Participants
Everyone heard or addressed on the recording. Spellings follow the project's 2015 to 2023 roster and the speakers' own introductions, because no minutes survive to check them against; the dialogue file's transcriptions of names are noted where they differ. Details about students are kept to what the discussion of policy requires.
| Name | Role | Participation |
|---|
| Frank Sprague | Chair; budget committee; board representative in the maintenance, paraprofessional and administrator negotiations | Presides. Describes the budget committee's work, including a session of its three members around Christmas (0:47:54); says of the administrators' contract, "I talked to a couple of board members ex parte" (0:45:55); declines to vote on the late-added COVID item: "I'm not sure it's an appropriate to add something to the agenda that's not warned and then vote on it. No." (2:09:21). Transcribed "Chairman Greg" by the superintendent. |
| Heather Whitney | Member | Moves the amended agenda, the gift, the maintenance, paraprofessional and administrator agreements, the budget, the Program of Studies and adjournment. Says the board must decide "whether we're going to try to continue to chase the changing guidelines" (2:06:06); raises the high school grading scale (1:25:36). |
| Steven Horsky | Member; board representative in the secretaries' negotiation | Adds the COVID discussion to the agenda (0:01:05) and leads it (2:01:55); moves the secretaries' agreement (0:32:44); questions the food-service line (0:58:57); argues the 20-credit diploma should carry fewer electives: "I read the statute, actually, so we can require more." (1:33:57); objects to the Puerto Rico trip's vaccine requirement (2:34:04). |
| Nicholas Stone | Member; budget committee | Seconds the agenda and adjournment; asks about French, the computer course and philosophy in the Program of Studies; asks who knows of drills in advance (1:59:16); notes the district dashboard shows two cases where three were said to make the cluster (2:18:01). |
| Joshua Lambert | Member | Seconds the administrators' agreement (0:46:32); asks about personal finance (1:19:05); objects to unannounced lockdown drills (1:53:50); on the trip: "It's their choice. If they choose not to get vaccinated, they don't go." (2:34:31) |
| Michael Petrin | Member; budget committee | Credited by the chair with seconding the gift (0:27:12), the paraprofessional agreement (0:43:06), the budget (1:16:05) and the Program of Studies (1:46:10); asks where CARES money appears (0:57:56). Transcribed "Mike Petra", "Mike patron" and Peter. His attributed rows rest on single cues. |
| Rob Lovett Jr. | Member | Called at the roll (0:00:47); no answer or later words can be attributed to him. |
| Unidentified | Board member | Reminds the board of "a policy where you cannot speak on agenda items" (0:17:43); reports students' accounts of the lockdown drill, including a class "tying sheets together" (1:50:32 to 1:51:04); describes state cluster rulings from "the nursing home where I work" (2:23:10); "I like to call us back to order" (2:27:09). The attribution review leaves this voice between Lovett and Petrin. |
| Michael Tempesta | Superintendent, SAU 6 | COVID report and the Stevens High School principal's retirement (0:25:13); introduces the Program of Studies (1:17:16) and David Bailey (1:46:32). On the cluster: "There is a degree to which we can never speak about the confidentiality." (2:20:18) |
| Richard Seaman | Assistant superintendent for finance, SAU 6 | Presents the four contract summaries (0:28:03 to 0:44:33) and the budget, revenue and tax-rate pages (0:49:51 to 1:14:49). |
| David Bailey | Stevens High School administrator | Introduced as the former assistant principal now back in that role (1:46:32). Describes drills: "All our all our fire drills are unannounced" (1:49:55); teachers are not told of lockdown drills "because we want it to be as genuine as possible" (1:51:58). |
| Unidentified | Stevens High School administrator | Answers Program of Studies questions (1:16:49 to 1:45:29) and gives the Puerto Rico trip numbers "from Mrs. Barry" (2:30:35). |
| Unidentified | District administrator | "Having worked in numerous school systems over the last three and a half decades", says not announcing drills is standard, and describes a district safety review held that day (1:55:49, 1:56:13). |
| Veronica (surname not recovered) | District nurse coordinator | Speaks at citizens' comments "not only as a citizen but also as an employee" (0:10:58); "I contact the state, and the state determines whether or not we have a cluster" (0:11:46); reports the state's move to five-day quarantine (2:09:47, 2:10:12). The superintendent calls her the coordinator of all the nurses and "the liaison to the state" (0:23:32); the surname is transcribed "has no ski". |
| Taylor Sullivan | Citizens' comments, Ward 1; departing district staff member and coach | "The pay is not enough for the economy that we live in." (0:03:33). The chair thanks Tyler. |
| Sean Morin | Citizens' comments; middle school boys' basketball coach | Questions how the team was declared a cluster: "it doesn't seem like there's any consistency" (0:04:22). Returns to deny the nurse's account of their call (0:18:01). Spelling from his introduction; the nurse says "Mr. Moran". |
| Mary Burke | Citizens' comments, Ward 2; parent of a team member | Asks how the cluster was counted and "who is responsible for keeping track of this?" (0:08:50); says quarantined students are getting little work (0:09:15). Later reads the state toolkit's cluster definition (2:18:37). |
| Patrick Adrian | Citizens' comments, Ward 1; former board member | Says the agenda item "CPS budget review and approval" did not tell the public what was coming (0:16:07) and asks that any position cuts be named before the hearing (0:16:34). |
| Mary Woodman | School district clerk | Calls the roll (0:00:47 to 0:00:54). |
| Named, not heard | Mentioned | Principal Pat Barry of Stevens High School, whose retirement is announced (0:25:13); the district's auditor, who "happened to be here today" (0:58:01); Pamela Oliver of transportation, thanked (0:55:49); Mr. Bonneville, facilities manager (1:59:26). |
Order of business (reconstructed)
No agenda survives. The items are reconstructed from the chair's transitions; the agenda existed, since the chair amends it and a commenter quotes its wording (0:16:07).
| Taken up | Item | What was said and done |
|---|
| 0:00:08 | Call to order, pledge, roll call | Roll at 0:00:32; answers merge on the recording. |
| 0:00:55 | Agenda, amended | Horsky adds a COVID discussion item, placed as "number seven on the agenda" (0:01:41). Whitney moves "to accept the agenda, as amended"; "Motion by Heather, seconded by Nick." Voice vote (0:02:02). |
| 0:02:02 | Minutes | "We don't have any meeting minutes tonight due to some technical difficulties." |
| 0:02:02 | Citizens' comments | Taylor Sullivan, Sean Morin, Mary Burke, the nurse coordinator, Patrick Adrian; Morin again. Closed at 0:20:04. |
| 0:20:15 | Superintendent's report | COVID; principal searches; Barry's retirement. No questions (0:25:54). |
| 0:25:58 | Bluff donation of $500 | Donor not known at the table. Whitney moves to accept; "Seconded by Mike Petra"; voice vote (0:27:12). |
| 0:27:24 | Ratification of collective bargaining agreements | Each ratified and sent to the ballot as a warrant article by voice vote: secretaries (Horsky moves, second unidentified, 0:32:44); maintenance (Whitney, Horsky, 0:36:41); paraprofessionals (Whitney, Petrin, 0:42:52); Claremont Administrators Association (Whitney, Lambert, 0:46:19). |
| 0:46:36 | Claremont public schools budget review and approval | Whitney moves "to accept the proposed, 2223 Claremont School District budget of 37,243,000 825,000", restated as "37,243,825" (1:15:54); "Peter in seconds" (1:16:05); voice vote (1:16:09). |
| 1:16:22 | Program of Studies approval | Whitney moves to accept "the 2022 2023 Stevens High School Program of Studies" (1:45:58); "seconded by Mike"; voice vote, "All those in favor? Aye, aye. Opposed? No." (1:46:10). Whether No. is a dissent or the chair's "none" cannot be told. |
| 1:46:25 | Emergency planning drills | Presentation by David Bailey and discussion. No vote. |
| 2:01:40 | Item seven: COVID discussion | Discussion only; set for February 2 (2:38:08). |
| 2:27:17 | Other business | Candidate filing period; public hearing Tuesday, January 18; Puerto Rico trip; retreat Sunday, February 6. |
| 2:40:07 | Adjournment | Whitney moves, Stone seconds; voice vote. |
Discussion timeline
Times are taken from the dialogue transcript (Dialogue/12115 SchoolBoard010522.mp4.CSV) and link into the recording.
| Time | Topic | What was said | Flags |
|---|
| 0:01:05 | COVID item added to the agenda | Horsky: a discussion "based off some protocol questions that have been emailed to the board. From some parents". The chair asks whether it could go in the superintendent's report; Horsky: "I would like to do it separately." (0:01:33) | |
| 0:02:02 | No minutes | "We don't have any meeting minutes tonight due to some technical difficulties." | MEDIUM |
| 0:02:32 | Citizens' comments: paraprofessional pay | Taylor Sullivan, leaving after 14 years: "part of the reason why I'm leaving is because of the way that I feel the district staff are treated by the school board and by some of the district staff administrators." "We also have unpaid summers. We also have 32 hour work weeks" (0:03:33). | POSITIVE |
| 0:04:22 | Citizens' comments: the basketball cluster | Morin: the program "was shut down because they called a cluster"; the three cases "had no there's no association with each other" (0:04:50). Burke asks for "the guidelines for being considered a cluster" (0:08:50) and says a quarantined student "has only received social studies assignments" (0:09:15). | |
| 0:10:58 | Nurse coordinator responds | "I contact the state, and the state determines whether or not we have a cluster." She describes both callers as yelling at her, states how one commenter's child had been classified, and says "Three constitutes a cluster." (0:12:12). The chair: "I don't want to get into a larger conversation. This is citizens comments." (0:14:28). Morin later: "in no way did I raise my voice or yell at her" (0:18:01). | OBSERVATION |
| 0:14:47 | Citizens' comments: budget transparency | Adrian: the meeting before the hearing "is almost as important as the public hearing"; the agenda "says CPS budget review and approval" (0:16:07); "don't say, oh, well, we're going to have to drop eight positions and then not say what those eight positions are" (0:16:34). | |
| 0:17:43 | Comment on agenda items | A member: "we've made a policy where you cannot speak on agenda items". The policy is not in the record. | |
| 0:20:15 | Superintendent: COVID and principals | Claremont's share of Sullivan County cases fell from "between 55 and 60%" (0:21:39); quarantine rules "still in flux with the state today" (0:23:04). "Of retirement announcement for from Principal Barry at Stevens High School" (0:25:13). | |
| 0:25:58 | Bluff donation of $500 | Superintendent: "I don't I don't have I don't have the slip." (0:26:45). Chair: "We're going to accept it and we'll acknowledge next meeting." (0:26:48) | POSITIVE |
| 0:28:03 | Secretaries' agreement | Two years. Employer health share from 97% to "96.5 next year and 96% in the following year" (0:28:28); an orange [lower-cost] plan option; Juneteenth added; grid "2.5% in fiscal 23 next year and 2% in fiscal 24" (0:29:24); a "$250 disaster relief stipend" from "the CARES three money" (0:29:42). "once ratified as it will become a warrant article" (0:31:09). | OBSERVATION POSITIVE |
| 0:33:03 | Maintenance agreement | Two years; up to eight hours of professional development; health share to "96.5 in 23 and 95.5 in 24" (0:33:33); grid "2.5% in each of fiscal 23 and fiscal 24" (0:34:03); longevity standardized at $150 per five years (0:34:34). Sprague: the aim is to move the health share toward "the industry standard of around 95%" (0:35:25). | POSITIVE |
| 0:36:59 | Paraprofessionals' agreement | Three years; equalized pay discussed; grid "3% in each of fiscal 23, 24 and 25" (0:37:58); steps 0 to 2 eliminated "to have the new start step at $13.81", on which Seaman says "I have had conversations, I think with with most of the board members on this" (0:38:48); "$400 disaster relief stipend" (0:40:26); certification incentive from 600 to 750 (0:40:54). | OBSERVATION POSITIVE |
| 0:43:14 | Administrators' agreement | Three years at 3% a year; "sole discretion to the superintendent to increase the salary, the calculated salary by up to $5,000 to respond to market conditions" (0:43:48). Sprague: it is for principals, and "I talked to a couple of board members ex parte, and that was important to them as well." (0:45:55) | OBSERVATION POSITIVE |
| 0:47:16 | Budget committee's work | Sprague: "Mike patron and Nick Stone were on that committee with me"; "we met, I don't know how many collective hours, quite a few. And then the three of us met, the Tuesday before Christmas maybe, or Tuesday after Christmas" (0:47:54), producing "suggestions for, areas to look at efficiencies and such with a number attached to that" (0:48:19). | HIGH |
| 0:49:51 | Budget by location | Out-of-district special education at the high school "down by 610,000" (0:52:41); at the regional technical center, nurse and guidance positions carried from the schools, a business teaching position not replaced, and the director's job cut "from a full time position to a half time position" (0:53:48); total "showing right now a $541,581 reduction" (0:57:28). | |
| 0:57:56 | CARES money outside the budget | Petrin: "We talked about the carrots money. Where does that show up now." Seaman: after "conversation with our auditor who happened to be here today", it is not included; "as you utilize the CARES money, that that becomes an approval done by the board as a part of accepting that grant" (0:58:20). Sprague: "supplement not supplant" (0:58:31). | OBSERVATION |
| 0:58:57 | Food service | Horsky asks why the $650,000 food line is not a surplus when meals are federally reimbursed. Seaman: "food service runs its own PNL" (1:00:36), and any surplus "needs to be utilized within food service" (1:02:25). | |
| 1:05:24 | Revenue | "our voters only vote on the appropriation"; fund balance to reduce taxes, "we anticipate that we'll have a $400,000 surplus" (1:06:40); "this past year we returned $1.3 million" (1:07:11); adequacy aid "up by $1 million" (1:08:41). Catastrophic aid: "the state pays 90% of what's above 60,000" (1:09:06). | OBSERVATION |
| 1:09:38 | Tax impact | "we need to collect from our taxpayers $732,327 less"; local rate "$21.62 as compared to last year, $22.71" (1:10:46); total "2285 as compared to 2453" [$22.85 against $24.53] (1:11:22); the four warrant articles add $0.35, to "$23.20" (1:12:10), "We're down $1.33." (1:12:43). Seaman expects the default budget to equal the proposed budget (1:12:57, 1:14:21). | |
| 1:15:06 | Budget moved to the hearing | "So our number if I'm right is 37,243,825. That's correct." Motion at 1:15:35, second at 1:16:05, voice vote at 1:16:09. | |
| 1:16:32 | Program of Studies | A proposed teacher-education pathway (1:17:16); French III and IV continue for current students (1:19:23); Sprague asks that Running Start credits be labeled correctly, "I mentioned it last year" (1:22:28); Whitney notes the grading scale in the document does not match the board's decision (1:26:23). | |
| 1:28:03 | Electives in the 20-credit diploma | Horsky: the 20-credit path allows six electives against five for the 27-credit path. An administrator: "20 credit is determined by the state and we can't change it." (1:30:35); Horsky: "It's meter exceed. I read the statute, actually, so we can require more." (1:33:57). Sprague: "It's a whole separate conversation from the program of studies." (1:38:56) | |
| 1:46:25 | Emergency drills | Bailey: "We have about ten, ten a year." (1:49:44). A member relays students' accounts of a lockdown drill that seemed "traumatizing rather than effective" (1:51:32). Lambert: "I don't think we need to be putting students or teachers in these like, panic modes just to practice." (1:53:58). Stone asks that students excused from class not be disciplined during drills (2:00:44). | |
| 2:01:55 | Item seven: COVID discussion | Horsky on inconsistencies in the protocol matrix; Whitney: "we're just basically, we're not getting guidance anymore" (2:06:06); the nurse coordinator: "Getting guidance. That's not true." (2:06:45). Chair: no vote on an item "that's not warned" (2:09:21). The state is adopting five-day quarantine with ten days for household contacts (2:10:12). | |
| 2:17:22 | A citizen returns to the discussion | Burke asks whether the district follows the state toolkit; the nurse coordinator: "Talk to her. So I'm sorry, I just I don't want to talk." (2:17:40). Burke reads the toolkit: clusters are "confirmed positive cases of three or more" (2:18:37). Superintendent: "There is a degree to which we can never speak about the confidentiality." (2:20:18) | OBSERVATION |
| 2:27:17 | Filing period and public hearing | "the filing period for school board members with two positions this year, January 19th, I think the 28th"; public hearing "on the 18th. Yeah. Which is a Tuesday." (2:27:47) | |
| 2:29:41 | Puerto Rico trip | "We have 38 students currently still signed up"; the tour company requires vaccination; "We've had five students pull out because of the vaccine mandate" (2:30:51). Sprague: "I personally. Don't think we have anything to figure out." and "The trips, the trips approved." (2:33:35, 2:33:37). | |
| 2:38:08 | Future dates | "So February 2nd Covid." Retreat: "Why do we do it? February 6th." (2:38:58), a Sunday, at about nine in the morning (2:39:23). "And our next meeting is the 18th." (2:39:49) | |
| 2:40:07 | Adjournment | "I'd like to make a motion to dismiss." "Second by Nick." | |
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 January 5, 2022, or is labeled an observation where no verified rule applies. No member is described as attending remotely, so the electronic-participation rules of RSA 91-A:2, III are not engaged on this recording.
HIGH The three-member budget committee met repeatedly, including a session that set a budget target, with no notice or minutes on record
The chair describes the board's budget committee (himself, Petrin and Stone) as having met for "I don't know how many collective hours, quite a few", and then "the three of us met, the Tuesday before Christmas maybe, or Tuesday after Christmas" to settle "suggestions for, areas to look at efficiencies and such with a number attached to that" (0:47:54, 0:48:19). That number shaped the $37,243,825 the board moved tonight. RSA 91-A:1-a, VI(d) makes "any committee, subcommittee, or subordinate body" of a school board a public body, so each session was a meeting needing 24-hour notice and minutes open to inspection within five business days under RSA 91-A:2, II. The December 1 page records the same committee's December 13 and 14 sessions being scheduled. This page applies the HIGH limb of the project's severity rule: a public body met, no notice or minutes of any session exist in any district share, and nothing on the record explains the absence. The limit of the evidence: the district's online shares hold nothing from before mid-2022, so their silence does not prove the records were never made.
Sources: RSA 91-A:1-a, VI(d) (2019 codification; source note ends 2008, 354:1); RSA 91-A:2, I and II (2019 codification; source note ends 2018, 244:1)
MEDIUM No minutes were ready five weeks after the previous meeting
The chair: "We don't have any meeting minutes tonight due to some technical difficulties." (0:02:02). The board's previous meeting in this corpus is December 1, 2021, five weeks earlier. RSA 91-A:2, II requires minutes to be "promptly recorded and open to public inspection not more than 5 business days after the meeting". A draft can satisfy the statute, and "technical difficulties" may mean a draft existed but could not be distributed, so this is graded MEDIUM rather than HIGH. The SAU 6 board reported the same problem on December 16.
Sources: RSA 91-A:2, II (2019 codification)
MEDIUM No agenda, packet or minutes for this meeting survive in any district share
MAP.md records no packet folder: the district's 2022 archive begins with the July 20, 2022 meeting, and no Meeting Minutes year folder predates 2023. A title search of Drive for this meeting's date made for this page found nothing relevant; a negative from title search alone is not proof. The recording is the only public account of four contract ratifications and a $37 million budget motion. RSA 91-A:2, II required minutes with "The names of the members who made or seconded each motion", open to inspection within five business days. This page applies the MEDIUM limb of the project's severity rule because the record shows the meeting was noticed with an agenda (the chair amends it, and Adrian quotes its wording at 0:16:07), so only the minutes are missing. The contract summaries and budget reports handed to members (0:27:24, 0:49:51) are also missing.
Sources: RSA 91-A:2, II and II-b (2019 codification)
OBSERVATION Contract terms were discussed with members one by one outside the meeting
On the administrators' agreement the chair said "I talked to a couple of board members ex parte, and that was important to them as well" (0:45:55), and on the paraprofessionals' starting rate the assistant superintendent for finance said "I have had conversations, I think with with most of the board members on this" (0:38:48). RSA 91-A:2-a, I requires public bodies to "deliberate on matters over which they have supervision, control, jurisdiction, or advisory power only in meetings", and II provides that "Communications outside a meeting, including, but not limited to, sequential communications among members of a public body, shall not be used to circumvent the spirit and purpose of this chapter". Bargaining strategy itself is excluded from the definition of a meeting by RSA 91-A:2, I(a), which may cover some of these talks. Whether the conversations went beyond strategy into deciding positions cannot be told; the members voted on all four agreements in public with little discussion.
Sources: RSA 91-A:2-a, I and II (2008, 303:4; unamended); RSA 91-A:2, I(a) (2019 codification)
OBSERVATION A district employee described, in public, how the district had classified a specific student's COVID status
During citizens' comments a parent, who gave her name and ward, described her son's place in the basketball cluster count (0:07:10). The district's nurse coordinator, speaking "also as an employee" (0:10:58), answered by stating how the district had classified that student and why (0:11:46). This page does not repeat the details. Under FERPA, health information a school maintains about a student is part of the student's education records, and 34 CFR 99.30(a) requires a parent's signed and dated written consent before personally identifiable information from those records is disclosed, subject to exceptions in 99.31; 34 CFR 99.3 counts information "linked or linkable to a specific student" as personally identifiable. The parent had raised the matter herself in the same forum, which bears on how a reviewer weighs this, but her public statement is not written consent. Whether the nurse's statement drew on education records is the question that decides it. The superintendent later declined to discuss particulars because of "the confidentiality" (2:20:18).
Sources: 34 CFR 99.30(a) (2021 annual edition); 34 CFR 99.3 (2021 annual edition; education records, personally identifiable information)
OBSERVATION Catastrophic special education aid was described to the board in terms the statute does not use
The assistant superintendent for finance said: "once they go above $60,000 or something in that range, we the state, the state pays 90% of what's above 60,000" (1:09:06). RSA 186-C:18, III, as it read on this date (source note ending 2021, 209:2, eff. Oct. 9, 2021), sets the threshold at 3½ times the estimated state average expenditure per pupil, makes the state liable for 80 percent of the cost above it up to 10 times, and prorates the payment proportionally when the appropriation falls short. There is no 90 percent figure and no fixed $60,000 threshold in the text. The remark was offered with a hedge, and the budget's revenue line for catastrophic aid is not stated, so no effect on tonight's figures can be shown; the point is that the board and the public heard an inaccurate description of a revenue source.
Sources: RSA 186-C:18, III(a)-(b) (2022 codification; source note ends 2021, 209:2, eff. Oct. 9, 2021)
OBSERVATION Federal pandemic money pays contract stipends and other costs outside the appropriation voters will see
All four agreements carry a "disaster relief stipend" that "comes out of the CARES three money" (0:29:42, 0:44:33), and the budget excludes CARES funds on the advice of the auditor, with spending treated as "an approval done by the board as a part of accepting that grant" (0:58:20). RSA 198:20-b allows a board, where the district has adopted the enabling article, to accept and spend unanticipated money from a federal source, with a prior public hearing for amounts of $5,000 or more (III(a)). Whether the district holds that authority, and whether hearings preceded acceptance of these grants, cannot be checked from this recording. The amounts and the board's acceptance votes would show how much district spending runs outside the warrant.
Sources: RSA 198:20-b, I and III(a) (2019 codification; source note ends 2005, 188:1)
POSITIVE Each contract's cost was read out in public and sent to the voters as its own warrant article
RSA 273-A:3, II(b): "Only cost items shall be submitted to the legislative body of the public employer for approval at the next annual meeting". Before each ratification the assistant superintendent for finance read the yearly cost of every term, and later the tax-rate effect of each article: secretaries $0.03, paraprofessionals $0.21, maintenance $0.04 and administrators $0.07 (1:12:10). Each motion sent the agreement to the ballot "as a warrant article" for the voters to decide (0:32:44, 0:36:41, 0:42:52, 0:46:19).
Sources: RSA 273-A:3, II(b) (2013, 244:1, eff. Sept. 22, 2013)
POSITIVE A gift under $5,000 was listed on the agenda and accepted in public session
RSA 198:20-b, III(b): "For unanticipated funds in an amount less than $5,000, the school board shall post notice of the funds in the agenda and shall include notice in the minutes" and acceptance "shall be made in public session of any regular school board meeting." The $500 Bluff donation was an agenda item (0:25:58) and was accepted by motion and vote at this regular meeting (0:27:12). The donor was not known at the table, and the chair promised acknowledgment at the next meeting (0:26:48); the minutes notice cannot be checked.
Sources: RSA 198:20-b, III(b) (2019 codification)
POSITIVE Nearly twenty minutes of citizens' comments were heard before any statute required a comment period
Five speakers, four of them members of the public and one a district employee, spoke between 0:02:32 and 0:20:04, including criticism of the board and its staff, and a commenter was allowed back to the podium. RSA 189:74's requirement of a comment period of at least 30 minutes took effect September 6, 2022. The chair also kept to the agenda he had been given, declining to vote on the added COVID item because it was not warned (2:09:21).
Sources: RSA 189:74 (2022, 333:1, eff. Sept. 6, 2022)
Appendix: source files
Official and public sources
- Cablecast: Claremont School Board of 1/5/22 (show 12115; the Cablecast API refuses requests from this environment, so the run time is taken from the last dialogue row, 2:40:19)
- Google Drive: no packet folder, agenda or minutes. MAP.md: "the district's
2022 Meeting Documents archive begins with 1. CSB 7.20.22" and no Meeting Minutes year folder predates 2023 (checked 9/26/26). A Drive title search for this meeting's date on 2026-10-03 returned nothing relevant (a search negative is not proof).
- Related pages: Claremont School Board, December 1, 2021 (budget committee sessions scheduled; tentative agreements reported); Claremont School Board, January 18, 2022 (the budget hearing set here).
Project files
Working files this page was built from. The dialogue file is linked; the others are not published with the page.
Dialogue/12115 SchoolBoard010522.mp4.CSV (827 attributed rows; the basis of this page)Input/Videos/12115 SchoolBoard010522.mp4Input/Transcripts/12115 SchoolBoard010522.mp4.jsonInput/SupportingDocuments/MAP.md, section 159Scripts/attribution_reports_2015_2023/12115 SchoolBoard010522.mp4.md (speaker attribution report)
Laws and rules cited on this page
- RSA 91-A:1-a, VI(d), 2019 codification: committees and subcommittees of a school board are public bodies
- RSA 91-A:2, 2019 codification (source note ends 2018, 244:1): I meeting defined, I(a) collective-bargaining exclusion; II notice, minutes, movers and seconders, five business days; II-b website posting
- RSA 91-A:2-a (2008, 303:4): deliberation only in meetings; communications outside a meeting not to circumvent the chapter
- RSA 273-A:3, II(b): cost items to the legislative body
- RSA 198:20-b, I and III(a)-(b), 2019 codification ($5,000 threshold until 2023, 38:1): unanticipated money
- RSA 186-C:18, III, 2022 codification (source note ends 2021, 209:2): catastrophic aid, 80 percent above 3½ times the state average expenditure per pupil, proportional proration
- RSA 189:74: public comment period, effective September 6, 2022 (not in force on this date)
- 34 CFR 99.30(a) and 34 CFR 99.3, 2021 annual edition (FERPA consent and definitions)