Participants
Everyone heard or named on the recording. Spellings follow the agenda and approved minutes; where the dialogue file differs, the row or the method note says so. Unidentified voices stay unidentified.
| Name | Role | Participation |
|---|
| Heather Whitney | Chair; Finance Subcommittee member | Arrives during citizens' comments (minutes: 6:43 p.m.); first heard at 0:17:45. Asks why the district's regular counsel cannot handle the forensic audit (0:25:46). Moves the FY2027 tuition rates (minutes; 0:34:25). Says a vote to fund athletics would be no different from any year: "every year we move dollars from one line item to another line item" (0:40:12). Objects that the reading programs reached the board only after use: "it's one of the primary functions of the board to approve curriculum and programs" (1:00:58). |
| Michael Petrin | Vice chair | Presides from 0:00:02 until the chair arrives. Seconds the motions into and out of nonpublic session (minutes; 0:32:56, 0:33:46). Notes that the preschool assistants require supervision time from the licensed therapists (0:31:33). On athletics: "there's been a lot of rubber stamping and appears to be overspending everywhere from past budgets" (0:42:08). |
| Arlene Hawkins | Member; Policy Subcommittee chair | Per the minutes: corrects the 1/21 minutes (0:01:46), moves to engage forensic-audit counsel (0:26:29), asks whether the Concord work session is open (0:14:46), moves the 95% RAP program (0:52:00) and asks about coaching (0:57:32); the dialogue file labels those rows Kennedy or Whitney. Brings JLCK to second read (1:04:10). |
| Candace Crawford | Member; Finance Subcommittee chair | Moves the nonpublic session and seconds the forensic-counsel and tuition motions (minutes). Reads the statement on funding athletics: duplicate entries "about $250,000", a withdrawn request for "5.6 additional teachers" worth "an approximate $450,000", and support programs reconfigured "to free up another $150,000" (0:35:11–0:38:15). Names "The academy" as one program under review (0:41:15). |
| William Madden | Member; Ad Hoc Leadership Search Committee chair | Reports the search schedule, advertising, and a target of "a new leader July 1st" (1:06:54, 1:08:18); says the business-administrator direction came up "the nonpublic Matt brought up" (1:08:18). Thanks Kennedy for a tour of the middle school (1:15:44). |
| Frank Sprague | Member | Was Stevens principal during the renovation and offers to help on HB 1399 (0:13:44, 0:13:48). Asks the forensic-counsel fee (0:27:03) and whether athletics funding should be codified by motion (0:39:40). Moves to accept the $15,000 gift (0:48:42); seconds the reading program (0:52:05); moves JLCK adoption (minutes; 1:04:52). |
| Loren Howard | Member | Asks whether the staffing chart includes the day's resignation (0:32:20); asks that the support programs to be reconfigured be identified (0:40:58); seconds JLCK (1:04:54); asks for a March agenda item on preschool service delivery (1:16:33). |
| Noelle Kronberg | School Board Clerk | Calls both roll calls (0:00:48, 0:33:12); confirms the 2/18 budget-cap hearing notice was posted (1:13:41); will post a correction to the public-notices page (1:14:55). Signs the minutes. |
| Kerry Kennedy | Interim Superintendent | Amends the agenda to replace the calendar item with a curriculum item (0:01:04, 0:01:10). Reports preschool staffing (0:28:47, 0:29:10) and four unreplaced central-office positions (0:29:35); thanks the school counselors (0:30:14); presents the Byrne gift for the eighth-grade trip (0:47:57) and the 95% RAP program (0:49:28). |
| Matt Angell | Senior Comptroller / Interim Business Administrator | Reports a business-office resignation and possible payroll disruption, about $3 million in the bank, and planned borrowing in March (0:23:02–0:23:53). Asks the board to engage forensic-audit counsel; fee "Probably not more than $2,500" (0:25:00, 0:27:07). Proposes FY2027 tuition rates (0:34:12). Gives the reading program's cost as "Much less than $3,000." (0:53:10). |
| Melissa Lewis | Principal, Disnard Elementary | Describes the 95% RAP pilot at her school, over 20 hours of required training, and its role in the school's exit from state improvement status (0:54:17–1:00:38); "It was not top driven." (1:00:38). |
| Michelle Herrington | SRVRTC (dialogue label; the minutes do not name her) | Describes the technical center's breakfast and picnic-table raffle at the deliberative session (1:10:52, 1:11:03). |
| Don Lavalette | Citizens' comments, Ward 2; school board candidate (spelled Lavallette in the minutes) | Reads three items from the student code of conduct as a standard for adults at the deliberative session (0:02:39, 0:03:53, 0:04:29). |
| Matt Bean | Citizens' comments, Ward 1 | "The way sports was cut felt sneaky to me. None of it was mentioned at the public hearing." (0:05:59); lists Stevens championships (0:07:07); hopes to hear about "holding some other people accountable" (0:08:18). |
| Hope Damon | State representative | Reports on HB 1399, "an effort to get a $5 million appropriation to the Claremont School District as a retroactive payment for the building aid project that was done at Stevens during the moratorium" (0:08:53); its distinguishing factor is the accreditation risk (0:11:55). On the Senate open-enrollment bill: "I don't think open enrollment is a good thing for Claremont at this time in this funding structure" (0:16:45). |
| Mimi Rhines | Citizens' comments, Ward 1; Stevens school counselor | Adds a 2018 cheer state runner-up title to the record (0:17:55). The transcript renders the introduction "Media. Ryan's ward, Ward one." (0:17:47). |
| John Cloutier | State representative (named in the minutes; "Unidentified state representative" in the dialogue file) | Supports HB 1399; opposes the fast-tracked open-enrollment bill and reports the Sullivan County commissioners' concerns (0:18:20, 0:18:42); promotes a hearing on a measure he filed on education funding (0:20:17–0:22:14). |
| Mr. Lowney | Remark from the room (named only in the minutes) | The minutes credit him with the point that students can "graduate" out of the tier 3 program; on tape a voice says "Test out of rap eventually." (0:58:55). No first name is given in the minutes. |
| Naomi Butterfield | Attorney, Bernstein Shur (not present) | Engaged as the board's attorney of record for the forensic audit; the transcript renders the firm "Bernstein Shaw" (0:25:00). |
| Unidentified | Board members and others | 13 rows carry an unidentified or group label (4 "Unidentified", 1 "Unidentified public commenter", 1 "Unidentified board member", 7 "Multiple"), mostly roll-call responses and assents. |
Agenda
Official agenda items (agenda PDF in the packet) with the point the recording takes each up, and the disposition from the recording and the approved minutes. All votes were by voice except the two nonpublic roll calls.
| Taken up | Item | Agenda text / disposition |
|---|
| 0:00:02 | Call to order, pledge, roll call | Petrin presiding; roll call at 0:00:45. Minutes: six present, Whitney "arrived at 6:43pm" (minutes text). |
| 0:00:56 | II.a Consent agenda (agenda; minutes of 1/20 and 1/21; manifest) | Agenda amended: item 5, the school-year calendar, replaced by a curriculum approval (0:01:10). Correction to the 1/21 minutes, page 15, tenth bullet: without for with (0:01:46). Accepted without objection (0:02:08). |
| 0:02:28 | II.b Citizens' comments | Lavalette, Bean, Damon, Rhines, Cloutier. Closed at 0:22:39. |
| 0:22:58 | II.c Finance update: FY23–FY25 audit progress; forensic audit progress | Motion to authorize the chair to engage Naomi Butterfield of Bernstein Shur as attorney of record for the forensic audit: Hawkins moved, Crawford seconded (minutes; 0:26:29); unanimous (0:28:05). The FY23–FY25 audit item is struck through in the minutes; on tape Angell has nothing to add (0:28:16, 0:28:21). |
| 0:28:27 | II.d Follow-up items: PreK FTEs; Dow staff 2025 vs 2026; annual report | Reports only (0:28:47, 0:29:35, 0:30:42). |
| 0:32:37 | III.1 Non-public meeting session RSA 91-A:3, II (k) | The agenda prints the full text of II(k). Crawford moved, Petrin seconded; roll call, all in favor; in at 7:03 p.m. (minutes; 0:32:56, 0:33:12). Sprague moved and Petrin seconded the return; roll call; out at 7:17 p.m. (minutes; 0:33:43). No motion to seal is recorded. |
| 0:34:12 | III.2 Set Tuition Rate for FY '27 (Vote) | $15,000 elementary, $15,500 middle, $17,000 high school (0:34:12). Whitney moved, Crawford seconded (minutes); no discussion; unanimous (0:34:35). |
| 0:34:50 | III.3 FY '27 Line Items, Funding of Programs Including Athletics (Discussion) | Deferred by Angell to Crawford (0:34:50), who read a statement (0:35:11–0:38:59). No motion. |
| 0:47:35 | III.4 Accept $15,000 donation for CMS 8th grade trip from the Byrne Foundation | Sprague moved "to accept with gratitude" (0:48:42); Whitney seconded (minutes); unanimous (0:49:15). |
| 0:49:25 | III.5 Discussion of 26–27 school year calendar (replaced by curriculum approval) | 95% RAP (tier 3) moved by Hawkins, seconded by Sprague (minutes; 0:52:00, 0:52:05); friendly amendment adding the tier 2 95% phonics program, which had not been approved (1:02:49, 1:03:02); unanimous (1:03:02). |
| 1:03:48 | III.6 Subcommittee reports; second read JLCK | JLCK adopted: Sprague moved, Howard seconded, unanimous (1:04:52, 1:04:54, 1:05:04). Capital Improvement and SRVRTC to meet in March (1:04:02, 1:06:26); leadership search report (1:06:37). |
| 1:09:32 | IV Other business; V Future dates | Deliberative-session arrangements (1:10:17, 1:11:27); self-evaluation dates (1:11:46); budget-cap petition hearing on February 18 (1:13:15); an inaccurate voting-day post (1:14:14). |
| 1:15:16 | VI Adjournment | "is there any objection to adjourning" (1:15:16); minutes: "Consent adjournment 8:00pm". |
Discussion timeline
Times are taken from the dialogue transcript (Dialogue/17134 SchoolBoard020426.mp4.CSV) and link into the recording. Timestamps link to the same moment in the Cablecast recording.
| Time | Topic | What was said | Flags |
|---|
| 0:00:02 | Opening; consent agenda | Petrin opens; the chair "was stuck at work" (0:00:28). The 1/21 minutes are corrected on page 15: "Someone in the position without the correct experience. It currently says with." (0:01:46). | MEDIUM |
| 0:02:39 | Lavalette on conduct at the deliberative session | "there are no Republican or Democratic seats in that auditorium" (0:02:39); reads code-of-conduct items on defamation and "libelous or slanderous statements" (0:03:53). | |
| 0:05:37 | Bean on athletics | "I have some trust issues right now." (0:05:49); "The way sports was cut felt sneaky to me. None of it was mentioned at the public hearing." (0:05:59); championships list (0:07:07, 0:08:02). | OBSERVATION |
| 0:08:53 | Rep. Damon: HB 1399 and open enrollment | A $5 million retroactive building-aid appropriation, "quite frankly is a longshot effort but worth a try" (0:08:53); House Finance Division II work session the following Monday (0:09:19, 0:09:45); "We are the only one that happened because of the risk of losing accreditation." (0:11:55). Open-enrollment bill from the Senate not voted the next day (0:13:14); if it passes the House it goes "directly to the governor" (0:16:08). Angell gives the work session as 10 a.m., room GP 228 (0:17:11, 0:17:26). This page reports her account and does not track the bill's later history. | |
| 0:17:47 | Rhines; Rep. Cloutier | Cheer runner-up 2018 (0:17:55). Cloutier: "I support full support of Representative David's Damon's bill 1399" (0:18:20); constituents and the county commissioners oppose fast-tracking open enrollment (0:18:42, 0:19:11); "the present system doesn't work, of relying on property taxes to fund education" (0:21:52). | |
| 0:23:02 | Finance update: payroll, cash, borrowing | A business-office resignation; "we are expecting some small disruptions in payroll operations" (0:23:02). "we have about $3 million in our bank account" (0:23:29); any February borrowing: "it's just going to be less than a half $1 million"; borrowing expected in March, repaid "at the beginning of April using our adequacy payment" (0:23:53). | MEDIUM |
| 0:24:35 | Forensic audit counsel | A forensic firm is doing conflict checks; Angell sent "a list of names to them of, like, every board member for the last six years" (0:24:35). The firm wants its contract run through counsel; request to engage Naomi Butterfield (0:25:00). Why not Drummond Woodsum: "I think it would be good for the, the public to see an independent person. Oversee the fraud audit." (0:25:58). Fee "Probably not more than $2,500." (0:27:07); she would be "communicating to the school board in nonpublic session" (0:27:16). Unanimous (0:28:08). | POSITIVE |
| 0:28:16 | FY23–FY25 audits | Chair: "Is there any other information you want to give us on the 23, 24, 25 audit?" Angell: "No, not at this time. Except that I'm working with the island actively right now." (0:28:16, 0:28:21); the transcript's island is unclear and is left as recorded. | OBSERVATION |
| 0:28:47 | Preschool FTEs; central-office staffing | Coordinator 1.0, speech-language pathology assistant full time, occupational therapy assistant 0.6, physical therapist "2.5 hours a week", teacher of the visually impaired "two hours a month" (0:28:47, 0:29:10). Central office down four positions: executive assistant, assistant superintendent, director of curriculum, HR coordinator (0:29:35). Annual report with the promised compensation information going to the printer (0:30:42). | |
| 0:32:37 | Into nonpublic, and back | Chair: "91 a colon. 302 K is there a second" (0:32:56); roll call (0:33:12, 0:33:15). Recording resumes with "It is called." (0:33:43) and a roll call on returning (0:34:02). | MEDIUM MEDIUM POSITIVE |
| 0:34:12 | FY2027 tuition rates | "set the tuition rates for fiscal year 2027 at $15,000 for elementary schools, 15,500 for middle school and 17,000 for high schools" (0:34:12); no discussion; unanimous (0:34:35). | MEDIUM |
| 0:34:50 | Funding athletics inside the bottom line | Crawford: "the school board set the 2627 proposed budget at $42,957,714" (the 1/21 figure was $42,957,713) with athletics at $1 (0:35:11). Sources: "two duplicate entries found" in the budget, "about $250,000" (0:35:45, 0:36:18); Stevens withdrew a request for "5.6 additional teachers", "an approximate $450,000"; non-mandated support programs reconfigured for "another $150,000" (0:36:59). "the bottom line approved is figure is a fixed number, but the various line items making up the budget are subject to change" (0:37:42). Sprague asks whether to codify it by motion (0:39:40); Whitney: a directive, as every year (0:40:02, 0:40:12). Petrin: "rubber stamping" (0:42:08); Crawford: "even though we have 860,000 allocated, it doesn't mean we have to spend all that" (0:45:12). | OBSERVATION |
| 0:47:35 | $15,000 for the eighth-grade trip | 106 students, coach buses to the Boston Museum of Science, organized by teacher Megan Fagans (0:47:57, 0:48:22). Accepted unanimously (0:49:15). | POSITIVE |
| 0:49:28 | Reading intervention programs | Kennedy: tier 2 95% phonics "has been implemented"; tier 3 95% RAP for the most intensive needs, "a 1 to 1 or a no more than 1 to 3 based intervention" (0:49:48, 0:50:51). Grant funded; Angell: "Much less than $3,000." (0:53:10). Lewis: over 20 hours of training required before use (0:55:04); credits it in part for Disnard's exit from state improvement status (0:59:29). Whitney: "I don't think we even approved the tier two." (1:02:49); both approved by friendly amendment (1:03:02). | OBSERVATION |
| 1:03:48 | Subcommittees; JLCK adopted | Hawkins: JLCK, "physical and emotional well-being of students", no input since first read (1:04:10). Adopted; the chair calls it "JLCK special physical health needs of students" (1:05:04). Crawford: the SRVRTC committee's January meeting was canceled (1:06:26). | OBSERVATION |
| 1:06:37 | Leadership search; business office | Advertising to start the next week; resumes reviewed once new members are sworn in; "God willing, we negotiate and have a new leader July 1st." Madden: "as we heard, the nonpublic Matt brought up, that we should be making a decision on which way we're going with the business administrator" (1:08:18). The committee will bring a recommendation (1:09:10). | MEDIUM |
| 1:09:32 | Other business, future dates | The chair's email bounce-backs (1:09:32). Deliberative session Saturday at 9:00, residents to bring ID (1:11:27). The budget-cap petition hearing on the 18th "has been posted" (1:13:15, 1:13:42). A post on the district's Facebook page "that we've been unable to remove" gives the wrong voting place and time (1:14:14, 1:14:38). | |
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 February 4, 2026, or is labeled an observation where no verified rule applies.
MEDIUM A member says the business-administrator question came up in a nonpublic session entered only for tuition contracts
The board entered nonpublic session under RSA 91-A:3, II(k), "Consideration by a school board of entering into a student or pupil tuition contract" (agenda text, quoting the statute), from 7:03 to 7:17 p.m. (minutes). RSA 91-A:3, I(c) provides: "All discussions held and decisions made during nonpublic session shall be confined to the matters set out in the motion" (statute text). Later in the meeting Madden said: "as we heard, the nonpublic Matt brought up, that we should be making a decision on which way we're going with the business administrator" (1:08:18). The direction of the business office is not a tuition contract. Graded MEDIUM rather than HIGH because the only evidence is one member's sentence, the remark may refer to a passing mention, and no nonpublic minutes were found to check it against (flag 2). The approved public minutes record the business-office item without mentioning the nonpublic session.
Sources: RSA 91-A:3, I(b), I(c), II(k) and III (motion states the exemption; discussion confined to the matters in the motion; tuition contracts; nonpublic minutes disclosed within 72 hours unless sealed); 2.4.26 Approved CSB Meeting Minutes
MEDIUM No nonpublic minutes were found and no sealing vote is recorded; the tuition rates were then set with no public discussion
RSA 91-A:3, III requires that "Minutes and decisions reached in nonpublic session shall be publicly disclosed within 72 hours of the meeting" unless sealed by a recorded two-thirds vote in public session with a statutory finding (statute text). The public minutes record entry and return by roll call but no motion to seal. The district's Unsealed Minutes share holds a 2026 Non-Public folder; its contents could not be listed from here (a parentId query returned nothing, which proves nothing), and title and full-text searches for nonpublic minutes of this date found none. II(k) also has its own disclosure rule: a negotiated tuition contract "shall be made public prior to its consideration for approval by a school district, together with minutes of all meetings held in nonpublic session" (agenda text). On return the board set FY2027 tuition rates of $15,000, $15,500 and $17,000 with no discussion (0:34:12, 0:34:35); the record does not say whether the rates relate to a contract under negotiation. Graded MEDIUM under the project's severity rule: the session was noticed on the agenda with the exemption printed in full and the public minutes exist, so only the nonpublic record is missing. "Not found" is the finding; this page does not say the minutes were never written.
Sources: RSA 91-A:3, I(b), I(c), II(k) and III (motion states the exemption; discussion confined to the matters in the motion; tuition contracts; nonpublic minutes disclosed within 72 hours unless sealed); 2.4.26 agenda, item III.1; 2.4.26 Approved CSB Meeting Minutes
MEDIUM The minutes omit the start time, record the borrowing figure as one-tenth of what was said, and the correction the board approved to the January 21 minutes was never made
RSA 91-A:2, II (as amended by 2025, 112:1, eff. Aug. 22, 2025) requires minutes to include "the start time and end time of the meeting, and name of the person who produced the minutes" (statute text). These minutes name their author and the end time but give no call-to-order time. They record Angell as saying "If money needs to be drawn on the loan, it will be less than $50,000" (minutes text); he said "less than a half $1 million" (0:23:53). They strike through the FY23–FY25 audit item although it was raised and answered on tape (0:28:16). And the board approved a correction to the January 21 minutes, page 15, tenth bullet, changing with to without (0:01:46); as read on 2026-10-03, the posted approved January 21 minutes still say Hawkins "is worried about putting someone in the position with the correct experience" (minutes text), the opposite of her point. Graded MEDIUM: the content rule is binding and the errors change meaning, but the record is otherwise detailed, names every mover and seconder, and its times reconcile with the recording.
Sources: RSA 91-A:2, II (minutes contents; start and end time and producer added by 2025, 112:1, eff. Aug. 22, 2025); 2.4.26 Approved CSB Meeting Minutes; 1.21.26 Approved CSB Meeting Minutes
OBSERVATION The plan to fund athletics rests on a statement, not a vote, and it reveals about $250,000 of duplicate entries in the administration's proposed budget
Crawford's statement identifies roughly $850,000: "two duplicate entries" worth "about $250,000", $450,000 from a withdrawn request for 5.6 teachers, and $150,000 from reconfigured support programs (0:35:45, 0:36:18, 0:36:59), against an athletics budget of about $863,000 cited by Petrin (0:43:06). The duplicates mean the proposed budget the board had been working from double-counted positions. No motion was made; the chair called athletics funding a standing directive carried out by line-item transfers (0:40:12), which RSA 32:10 permits within the total appropriated. The line-item form posted for voters still shows athletics at $1 (see the January 21 page). Bean's comment that "None of it was mentioned at the public hearing" (0:05:59) is consistent with the record: the $1 line arose from an amendment the day after the hearing.
Sources: RSA 32:10 (governing body may transfer between appropriations within the total voted); 2.4.26 Approved CSB Meeting Minutes
OBSERVATION A tier 2 reading program had been in use without board approval; the board approved it after the fact
Kennedy described the tier 2 95% phonics program as already "implemented" (0:49:48), and the tier 3 program had been piloted at Disnard the year before (0:54:18). The chair said approving curriculum and programs is "one of the primary functions of the board" (1:00:58) and "I don't think we even approved the tier two." (1:02:49); a friendly amendment added it to the approval (1:03:02). Angell said he asks whether a purchase "been approved by the school board" before paying (0:53:24), which is how the item reached the agenda. This page does not cite a rule fixing which programs need board approval; the board's own statement is the standard applied. The correction is to its credit.
Sources: 2.4.26 Approved CSB Meeting Minutes (Curriculum Approval item)
OBSERVATION Policy JLCK was adopted from an NHSBA sample whose rule table mislabels the minimum-standards provisions it implements
The second-read packet document is the NHSBA sample "Policy JLCK: Physical and Emotional Well-Being of Students", still carrying the sample's adoption notes, which say they "should be removed prior to adoption" (document text). Its revision note correctly ties the policy to "the requirement in Ed 306.04(b)(15) that schools have a policy addressing 'physical and emotional health needs of students.'" (document text), but its reference table labels Ed 306.04(b)(15) "Behavior Management and Intervention for Students" and (b)(23) "Meeting the Special Physical Health Needs of Students" (document text). In the rules in force since December 13, 2024, (b)(15) concerns physical and emotional health needs and (b)(23) daily physical activity. The agenda and the chair also called the policy by its old title, "JLCK special physical health needs of students" (1:05:04), so the motion did not name the text being adopted. The mislabeling does not change the policy's substance.
Sources: N.H. Admin. Rules Ed 306.04(b)(15) and (b)(23) (minimum standards: policies on physical and emotional health needs; daily physical activity), readoption #14150, eff. 12-13-24; Copy of 12.17.25 Update Policy JLCK (packet)
OBSERVATION The FY2023, FY2024 and FY2025 audits were on the agenda as in progress, with no status given
The agenda listed "FY23, FY24, FY25 Audit Progress Update" (agenda text); Angell had nothing to report (0:28:21) and the minutes strike the item. If the district spent federal funds above the single-audit threshold in those years ($750,000 for years beginning before October 1, 2024), 2 CFR 200.512(a)(1) set the reporting deadline at nine months after year end: March 31, 2024 for FY2023 and March 31, 2025 for FY2024, with FY2025's falling on March 31, 2026. The record at this meeting does not state whether those audits were complete, so this is an observation; the audit reports and the Federal Audit Clearinghouse filing dates would settle it.
Sources: 2 CFR 200.501 (single audit at $750,000 of federal expenditures; $1,000,000 for fiscal years beginning on or after Oct. 1, 2024); 2 CFR 200.512(a)(1) (single-audit reporting package due the earlier of 30 days after the auditor's report or nine months after year end); 2.4.26 agenda, item II.c
POSITIVE Independent counsel for the forensic audit was engaged by public vote, with the cost and the reason for independence stated on the record
Rather than route the forensic audit through the district's longtime counsel, Angell asked the board to engage separate counsel so the public would "see an independent person" (0:25:58). The fee ceiling was stated, "Probably not more than $2,500." (0:27:07), and the authority was given by a recorded motion at his request: "let's do a motion so that it's, it's recorded" (0:26:21). The forensic firm was running conflict checks against every board member of the past six years (0:24:35).
Sources: 2.4.26 Approved CSB Meeting Minutes (Finance Update item)
POSITIVE The nonpublic session was entered by a motion citing the exemption, with its full text on the agenda, and by roll call; the gift followed the sub-$20,000 notice rule
RSA 91-A:3, I(b) requires that a motion to enter nonpublic session "state on its face the specific exemption" and be decided by roll call (statute text). The motion cited II(k) (0:32:56), the clerk called the roll (0:33:12), and the agenda printed the full text of II(k). The return was also by roll call (0:34:02). The $15,000 Byrne gift appeared on the agenda and in the minutes and was accepted by public vote, as RSA 198:20-b, III(b) requires for gifts under $20,000.
Sources: RSA 91-A:3, I(b), I(c), II(k) and III (motion states the exemption; discussion confined to the matters in the motion; tuition contracts; nonpublic minutes disclosed within 72 hours unless sealed); RSA 198:20-b, III(b) (gifts under $20,000: notice in the agenda and in the minutes)
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/17134 SchoolBoard020426.mp4.CSV (420 attributed rows; the basis of this page)Input/Videos/17134 SchoolBoard020426.mp4Input/Transcripts/17134 SchoolBoard020426.mp4.jsonInput/SupportingDocuments/MAP.md, section 292
Laws and rules cited on this page
- RSA 91-A:3, I(b), I(c), II(k) and III (motion states the exemption; discussion confined to the matters in the motion; tuition contracts; nonpublic minutes disclosed within 72 hours unless sealed)
- RSA 91-A:2, II (minutes contents; start and end time and producer added by 2025, 112:1, eff. Aug. 22, 2025)
- RSA 32:10 (governing body may transfer between appropriations within the total voted)
- RSA 198:20-b, III(b) (gifts under $20,000: notice in the agenda and in the minutes)
- N.H. Admin. Rules Ed 306.04(b)(15) and (b)(23) (minimum standards: policies on physical and emotional health needs; daily physical activity), readoption #14150, eff. 12-13-24
- 2 CFR 200.501 (single audit at $750,000 of federal expenditures; $1,000,000 for fiscal years beginning on or after Oct. 1, 2024)
- 2 CFR 200.512(a)(1) (single-audit reporting package due the earlier of 30 days after the auditor's report or nine months after year end)