Participants
Everyone heard or recorded present. Spellings follow the agenda and approved minutes; where the dialogue file's label or the transcript's rendering differs, the minutes' name is used and the difference is noted. Unidentified voices stay unidentified.
| Name | Role | Participation |
|---|
| Heather Whitney | Chair, presiding | Presides throughout. Asks Henry to read the roll (0:00:28). Questions the Program of Studies on a CTE honors course and on reading-list transparency (0:09:53, 0:11:59). Asks for the default budget figure (0:54:37) and whether summer school would be in it (0:57:31). Seconds the lighting-lease motion (1:20:26). Explains why no budget figure can be discussed: "It is we would be breaking ground rules, ground rules, if we discussed what the final dollar amount impact would be on the budget." (1:21:03). |
| Frank Sprague | Vice chair; chair, Finance Committee | Moves approval of the Program of Studies (0:14:04), the Senator Ward letter (1:01:18) and the lighting lease (1:19:07). Notes the Program of Studies still calls early-college courses "running start" (0:11:24). Gives the Finance report: "We are going to get together as a group over the Christmas period to come up with some salient points around the public hearing to defend the budget" (1:13:34). Notes that school board candidate registration is in January (1:22:21). |
| Candace Crawford | Member; chair, Capital Improvement and SRVRTC visioning subcommittees | Notes the Program of Studies still lists a Stevens summer program (0:13:09); the minutes name her as seconder of its approval. Presents the Senator Ward letter (0:58:45). Reports the December 10 Capital Improvements meeting (1:01:53) and her December 9 meeting with the Tech Center director (1:02:52). |
| Michael Petrin | Member | Asks how a five-class teaching load affects class size (0:31:55). Objects to giving up a criminal justice program to Newport and asks that subcommittee sessions be held as meetings (1:09:25, 1:10:25). Raises wrestling transport with Newport and praises the music program (1:22:46). The transcript renders his name "Michael. Patron." at the roll and "Mr. Peterson" in Crawford's reply. |
| Arlene Hawkins | Member; SAU 6 board chair; Curriculum representative | Arrived 6:33 per the minutes; the chair tells the roll reader to note her when she comes in (0:00:28). Questions why a Newport fire-safety course rules out criminal justice in Claremont (1:10:59). Commends the Finance Committee (1:14:47). Reports that the Policy subcommittee met that day (1:24:00). The approved minutes name her as seconder of the Senator Ward letter. |
| Bonnie Miles | Member | Present per the minutes and called at the roll (0:00:28); no attributed words. |
| Whitney Skillen | Member; chair, Policy subcommittee | Absent (minutes). |
| Noelle Kronberg | School board clerk | Absent (chair at 0:00:28). The approved minutes are nonetheless "Respectfully submitted by Noelle Kronberg, school board clerk." |
| Miles Sheehan and Lilly Clark | Student board members (agenda masthead) | Not called at the roll and not heard; the minutes' attendance line does not list them. |
| Christopher Pratt | Superintendent, SAU 6 | Superintendent's report (0:05:22); plays the bus-driver portion of a Chamber of Commerce recruiting video (0:06:16); says principal self-assessments and surveys were rebuilt around the strategic plan "that we approve last month" (0:08:20). Explains that student requests drive section counts (0:33:18). |
| Mary Henry | Business administrator | Reads the roll. Adds the lighting lease to the agenda (0:01:40). Tax-rate tutorial on the DOE-25, MS-22, MS-24, SWEPT and adequacy aid (0:37:39). Gives the default budget as $39,791,261 (0:54:50). Presents the lighting lease, the $262,995 Eversource grant and the lessor's name (1:16:17, 1:18:40). |
| Dr. Michael Herrington | Principal, Stevens High School | High school schedule review (Exhibit B): results of 17 teacher interviews on the move from a block to a period schedule, and a plan for a five-class load with two preps next year (0:14:49 to 0:31:47). The transcript renders his name "Doctor Michael Harrington". |
| Mimi (Amelia) Rhines | Stevens High School counselor and summer school coordinator; Citizens' comments, Ward 1 | Speaks first as a citizen against the decision not to fund high school summer school (0:03:21), then presents the Program of Studies as counselor (0:09:24). The approved minutes print both "Mimi Rhines" and "Amelia Rhines"; the transcript renders the surname Ryan's and rhymes. |
| Unidentified | Voices in the played recruiting video | Narrator, student and driver lines inside the video (0:06:41 to 0:07:04); not people in the room. |
| Unidentified | Seconder heard on tape | The single word Sure. seconding the Program of Studies motion (0:14:07); the minutes give the second to Candace Crawford. |
| Named, not present | Michelle Herrington (Tech Center director), Steve Holt (maintenance director), Eric Perry (Newport Tech director), Career Counselor O'Neill, Ms. Trudeau (SHS music) | Named in reports. Eric Perry's name comes from Crawford's spoken report and the packet's visioning-subcommittee minutes; the board minutes say only "the Director of the Newport Tech". The transcript has the counselor as "Jan O'Neil"; the minutes print "Ms. O'Neill". The musical-theater teacher Petrin names is "Miss Kestner" on the transcript and "Ms. Gessner" in the minutes; no spelling is adopted here. |
Agenda
The posted agenda (CSB Agenda 12.18.24) with the point at which the recording takes up each item and the disposition recorded in the approved minutes. Agenda wording is quoted from the agenda.
| Taken up | Item | Agenda text / disposition |
|---|
| 0:00:01 | I. Call to order, Pledge | Agenda: "6:30 PM Call to Order and Pledge of Allegiance". Roll read by Mary Henry in the clerk's absence (0:00:28); Hawkins noted as arriving late. |
| 0:01:25 | II.a Consent agenda | Agenda: "Amendments and Final Approval of board agenda" and "Minutes Approval- 11.20.24 & 12.4.24". Henry asks to add the lighting lease (0:01:40); the chair asks for the amount and the transcript renders the answer as a fused string, "And $57,592, 852,500 and 857,000 $357,592." (0:02:00); the minutes record "a dollar amount of $857,592". Added as item IV.6 "If there is no objections"; minutes approved "Seeing no objections" (0:02:37). Minutes: "Consent approval". |
| 0:02:37 | II.b Citizens' comments | Agenda references policy BEDH. One speaker, Mimi Rhines, Ward 1, on summer school (0:03:21). |
| 0:05:19 | III. Superintendent's report | Written report in the packet; recruiting video; principal evaluations tied to the strategic plan. No action. |
| 0:09:11 | IV.1 SHS Program of Studies (Exhibit A) | Agenda: "(Discussion/Possible Vote)". Approved by voice vote (0:14:08). Minutes: "Frank Sprague made a motion to approve the Program of Studies, Candace Crawford seconded the motion; no discussion"; "all present voting in favor". |
| 0:14:30 | IV.2 High School Schedule Review (Exhibit B) | Discussion only. Dr. Herrington's interview findings and next-year plan. |
| 0:37:05 | IV.3 Default Budget & Proposed FY26 Budget Summary and tax tutorial (Exhibit D) | Agenda: "Default Budget & Proposed FY26 Budget Summary and Tutorial on School Budgeting, Funding, Tax Impact and Tax Rate Setting (Discussion)". The chair: "We are not going to review the budget summary today" (0:37:05). Tutorial delivered; default budget given orally as $39,791,261 (0:54:50). No vote. See flag 4. |
| 0:58:37 | IV.4 NH Senator Letter (Exhibit C) | Agenda: (Vote). Sprague moves to send the letter from the board (1:01:18); voice vote, no opposition heard (1:01:27). Minutes: "Arlene Hawkins seconded the motion"; "all present voting in favor". See flag 6. |
| 1:01:47 | IV.5 Sub-committees | Capital Improvement (1:01:53); SRVRTC (1:02:52); Finance (1:13:05). Policy and Curriculum: no report under the item, though Hawkins says under Other Business that Policy met that day (1:24:00). Ad Hoc Communications: no report. |
| 1:16:10 | IV.6 Lighting project lease (added by amendment) | Not on the posted agenda; added under II.a. Sprague moves to authorize the superintendent to sign with "MC l leasing in the amount of $857,592" (1:19:07); the chair seconds; voice vote, "none opposed" (1:20:26). Minutes: "Heather Whitney seconded the motion"; "all present voting in favor". See flag 5. |
| 1:20:35 | V. Other business | January 7 meeting announced to ratify two collective bargaining agreements and receive the proposed budget (1:20:35); candidate registration (1:22:21); Newport wrestling transport and the music program (1:22:46); four policies coming from the Policy subcommittee (1:24:00). |
| 1:24:32 | VI–VII. Future dates; adjournment | Agenda future dates: board meeting 1/2/2025, budget hearing 1/15/2025, deliberative session February 1, 2025. Adjourned by consent. The 1/2/2025 meeting the agenda lists was not held; the chair instead announced January 7. |
Discussion timeline
Times are taken from the dialogue transcript (Dialogue/16222 SchoolBoard121824.mp4.CSV). Timestamps link to the same moment in the Cablecast recording.
| Time | Topic | What was said | Flags |
|---|
| 0:00:28 | Roll; time pressure | "Mary, would you kindly do roll call for us?" The chair says the board will be "very judicious with our time" because administrators have long drives and "the roads are getting pretty slick" (0:01:02). | |
| 0:01:40 | Lighting lease added to agenda | Henry: "I need to add the lease agreement for the, lighting project that we're doing that we had spoken out before, and you guys had approved for us to move forward with." The amount is transcribed as "And $57,592, 852,500 and 857,000 $357,592." (0:02:00), a fused-digit garble of the $857,592 later moved. | OBS |
| 0:03:21 | Citizens' comment: summer school | Rhines, speaking as a citizen, says she watched the Finance Committee's December 13 recording and objects to "a decision that was referenced in the high school portion, which is to not fund summer school"; she cites "the $30,000 cost, which was the quote given in the CCTV recording" and says it "was previously funded by Esser funds". No board response at the time. | |
| 0:05:22 | Superintendent's report | Report includes school updates, discipline and attendance data; a Chamber of Commerce recruiting video is played (0:06:41). The chair reads Bluff goals of ELA proficiency "from 18% to 27" (0:07:58). Pratt says principal surveys are now "based on our strategic plan that we approve last month." | |
| 0:09:24 | Program of Studies 2025–26 | Rhines: "It's pretty much what you guys approved last year." Honors plumbing counts as a fourth lab science (0:10:42); EC h marks early-college courses (0:11:12); syllabi with reading lists go home and "most teachers require signature on the syllabus" (0:12:59). Crawford notes summer school still appears (0:13:09); Rhines: "I was not made aware of any changes." Motion and voice vote (0:14:00, 0:14:08). | OBS |
| 0:14:49 | High school schedule review | Herrington: teachers moved from "378 minute classes" with a "178 minute prep period" [three 78-minute classes, one 78-minute prep] to "a 646 minute classes and have 146 minute prep" [six 46-minute classes, one 46-minute prep]. 17 teachers interviewed (0:16:37); top theme is stress: "I would very much argue that this these first stressors are untenable and cannot last." (0:20:40). | |
| 0:27:42 | Mid-year change rejected; next-year plan | A second-semester switch to five classes "would affect negatively 57% of the students in the school", and teachers rejected it. Next year: teach five, two preps, a weekly duty to cover absences and IEP meetings (0:26:26). Weekly grade-level advisories in the auditorium as interim relief (0:28:05). | |
| 0:31:55 | Board questions on class size | Petrin asks whether five classes means larger classes; Herrington: sizes "will still be less than they were last year" (0:32:18). Sprague: "there is going to be an impact on class size. It's unavoidable." (0:36:23). | |
| 0:37:39 | Tax-rate tutorial | Henry walks through the DOE-25 ("23 sections and eight tabs"), MS-25, MS-22 ("the 39,000,962 to 66" in total appropriations including grants and food service, 0:41:10), MS-24 and the $350,000 retained fund balance (0:42:52), SWEPT, and adequacy aid. FY26 adequacy estimate about $16 million against $14 million: "That's a $1.9 million jump" from the extraordinary-need grant rising from about $8,600 to $11,500 per eligible pupil (0:50:06). | POS |
| 0:54:50 | Default budget figure | Henry: "Again I might make some minor changes to it, but it's $39,791,261." She reads a definition that ends at "reduced by one time expenditures contained in the operating budget" (0:55:24). The three pending agreements are outside the default (0:56:33); summer school is not in it because it was ESSER-funded (0:57:44); "I think your default would be higher than your budget." (0:58:11). | OBS |
| 0:58:45 | Letter to Senator Ward | Crawford presents a Funding Fairness Project letter, describing the group as "a nonpartisan group in the state"; she says Claremont was a plaintiff, "We won the case", and "the state Supreme Court said." The ask, as spoken: "to increase the adequacy aid payment from 4100 to 7300 per pupil" (1:00:28). Motion and voice vote (1:01:18, 1:01:27). | OBS |
| 1:01:53 | Capital Improvements report | Crawford, Petrin and Miles met with Henry and maintenance director Steve Holt; summary minutes are in the packet (1:02:30). Those minutes (December 10) list nine near-term items and a $150,000 Capital Improvements Reserve Fund balance. | POS |
| 1:02:52 | SRVRTC report | Crawford: "this wasn't a formal subcommittee meeting". Reports joint planning with Newport, intro teacher-training courses in Claremont, program advisory committees, the five-student medical assistant program, and pre-enrollment interviews for CTE courses; the NH DOE "just did their annual audit" of the Tech Center (1:08:53). | POS |
| 1:09:25 | Criminal justice program; informal meetings | Petrin: "It feels like competition." and "I just asked that if we're having a subcommittee, we need to make sure that we're having a meeting." Crawford agrees (1:10:47). Sprague: the cluster is "protective services" (1:11:27). | POS |
| 1:13:05 | Finance Committee report | Sprague: the committee has "given the administrative team some homework" and will "get together as a group over the Christmas period". The chair: "Watch the CCTV, videos." (1:13:55). Hawkins commends the committee (1:14:47). | OBS |
| 1:16:17 | Lighting lease | Henry: "we did receive $262,995 and a grant from" Eversource (1:16:49); lighting costs should halve; "it's a seven year lease." Lessor first given as LSD leasing, corrected to MCL (1:18:58). Sprague moves $857,592 (1:19:07) and says "So it really is cost neutral." (1:19:52). Chair seconds; voice vote (1:20:26). | OBS |
| 1:20:35 | No budget figure; January meetings | The chair: "we are going to have to have an emergency meeting on January 7th, to ratify two collective bargaining agreements", and "we have to be pretty mum on what our bottom line is going to be." She describes a further meeting after the January 15 hearing to move the budget to the deliberative session (1:21:46). | |
| 1:22:21 | Other business | Sprague: candidate "registration period for the school board actually is in January." Petrin on Newport wrestling transport and the music program (1:22:46). | |
| 1:24:00 | Policy subcommittee met that day | Hawkins: "The policy committee did meet. Subcommittee did me today. And we will be bringing forth for policies at the January 2nd meeting." [four policies; met today]. The chair asks whether any changes the donation threshold for a public hearing (1:24:18); Hawkins: Yes. | MED |
| 1:24:32 | Adjournment | "Any objections to joining? Seeing none. Meeting adjourned." [adjourning]. | |
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 December 18, 2024, or is labeled an observation where no verified rule applies.
MEDIUM The earliest datable public copy of these minutes appeared on the fifteenth business day
RSA 91-A:2, II requires minutes to be "open to public inspection not more than 5 business days after the meeting"; a business day is 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday, excluding national and state holidays. Counting from Wednesday, December 18, with December 25 and January 1 excluded, the fifth business day was Thursday, December 26, 2024. The draft minutes that reached the district's public share were filed in the 12. CSB Budget Public Hearing 1.15.25 packet folder, which was created January 10, 2025 at 3:25 p.m. Eastern; the file's createdTime is the same minute, and its modifiedTime is January 8, 2025, the thirteenth business day. They were not in the January 7 packet (11. CSB 1.7.25). The approved version was created January 21, 2025. Drive dates measure when a document reached the share, not when it was written, and the minutes may have been available on request earlier; nothing in the record says so. Graded MEDIUM under the project's severity rule, not HIGH: the meeting was noticed and packeted, minutes exist, and they record movers and seconders as RSA 91-A:2, II requires; only their timeliness is in question.
Sources: RSA 91-A:2, II (2024 codification; minutes within five business days; business day defined); 12.18.24 DRAFT CSB minutes (1).pdf; 12. CSB Budget Public Hearing 1.15.25 folder
MEDIUM The Policy subcommittee met on the day of this meeting; no notice or minutes of that session were found
Hawkins, under Other Business: "The policy committee did meet. Subcommittee did me today." (1:24:00). A subcommittee of a school board is a public body: RSA 91-A:1-a, VI(d) reaches "any committee, subcommittee, or subordinate body thereof, or advisory committee thereto", so the session needed 24 hours' posted notice and minutes under RSA 91-A:2, II. The board's agenda lists no Policy subcommittee date, and its Policy item carried no report. No notice or minutes were found in this meeting's packet folder, in the January 7 packet, or by Drive searches for the date; a negative from Drive search alone does not prove that none exists. Graded MEDIUM rather than HIGH because the record mitigates it: the subcommittee's output, four policies, was announced in public session and is the kind of business that returns to the full board for a public vote. The same packet carries written accounts of two other subcommittees' December sessions (flag 8), which makes the gap specific to Policy.
Sources: RSA 91-A:1-a, VI(d) (subcommittees are public bodies); RSA 91-A:2, II (2024 codification; notice and minutes); CSB Agenda 12.18.24
OBSERVATION The board points the public to Finance Committee recordings, and the committee announces a further group session over Christmas
For the Finance report the chair said "Watch the CCTV, videos." (1:13:55), and the approved minutes record the same advice in place of a report. Sprague announced: "We are going to get together as a group over the Christmas period to come up with some salient points around the public hearing to defend the budget" (1:13:34). If a quorum of the three-member committee meets to prepare the board's budget case, that is a meeting needing notice and minutes under RSA 91-A:2, II, as flag 2 explains for subcommittees. Nothing in the record shows whether the Christmas-period session took place, and no notice or minutes of one were found; a Drive search of files with finance in the title created between December 18, 2024 and February 15, 2025 returned nothing, and the district's Claremont Finance Sub Committee folder could not be listed (its modifiedTime is December 1, 2025). Recordings are a strong public record, and televising the sessions exceeds what the law requires, but RSA 91-A:2, II asks for minutes as well. The committee's December 13 and 18 sessions have their own pages: Finance Committee, December 13, 2024; Finance Committee, December 18, 2024.
Sources: RSA 91-A:2, II (2024 codification); RSA 91-A:1-a, VI(d); 11. Approved CSB minutes 12.18.24 (Finance item)
OBSERVATION A $39,791,261 default budget was given orally with no document, and the definition read aloud stopped before the eliminated-positions clause
The agenda item was "Default Budget & Proposed FY26 Budget Summary"; the chair said "We are not going to review the budget summary today" (0:37:05), and no default-budget worksheet or budget summary is among the ten packet documents. The only figure was Henry's: "it's $39,791,261" (0:54:50). She then read the statutory definition, ending "reduced by one time expenditures contained in the operating budget" (0:55:24). RSA 40:13, IX(b) continues: "and by salaries and benefits of positions that have been eliminated in the proposed budget." The omission matters when a proposed budget eliminates positions, because the default must then shrink by their cost. The chair's later reason for discussing no budget total (unratified agreements, 1:21:03) explains the missing budget figure, but not the missing default-budget document. No rule cited here requires a default figure at this meeting. Recorded as an observation; the January 7 and January 15 pages are where the default-budget form, if any, should be checked.
Sources: RSA 40:13, IX(b) (definition of default budget; last amended 2019, 192:2); CSB Agenda 12.18.24 (item IV.3)
OBSERVATION An $857,592 seven-year lighting lease was added to the agenda the same night and approved without the agreement in the packet
The lease was not on the posted agenda; Henry added it under "Amendments and Final Approval of board agenda" (0:01:40), and the amount she gave is garbled in the transcript (0:02:00). The motion was "to enter into a lease agreement with MC l leasing in the amount of $857,592" (1:19:07), seconded by the chair and carried by voice vote (1:20:26). Henry said "it's a seven year lease." and that the district received a $262,995 Eversource grant (1:16:17); Sprague described it as "cost neutral" because energy savings pay the payments. RSA 33:7-e lets the governing body enter "leases of equipment", counts related building improvements as equipment, and provides that a lease with a nonappropriation clause "shall not be treated as debt"; RSA 33:1 extends "municipality" in that chapter to school districts. Whether this agreement carries a nonappropriation clause, which determines whether it is debt, cannot be checked: the agreement is not among the ten packet documents and was not read aloud. Henry said the board had earlier approved going forward with the project; that earlier vote is not reviewed on this page. Recorded as an observation because the statute gives the board the power and the document that would settle the debt question is not public in this record.
Sources: RSA 33:7-e (equipment leases; nonappropriation clauses; 1999, 35:1; 2014, 60:1); 11. Approved CSB minutes 12.18.24 (item 6)
OBSERVATION The minutes attribute the funding letter's basis to a Supreme Court ruling that did not yet exist, and the spoken figure differs from the letter
The approved minutes say the letter rests on "the NH Supreme Court’s ruling in the Conval lawsuit"; Crawford said "the state Supreme Court said." On December 18, 2024 the only merits ruling was the Superior Court's of November 2023, which found base adequacy aid too low and set $7,356.01 per pupil; the New Hampshire Supreme Court had stayed that order on March 13, 2024 and did not decide the appeal until July 1, 2025. The letter itself (Exhibit C) is accurate on this point: it says "the Superior Court ruled". It asks the senator to raise base adequacy "from $4,100 to $7,356.01 per pupil"; the spoken and minuted figure is 7,300. The letter also criticizes Education Freedom Account funding the senator "actively supported" and asks her to "honor your campaign promises", which the presentation did not mention; the board voted to send it as written. No rule governs a board's advocacy letter; recorded so readers can compare the minutes, the speech and the document.
Sources: Exhibit C- Dear Senator Ward.docx.pdf; New Hampshire Bulletin, March 13, 2024 (Superior Court ruling of November 2023; $7,356.01; Supreme Court stay), reporting; NH School Funding Fairness Project, July 1, 2025 (Supreme Court decision), reporting
OBSERVATION The minutes name seconders the recording does not identify, and are signed by a clerk who was absent
For the Program of Studies the recording has the chair asking for a second and an unidentified Sure. (0:14:07); the minutes name Candace Crawford. For the Senator Ward letter the chair's own row reads "I'll second. Second." (1:01:27); the minutes name Arlene Hawkins. The minutes are the authority on names under this project's method, and the diarizer can merge a nearby voice into the chair's, so this page follows the minutes; but neither attribution can be confirmed from the tape. The minutes are "Respectfully submitted by Noelle Kronberg, school board clerk", while the chair announced her absence and the business administrator read the roll (0:00:28); the minutes do not say who took notes. RSA 91-A:2, II requires the names of movers and seconders, and these minutes supply them. Recorded as an observation, not a defect.
Sources: RSA 91-A:2, II (2024 codification; movers and seconders recorded); 11. Approved CSB minutes 12.18.24
POSITIVE Two subcommittees filed written minutes in the packet, a member insisted informal sessions be held as meetings, and the board heard a public tax-setting tutorial
The packet carries Cap Improvements Committee Meeting minutes 12.10.24.pdf, with members, call-to-order and end times (3:30 to 4:30), attendees and the items discussed, and CSB Visioning Sub 12.9.24.docx.pdf, a written account of the chair's meeting with the Tech Center director. Crawford pointed the board to the first (1:02:30). When Crawford described the second with "this wasn't a formal subcommittee meeting", Petrin asked "that if we're having a subcommittee, we need to make sure that we're having a meeting", and she answered "Yes, we will do that in the future." (1:10:47). Separately, the business administrator spent some seventeen minutes explaining to viewers how the DOE-25, MS-22, MS-24, SWEPT and adequacy aid produce the school tax rate (0:37:39). None of this is required beyond RSA 91-A:2, II's minutes duty, and it makes the board's money decisions easier for the public to follow.
Sources: Cap Improvements Committee Meeting minutes 12.10.24.pdf; CSB Visioning Sub 12.9.24.docx.pdf; RSA 91-A:2, II (2024 codification)
Appendix: source files
Official and public sources
- Cablecast: School Board 12/18/24 (show 16222)
- Drive folder: 10. CSB 12.18.24 (10 documents; folder and agenda created December 12, 2024):
- Minutes:
11. Approved CSB minutes 12.18.24 (created January 21, 2025); draft 12.18.24 DRAFT CSB minutes (1).pdf (in the 12. CSB Budget Public Hearing 1.15.25 packet, created January 10, 2025)
- Not in the packet: the lighting lease agreement; any default-budget worksheet or FY26 budget summary (checked the folder's ten documents, 2026-10-03).
- Not found: notice or minutes of the Policy subcommittee session of December 18, 2024, or of a Finance Committee session over Christmas 2024 (Drive searches by date and title, 2026-10-03; Drive search negatives are not proof of absence).
- Related pages: Finance Committee, December 13, 2024; Finance Committee, December 18, 2024 (afternoon); Claremont School Board, January 7, 2025.
Project files
Working files this page was built from. The dialogue file is linked; the others are not published with the page.
Dialogue/16222 SchoolBoard121824.mp4.CSV (366 attributed rows; the basis of this page)Input/Videos/16222 SchoolBoard121824.mp4Input/Transcripts/16222 SchoolBoard121824.mp4.jsonInput/SupportingDocuments/MAP.md, section 250
Laws and rules cited on this page
- RSA 91-A:1-a, VI(d): public bodies include committees and subcommittees
- RSA 91-A:2, II, 2024 codification (source note ends 2023, 188:1): notice; minutes within five business days; movers and seconders; business day
- RSA 40:13, IX(b) (last amended 2019, 192:2): definition of the default budget
- RSA 33:7-e (1999, 35:1; 2014, 60:1): equipment lease agreements and nonappropriation clauses
- Press, cited as reporting: New Hampshire Bulletin, March 13, 2024; NH School Funding Fairness Project, July 1, 2025