Participants
Everyone heard or addressed on the recording. Spellings follow the agenda masthead (Ruggeri, Atonya Hart, Kristel Davis), which the transcript renders differently. No minutes exist to settle who moved or seconded most motions; those speakers stay unidentified.
| Name | Role | Participation |
|---|
| Arlene Hawkins | SAU 6 board chair, presiding (Claremont member) | Presides. Says the clerk is absent and someone "offered to, create the minutes based on the video" (0:00:35). Tables the minutes (0:02:07). Presents the TMSolution proposal and reads its rates and terms (0:06:34 to 0:14:55). Allows the whistleblower question under Other Business (0:28:39). |
| Rocco Ruggeri | Vice chair (Unity member) | Present on the roll call at 0:03:47 (transcript: Rocco. Ruggieri.). Listed on the agenda as presenter of items 2 and 3; the chair presented them. |
| Shannon Popescu | Member (Unity) | Present (0:01:27). The chair names her as second on the agenda and nonpublic motions (0:02:52, 0:03:35). |
| Kristel Davis | Member (Unity) | Present on the roll call at 0:03:52 (transcript: Crystal. Davis.). |
| Atonya Hart | Member (Unity) | Called at 0:01:28; no answer is transcribed, and she is not called on the later roll calls. Probably absent; not confirmed by any document. |
| Darlene Ayotte | Member (Unity) | Absent on the recording (Nope. at 0:01:25). |
| Candace Crawford | Member (Claremont) | Present (0:01:31). |
| Michael Petrin | Member (Claremont) | Present (0:01:33; transcript: Michael. Patron.). |
| Heather Whitney | Member (Claremont) | Supports the consultants: "I felt there were no systems when I started on the board" (0:19:01); "I feel there's a moral imperative to do everything in our power to provide protections for the district." (0:22:17). |
| William Madden | Member (Claremont) | Opposes the consultants as premature: "We don't have controls anywhere on anything." (0:17:52). Describes unchecked time sheets at the SAU office (0:23:22). Raises whistleblowers and cites a statute heard as "Two seven, five, eight" (0:29:16, 0:30:42). |
| Loren Howard | Member (Claremont) | Present (0:01:38; the chair reads his name into the roll). |
| Unidentified members | Movers and discussants | Move the agenda, the nonpublic session, Pratt's resignation, the interim offer and the contracts (0:02:46, 0:03:24, 0:05:03, 0:05:57, 0:08:35); ask for the costs to be stated (0:08:50); estimate "around $54,000" for ten months (0:26:18); a Unity member says the work will help Unity "as you separate" (0:26:58). |
| Michael Koski | Assistant superintendent | Reads all three roll calls (0:01:07, 0:03:44, 0:04:27). |
| Kerry Kennedy | Offered the interim superintendency (named only) | Transcript: Miss Carrie Kennedy (0:05:57). Spelling from the September 17 Claremont minutes, which list her as Interim Superintendent. |
| Chris Pratt | Superintendent (named only) | His resignation is accepted (0:05:03). Not present. |
Agenda
Items from the posted agenda, with the time each was taken up and the disposition from the recording. No minutes exist to confirm movers, seconders or tallies.
| Taken up | Item | Agenda text / disposition |
|---|
| 0:00:03 | I. Call to order and Pledge | "Seeing that I do have a corn" [quorum]. |
| 0:01:07 | II. Roll call | Read by Koski; see Board composition. |
| 0:01:38 | II. Minutes 6/12/25, 8/21/25, 8/26/2025 and 9/4/2025 | Tabled: members could not open the circulated files except, the chair says, the 8/26 set (0:01:38, 0:02:07). No vote heard. |
| 0:02:29 | II. Agenda: amendments and final approval | Accepted as presented on a motion by an unidentified member, seconded (the chair names Popescu), voice vote (0:02:46, 0:02:52). |
| 0:03:01 | II. Citizens Comments | "Seeing none." |
| 0:03:24 | III.1 Non-public session, RSA 91-A:3, II (a & c) | Motion "to move into non public meeting for under RSA 91-8 colon three comma two A and C" [91-A:3, II(a) and (c)], second named as Popescu, roll call all yes (0:03:44). Return to public session on a motion and roll call (0:04:22). See flag 2 and flag 6. |
| 0:04:48 | III.2 SAU #6 Office Administration Update (Discussion/Vote) | Motion "to accept Superintendent Chris Pratt's resignation", seconded, voice vote, ayes heard (0:05:03, 0:05:20). Motion "to offer the position of interim superintendent to Miss Carrie Kennedy", seconded, voice vote, no opposition heard (0:05:57, 0:06:17). |
| 0:06:34 | III.3 Consulting Services (Discussion/Vote) | Motion "to accept the proposal as written", seconded (0:08:35, 0:08:43). After discussion, "All those in favor of hiring TMS consulting services, per the agreement on the contract" and "That passes." (0:27:44, 0:28:04). Whether anyone voted no is not audible. |
| 0:28:17 | IV. Future Meeting Dates | Agenda: "November 13, 2023" with "Audit Reports Provided by Auditor" (the year is printed as 2023). The chair: "our next schedule saw meeting is November 13th" with audits to review (0:28:52). |
| 0:29:11 | V. Other Business | Madden on whistleblowers; no action. |
| 0:30:56 | VI. Adjournment | Motion, second and voice vote heard. |
Discussion timeline
Times are taken from the dialogue transcript (Dialogue/16833 SAU6-091125.mp4.CSV) and link into the recording. Timestamps link to the same moment in the Cablecast recording.
| Time | Topic | What was said | Flags |
|---|
| 0:00:03 | Call to order; who keeps the minutes | The chair: the clerk is "not going to be here today"; "She offered to, create the minutes based on the video. So I think for the public session, that's what we'll do that soon. And for, when we go in, a nonpublic will have to get a volunteer." (0:00:35). | MEDIUM |
| 0:01:07 | Roll call | Koski reads the roll; Ayotte absent (0:01:25); Hart not heard (0:01:28). | |
| 0:01:38 | Minutes tabled | "Anyone else noticed that the formatting wasn't too well? I wasn't able to open them. I was only able to open the minutes from, Let's see. 826." Then "We're going to table all the review of minutes until we get some an opportunity to review them." (0:02:07). The June 12 draft has now waited three months for approval. | |
| 0:03:01 | Citizens comments | No one comes forward. | |
| 0:03:24 | Into nonpublic | Motion citing "RSA 91-8 colon three comma two A and C"; Koski calls the roll, each member answering Yes. (0:03:44). The chair: "we are going to move into nonpublic, and then we will return" (0:04:02). | MEDIUM POSITIVE |
| 0:04:22 | Out of nonpublic | "A motion to come out of nonpublic." Roll call, all yes (0:04:32). No announcement of any decision taken or of a vote on sealing the nonpublic minutes is heard. | MEDIUM |
| 0:05:03 | Pratt's resignation | "I would like to make a motion to accept Superintendent Chris Pratt's resignation." No discussion; ayes heard (0:05:28). No resignation letter or separation terms are in the packet. | OBSERVATION |
| 0:05:38 | Interim superintendent | "I'd like to make a motion to offer the position of interim superintendent to Miss Carrie Kennedy." No discussion; ayes, no opposition heard (0:06:28, 0:06:29). Madden later says the board "just had an extensive interview with our new candidate" (0:16:04). | MEDIUM OBSERVATION |
| 0:06:34 | TMSolution proposal | The chair: a firm offering "support services at the administrative level" in three parts, each with "a 30 day notification to cancel" (0:06:34, 0:08:06). Six references, four called (0:09:04). | OBSERVATION |
| 0:08:50 | Costs, on request | A member asks that cost be discussed "So the public is aware" (0:08:50). The chair: superintendent support "a rate of $1,500 a month" (0:10:31); communications "$155 an hour" through June 30, 2026 (0:11:46); operational review "$175 an hour, with a cap of $25,000" (0:12:59). A member works out "a minimum of 15,000 ish" for the mentoring if kept to June (0:15:07). | POSITIVE |
| 0:15:44 | Madden against | "a consultant is someone you hire, you, give you a watch to them, and then they tell you the time" (0:15:44); the consultants will say "you have to do audits every year and not let it linger for five years" and "We don't have controls anywhere on anything." (0:17:52). On SAU office time sheets, "the supervisors do not check it off in many cases" and payroll "just checks across the board" (0:23:22, 0:24:00). | |
| 0:19:01 | Whitney for | "I felt there were no systems when I started on the board"; a stopgap "to protect the community in the future"; "If the if we find out in 30 days, this is a completely waste of time" then "I say in 30 days, they're gone." (0:21:17, 0:21:48). | |
| 0:25:14 | Other members | "I kind of see this as a no brainer. It's it's relatively cheap in the grand scheme of things." (0:25:14). The operational review could be "the first step to something being uncovered that can be turned over to law enforcement" (0:25:58); "if we did ten months and be around $54,000" (0:26:18). A Unity member: it will help "as you separate from this su" (0:26:58). | |
| 0:27:44 | Vote on the contracts | "All those in favor of hiring TMS consulting services, per the agreement on the contract." Then "That passes." (0:28:04). The signed contracts (Docusign, file name dated 2025-09-12) first appear on Drive in April 2026. | OBSERVATION |
| 0:28:17 | Next meeting; whistleblowers | Next SAU 6 meeting November 13 (0:28:52). Madden: "I've been contacted by the intermediary who says he has a number of whistleblowers" and "I tried to hire an attorney to give me counsel. But I was conflicted on it." (0:29:16). Asked for the statute: "Two seven, five, eight." (0:30:42); the citation is not recoverable from the recording and is not supplied here. | |
| 0:30:56 | Adjournment | "All those in favor? Thank you." | |
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 September 11, 2025, or is labeled an observation where no verified rule applies.
MEDIUM No minutes, public or nonpublic, have been located for a meeting that accepted a superintendent's resignation, named an interim and approved three contracts
RSA 91-A:2, II requires minutes "open to public inspection not more than 5 business days after the meeting", including since August 22, 2025 the start and end time and "name of the person who produced the minutes"; RSA 91-A:3, III requires minutes of a nonpublic session and disclosure of decisions within 72 hours unless the body seals them. The clerk was absent and the chair said someone would "create the minutes based on the video" and that the nonpublic session would need "a volunteer" (0:00:35). More than a year later no minutes of this meeting have been found in its own packet folder, in any later SAU 6 packet folder (through 14. SAU6 5.28.26), or by Drive search; MAP.md records the September 4, 2025 draft as the newest SAU 6 minutes in either share. No seal vote is heard on the recording (0:04:22). Graded MEDIUM rather than HIGH under the project's severity rule because the record itself says minutes were to be produced, which is the mitigating limb; that mitigation is thin, and the grade would be HIGH on the unmitigated limb if the promise is set aside. The comparison is the same board's September 4 draft, which records movers, roll calls, clock times and "Respectfully submitted by Noelle Kronberg, SAU6 Board Clerk".
Sources: RSA 91-A:2, II (minutes within five business days; contents as amended by 2025, 112:1); RSA 91-A:3, III (nonpublic minutes; 72-hour disclosure); 11. DRAFT SAU6 Meeting Minutes 9.4.25 (comparator)
MEDIUM The nonpublic session was cited under II(a) and (c), but a member describes it as an interview of the interim candidate, which is hiring under II(b)
The agenda cites RSA 91-A:3, II (a & c) and the motion "RSA 91-8 colon three comma two A and C" (0:03:24): (a) is "The dismissal, promotion, or compensation of any public employee or the disciplining of such employee", (c) is reputation. Back in public session, the board accepted the superintendent's resignation and offered the interim post to Kerry Kennedy without discussion, and Madden said the board "just had an extensive interview with our new candidate" (0:16:04). Interviewing a candidate is "The hiring of any person as a public employee", the separate exemption at II(b), which the motion did not cite. Paragraph I(b) requires the motion to state the exemption relied on. Part of the session may have fit (a), since Pratt's departure followed his placement on leave; without minutes the content cannot be checked. Graded MEDIUM as a probable mismatch between the stated and the described purpose.
Sources: RSA 91-A:3, I(b) and II(a)–(c) (motion states the exemption; hiring is II(b)); SAU6 School Board Agenda 9.11.25 (1).pdf, item III.1
OBSERVATION The contracts the board approved were not in the packet and reached the public share seven months later
The motion was "to accept the proposal as written" (0:08:35) and the vote was "per the agreement on the contract" (0:27:44), but the 10. SAU6 9.11.25 folder holds only the agenda and draft minutes of earlier meetings. The signed contracts, Complete_with_Docusign_20250912-Claremont-CO.pdf, were first placed on Drive on April 8, 2026, in the 13. SAU6 4.9.26 folder. Their terms match what the chair read aloud, but the operational-review contract goes further than she described: it would also "examine hiring practices that led to putting unqualified and under-qualified individuals in positions of power". Members estimated a cost of about $54,000 to June 30, 2026 (0:26:18). No rule requiring a contract to be posted with the agenda was verified for this page.
Sources: Complete_with_Docusign_20250912-Claremont-CO.pdf (Drive createdTime 2026-04-08, 14:10 UTC)
OBSERVATION The agenda reached the packet folder about eight hours before the meeting
Drive records the 10. SAU6 9.11.25 folder and its agenda as created at 10:49 a.m. on September 11 (14:49 UTC), about seven hours forty minutes before the 6:30 p.m. meeting. RSA 91-A:2, II requires notice of time and place posted 24 hours ahead (excluding Sundays and holidays) in two appropriate places; the Drive packet is not necessarily one of them, and this page cannot see where else the meeting was posted. The meeting was announced on camera at the Claremont board meeting the evening before. The agenda also prints the next meeting as "November 13, 2023".
Sources: RSA 91-A:2, II (24-hour notice); SAU6 School Board Agenda 9.11.25 (1).pdf (createdTime 2025-09-11, 14:49 UTC)
OBSERVATION A superintendent's resignation and an interim appointment were voted under a generic agenda heading, with no documents and no discussion
Both votes came under "SAU#6 Office Administration Update (Discussion/Vote)" (0:04:48). Neither motion was discussed (0:05:16, 0:06:17), no resignation letter, separation terms or interim contract terms are in the packet, and without minutes the movers and any dissent are unknown. The September 3 Claremont draft minutes record that the SAU 6 board had placed Pratt on paid administrative leave on August 26. No rule requiring more specific agenda wording for an SAU board was verified for this page.
Sources: SAU6 School Board Agenda 9.11.25 (1).pdf, item III.2; draft CSB meeting minutes 9.3.25_0001 (2).pdf (leave of August 26)
POSITIVE Entry into and exit from nonpublic session were by motion and recorded roll call in public
The motion named the statute and the lettered exemptions, and Koski called each member by name (0:03:44); the return to public session was also by roll call (0:04:27). RSA 91-A:3, I(b) requires the roll-call vote and a majority of members present. (The fit of the exemptions is questioned in flag 2.)
Sources: RSA 91-A:3, I(b) (roll call on entering nonpublic)
POSITIVE The consultants' rates, caps and cancellation terms were read into the public record before the vote
At a member's request "So the public is aware" (0:08:50), the chair read the monthly, hourly and capped rates, the June 30, 2026 term and the 30-day cancellation clause (0:10:31, 0:11:46, 0:12:59), members worked out the likely totals (0:15:07, 0:26:18), and a dissenting member was heard at length before the vote (0:15:44). The figures stated match the signed contracts. This partly offsets the missing documents in flag 3.
Sources: Complete_with_Docusign_20250912-Claremont-CO.pdf
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/16833 SAU6-091125.mp4.CSV (146 attributed rows; the basis of this page)Input/Videos/16833 SAU6-091125.mp4Input/Transcripts/16833 SAU6-091125.mp4.jsonInput/SupportingDocuments/MAP.md, section 277
Laws and rules cited on this page
- RSA 91-A:2, II (source note ends 2025, 112:1, eff. Aug. 22, 2025): notice 24 hours ahead; minutes within five business days and their contents
- RSA 91-A:3, I(b), II(a)–(c), III (source note ends 2023, 189:1, eff. Oct. 3, 2023): nonpublic motion and roll call; exemptions; nonpublic minutes and 72-hour disclosure