Participants
Everyone in the record. Names and attendance follow the agenda masthead and the minutes; the dialogue file’s labels are noted where they differ.
| Name | Role | Participation |
|---|
| Heather Whitney | Chair | Presides. Moves the clerk appointment and the seal of the second nonpublic session; asks for a public forum on the school-improvement list (0:28:54). |
| Frank Sprague | Vice Chair | Moves the first nonpublic session, its seal, the Saturday deliberative session and adjournment; questions the special-education MOU (0:51:23); volunteers for paraprofessional negotiations. |
| Bonnie Miles | Member | Absent (minutes). Called at each roll call on tape, with no answer. |
| Whitney Skillen | Member | Questions on 504 plans and opt-outs. The dialogue file labels her, at medium confidence, as seconding the clerk appointment (0:32:15); the minutes name Gallagher. |
| Jennifer Gallagher | Member | Arrived 6:32 p.m. (minutes). Moves the second nonpublic session under RSA 91-A:3, II(a) (0:59:12); reads a statement on a campaign visit at Stevens (1:01:23). |
| Arlene Hawkins | Member | Seconds both nonpublic motions and the deliberative-session motion; questions on ESSA categories and the MOUs (0:54:40). |
| Candace Crawford | Member | Questions on 504 plans, student council and the ESSA list; moves approval of the middle-school athletic-director MOU (0:58:00); volunteers for paraprofessional negotiations. |
| Noelle Kronberg | Clerk (appointed this meeting) | Introduced by the superintendent and appointed Claremont School Board clerk by voice vote (0:32:05). Raises the roll-call point of order before her appointment (0:16:21) and reads the later roll calls. ASR renders the surname “Cronenberg”. |
| Nicole Bouchard | Student board member, Stevens | College exploration for younger grades, Spirit Week, the Focus Study block, morning announcements, bathroom vandalism (0:02:32). |
| Kylee Plummer | Student board member, Stevens | Communication with the Newport tech center after a cosmetology trip (0:04:06); hall monitors; 504 walking breaks. Spelled as on the agenda; the dialogue file has “Kylie”. |
| Michael Tempesta | Superintendent, SAU 6 | ESSA identification of Bluff (0:16:53); introduces the clerk candidate; presents the two SREA MOUs (0:47:56). |
| Mike Koski | Assistant Superintendent | Explains the ESSA comprehensive, targeted and additional targeted categories (0:17:39). |
| Ben Nester | Director of Special Education | Reads the first three roll calls; answers on 504 plans; declines to discuss the stipend cases outside nonpublic (0:53:39). |
| Mary Henry | Business Administrator | Budget timeline, default-budget method, ESSER II close-out, sweep-account interest (0:33:07). |
| Unidentified | Room | The Pledge voice and the group “aye” responses. |
Named but not present: Stevens principal Chris Pratt; middle-school principal Romeo; Tammy Yates and Karen Ladd, whom the superintendent says he consulted on the teachers’ contract clause (0:49:55; spellings are the transcript’s, roles not stated); Chelsea Weatherford (minutes), to confirm the deliberative-session booking. No member of the public spoke.
Agenda
Official agenda items (posted agenda, _CSB Agenda 11.15.23.docx.pdf) with floor amendments and dispositions from the recording and minutes.
| Taken up | Item | Agenda text / disposition |
|---|
| 0:00:04 | I. Call to order; Pledge | Agenda: 6:30 PM Call to Order and Pledge of Allegiance. Called to order on tape at the start of the recording. |
| 0:00:34 | II. Roll call | Read by Ben Nester. Six present; Bonnie Miles absent. Minutes record Gallagher arriving at 6:32 p.m. |
| 0:00:58 | Consent agenda | Agenda items: final approval of the agenda; acceptance of $3,000 from the Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation for medals, a championship trophy and referees for the Claremont Futsal League; minutes of 11.1.23. Floor amendments added the clerk appointment as the first action item and a nonpublic session after the student report. “Seeing none. We’re going to accept that agenda, the consent agenda” (0:01:43). No vote count. |
| 0:01:43 | Citizens’ comments | None: “Seeing no one in the audience commenting, we are going to close citizens comments” (0:02:16). |
| 0:02:16 | Student board members | Nicole Bouchard and Kylee Plummer report; extended board questions. |
| 0:13:34 | Added: nonpublic session, RSA 91-A:3, II(c) per minutes | Moved by Sprague (0:14:02), seconded by Hawkins; roll call by Nester. Session not recorded. Exit motion and roll call (0:14:56); minutes give 6:50 p.m. Sealed one year: voice vote, then roll call after the point of order (0:15:26, 0:16:41). |
| 0:15:45 | III. Superintendent report | ESSA identification of schools in need of improvement; forum requested for early 2024. |
| 0:31:17 | IV.1 (added) Appointment of school board clerk | Whitney moved; second “I’ll second” (dialogue file: Skillen; minutes: Gallagher). Voice vote, no opposition: “Seeing none, we are going to appoint Noelle” (0:32:34). |
| 0:32:51 | IV.2 Budget timeline/process and review | Agenda: Presentation by Mary Henry, Business Administrator. Report only; ESSER II and sweep-account updates added by the presenter. |
| 0:40:21 | IV.3 Deliberative session date | Agenda: Move date to a Saturday to allow for greater community participation. Sprague moved February 3 with a February 10 weather date (0:43:41), Hawkins seconded; friendly amendment for 9 a.m. at Stevens (0:44:38). Unanimous voice vote (0:46:55). |
| 0:47:01 | IV.4 Board representative, paraprofessional negotiations | Crawford and Sprague accepted by consensus, no vote (0:47:39). |
| 0:47:39 | IV.5 SREA MOU stipend | Athletic-director MOU: Crawford moved, Sprague seconded, unanimous voice vote (0:58:10). Special-education caseload MOU: nonpublic under II(a) on Gallagher’s motion (0:59:12), Hawkins second, roll call; out by roll call (1:00:17); sealed one year by roll call (1:00:41); returned to the union for reconsideration without a recorded vote (1:01:01). |
| 1:01:01 | V. Other business | Jennifer Gallagher’s statement on a campaign visit at Stevens, read into the record (1:01:23). |
| 1:02:46 | VI. Future dates / agenda items | Next board meeting December 6; SAU 6 board December 7 at 6:00 added from the floor (1:03:12). |
| 1:03:42 | Adjournment | Sprague moved, Hawkins seconded; voice vote. The minutes print the agenda slot, 8:20 PM, and record no actual time. |
Discussion timeline
Times are taken from the dialogue transcript (Dialogue/15413 SchoolBoard111523.mp4.CSV) and link into the recording. Quotations are the transcript as it stands, ASR errors included; bracketed or noted readings are this page’s.
Chronological topics with what was said and related flags.
| Time | Topic | What was said | Flags |
|---|
| 0:00:58 | Consent agenda and the Byrne gift | The chair adds two late items, then reads the donation of “$3,000 from the Jack and Byrne Foundation to purchase medals and championship trophy, and to pay for referees for the Claremont Football League” (Football is the ASR’s rendering of Futsal). A gift under $20,000 needs no prior public hearing under RSA 198:20-b as amended in July 2023. | MEDIUM |
| 0:02:32 | Student report: college exploration, Focus Study | Nicole Bouchard asks that college and career exploration start in freshman or sophomore year, praises Spirit Week, and asks for the return of time to see other teachers during the 45-minute Focus Study block: “it was very beneficial for me and other students grades.” | |
| 0:04:06 | Student report: Newport tech center communication | Kylee Plummer describes a cosmetology trip with no transportation and no notice to Stevens: “if not for my mom calling, I would have been marked cut and all my classes and had a detention” (0:04:57). She asks for regular meetings with Newport. | |
| 0:05:14 | Bathroom vandalism follow-up | Bouchard: “it was about 1 or 2 students doing vandalism and the boys bathroom every day” (0:05:38); Plummer proposes students in good standing serve as hall monitors during free blocks (0:06:17). | |
| 0:07:15 | Concerns about 504 walking breaks | Sprague asks Ben Nester about 504 plans; Nester: “I’m not aware of that, but I’ll. I’ll look into it” (0:07:23). The student representatives report that walking breaks are said to be coming out of 504 plans. Crawford asks what a 504 is; Nester explains accommodations. | |
| 0:09:20 | Student council and next steps | Crawford suggests the student council carry these issues; the chair proposes to reach out to Stevens principal Chris Pratt (0:10:28). Hawkins and the superintendent discuss college fairs and excused college visits (0:11:55). | |
| 0:13:34 | Nonpublic session added at the meeting | Chair: “Is it going to be RSA 91-A3 comma two” (0:13:54); Sprague: “Make a motion that we go to nonpublic, say 91-331” (0:14:02). The minutes record II(c). Roll call by Nester (0:14:20). The session itself is not on the recording, and the transcript shows no time gap: the recording was paused. | MEDIUM |
| 0:14:56 | Return to public; seal by voice, then by roll call | Exit roll call, then “Make a motion that we seal the minutes for one year” (0:15:26) by voice. Two minutes into the superintendent’s report Kronberg: “We actually need a roll call. Vote to seal the minutes” (0:16:21); re-taken at 0:16:41. | MEDIUM POSITIVE |
| 0:15:46 | ESSA: Bluff identified | Superintendent: Bluff is “one of the top lowest 5% performing. And it’s a serious situation”, with a training call the next day (0:16:53); “There were 19 newly identified” statewide (0:17:24). | |
| 0:17:39 | ESSA categories explained | Koski: three categories, comprehensive, targeted and additional targeted support; CSI is the bottom 5% of Title I schools (0:19:33). All schools but Stevens are Title I this year (0:20:19). Two CSI schools (0:21:25); additional targeted support at Disnard and the middle school (“Disney and seems I believe middle school”, 0:28:28); Maple not classified (0:28:50). | |
| 0:21:48 | COVID reporting gap and a rising bar | Koski: with no reporting during COVID “it appears that all of a sudden like we fell off a cliff, when in fact, if we go back and look at data from 20 1819, we’ve been in a very similar position for a number of years” (0:22:20). Whitney: the state target is “moving on everybody, but on us as well” (0:23:38). Koski: “there’s money that follows this” (0:24:22). | |
| 0:25:26 | Opt-outs | Koski says opt-outs count as non-passing scores; Crawford calls the result “an inaccurate measure”; Sprague recalls state exemptions for students under undue stress; Nester says IEPs cannot exempt a child unless the child qualifies for the alternate assessment. | OBSERVATION |
| 0:28:54 | Public forum requested | Whitney asks for a public forum with the principals of the identified schools, targeting the end of January (0:30:07); Crawford would rather wait until after March (0:30:25). Future agenda item recorded in the minutes. | |
| 0:31:17 | Clerk appointed | Tempesta introduces “Noelle Cronenberg”, recently made SAU 6 clerk, “an educator herself as well” (0:31:35). Sprague asks whether she will run for election in March; Kronberg: “As long as I enjoy it between now and then” (0:32:27). | OBSERVATION |
| 0:32:51 | Budget timeline | Henry: principals have entered their budgets; a tax-rate task comes first (0:33:38); she will meet the finance committee “after Thanksgiving” and have budget books before the December 6 meeting (0:34:23): “I’m very sorry that this is as late as it is” (0:36:31). | OBSERVATION |
| 0:34:47 | Default-budget method | Henry describes the default budget build: bond payment changes, one-time purchases removed, recurring supplies at the FY24 rate, contract steps shown, on an Excel breakdown in addition to the DRA form. | POSITIVE |
| 0:36:49 | ESSER II close-out | All FY22 and FY23 grant claims were due November 14 (0:36:49); about $300,000 of $2.56 million in ESSER II went unclaimed (0:38:25). Bills are current (0:39:20). | OBSERVATION |
| 0:39:20 | Sweep account | Henry: “would our new sweep account, we made $6,300 in the month of October”, against $1,200–1,300 previously (0:39:48); “that in the end can be a person’s salary if needed” (0:40:02). | OBSERVATION |
| 0:40:21 | Deliberative session to a Saturday | Three residents asked for a Saturday (0:40:33); Crawford: “We used to have them on Saturday” (0:41:07); Henry is neutral on turnout (0:41:43). The superintendent gives the window (0:41:24). | POSITIVE OBSERVATION |
| 0:43:41 | Motion: February 3, 9 a.m., Stevens | Hawkins raises winter roads (0:44:47); the superintendent flags basketball use of the gym (0:45:36) and the chair floats tabling (0:45:48); Sprague recalls stopping a practice “when I was the principal” (0:45:58). The board keeps the motion and leaves the room to be confirmed. Unanimous (0:46:55). | POSITIVE |
| 0:47:01 | Paraprofessional negotiations seat | Skillen declines (“I’m actively working on the policy audit”, 0:47:23); Sprague and Crawford accepted (0:47:39). | |
| 0:47:56 | Two SREA MOUs presented | Three special educators paid a percentage of salary for added caseload, reverting when a hire is made (0:48:37); and a stipend for a certified PE teacher to serve as middle-school athletic director, agreed with the union (0:49:27). | OBSERVATION OBSERVATION |
| 0:51:09 | Questions on the caseload MOU | Sprague: the union equates it to teaching an extra class, but “this doesn’t tell us how many additional students they have” (0:51:53). Nester: “I don’t know how much we can or should get into outside of a non public” (0:53:39). Hawkins: “I don’t feel I have enough information in order to know what I’m voting on” (0:54:40). | OBSERVATION |
| 0:54:58 | Athletic-director MOU approved | Crawford confirms the stipend is $8,500 on top of a full-time post (0:56:24); Tempesta: the role replaces a former full-time position (0:55:43), and the teacher started in the fall (0:57:38). Approved unanimously by voice (0:58:10). | OBSERVATION OBSERVATION |
| 0:59:12 | Second nonpublic: caseload MOU | Gallagher: “I make a motion to enter a nonpublic session under RSA 91, dash a colon three, subsection two, a promotion, compensation of any public employee” (0:59:12). Roll call by Kronberg (0:59:46); exit and seal by roll call (1:00:41); MOU sent back to the union (1:01:01). | MEDIUM OBSERVATION |
| 1:01:23 | Gallagher statement on a campaign visit | “Recently, a campaign visit slash political rally was held at Stephens High. This was not a school sponsored event. This visit was not against policy” (1:01:23). She asks that a community “should be able to decide who utilizes their public buildings” (1:02:07). The minutes print her written text in full. | POSITIVE |
| 1:02:52 | Donation check, future dates, adjournment | Crawford confirms the donation was accepted in the consent agenda (1:02:52); December 6 board and December 7 SAU 6 meetings noted; adjourned on Sprague’s motion (1:03:42). | |
Items flagged for review
These flags are a reviewer’s aid, not findings of violation and not legal advice. Each names the rule it rests on and links the primary source; where no verified rule applies, the item is an observation. Severity: 0 high, 2 medium, 5 observations, 3 positive.
MEDIUM Both nonpublic sessions were sealed for one year with no RSA 91-A:3, III determination stated, on the recording or in either set of minutes
RSA 91-A:3, III makes nonpublic minutes and decisions public within 72 hours unless a recorded two-thirds vote, taken in public session, determines that disclosure would likely affect a non-member’s reputation, render the proposed action ineffective, or pertain to terrorism. The determination is the condition for sealing. On the recording the first seal motion is only “Make a motion that we seal the minutes for one year” (Sprague, 0:15:26), first carried by voice and then re-taken by roll call after a point of order from Noelle Kronberg, who was appointed clerk later that evening: “We actually need a roll call. Vote to seal the minutes” (0:16:21). The second is “I’d like to make a motion to seal the minutes for one year” (Whitney, 1:00:41), carried by roll call. Neither motion names any of the three statutory grounds, and the draft and approved minutes record the motions and votes the same way, without a determination.
Mitigating facts: the first session was entered under RSA 91-A:3, II(c) (reputation) according to both sets of minutes, a ground that maps onto one of the ¶III determinations, so the omission may be one of recording rather than substance; and the second, under II(a) (compensation of named special educators), plausibly fits the reputation limb. The page cannot test that, because the board stated no finding. The first motion’s lettered ground is also not legible in the transcript (“Is it going to be RSA 91-A3 comma two”, 0:13:54; “say 91-331”, 0:14:02); the minutes supply II(c). Graded MEDIUM as a documentation gap, as the project’s anchor catalogue classifies a seal vote without the finding.
Sources: RSA 91-A:3, I(b) and III (2023 codification: motion states the exemption; seal needs a recorded 2/3 vote and a determination); Approved minutes, 11/15/23; Draft minutes, 11/15/23
MEDIUM The public packet reproduces the donor’s cheque, bank encoding line included
The consent agenda accepted a $3,000 gift from the Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation for the Claremont Futsal League (0:00:58). The supporting file in the public packet folder, Byrne Foundation Grant (Futsal) (1).pdf (Drive createdTime 2023-11-08), contains the staff grant request, the foundation’s reply, and a scan of the foundation’s cheque showing the paying bank and the machine-readable routing and account line. This page reproduces none of those numbers. The board needed only the award letter to act.
RSA 91-A:5, IV permits a public body to withhold confidential financial information and files whose disclosure would invade privacy; it does not require withholding, so this is a records-handling weakness, not a statutory breach. The project has recorded the same exposure in later Claremont packets (4/17/24, 9/4/24). This instance predates both.
Sources: RSA 91-A:5, IV (confidential financial information may be withheld; permissive); Byrne Foundation Grant (Futsal) (1).pdf
OBSERVATION The minutes and the recording disagree on several points the minutes exist to record
RSA 91-A:2, II requires minutes to record final decisions and the names of the members who made or seconded each motion (in force since January 1, 2019). Points where the record differs: (1) Clerk appointment seconder. Both sets of minutes say Jennifer Gallagher seconded; the dialogue file attributes “I’ll second” (0:32:15) to Whitney Skillen, a cluster it rates medium confidence. The recording does not settle it. (2) Deliberative-session window. The minutes say the superintendent stated a window of February 1st–10th; on tape he said “the window opens the third through the 10th” (0:41:24). The tape is right: RSA 40:13, III sets the first session between the first and second Saturdays after the last Monday in January, which for 2024 was February 3–10. (3) Stale date. After the board voted to hold the session on Saturday, February 3 (0:46:33), both sets of minutes still list Deliberative Session 2/7/24 under Future Dates, and so do the December 6 agenda and approved minutes. (4) First seal vote. The draft minutes posted November 21 omit the vote to seal the first nonpublic session; the December 6 minutes record Arlene Hawkins’s correction adding it, and the approved text carries it. (5) Second nonpublic exit. The minutes give Candace Crawford as seconder; the dialogue file labels the “Second” at 1:00:25 Arlene Hawkins. (6) Interest figure. Mary Henry said the sweep account “made $6,300 in the month of October” (0:39:20); the minutes record about $6,300 earned since the change to a sweep account.
Items (1) and (5) depend on voice attribution and may be the transcript’s error rather than the minutes’. Items (2) to (4) are errors or omissions in the documents themselves, and (4) was corrected through the approval process, which is how it should work.
Sources: RSA 91-A:2, II (2023 codification: movers and seconders; final decisions); RSA 40:13, III (first-session window); Approved minutes, 11/15/23; Approved minutes, 12/6/23 (correction to the 11/15 minutes)
OBSERVATION Documents the board discussed and acted on are not in the public packet
The public folder 26. CSB 11.15.23 holds five files: the agenda, the 11/1 draft minutes, the Byrne grant papers, and two copies of this meeting’s own minutes added later. Missing are the papers the recording shows on the table: the budget timeline (“I did give you a budget timeline in your packet”, Mary Henry, 0:33:27); the state’s ESSA identification sheet Mike Koski walked the board through (“you have this paper front of you which is from the state”, 0:17:39); the two SREA memoranda of understanding; and the superseded activities-coordinator description Candace Crawford asked about (0:54:58). The board approved the middle-school athletic-director MOU, a stipend of $8,500 per the minutes and Crawford’s reading, with no public copy of the agreement it approved.
No statute verified for this page requires a board to post its packet. The observation is that a member of the public cannot see what was approved, and that the stipend amount on tape is itself garbled (“tripling the three season 2800 to make it $1,500 stipend”, {L(464)}), so the minutes are the only source for the figure.
Sources: Drive folder 26. CSB 11.15.23; Approved minutes, 11/15/23 (MOU item)
OBSERVATION The special-education stipend MOU was sent back to the union without a public motion, and the record does not say whether either MOU is a cost item
After the nonpublic session under RSA 91-A:3, II(a), the chair announced: “Given the discussion that we held in public, we are choosing to, at this time, request that Mr. Contessa take the MoU, agreement request back to the union for reconsideration” (1:01:01). Contessa is a standing ASR garble of Tempesta, and the approved minutes word the basis as the discussion in non-public, which fits the sequence. No motion or vote on the special-education MOU appears on the tape or in the minutes. RSA 91-A:3, III requires decisions reached in nonpublic session to be disclosed; the announcement does that. What is missing is a recorded board action on an agenda item labeled for a vote.
Both MOUs are side agreements to the SREA contract (“MoU are basically short term one year agreements”, 0:47:56). Under RSA 273-A:1, IV a cost item is a benefit acquired through collective bargaining whose implementation requires an appropriation, and under RSA 273-A:3, II(b) only cost items go to the legislative body. Tempesta described the athletic-director stipend as replacing a full-time position (0:55:43), which suggests it is paid from existing appropriations, but nobody said so in terms. Superintendent Tempesta also called these “the first” such MOUs (0:52:41).
Sources: RSA 91-A:3, II(a) and III; RSA 273-A:1, IV (cost item); RSA 273-A:3, II(b) (cost items to the legislative body)
OBSERVATION About $300,000 of a $2.56 million ESSER II allocation went unclaimed
Business Administrator Mary Henry reported that all claims on FY22 grants open in FY23 had to be filed by November 14, and that ESSER II, “2.56 is what it was”, ended “just about 300,000” short (0:38:25): “We lost. Well, we’ll say lost because we hadn’t written anything for it” (0:37:18). The superintendent: “It’s not like it wasn’t allocated. We just didn’t get the hires” (0:38:05). She also said summer school ran under budget by more than $200,000 (0:38:08) and that ESSER III would need the same reconciliation (0:39:04).
Federal formula funds carry over for one additional fiscal year under the Tydings Amendment and then lapse; leaving funds unspent is not a violation. The figure is recorded here because it is the district’s own statement of federal money forgone, in a year when the board was building its first budget without ESSER positions.
Sources: 20 U.S.C. §1225(b) (one additional year of availability)
OBSERVATION The explanation that every opt-out counts as a failing score is broader than the federal rule
Asked whether all students must take the state test, Assistant Superintendent Koski said: “There’s a parent opt out for the state test. It does count against the school grade. It’s not a blank. It counts as a as a non passing score” (0:25:39). Under ESSA the State measures at least 95 percent of students, and for proficiency it uses a denominator of the greater of 95 percent of students or the number participating. Opt-outs therefore count as non-proficient only to the extent participation falls below 95 percent. The board then discussed tracking opt-out counts (0:27:10), which is the right data for testing this.
New Hampshire’s own accountability plan may apply the rule in more detail; this page has not verified it. The point is that the statement on tape is not the whole rule.
Sources: 20 U.S.C. §6311(c)(4)(E)(i)–(ii) (95% participation; denominator rule)
POSITIVE Draft minutes posted within four business days, and a sealing vote corrected on the spot
The draft minutes reached the public folder on Tuesday, November 21, 2023 (Drive createdTime 15:00 UTC), the fourth business day after the meeting, inside RSA 91-A:2, II’s five-day limit. They name movers and seconders for nearly every motion and reproduce Jennifer Gallagher’s statement in full, as she asked.
On the recording, Noelle Kronberg, about to be appointed clerk, interrupted the superintendent’s report to say the seal vote needed a roll call (0:16:21), and the board re-took it (0:16:41). The chair: “To the point of order. Thank you, I appreciate it” (0:16:49).
Sources: RSA 91-A:2, II (five business days); Draft minutes, 11/15/23
POSITIVE Deliberative session moved to a Saturday to widen participation, inside the statutory window
The chair brought three residents’ requests to move the SB 2 deliberative session to a Saturday “to allow for a lot more public comment and more folks to arrive and come” (0:40:33). Candace Crawford: “it least it shows that we’re trying to be open and responsive” (0:42:35). The board set Saturday, February 3, 2024 at 9 a.m. at Stevens High School with February 10 as the weather date, unanimously (0:43:41, 0:44:38, 0:46:33). Both dates fall inside RSA 40:13, III’s window, and the session was held on February 3.
Sources: RSA 40:13, III (first session between the first and second Saturdays after the last Monday in January)
POSITIVE Business administrator explained the default-budget method in the terms of the statute and promised a line-by-line breakdown
Mary Henry told the board she would present the default and proposed budgets the same day, with a sheet “showing you what’s going into the budget and what’s coming out” (0:34:47): bond-payment changes adjusted (0:35:07), one-time expenditures removed while recurring supplies stay at the FY24 rate (0:35:24), and contract steps shown (0:35:43). That tracks RSA 40:13, IX(b): the prior year’s operating appropriations, adjusted for debt service, contracts and other obligations previously incurred, and reduced by one-time expenditures and eliminated positions. A worked breakdown beyond the DRA form gives the board and voters a way to audit the default figure.
Sources: RSA 40:13, IX(b) (definition of the default budget)
Appendix: source files
Official and public sources
Project files
Working files this page was built from. The dialogue file is linked; the others are not published with the page.
Dialogue/15413 SchoolBoard111523.mp4.CSV (582 attributed rows; the basis of this page)Input/Videos/15413 SchoolBoard111523.mp4Input/Transcripts/15413 SchoolBoard111523.mp4.jsonInput/SupportingDocuments/MAP.md (section 210)
Laws and rules cited on this page
- State: RSA 91-A:2, II (2023 codification); RSA 91-A:3, I(b), II(a), II(c), III (2023 codification; last amended 2023, 189:1, eff. Oct. 3, 2023); RSA 91-A:5, IV; RSA 40:13, III and IX(b) (last amended 2019, 192:2); RSA 198:20-b, III (2023 codification; $20,000 hearing threshold from 2023, 38:1, eff. July 18, 2023); RSA 273-A:1, IV; RSA 273-A:3, II(b)
- Federal: 20 U.S.C. §1225(b); 20 U.S.C. §6311(c)(4)(D) and (E)