:53); a member: "Sealing minutes?" Then "Okay. All those in favor?" (0:23:59), one Aye. audible (0:24:01), no call for opposition, no count and no statement of the reason for sealing.MEDIUM
0:24:08Music tripChair: "We're in nonpublic so long" that he brings the teacher up. EF Tours, the same company used for the Washington, D.C. trips; destinations "Berlin, Prague, Krakow and Budapest", 9 to 10 days, July 2020 (0:25:35); travel protection and optional credit through SNHU (0:26:03). Petrin: "I'd like to move that we approve this trip." (0:27:48); asked the cost, a member says "4000 bucks." (0:28:00); approved (0:28:01).
0:28:12ConVal school funding lawsuitChair: "We're kind of in a position where we're waiting to see how things unfold legislatively as well as legally in the state." (0:28:12); "on hold as far as this for the present time." (0:28:39). Zullo: "Something make it very clear no decision has been made. It's just a discussion, right?" (0:28:46).OBSERVATION
0:29:00$760 donationFrom the American Legion Post 29 auxiliary, through social studies teacher David Hardy: "they are donating to us a total of $760. And that is to support six students whose families are financially struggling and unable to pay the $120 class dues for the eighth grade trip." (0:29:19). Petrin asks "Is it 720 or 760?"; LeClair: "It's 760." (0:29:59). Moved "with our heartfelt thanks" (0:30:05); "Second from Caroline." (0:30:12); approved.
0:30:33Superintendent contractZullo: "Contract. Negotiations have officially started." Mike [Michael Tempesta, the SAU 6 board's choice] is "very excited" (0:30:48). Asked when it will be final, she says the first "Draft of the" contract "was sent out today with the attachment A." (0:31:11, 0:31:14). Chair: "Thank you for your efforts on this because I know it's just you doing that." (0:31:39).
0:31:46MS-22 for fiscal 2020O'Neill: a "reconciliation of warrants" shows what passed and failed; "we approved all of the law. And except for the one for the" (chair: "One for the radios.") (0:32:06, 0:32:22); "if you come to the fiscal year end 2020, total appropriation 35524063 should be the number on the bottom of the mass." [MS-22] (0:32:30). Chair: "So is that something that needs to get passed around so we can all sign that? Correct." (0:32:53).MEDIUM
0:33:27Year-end projectionO'Neill: "It looks like we're going to be favorable about 59,000" on revenue (0:33:40); expenditures, "with 1200 lines", are still being worked through, including purchase orders left open for students who moved out of district, which "will result in us recording encumbrance in an expenditure. And that's double recording." (0:34:15); salaries and benefits carry a significant balance and out-of-district tuition a significant negative balance; the expenditure report's bottom line was "$874,000" (0:35:00), a member reads "865. 756." (0:35:07). E-Rate hearing to be scheduled April 17 for the first May meeting (0:36:20).
0:36:48Negotiations subcommitteeLeClair: the "SRA, which is the teachers union" [CEA, the Claremont Education Association, reading uncertain] would like a ground-setting meeting in May, so a negotiation subcommittee should be identified at the retreat (0:37:17).
0:38:05Retreat date and placeSunday, April 14; chair: "I, I'd say 10 to 1." (0:39:09); "Claremont Savings Bank community center in the room behind the front desk." (0:39:46).
0:40:13Future agenda itemsGeneral assurances for fiscal 2020 federal programs, which need "the board, chairs, signature and initials" (0:40:13); a Goshen tuition agreement; the E-Rate hearing; the Bluff fourth-grade White Mountains trip (0:40:39, 0:41:11). SAU 6 board April 11 at 6:30; joint City Council and school board meeting moved to May 6 (0:41:50); LeClair proposes a bridge between Maple Avenue School and Moody Park for outdoor learning, with possible Student Conservation Association grant money (0:42:55).
0:44:12Board communicationPetrin proposes "Beefing up what gets out on Facebook through the Claremont School Board page", perhaps "an agreed upon, statement after every meeting"; "I put the agendas up, we put the, the video of the meetings up". Chair recalls that "Mayor Lovett was on the board, she was kind of a communicator" (0:44:51). Asked whether the CCTV link is posted, Petrin: "I post the video after it." (0:45:50).POSITIVE
0:46:02Climate surveyZullo asks which board questions made the survey; LeClair: "you had given me five questions, so I submitted five questions." (0:46:32). Zullo received a permission slip for her child to take the student survey at school and asks whether a parent can see the answers (0:47:25, 0:47:52); an unidentified voice: "So you don't want the confidential survey to be confidential?" (0:48:32).
0:48:46Adjournment"I make a motion that we adjourn." "I'm going to second that." Voice vote.

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 April 3, 2019, or is labeled an observation where no verified rule applies.

MEDIUM The nonpublic minutes were sealed "for 99 years" on a voice vote, with no count and no stated reason

After the session the board took up "a motion to save [seal] the nonpublic minutes for 99 years" (0:23:31). The chair asked whether a voice vote would do (0:23:53) and then called "All those in favor?" (0:23:59). One Aye. is audible, with no call for opposition and no count. Nobody states why the minutes should be withheld.

RSA 91-A:3, III, in the 2019 codification, requires nonpublic minutes to be publicly disclosed within 72 hours unless the body, "by recorded vote of 2/3 of the members present taken in public session", determines that disclosure would likely affect a person's reputation adversely, render the proposed action ineffective, or relate to terrorism; the information may then be withheld "until, in the opinion of a majority of members, the aforesaid circumstances no longer apply". The statute names no fixed term. On the tape, the two-thirds count is not recorded and none of the three determinations is stated. The vote was taken in public session, and the minutes, which are not available, might record a tally and a finding; that possibility is why this is MEDIUM and not HIGH.

Sources: RSA 91-A:3, III (2019 codification; 72-hour disclosure unless sealed by recorded 2/3 vote with a determination); Dialogue/10310 SchoolBoard040319.mp4.CSV (rows 149 to 161)

MEDIUM Members were still collecting signatures on the MS-22 on April 3, three weeks after the March 12 vote

The business administrator presented the fiscal 2020 MS-22, with a total appropriation of $35,524,063, and the chair asked whether it "needs to get passed around so we can all sign that? Correct." (0:32:30, 0:32:53). The voters acted on the warrant at the official-ballot session of March 12, 2019. RSA 21-J:34, II requires the governing body of a school district to certify the appropriations voted "within 20 days of the close of the meeting". Twenty days from March 12 ended on Monday, April 1, 2019. A form still being signed on April 3 could not have been filed by then.

The record does not show when the form reached the Department of Revenue Administration, whether the department accepted it late or granted more time, or whether a signed copy had already gone in and this was a duplicate. Six days later, on April 9, the district was notified that its warrant, budget and default budget had not been posted on time, and it called a special meeting for May 15 to ratify the March results (as the acting superintendent reported on May 1; see the May 1, 2019 page), so the appropriations being certified here soon needed ratification themselves.

Sources: RSA 21-J:34, II (2019 codification; appropriations report "filed within 20 days of the close of the meeting")

MEDIUM No agenda, packet or minutes for this meeting are publicly available

MAP.md records no Drive material: neither district share holds a year folder older than 2022, and the Meeting Minutes share starts at 2023. RSA 91-A:2, II, in the 2019 codification (in force from January 1, 2019), requires minutes that include the names of members, persons appearing, a brief description of the subject matter discussed and final decisions, and the names of the persons who made and seconded each motion, open to public inspection within five business days.

This page applies the MEDIUM limb of the project's severity rule because the record mitigates the gap: the clerk took corrections to the March 20 minutes tonight (0:07:42), and on April 17 the board approved this meeting's minutes as amended (see the April 17, 2019 page). Minutes were kept; no public copy can be found now. Several facts on this page turn on them: who moved the seal and the donation, the nonpublic subject, the seal tally, and the agenda as printed.

Sources: RSA 91-A:2, II (2019 codification; minutes content, mover and seconder, five business days)

OBSERVATION The nonpublic motion cited the confidential-financial-information ground, which applies only within an adjudicative proceeding under RSA 541 or 541-A

The motion (0:21:48) paraphrases RSA 91-A:3, II(j), "Consideration of confidential, commercial, or financial information that is exempt from public disclosure under RSA 91-A:5, IV in an adjudicative proceeding pursuant to RSA 541 or RSA 541-A" (statute's wording). The motion said "judicial proceeding". The chair had moved the school-funding lawsuit item to "right immediately after we come out of our nonpublic" (0:06:02), and after the session he reported only that the board was waiting on legislative and court developments (0:28:12). The ConVal school-funding case was filed in Superior Court in March 2019, according to the NH School Funding Fairness Project's case summary; it is a court action, not an administrative appeal under RSA 541 or RSA 541-A.

If the nonpublic subject was that lawsuit, II(j) does not fit it; the statute's grounds for litigation are II(e) (pending claims or litigation threatened in writing or filed against the body) and II(l) (consideration of legal advice from counsel). The recording does not say what was discussed, and the sealed minutes are not available, so this is an observation about the fit of the stated ground, not a finding.

Sources: RSA 91-A:3, I(b), I(c), II(e), II(j), II(l) (2019 codification; motion states the exemption; discussion confined to it); NH School Funding Fairness Project, "ConVal Lawsuit" (advocacy summary; filed in Superior Court, March 2019)

OBSERVATION The unanticipated-revenue hearing was held, but no amount for the infrastructure grant was settled and no vote to accept either source is on the tape

The board held the hearing that RSA 198:20-b, III(a) requires for unanticipated funds of $5,000 or more, and invited comment on each source (0:03:06, 0:04:49). The amounts were uncertain in the room: the Couch grant was first put at "approximately $23,000" and then read from earlier minutes as $21,150 (0:01:38, 0:02:39); the infrastructure money was described as an 80/20 match on a roughly $141,000 warrant article, with "$564,000." and "So it's 470,000." both spoken and neither confirmed (0:04:35, 0:04:39). The acting superintendent asked the board to accept the funds (0:02:59), but neither source appears in the acceptance-of-donations item later in the meeting (0:28:52), which dealt only with the $760 gift.

The statute also requires newspaper notice of the hearing's time, place and subject at least seven days before, and it presupposes a district article authorizing the board to accept such money (198:20-b, I). Neither the notice nor the article can be checked here. Neither the April 17 nor the May 1 recording shows a vote accepting either source (on May 1 the board voted only on a $25,000 bequest; see the May 1, 2019 page), so no acceptance of this money appears on any recording through May 1.

Sources: RSA 198:20-b, I and III (2019 codification; prior public hearing with seven days' newspaper notice at $5,000 or more)

OBSERVATION A resident said the audience could not hear the board

The only citizens' comment of the night was that "Those sitting in the audience are straining their ears" and that the speaker cannot watch the meeting on television (0:18:20, 0:18:44). No rule verified for this page sets an audibility standard for members speaking in the room (RSA 91-A:2, III(c)'s audibility clause concerns members participating remotely), so this is recorded as an access observation only. The board did not respond on the record; the chair explained that the board does not answer during citizens' comments (0:20:23).

Sources: Dialogue/10310 SchoolBoard040319.mp4.CSV (rows 116 to 129)

POSITIVE A member posts the board's agendas and meeting videos on the board's Facebook page and proposed a summary after each meeting

Petrin said he puts the agendas and the meeting video on the Claremont School Board Facebook page and proposed "an agreed upon, statement after every meeting, kind of a synopsis" (0:44:12); the chair supported it and asked that the work be shared (0:45:22). RSA 91-A requires notice and minutes, not posted agendas, recordings or summaries, so this goes beyond the statutory minimum.

Sources: RSA 91-A:2, II and II-b (2019 codification; notice, minutes and website posting of minutes)

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