Participants
Names follow the agenda masthead, the roll call and the draft minutes. Where the dialogue file's speaker label conflicts with the minutes on who moved or seconded, this page follows the minutes and says so.
| Name | Role | Participation |
|---|
| Steven Horsky | Member (Claremont); elected SAU 6 chair | Elected chair 6–5 by paper ballot (0:06:44) and presides from 0:07:56. Asks whether the district can recover from the Covid period (0:40:45); proposes a student-staffed technology integration program and a policies button on the website (0:59:06, 0:59:51); says he has worn "the treasurer hat" and spot-checks before signing vouchers (1:05:54); asks for a neutral column on the exit-interview form (1:37:44); argues for an evaluation subcommittee of "less than a quorum" (1:46:10). Seconds the vice-chair nomination (minutes). |
| Rocco Ruggeri | Member (Unity); elected vice chair | Nominates Erickson for chair (minutes; the dialogue file gives the nomination to the superintendent at 0:01:13); elected vice chair by voice vote (0:07:05); asks whether the iReady data is an extra test (0:29:07); seconds the policy-subcommittee motion (1:31:15). Erickson calls him "our policy champion" (1:23:17). Rendered Gary in the roll. |
| Marjorie Erickson | Member (Unity); outgoing SAU 6 chair | Nominated for chair and loses 6–5. Asks whether the lawsuit is the equitable-funding case (0:21:11); explains the accounts-payable recommendation from the Lupini report (1:03:11); presents the pre-populated board calendar (1:14:46); moves the policy subcommittee (1:31:09); presents the revised exit-interview procedure (1:33:38) and her CBI revisions (1:42:06). Moves the agenda amendment and seconds the January 17 minutes (minutes). |
| Heather Whitney | Member (Claremont) | Nominates Horsky for chair (0:01:36) and gives her reason (0:03:25); corrects the agenda's policy code (0:08:43); asks about identified students in the literacy data (0:31:17) and about social promotion (0:45:52); asks whether the board approved the $20,000 software (1:13:12); raises the NHSBA policy primer (1:38:11). Seconds the agenda amendment and the December 1 minutes and moves the January 17 minutes (minutes). The dialogue file also gives her a February 16 minutes correction that the minutes credit to Erickson. |
| Frank Sprague | Member (Claremont) | Seconds Horsky's nomination and requests the paper vote (minutes); nominates Ruggeri for vice chair (minutes). Moves the December 1 and February 16 minutes (0:10:11, 0:12:19); asks for literacy data by school (0:43:31); asks for budget-to-actual detail (1:28:52); moves GCQB-R to second reading (1:39:51); raises subcommittee size and quorum (1:45:11). Joins the superintendent-evaluation committee. The dialogue file also labels the opening roll call with his name (0:08:10). |
| Whitney Skillen | Member (Claremont) | Seconds Erickson's nomination and the February 16 minutes (minutes). Asks what an "upside down" triangle means for resources (0:33:31); proposes two edits to the exit-interview form (1:34:43); moves CBI to second reading (1:50:03); proposes the August retreat dates (1:52:25); moves adjournment (2:00:48). Joins the superintendent-evaluation committee. |
| Arlene Hawkins | Member (Claremont; elected March 14, 2023) | Asks which grade levels show the largest gap (0:32:55), whether teachers can collaborate on data (0:38:19) and how state-test outcomes relate (0:48:06); asks about technology hires (0:55:19); asks how administrative assistants will be trained and whether vendors are unpaid (1:09:25, 1:11:57). |
| Jennifer Gallagher | Member (Claremont; elected March 14, 2023) | Finds that the exit-interview procedure cites a United Kingdom statute (1:35:37); asks whether evaluation meetings are held in executive session (1:44:39); suggests "not to represent a quorum" wording (1:49:21); seconds CBI to second reading (minutes). |
| Bonnie Miles | Member (Claremont) | Present at the roll (0:08:18) and in the minutes. No row in the dialogue file is attributed to her. |
| Shannon Popescu | Member (Unity) | Present at the roll (0:08:10); named to the superintendent-evaluation committee (1:51:13); seconds adjournment (2:00:54, minutes). No row is attributed to her. |
| Kelly Simpson | Member (Unity) | Present at the roll (0:08:10); the outgoing chair gives her an NSBA handbook (1:58:11). No row is attributed to her. |
| Atonya Hart | Member (Unity) | Absent (minutes). Her name is read in the roll at 0:08:18 (rendered Tommy Hart) with no answer on the transcript. |
| Michael Tempesta | Superintendent, SAU 6 | Presides over the officer election (0:01:13); reads Seaman's retirement letter (0:13:09); reports David Jack's engagement (0:14:39), the Girl Scout iPad gift (0:16:42) and his testimony in the ConVal school-funding case (0:19:20); describes technology staffing (0:50:27) and the accounts-payable portal (1:01:40); proposes the second Thursday for meetings (1:59:14). |
| Mike Koski | Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment and Innovation | Presents the curriculum update, TeachUNITED and the K–5 literacy data (0:23:10); sets a 30 to 40% on-grade-level target (0:42:28); answers on retention (0:46:26) and state-test preparation (0:48:36); describes building-based purchasing (1:06:59). |
| Stephanie Hurst | Literacy Specialist, SAU 6 (minutes) | Explains the iReady tiers (0:30:13), a "tier one problem" (0:34:06) and the shift to structured literacy (0:35:42); reports K–2 gains (0:44:11). Koski reports her nomination as a Science of Reading Star finalist (0:40:16). Only "Stephanie" is spoken; the surname and title come from the minutes. |
| Jeff Small | Director of Technology | Asks board members to send examples of school websites they like (0:52:43); reports a tech-support hire and a second opening (0:55:25); says the Lupini report noted the loss of integrators (0:56:20); shows Sprague where SAU policies sit on the website (1:32:41). |
| Ben Nester | Director of Special Education | Collects and counts the ballots (minutes). No row is attributed to him. |
| Unidentified | Board members | 38 rows are labelled Unidentified. They include two members speaking for Erickson's candidacy (0:02:57, 0:03:54), the ballot tally (0:06:16), a member asking about a $30,000 city bill to the school department (1:12:34) and a member arguing that "All subcommittees have to be open to the public" (1:47:10). The minutes do not name these speakers. |
| Named, not present on the record | Others | Richard Seaman (Assistant Superintendent of Finance and Operations; letter read aloud); David Jack (consultant business administrator); Michael Campo (the auditors); Jason Bonneville (technology); Chelsea Weatherford (minutes); Jane Hunter (Claremont district treasurer). |
Agenda
Item wording from the posted agenda (created on Drive March 30, 2023 at about 2:05 p.m.); dispositions from the recording and the draft minutes.
| Taken up | Item | Agenda text / disposition |
|---|
| 0:00:43 | I. Call to order, pledge | Superintendent Tempesta calls the meeting to order and leads the pledge (minutes). |
| 0:01:13 | II. Election of board officers: a. Chair, b. Vice Chair | Chair: Ruggeri nominates Erickson, Skillen seconds; Whitney nominates Horsky, Sprague seconds; Sprague requests a paper vote (minutes). Ben Nester counts: Horsky 6, Erickson 5 (0:06:44; minutes). Vice chair: Sprague nominates Ruggeri, Horsky seconds; voice vote, all in favor (0:07:05; minutes). No secretary or treasurer is chosen. See flags 1 and 2. |
| 0:08:10 | III. General business: roll call; agenda; minutes; citizens' comments | Roll call: eleven present, Hart absent. Agenda amended to read GCQB-R in place of GCA (0:08:43) and approved by voice vote (0:09:36); the minutes record Erickson moving and Whitney seconding. The agenda lists minutes of "December 17, 2022"; the board approves December 1, 2022 (0:10:30, 0:10:49), January 17, 2023 (0:11:11) and February 16, 2023 as corrected (0:12:19), each by voice vote. Citizens' comments called at 0:12:35; none. |
| 0:12:45 | IV. Superintendent report | Seaman retirement letter, consultant coverage, district news, the ConVal funding case. No action. |
| 0:22:26 | V.1 Lupini Report: a. curriculum update; b. website/technology update; c. Accounts/Payable S.O.P. Committee | Curriculum update (0:23:10), website and technology (0:50:20) and the accounts-payable committee (1:01:40). Discussion only; the minutes record no action. Horsky asks for a policies button on the website. |
| 1:14:40 | V.2 SAU6 School Board Calendar | Erickson's pre-populated calendar discussed. Motion to set up an SAU 6 policy subcommittee: Erickson moves, Ruggeri seconds, voice vote, all in favor (1:31:28; minutes). No members named. |
| 1:33:28 | V.3 Policies: "GCA -Personnel Exit Interview" (amended to GCQB-R) and CBI, superintendent evaluation and goal setting (agenda) | GCQB-R as amended to second reading: Sprague moves, Skillen seconds, voice vote (1:40:02; minutes). CBI to second reading with Erickson's amendments to be sent by e-mail: Skillen moves, Gallagher seconds, voice vote (1:50:27; minutes). Superintendent Evaluation Committee: Skillen, Sprague, Popescu and Erickson (1:51:13; minutes). |
| 1:52:09 | V.4 SAU6 Goal Setting & Summer Retreat Date (August) | Set for Wednesday, August 23, 2023, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. (1:56:26; minutes). |
| 1:57:08 | VI. Future dates / future agenda items | Claremont board 4/5/23; NHSBA orientations 4/10 and 5/2; Unity board 4/11. The board agrees to meet on the second Thursday of each month, next on April 13 (2:00:01, 2:00:13). The minutes record "the second Tuesday of each month" (flag 4). Future agenda item: policy subcommittee. |
| 2:00:39 | Other business; closing | None. Adjournment: Skillen moves, Popescu seconds, voice vote (2:00:48; minutes). |
Discussion timeline
Times are taken from the dialogue transcript (Dialogue/14986 SAU6033023.mp4.CSV) and link into the recording.
| Time | Topic | What was said | Flags |
|---|
| 0:01:13 | Chair nominations | Two nominations: Erickson and "Steve for chairman" (0:01:36). A paper vote is requested (0:01:39). For Erickson, a member: "Marjorie has been the chair for the last year, demonstrated great leadership and guidance skills" (0:02:57). Whitney for Horsky: "I feel we have a lack of saw of a Claremont School Board representation at the SA" (0:03:25). Another member: "having Marge as the chair balances that out just a little bit" (0:03:54). | MEDIUM |
| 0:06:16 | Ballot result | "Steve has got six." "Marge has five." Then "Vote is six five" (0:06:44). The minutes record the totals only; no member's vote is attributed anywhere in the record. | MEDIUM |
| 0:06:51 | Vice chair | "Like to nominate Rocco for vice chair. I'll second that nomination." Voice vote: "Unanimous. All right, so we have our chair and our vice chair." (0:07:12). No secretary or treasurer is elected. | MEDIUM |
| 0:08:36 | Agenda amendment | Whitney: "Under policies. It says GCA." The policy before the board is GCQB-R (0:09:18). The chair asks for "a motion to amend the minutes" [agenda]; approved (0:09:44). | |
| 0:09:51 | Three sets of minutes | The chair reads "December 17th, 2022"; the motion is corrected to December 1, 2022 (0:10:30). January 17 approved as written (0:11:11). February 16 corrected from "implantation" to "implications" of the report (0:11:41) and approved (0:12:19). | POSITIVE |
| 0:13:09 | Seaman retirement | Tempesta reads the letter: "as I am soon to reach age 65. I will be retiring from my position effective April 14th". The letter claims "surpluses each year back to taxpayers" (0:13:39) and offers help "on a contract basis to assist my replacement" (0:14:09). | |
| 0:14:39 | Transition coverage | "we have a commitment from David Jack" to start Monday; Michael Campo "can provide any assistance with the audit report" (0:14:59); Jack "has 35, 40 years experience" (0:15:24). The position is to be posted "as soon as possible". | |
| 0:16:42 | District news | A Girl Scout troop "sold 15,000 boxes of cookies" and "gave away ten iPads" to teachers; a regional band day on March 17 (0:18:37). | |
| 0:19:20 | ConVal funding lawsuit | "We were all deposed as Claremont joined that lawsuit" (0:19:50). The adequacy amount: "Historically, it's been just around $4,000, 3800, not nearly enough" (0:20:21), against "$9,900 plus the cost of transportation" in a study (0:20:48). ConVal is "footing the bill for 51% of the share" (0:21:15). The packet report includes the cover page of the superintendent's October 27, 2022 deposition. | |
| 0:23:10 | Curriculum cycle, TeachUNITED | ELA "is in process this year", math next, then social studies, "on a 5 or 6 year cycle" (0:23:25). "almost all of our schools are part of that grant" (0:24:31); teacher leaders trained over two years as non-evaluative peer coaches (0:24:57). | |
| 0:30:13 | K–5 literacy data | Hurst: "The red zone is two or more grade levels below" (0:30:33), then "the red zone should probably be the 5%, 20% at the yellow" (0:31:04). Whitney: "Time 23% of our students are identified." (0:32:31). Hurst: "that shows us we have a tier one problem" (0:34:06); the move from balanced to structured literacy takes "5 to 7 years in a district that has everything going for them" (0:36:05). | |
| 0:40:45 | Recovery from Covid | Koski: some students "will be several years" behind; teachers face "behavior issues that haven't been seen before" (0:41:17). Target: "I would expect we're in the 30 to 40% for on grade level for both math and literacy" (0:42:28), growing toward 60 to 70%. Hurst: one school "has 78% growth this year" in K–2 (0:44:37). | |
| 0:45:52 | Social promotion | Whitney asks how the district will prevent "progressive losses". Koski: "I'm not aware of any, any educational research that says the student benefits by being held back" (0:46:26); summer school can be required but "we can't put somebody out for truancy if they don't attend summer school" (0:47:20). | |
| 0:48:06 | State tests | Hawkins: "We're well below the state expected level." Koski: "there wasn't a lot of emphasis placed on preparing students for these state tests in the past couple of years" (0:48:36); the middle school has built a unit on test-taking (0:49:07). | |
| 0:50:27 | Website and technology staffing | Tempesta: "there were seven people identified in the technology department. And now we have three" (0:51:03). Small: "I'm hearing all the time, like, I can't find this or I can't find that" (0:52:43); "going from seven people to two" (0:55:10); "we should be looking for at least one, if not two integrators" (0:56:50). Tempesta prefers stipends, noting benefits "can be up to 40% of a person's total after salary" (0:58:17). | |
| 0:59:51 | Policies hard to find online | Horsky: "I'd like to see board policies go there as well". Sprague: "the policies are so hard to find that I actually saved it to my reading list" (1:00:37). Later Small walks Sprague to the SAU policies page (1:32:41); Erickson: "the say policies are not up to date" (1:30:41). | |
| 1:01:40 | Accounts-payable procedures and software | Tempesta: the Visions portal is "more pricey than what we pay now. Probably about 20 grand more" (1:02:09). Erickson: the Lupini report recommended "standard operating procedures for every function" and accounts payable "doesn't have one" (1:03:11). Tempesta says Campo "seemed to think we might need a couple other positions" (1:04:43) and calls the firm "the consultant and the exact auditor for 80% of the district's in New Hampshire" (1:05:34). | OBSERVATION |
| 1:05:54 | Treasurer's spot checks | Horsky: "I do spot check things that I'm questioning before I sign my happy little name on a voucher." He wants to see "what line item it's affecting" (1:08:08). | MEDIUM |
| 1:11:57 | Payment backlog | Hawkins asks whether vendors are unpaid. Tempesta: "There are delays in some of the things getting paid" (1:12:07). A member raises a city "bill out for $30,000 to the school department" (1:12:34); Tempesta: "We've had meetings on that" (1:12:58). | OBSERVATION |
| 1:13:12 | Is the purchase decided? | Whitney: "we didn't approve the 20,000, right?" Tempesta: "So yeah, we we would." The committee "haven't met yet. We're trying to cost it out" and would "use actually esser money as well" (1:13:42). | OBSERVATION |
| 1:14:46 | Board calendar | Erickson: "our budget hearing for the essay needs to be in December" (1:21:15); "we got pinged on that one this year" (1:26:48). The board settles on budget and policy at every meeting, with budget-to-actual updates outside budget season (1:29:30). | |
| 1:31:02 | Policy subcommittee | Erickson moves "to set up a policy subcommittee to look at, say, policies"; Ruggeri seconds; carried (1:31:28). Nobody volunteers: "I figured there'd be crickets on that one" (1:31:30). | OBSERVATION |
| 1:33:38 | Exit-interview procedure GCQB-R | Erickson: "I got from Sarge" [Kearsarge] (1:34:00). Gallagher: "what I came up with was a UK statute law from the United Kingdom" (1:35:37). Horsky wants "the code chapter" cited (1:36:29); Erickson: "I think we could actually just remove that sentence completely" (1:37:29). Moved to second reading (1:39:51). | POSITIVE |
| 1:40:17 | Policy CBI | Erickson reads her revised calendar paragraph: goals "set before the end of August of each year", informal reviews in November and January, the final formal review "by the end of June" (1:42:06, 1:42:49). Gallagher asks about executive session (1:44:39); Tempesta: "Unless requested. Unless I." (1:44:50). | |
| 1:45:11 | Subcommittee size and quorum | Sprague: "since we're a group of 12, it's a quorum is a majority. So I think we could have five members without it being an official meeting" (1:45:34). Erickson: "Oh, well, we have minutes." Horsky prefers "a subcommittee of less than a quorum" (1:46:10). A member: "All subcommittees have to be open to the public except if warned otherwise" (1:47:10). Moved to second reading (1:50:03). | OBSERVATION |
| 1:50:39 | Evaluation committee | Erickson: "I desperately need a superintendent evaluation committee before we leave this meeting". Members by show of hands: Skillen, Sprague, Popescu, Erickson (1:51:41). The draft CBI says the board "will elect a subcommittee of 3-5 members" (packet). | OBSERVATION |
| 1:52:25 | Retreat date | After August 13, 26 and 27 are tried, "from 5 to 7 on the 23rd of August" (1:56:26), possibly at a member's house (1:56:40). | OBSERVATION |
| 1:59:14 | Meeting day | Tempesta weighs Wednesday-Thursday against Tuesday-Thursday back-to-back nights. Horsky: "is it the pleasure of the board to schedule future meetings on the second Thursday of the month?" (2:00:01). Skillen: "So April 13th would be our next meeting." (2:00:13). | OBSERVATION |
Items flagged for review
These flags are a reviewer's aid, not findings of violation and not legal advice. Each one cites the rule it rests on as that rule read on March 30, 2023; check the recording and the primary source before relying on any of them. Severity: HIGH, a likely breach of a binding rule or a missed statutory deadline; MEDIUM, a probable process gap or control weakness; OBSERVATION, notable with no confirmed rule; POSITIVE, practice beyond the legal minimum. This page carries no HIGH flag.
MEDIUM The SAU 6 chair was chosen by unsigned paper ballot, and no member's vote is on the record
At 0:01:39 a paper vote is requested and agreed; the minutes say "Frank Sprague requests a paper vote" and "Ben Nester collects the voting slips and totals the counts." The result, "Vote is six five" (0:06:44), is all that survives: the recording does not say how anyone voted and the minutes give totals only. RSA 91-A:2, II, as codified for this date, provides: "Except for town meetings, school district meetings, and elections, no vote while in open session may be taken by secret ballot" (statute). Whether a board's choice of its own chair is one of the "elections" the exception covers is not settled by the text; read as public elections, the exception does not reach it, and the vote should have been by voice or roll call, or by signed ballots read into the record. The vice-chair vote that followed was by voice (0:07:05). Because the meaning of "elections" is open, this is graded MEDIUM, not HIGH.
Sources: RSA 91-A:2, II (2022 codification; source note ends 2018, 244:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2019); draft minutes, item II
MEDIUM The board organized two days before the statutory window and chose no secretary or treasurer
RSA 194-C:5, I requires the SAU board to "meet between April 1 and June 1 in each year" and to "organize by choosing a chairperson, a secretary, and a treasurer" (statute). This meeting, on March 30, held the election of officers and chose a chair and a vice chair, an office the statute does not name; the agenda listed only "a. Chair b. Vice Chair". No secretary or treasurer was chosen. The treasurer's office was live: Horsky says he has been signing vouchers in "the treasurer hat" (1:05:54) and he became chair tonight. The minutes still list a "Secretary Roll Call of Attendance". Mitigation: the next meeting, April 13, falls inside the window, and the board's own calendar draft puts officer elections at the first April meeting. At that meeting the board elected Arlene Hawkins treasurer and again chose no secretary (SAU 6 Board, April 13, 2023, flag 3).
Sources: RSA 194-C:5, I (1996, 298:3, eff. Aug. 9, 1996; unamended); agenda, item II; proposed recurring agenda items
OBSERVATION The packet reached the public share four and a half hours before the meeting, and no notice is filed with it
The packet folder 5. SAU SB 3.30.23 and the agenda were created on Drive on March 30, 2023 at about 2:05 p.m., for a 6:30 p.m. meeting. RSA 91-A:2, II requires notice of the time and place at least 24 hours ahead, excluding Sundays and legal holidays, posted in two appropriate places (one of which may be the body's website) or printed in a newspaper; it does not require an agenda or packet in advance. Unlike the February 16 folder, this one holds no public notice, so the 24-hour requirement cannot be tested from the district's shares. The agenda itself carries an error: it lists minutes of "December 17, 2022", a meeting that does not exist; the board approved December 1, 2022 (0:10:30).
Sources: RSA 91-A:2, II (notice); packet folder 5. SAU SB 3.30.23 (Drive metadata)
OBSERVATION The minutes record the new meeting day as "the second Tuesday"; the board chose the second Thursday
The question put at 2:00:01 was "to schedule future meetings on the second Thursday of the month", and Skillen confirms "April 13th would be our next meeting" (2:00:13), a Thursday. The draft minutes read "Future SAU school board meetings will take place on the second Tuesday of each month moving forward." The recurring-items draft in the packet still says "3rd Thursday". RSA 91-A:2, II requires minutes to include "a brief description of the subject matter discussed and final decisions"; a misstated decision is a minutes-accuracy problem the board can correct at approval, and on April 13 it did, changing the entry to Thursday (SAU 6 Board, April 13, 2023). The minutes and the dialogue file also differ on some movers (the agenda amendment, the February 16 correction); this page follows the minutes for movers and seconders.
Sources: RSA 91-A:2, II (contents of minutes); draft minutes, item VI(d)
OBSERVATION A software purchase about $20,000 a year above current cost, to be paid partly from ESSER, was described before any board vote, alongside an admitted payment backlog
The superintendent presents the Visions portal, "Probably about 20 grand more" than the present system (1:02:09), with a vendor demonstration the next day. Whitney asks whether the board approved it; the answer is that it would come to the board, that the committee "haven't met yet" and that ESSER money may be used (1:13:42). Separately, there "are delays in some of the things getting paid" (1:12:07) and a city bill of $30,000 to the school department is raised without an answer on its status (1:12:34). No rule was broken at this meeting: nothing was bought and no vote was taken. Two points deserve follow-up. Purchases with ESSER money fall under the federal procurement standards, and the superintendent reports that the district's auditor both audits it and advised it on staffing (1:04:43, 1:05:34); whether that advisory role affected audit independence turns on auditing standards this page does not cover.
Sources: 2 CFR 200.318 (general procurement standards, 2023 edition)
OBSERVATION Subcommittees formed without members or a vote, and a misreading of when a subcommittee meeting is a meeting
The policy subcommittee was created with no members (1:31:30). The superintendent-evaluation committee was filled by volunteers (1:51:41), while the draft CBI before the board says the board "will elect a subcommittee of 3-5 members". In the CBI debate a member says a five-member subcommittee of a twelve-member board meets "without it being an official meeting" (1:45:34). That is not the test. RSA 91-A:1-a, VI(d) makes "any committee, subcommittee, or subordinate body thereof, or advisory committee thereto" a public body in its own right, so a quorum of the subcommittee convened on its business is a meeting under RSA 91-A:2, I, with notice and minutes, whatever its size relative to the full board. Another member states the rule correctly at 1:47:10, and Erickson says the evaluation committee has minutes for its meetings. Those minutes are not among the documents in this packet. The August 23 retreat may be held at a member's house (1:56:40); a retreat of a quorum is a meeting of the full board and needs the same notice.
Sources: RSA 91-A:1-a, VI(d) (public body includes committees and subcommittees); RSA 91-A:2, I and II (meeting; notice and minutes); CBI revision proposed
POSITIVE A new member caught a foreign statute in a borrowed policy, and the board asked for citations
The exit-interview procedure, copied from Kearsarge's, said the district must comply "with the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000" (packet text). Gallagher, at her first SAU 6 meeting, looked it up and found "a UK statute law from the United Kingdom" (1:35:37). The chair asked that any statute a policy relies on be cited by chapter (1:36:29), and the sentence was struck before second reading (minutes). Checking borrowed policy text against the law that binds the district is beyond any statutory minimum.
Sources: Proposed policy GCQB-R; draft minutes, item V.3
POSITIVE Draft minutes posted on the third business day, with movers and seconders
RSA 91-A:2, II requires minutes to be open to inspection "not more than 5 business days after the meeting" and requires "The names of the members who made or seconded each motion" (statute). The draft was created in this meeting's own folder on Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at about 7:55 p.m., the third business day, and names a mover and seconder for every motion. The board also cleared a backlog tonight, approving minutes from December 1, January 17 and February 16; the December 1 and January 17 drafts were held over from February 16 for later approval, which the statute permits, since a draft satisfies the inspection duty.
Sources: RSA 91-A:2, II; draft minutes (Drive metadata)
Appendix: source files
Official and public sources
- Cablecast: SAU #6 Board Meeting 3/30/23 (Claremont Community Television (CCTV) / Claremont Community Media Center (CCMC); title as MAP.md records it)
- Drive packet folder 5. SAU SB 3.30.23 (SAU 6 Schoolboard Packets share; created March 30, 2023), 11 documents:
- Minutes: the draft above; a second copy,
draft SAU 6 School Board meeting minutes 3.30.23, is in 6. SAU SB 4.13.23 (created April 12, 2023).
- No public notice for this meeting was found in the packet folder (verified 2026-10-03 by reading the folder's files listed in MAP.md).
Project files
Working files this page was built from. The dialogue file is linked; the others are not published with the page.
Dialogue/14986 SAU6033023.mp4.CSV (860 attributed rows; the basis of this page)Input/Videos/14986 SAU6033023.mp4 (local copy of the recording)Input/Transcripts/14986 SAU6033023.mp4.json (diarized transcript)Input/SupportingDocuments/MAP.md, section 190 (video-to-document map)
Laws and rules cited on this page