Participants
Everyone heard or addressed on the recording. Spellings follow the agenda and approved minutes. Where the minutes credit a remark to someone other than the dialogue file's label, both are given (see flag 7). Unidentified voices stay unidentified.
| Name | Role | Participation |
|---|
| Heather Whitney | Chair | Presides; closes citizens' comments at 0:01:10 and reopens them for a late speaker (0:10:22). Asks about the fall math benchmark (0:23:17) and middle-school absences (0:25:16). Asks whether retained funds could "offset some of the collective bargaining agreement" (1:19:45). Moves all three policies (1:36:17, 1:39:10, 1:40:46). Announces the administrators' bargaining request (2:06:25). The dialogue file also gives her the LED fixture counts and incentive figures (1:04:36, 1:05:20, 1:05:46), which the minutes credit to Mary Henry. |
| Frank Sprague | Vice chair; chair, Finance subcommittee | Asks about the community poll (0:28:12); compares the LED financing to the earlier Johnson Controls project (1:02:52). Moves to "retain up to $350,000" for the FY26 tax rate (1:24:57) and moves the question (1:30:46). Presents the draft communications matrix (1:43:08). |
| Candace Crawford | Member; chair, Capital Improvements and SRVRTC subcommittees | Thanks the superintendent for spoken summaries (0:26:50). Asks about student cost for a $50 trip (0:54:55); relays Bonnie Miles's request about the student video (0:55:36); asks for the Tech Center website to be updated (0:55:51). Works through the retention arithmetic with Henry (1:13:24 onward). |
| Arlene Hawkins | Member; Curriculum and Policy subcommittees; chair of the SAU 6 board | Asks for an analysis of absences (0:25:58); praises the student reports (0:31:19); asks whether the LED contract was signed (1:05:52); "Need a tutorial on all of this" (1:26:03); accepts the role of negotiator (2:06:52). The minutes also credit her with the retreat-goal point on student recognition (1:45:26), the question on substitute pay (2:00:06) and the tiered-pay suggestion (2:03:18); the dialogue file labels the first two as the chair's and the third as unidentified. |
| Michael Petrin | Member; chair, ad hoc Communications subcommittee | Asks where the Tech Center van came from (0:56:33); asks why LEDs were not installed as fixtures failed (1:04:06); seconds the retention motion (1:25:53) and the motion to move the question (1:31:17); suggests childcare for a community forum (1:55:07); supports the PD day off (1:58:35). |
| Whitney Skillen | Member; chair, Policy subcommittee | Restates the retention motion (1:25:43). Presents EHB-R, DAF and JJJ (1:35:35, 1:37:58, 1:39:56); seconds DAF and JJJ (Miss Gillen, 1:39:36; 1:41:10). Proposes a pizza dinner with the community forum (1:53:41). |
| Bonnie Miles | Member | Absent (minutes). Her request to show the Tech Center video at the visitor center is relayed by Crawford (0:55:36). |
| Noelle Kronberg | School board clerk | Called on to read the roll (Miss Kronborg, 0:00:35); submitted the minutes. |
| Miles Sheehan | Student board member | Homecoming dance, "We raised around $1,000" (0:02:29); the restorative justice program and its student panel (0:04:08); on the new schedule (0:07:53). |
| Lily Clark | Student board member (Lilly in the agenda and minutes) | Athletics (0:03:25); a mock election (0:05:49); the band's first field show (0:06:16); pros and cons of the new schedule (0:07:13). |
| Jennifer Gallagher | Citizens' comment, Ward 1 | "Hi, I'm Jen Gallagher, Ward one." Speaks for parents upset at how an elementary school handled an incident in a girls' bathroom (0:10:35 to 0:13:34). The minutes spell her first name Jenn. |
| Christopher Pratt | Superintendent, SAU 6 | His first full superintendent's report (0:14:33): city partnership, a Parent Square poll, a superintendent's community outreach committee, the strategic plan, safety upgrades. On the van: "it was a Esser Grant van that we got" (0:57:02). On the LED project (1:01:48) and solar (1:07:08). Asks the board to give teachers November 26 off (1:55:33). |
| Michael Koski | Assistant Superintendent | Asks the students about the new schedule (0:07:08); the minutes credit that question to Frank Sprague. Explains the fall benchmark (0:23:46); Eureka Math² is in its first year (0:25:03); Title funds shared with Claremont Christian (1:41:46); substitute roster versus assignments (2:01:55). The minutes credit the substitute-roster remarks to Patrick O'Hearn, who is not heard on the recording. |
| Mary Henry | Business Administrator | Presents the fund-balance retention decision (1:08:33 onward): fund balance 497,000 plus 114,000 revenue (1:09:17); a maximum of $466,664.43 (1:10:19); "I'm comfortable with 350." (1:12:16). On ESSER's final accounting: "we just ended on 930." (1:34:48). |
| Michelle Herrington | Assistant Director, Sugar River Valley Regional Technical Center | Introduced by the chair as "our a new assistant director of the technical center" (0:33:37). Presents her first weeks (0:33:43 to 0:54:16): 150 students plus 13 from Newport, one-on-one meetings, program advisory committees, field trips, Mikros, a student of the month, a fire ride-along. Self-identifies as Miss Harrington (0:39:12). Not to be confused with Dr. Michael Herrington, the Stevens principal, mentioned by Pratt at 2:01:24. |
| Unidentified | An administrator | On a full-time substitute at Disnard (Disney on the transcript) and permanent building substitutes (2:02:23); tiered substitute pay (2:03:18); "You have to have a bachelor's." (2:04:32). The minutes credit the Disnard remark to Mary Henry and the tiered-pay suggestion to Arlene Hawkins. |
Named but not present: Patrick O'Hearn, HR director, thanked for substitute procedures (0:32:06); Mr. Pascucci, Stevens restorative justice coordinator; Bonnie Miles. The child of the parent who spoke is not named here.
Agenda
Items from CSB Agenda 10.16.24.pdf; agenda wording is quoted from that document. Dispositions from the recording, checked against the approved minutes.
| Taken up | Item | Agenda text / disposition |
|---|
| 0:00:08 | I. Call to order, pledge | Agenda: "6:30 PM Call to Order and Pledge of Allegiance". |
| 0:00:35 | II. Roll call | Six present, Miles absent (minutes). |
| 0:01:10 | II.a Consent agenda: agenda; minutes of October 2, 2024 | Agenda: "Consent Agenda (vote required)". "Is there any objection to accepting the minutes of 10 to 24? Seeing no objection." No vote. Minutes: "Consent approval of all". |
| 0:01:10 | II.b Citizens' comments | Closed at once: "no citizens that are going to comment right now." Reopened after the student report for Jennifer Gallagher (0:10:22, 0:10:35). See flag 5 and flag 8. |
| 0:01:41 | II.c Student Board Member Report | Sheehan and Clark. No vote. |
| 0:14:13 | III. Superintendent's Report | Pratt's summary; questions on benchmarks, attendance and the poll. |
| 0:33:02 | IV.1 SRVRTC Momentum: Progress, Programming, and Vision (Exhibit A) | Herrington presents; questions. No vote. |
| 1:01:41 | IV.2 Affinity LED Lighting Efficiency Upgrade (Discussion) | Update only; the contract is already signed (1:06:01). Petrin: "You need a motion or anything?" (1:05:50); none is made. See flag 4. |
| 1:08:33 | IV.3 Financial Management Plan (Discussion) (Exhibit B) | Sprague moved to "retain up to $350,000" with the condition that it offset the FY26 tax rate (1:24:57); Petrin seconded (1:25:53). Motion to move the question, Sprague, seconded by Petrin (1:31:17). Main motion by voice: "Opposed? See? No opposition. The motion passes." (1:31:31). Minutes: "Voice vote taken on the original motion, all present voting in favor". Exhibit B is not in the posted packet. See flag 1 and flag 2. |
| 1:34:20 | IV.4 Sub-Committees | Finance: retention was on its agenda; still wants the final ESSER disposition (1:34:32). |
| 1:35:35 | IV.4(c)1 EHB-R Regulation: Data/Records Retention, First Read/Adoption (Exhibit C) | Chair moved (1:36:17); "Do I have a second? Second." Adopted by voice (1:37:36). Minutes: "Heather Whitney made a motion ... Michael Petrin seconded the motion". |
| 1:37:58 | IV.4(c)2-3 DAF Administration of Federal Grant Funds: repeal 2020 version; adopt 2024 version (Exhibits D, E) | One motion by the chair to repeal and replace (1:39:10); on tape "Second second from Miss Gillen." [Skillen] (1:39:36). Adopted by voice. The minutes record "Frank Sprague seconded the motion". See flag 7. |
| 1:39:56 | IV.4(c)4 JJJ Access to Public School Programs by Nonpublic, Charter School and Home Educated Pupils (Exhibit F) | Chair moved to repeal and replace (1:40:46); Skillen seconded (1:41:10). Adopted by voice (1:42:03). |
| 1:42:29 | IV.4(d)-(f) Curriculum; SRVRTC; Ad Hoc Communications: draft matrix (Exhibit G) | Curriculum: nothing new. SRVRTC: covered earlier. Communications: Sprague asks for direction on the draft (1:43:08); no vote. |
| 1:53:01 | V. Other Business | Community forum before the deliberative session (agenda item). Not on the agenda: the November 26 professional day given to teachers as a day off, by consent (1:55:33, 1:59:38); substitutes (2:00:06); the Claremont Administrators Association's bargaining request and Hawkins named negotiator by consent (2:06:25, 2:07:12). See flag 6. |
| 2:07:12 | VII. Adjournment | "No objections to adjourn. Meeting is adjourned." Minutes: "Consent adjournment at 8:37pm". |
Discussion timeline
Times are taken from the dialogue transcript (Dialogue/16070 SchoolBoard101624.mp4.CSV) and link into the recording.
| Time | Topic | What was said | Flags |
|---|
| 0:02:01 | Student board members' first report | Homecoming, a pep rally, the fall play, athletics, the band's first field show. On restorative justice: "a good way to work through the problem, as opposed to just giving someone a punishment" (0:08:40). On the new schedule, Clark: missing "so many classes" for appointments is the downside (0:07:13). | |
| 0:10:22 | Comment period reopened | "Looks like Mr. and Miss Gallagher may have missed the citizens comments. Can I is there any objection for citizens?" | POSITIVE |
| 0:10:35 | A parent on an elementary-school incident | Gallagher: "I'm here to represent some parents that are upset with how a problem was handled at our local elementary school." "there was an incident of fecal smearing in the a girls bathroom at our school" (0:11:07); girls in grades two through five were pulled into an assembly, and "the students were made to line up in the hallway outside of the bathroom in question and single singly, go observe the fecal matter smeared on the wall of the bathroom stall." (0:11:34). Only parents who emailed heard back (0:12:13); "it's not the first time this type of issue has happened" (0:12:40). Chair: "Thank you again. I appreciate your time. Sounds like you're very busy." (0:14:02). No board discussion follows. | OBS |
| 0:15:02 | Superintendent's report | A Chamber of Commerce video with the city; monthly meetings with the city manager (0:17:17); a Parent Square community poll (0:18:13); an outreach committee, "right now I'm up to over 20 people who are interested." (0:19:49); the strategic plan, "putting the final touches on that to present to the board next month." (0:20:11); door locks and radios at the SAU office, tested when "our internet was down for most of the day as well as the telephones" (0:21:57). | |
| 0:23:17 | Fall benchmark and absences | Chair: at Maple Avenue, "at the third grade level, 9% of kids are, on or above grade level." Koski: the fall test measures this year's content; "last spring, when we were all around the 50% in reading and math across all the trees" (0:23:58). Chair: "most notably at CMS, we had 300 plus students and there was 400 plus absentee absences" (0:25:16); Koski: a few students out for weeks for health reasons (0:26:18). | |
| 0:28:12 | The community poll | Sprague: "academic excellence? It was 28%, but character development was 46%." (0:28:41). Crawford suggests a follow-up to learn what respondents meant (0:29:58). | |
| 0:33:43 | The Tech Center's first weeks | "We have 150 students that come through the tech center" "and then 13 students from Newport." (0:34:31); "90% of them had no clue what they wanted to do." (0:34:55); a slideshow of every student, "over 200 plus slides" (0:38:29); program advisory committees meeting together on November 19 (0:40:04). | |
| 0:40:49 | Field trips and partners | Golden Cross, a construction career day, an open house, Mikros, where "we had 70 students come" (0:43:59), a concession at Arrowhead (0:44:22), beds for Sleep in Heavenly Peace (0:45:10), the county nursing home (0:45:33), a student of the month (0:46:17), a fire-department ride-along on November 4 (0:47:51), and "we bought a van." (0:49:38). | |
| 0:56:33 | Where the van came from | Petrin asks. Pratt: "it was a Esser Grant van that we got. And so it didn't come out of our, our local monies." No special license is needed; sign-out procedures are in place; registration pending (0:57:24). | |
| 1:01:48 | LED lighting upgrade | Pratt: the paperwork is held up "because we have certain audits that aren't done" (1:02:02). "But when it's all done and completed, it'll cut our costs in half." (1:02:44). Sprague: like Johnson Controls, "the savings actually pay for the, the payments of the lease" (1:02:59). "the total number of fixtures that we're changing are 2826." (1:04:36); utility incentives transcribed as 262,262 (1:05:20); payback 77 years (1:05:46), almost certainly seven. Hawkins: "Has the contract already been signed?" Pratt: "Yeah, because we already signed on to it." (1:06:01). | OBS |
| 1:08:33 | "To finish the dough 25" | Henry: "you guys need to make up your mind on how much money you're going to keep out of the fund balance for me to finish the dough 25." "because the city definitely wants it done". | HIGH |
| 1:09:17 | The retention figures | "the end of year fund balance is 497,000." "We've received 114,000 in additional revenues. So the combined end of year surplus is 611,000." The tax rate "would go from $14.15 to $14.46". The cap: "then it's times to point 5%. So the most you can retain is the $466,664. And $0.43 is the maximum amount that you can retain." (1:10:19). Break-even: "leaving you that $234,403 if you want to keep the tax rate level." (1:10:45). Interest "is going to be over $200,000 a year" against "I budgeted 35" (1:11:34). | MEDIUM |
| 1:13:24 | Working out the numbers | Crawford: "I understand that the total amount that we could retain is 1469." From here Henry and members use 469: "But the match you can retain is 469." (1:16:20). The chair asks to retain funds "to offset some of the collective bargaining agreement." (1:19:45). | MEDIUM |
| 1:24:57 | Motion to retain $350,000 | Sprague: "I'm going to make a motion that we retain up to $350,000. And I'm going to put a condition that it be that that money be used to offset the tax rate in 25, 26." Petrin seconds (1:25:53). Retaining the full 469 would raise the tax rate about "$0.77 per 100." [thousand] (1:30:25). Vote: "The motion to retain up to 350,000. To be used to offset the tax rate for fiscal year 2526. All in favor, say aye." (1:31:31). | MEDIUM |
| 1:32:02 | A public tutorial requested | The chair asks for an in-meeting tutorial so the board and public understand how the number is reached; Hawkins: "Need a tutorial on all of this" (1:26:03). Minutes: "Ms. Henry and Ms. Hawkins agreed to have a 1:1 explanation". | |
| 1:34:32 | ESSER accounting | Sprague wants the "final disposition of SR" [ESSER]; Henry: "We just are trying because we just ended on 930." (1:34:48). First public budget meeting "is November 12th." (1:35:10). | |
| 1:35:35 | Three policies, first read and adopt | Skillen: "This tonight I'd like to do a first read and adoption." EHB-R adopted (1:37:36); DAF repealed and replaced, with the district's accountable officers written into the NHSBA template (1:38:25); JJJ, on sharing federal funds with nonpublic schools: "We do that with Claremont Christian." (1:41:46). Petrin: "my document was actually accidentally attached to policy." (1:42:57). | OBS |
| 1:43:08 | Communications matrix | Sprague asks what the board itself communicates about: budget, policy, achievement, committee work, goals. The chair: the city has discussed "having, like, a communication specialist" (1:49:20). | |
| 1:53:01 | A community forum on achievement | Before the deliberative session; Skillen suggests pizza (1:53:41); Petrin, childcare (1:55:07). | |
| 1:55:33 | November 26 off for teachers | Pratt asks the board "to give me the permission to." (1:56:36) "Recognize the teachers for all the hard work they're doing and have them have the 26th off." (1:56:59). Koski: "I would never suggest this for a different district in a different time or place." (1:57:55). Chair: "I think we're unanimously in support" (1:59:38). No motion or vote. | OBS |
| 2:00:06 | Substitutes | Did last year's pay increase help? Pratt: "Not really. I don't think we've had a huge increase in in subs." (2:00:16). Koski: "the number of substitutes in our roster is a lot larger than the number of substitutes who have actually had an assignment" (2:01:55). A permanent substitute in each building may go into the budget (2:02:33). On qualifications, a bachelor's is mentioned, then Koski: "Just a correction. RSA looks like maybe high school." (2:05:13). | |
| 2:06:25 | Administrators' union asks to bargain | "the Claremont Administrators Association is interested in collective bargaining. And so we need to have dates set within two weeks of receiving this written request, which was received October 1st." Sprague: "Did we already miss it?" (2:06:41); Skillen: "So not in business days." Hawkins: "I agree to accept that position." (2:06:52). "Is there any objection to moving into negotiations with the CAA, seeing no objections?" (2:07:12). | OBS |
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 October 16, 2024, or is labeled an observation where no verified rule applies.
HIGH The FY24 annual financial report (DOE-25), due September 1, was still unfinished on October 16 and waiting on a board decision
The business administrator opened the retention item: "you guys need to make up your mind on how much money you're going to keep out of the fund balance for me to finish the dough 25." and "I do need that taken care of this evening" (1:08:33). The DOE-25 is the annual financial report RSA 198:4-d requires of every school district, and the statute as it read in 2024 says "This report shall be submitted on or before September 1 of each year." It contains no extension provision. On her own account the FY24 report was unfinished six and a half weeks after the deadline, and one input to it, the board's retention vote, was not taken until this meeting. The record does not show whether a partial filing was made or an extension was sought from the department. Graded HIGH as a missed statutory deadline on the business administrator's own statement; the mitigation is that the board acted the same night.
Sources: RSA 198:4-d (2024 codification; annual financial report by September 1; source note ends 2021, 44:5); approved minutes 10.16.24, item IV.3 ("the Board must decide how much fund balance to retain")
MEDIUM A $350,000 retention voted on worksheets the public could not see, with figures that do not agree
The agenda lists the item with "(Exhibit B)", but the posted packet holds Exhibits A and C to G and no Exhibit B; Henry handed members "three sheets" (1:09:17). The figures given aloud do not reconcile. Henry stated a maximum of "$466,664. And $0.43" (1:10:19); from then on she and members used 469 (1:16:20), and the approved minutes print "The maximum that can be retained is $469,000". She described the cap as the local education and state education taxes "times to point 5%", which reads as 2.5 percent. RSA 198:4-b, II allowed 2.5 percent before September 27, 2020 and 5 percent since (2020, 38:25), measured on the net assessment as RSA 198:5 defines it. If 2.5 percent was applied, the ceiling the board was shown was half what the law allowed; whether her base equals the statutory net assessment cannot be checked without the worksheet. The year-end balance itself moved: on September 18 the business administrator reported a surplus of $544,145.29 from Exhibit B to that meeting (show 16021), and here the fund balance is 497,000 (1:09:17), with no explanation of the difference on either recording. The vote itself was within the statutory cap on any reading, properly moved and seconded, and the board asked for a public tutorial (1:32:02). Under RSA 198:4-b, II(a) the board must hold a public hearing, with newspaper notice at least 7 days ahead, before it expends retained funds, which the motion's FY26 tax-offset condition will require. Graded MEDIUM as a control and transparency weakness in a financial decision.
Sources: RSA 198:4-b, II (5 percent of net assessment; hearing before expending; 2020, 38:25); RSA 198:4-b, II (2019 codification; 2.5 percent); Drive folder: 6. CSB 10.16.24 (no Exhibit B); Exhibit B to the September 18 meeting, FY24 Budget Report 6-30-24
MEDIUM The minutes first reached the public share four weeks after the meeting
RSA 91-A:2, II requires minutes "open to public inspection not more than 5 business days after the meeting", which made October 23, 2024 the deadline. The earliest copy found is the draft in the November 20 packet folder: Drive created it November 14, 2024, and its modified date is November 13. The next regular meeting, scheduled for November 6, was never held, and its packet folder (7. CSB 11.6.24) could not be listed from here, so a copy there is not ruled out. Graded MEDIUM under the project's severity rule because minutes exist; Drive dates show when the public could read them online, not whether a draft was available at the SAU office sooner.
Sources: RSA 91-A:2, II (2024 codification; 5 business days); 10.16.24 DRAFT CSB meeting minutes (1) (Drive createdTime 2024-11-14)
OBSERVATION A district-wide LED lighting contract, financed as a lease, already signed with no board vote in this record, and held up by the missing audits
The item was listed for discussion only. Hawkins asked "Has the contract already been signed?" and Pratt answered "Yeah, because we already signed on to it." (1:05:52, 1:06:01); who signed, and when, was not stated. The project replaces 2826 fixtures across the district (1:04:36), and Sprague described the model as savings that "pay for the, the payments of the lease" (1:02:59); the minutes record "a 7 year contract". Pratt said completion waits on the lender because "we have certain audits that aren't done" (1:02:02). RSA 32:8 bars a school board from agreeing to pay money or incurring a liability for any purpose without an appropriation, except under RSA 32:9 to 32:11; whether this multi-year obligation rests on an appropriation or a prior board vote cannot be determined from this record. Payback is transcribed as 77 years (1:05:46), almost certainly seven.
Sources: RSA 32:8 (no liability without an appropriation; 1993, 332:1); approved minutes 10.16.24, item IV.2
OBSERVATION A parent's report that elementary girls were made to view a soiled bathroom stall drew no board discussion
Gallagher described an assembly of girls in grades two through five after which "the students were made to line up in the hallway outside of the bathroom in question and single singly, go observe the fecal matter smeared on the wall of the bathroom stall." (0:11:34); she said only parents who emailed were contacted and asked whether a policy governs such incidents (0:12:40). The chair thanked her and moved to the superintendent's report (0:14:02); neither the superintendent nor any member responded on the record, and the superintendent's report that followed did not mention it. The board's Policy BEDH, §B.5, provides for "Board Discussion Regarding Citizens Comments" after the comment period closes. A board may properly decline to discuss a personnel or student matter in public, and the administration had answered the parents who wrote, so this is an observation: the public record shows the complaint and no follow-up.
Sources: Policy BEDH, §B.5 (board discussion of citizens' comments); approved minutes 10.16.24, item II.b
OBSERVATION Two decisions taken by consent outside the agenda: a professional day turned into a day off, and the board's bargaining negotiator
Neither item appears on the posted agenda. The superintendent asked "permission" to give teachers November 26, a scheduled professional-development day, off (1:56:36, 1:56:59); the chair declared the board "unanimously in support" (1:59:38) with no motion. The chair then announced the Claremont Administrators Association's written request to bargain, "received October 1st", and said dates must be set "within two weeks" (2:06:25); Hawkins was named negotiator and the board agreed by "no objection" to enter negotiations (2:06:52, 2:07:12). The two-week requirement was not tied to any statute or contract on the record and is not verified here; RSA 273-A:5, I(e) makes refusal to negotiate in good faith an unfair labor practice, and nothing on the record suggests a refusal. Unanimous consent is a recognized way to act, and the minutes record both items, so this is an observation about public notice of business taken up.
Sources: CSB Agenda 10.16.24 (item V lists only the community forum); RSA 273-A:5, I(e) (refusal to negotiate in good faith)
OBSERVATION The approved minutes name a different seconder for the DAF vote than the recording, and credit several remarks to other people
On the DAF motion the chair says "Second second from Miss Gillen." (1:39:36), the standing transcription of Whitney Skillen's name; the minutes record "Frank Sprague seconded the motion". RSA 91-A:2, II requires that "The names of the members who made or seconded each motion shall be recorded in the minutes", so the seconder is a required entry. On the EHB-R motion the tape has only Second. (1:36:17) and the minutes name Petrin. The minutes also credit Sprague with asking the students about the schedule (Koski on the dialogue file, 0:07:08); Arlene Hawkins with the retreat-goal point (the chair, on the dialogue file, 1:45:26, though the chair then says "I think to Arlene's point", 1:49:51) and with the substitute-pay question (the chair, 2:00:06); Patrick O'Hearn with the substitute-roster remarks (Koski, 2:01:55); and Mary Henry with the LED figures (the chair, 1:04:36). Where the recording names the seconder, the recording should govern; the other attributions are unsettled.
Sources: RSA 91-A:2, II (mover and seconder recorded; 2018, 244:1); approved minutes 10.16.24, items II.c, IV.4 and V
POSITIVE Public comment reopened for a late arrival, and students given the floor
After closing an empty comment period, the chair noticed a parent arriving and reopened it (0:10:22); the speaker thanked the board for it (0:10:35). The new student board members gave their first report, and members questioned them on the schedule and restorative justice and credited their answers (0:07:08, 0:08:27, 0:31:19). Reopening comment is not required once the period has been offered.
Sources: approved minutes 10.16.24, items II.b and II.c
Appendix: source files
Official and public sources
- Cablecast: School Board Meeting - 10/16/24 (show 16070)
- Drive folder: 6. CSB 10.16.24 (8 documents; agenda file created October 11, 2024, modified October 9):
- Not in the packet: Exhibit B, Financial Management Plan, listed on the agenda (see flag 2).
- Minutes:
7. Approved CSB meeting minutes 10.16.24; draft 10.16.24 DRAFT CSB meeting minutes (1).pdf (in the 8. CSB 11.20.24 packet, created November 14, 2024)
- Related pages: Claremont School Board, October 2, 2024; Claremont School Board, September 18, 2024 (the $544,145.29 surplus report).
Project files
Working files this page was built from. The dialogue file is linked; the others are not published with the page.
Dialogue/16070 SchoolBoard101624.mp4.CSV (883 attributed rows; the basis of this page)Input/Videos/16070 SchoolBoard101624.mp4Input/Transcripts/16070 SchoolBoard101624.mp4.jsonInput/SupportingDocuments/MAP.md, section 240
Laws and rules cited on this page
- RSA 198:4-d, 2024 codification (source note ends 2021, 44:5): annual financial report due September 1
- RSA 198:4-b, II (2020, 38:25): retention up to 5 percent of net assessment; public hearing before expending; 2019 codification (2.5 percent)
- RSA 32:8 (1993, 332:1): no liability without an appropriation
- RSA 91-A:2, II, 2024 codification (source note ends 2023, 188:1): minutes, mover and seconder, five business days
- RSA 273-A:5, I(e) (1979, 374:4): refusal to negotiate in good faith
- Claremont School Board Policy BEDH (adopted September 6, 2023), §B.5