Participants
Everyone heard or recorded as present. Board and staff names follow the agenda masthead and the approved minutes; where the transcript renders a name differently, the rendering is noted.
| Name | Role | Participation |
|---|
| Candace Crawford | Board chair; Finance Subcommittee chair | Presided; added a nonpublic session to the agenda without a motion; asked for a verified July 1, 2025 opening balance; questioned credit-recovery funding, length and staffing; said board members should not be dropping in at the SAU office and asked that requests to the administration go through the chair. |
| Michael Petrin | Board vice chair; SRVRTC Subcommittee chair | Thanked the graduating student representatives; asked that the calendar align with Newport for the tech programs; asked what happens to the police training if Bluff sells first; seconded the adjournment. |
| Heather Whitney | Board member; Ad Hoc Exploratory Reconfiguration Subcommittee chair | Asked again for vacancies mapped against the Ed 306 minimum standards and for a contingency plan at the middle school; linked lapsed IEPs to lost Medicaid reimbursement; asked how calendar shortfalls escape the State; seconded the State Police motion; said she had filed Right-to-Know requests as chair. |
| Donald Lavalette | Board member | Asked that the yearbook students be named in the minutes; traced a November 19, 2025 vote on the truant officer’s transportation duties; itemized a bus aide’s pay and a departed principal’s moving payments from public documents; moved the meal prices; offered to film subcommittee meetings; asked for a register of Right-to-Know requests. |
| Brian Rapp | Board member | Asked whether all positions were advertised and whether the first day of school could be fixed early; moved the State Police item, the nonpublic session and the adjournment; asked about insurance; said a board member does not need a board vote to obtain information. |
| William Madden | Board member; Capital Improvement Subcommittee chair | Asked what qualification the truant officer lacked and whether anyone told him to get it; reported that the curriculum subcommittee had met and set a target date; asked administrators to raise problems rather than ignore them. |
| Loren Howard | Board member; Policy Subcommittee chair | Asked how Bluff’s free-meal program was lost; asked whether the audits cover all three open years; offered to find a used camera to record subcommittees; the one vote against the meal-price increase, per the minutes. |
| Noelle Kronberg | School Board Clerk | Called the nonpublic roll calls; signed the minutes. |
| Kerry Kennedy | Interim Superintendent, SAU 6 | Introduced the yearbook recognition; gave end-of-year dates, exit-interview status and the PowerSchool-to-Alma plan; announced Chelsea Weatherford’s departure; described the summer programs; drew the line between one member’s request and the will of the board. |
| Dr. Timothy Broadrick | Incoming Superintendent (from July 1, 2026) | Presented his five-page memo: staffing and hiring plans, a draft central-office organization chart, a sample showing close to half of IEPs renewed late, transportation categories, the calendar error behind the State Board waiver, and vape detectors. Transcript: “Broderick”; once “bribery” in the chair’s sentence. |
| Matt Angell | Senior Comptroller / Interim Business Administrator | Reported cash of $5.1 million and a $1.1 million final teacher payroll; said the forensic auditors had made contact; recommended the meal prices and the State Police request; said a personnel discussion belonged in nonpublic session. |
| Dr. Michael Herrington | Principal, Stevens High School | Explained credit recovery and the lowered eligibility score; described how a vape-detector alert and camera review establish grounds to search a student. Transcript: “Doctor Harrington”. |
| Mimi Rhines | Stevens High School; credit recovery and summer school | Gave the summer-school schedule and staffing practice; offered to report in August. Transcript: “Mimi Ryan’s”. |
| Hilary Walsh | Technology teacher and yearbook adviser (self-identified; the minutes spell it Hillary) | Accepted the yearbook publisher’s Silver Level recognition and described the yearbook becoming a class. Transcript: “Mr. Larry Walsh”, “Miss Wallace”. |
| Chloe Smith | Student editor, yearbook | Introduced by Walsh; named in the minutes; no attributed remarks. |
| Chelsea Weatherford; Paige Jarvis; Jason Bonneville | Interim HR Manager; Interim Student Services Director; Interim Technology Director | On the agenda masthead; no remarks. Kennedy announced Weatherford’s last day; Herrington named Bonneville as researching detectors. |
| Citizens’ comments | — | The chair asked; nobody spoke. Minutes: “none”. |
Student representatives Miles Sheehan and Lily Clark (agenda masthead) were not present; the minutes strike the item and record Petrin’s thanks. Named but not present: Ellie Girard (CTE Presidential Scholar nominee), Pam Miley (transportation), Steven Holt (facilities), Addy Derosier (student editor, per the minutes). The dialogue file labels 12 rows Multiple and 4 Unidentified, and some rows merge two voices (row 104, labeled Whitney, ends with the interim superintendent’s answer); this page attributes by content or role where a label would mislead.
Agenda
Items as posted in “6.3.26 CSB Meeting Agenda”, with the time each was taken up and its disposition from the recording and the approved minutes. The agenda’s clock times are scheduled, not actual.
| Taken up | Item | Agenda text / disposition |
|---|
| 0:00:05 | Call to order; roll call | Minutes: “All present.” The roll-call answers are one overlapping cluster in the dialogue file. |
| 0:00:45 | Consent agenda | The chair added a nonpublic session after item 3, taken by consent without a motion; minutes: “Candace Crawford requested a non-public as item 3 under RSA 91-A:3,II(c).” The 5/20 minutes were approved by the same consent at 0:02:14. “Approval of Manifest:” has nothing under it in the agenda or the minutes. See flag 1. |
| 0:02:31 | Yearbook recognition (added) | Silver Level award from the yearbook publisher. Lavalette asked that the students be named; the minutes carry “Students who helped create the yearbook:” with nothing after it. |
| 0:07:16 | Citizens’ comments | “Going once, twice. We’ll move on.” None. |
| 0:07:38 | Student representatives’ report | Both absent and graduating; struck through in the minutes. |
| 0:08:09 | Superintendent’s report: interim superintendent | Last days of school; exit interviews; the move to Alma; a nominee’s status; Whitney’s staffing-map request. |
| 0:15:05 | Incoming superintendent’s report | “Staffing Updates, including budget for staff”; “Proposed Central office Organizational Chart”; “Transportation Update”; “2026-2027 Calendar Update.” Backed by a five-page memo. No action. |
| 0:55:41 | Finance update | Cash, the forensic auditors, the audits, the September 1 report; questions on a principal’s moving payments. |
| 0:59:20 | Follow-up items | “RiverView partnership with the Tech program”; “ESY and Credit Recovery”; “PreK Updates” (deferred until Broadrick is in office). |
| 1:14:35 | Set school lunch prices (vote) | 25 cents on each paid lunch price. Moved (Lavalette), seconded (Rapp), per the minutes; carried “6 to 1” at 1:19:06; minutes: “All present voting in favor, with the exception of Loren Howard to opposes.” See flag 4. |
| 1:19:42 | Request by NH State Police to use Bluff School (vote) | Moved (Rapp), seconded (Whitney), including simulated ammunition; carried “seven zero” at 1:25:23. |
| 1:25:23 | Vape detectors | No document, no vote. Additional detectors under an existing grant activity. See flag 5. |
| 1:30:43 | Nonpublic session (added) | Minutes: moved by Rapp under “RSA 91-A:3,II(c)”, seconded by Whitney; in at 8:01 p.m.; returned at 8:27 p.m.; sealed “until September 1, 2026”; each on a roll call. The session is not on the recording. See flag 1. |
| 1:31:45 | Subcommittee reports | Purpose statements and schedules due at the next meeting; the curriculum subcommittee reported having met. See flag 3. |
| 1:34:20 | IV. Other business | NH Listens; filming subcommittees; painting CMS; visits to the SAU office; the alumni parade; a register of Right-to-Know requests. |
| 1:51:01 | V. Future dates; adjournment | June 11 graduation; June 17 board meeting (“Closure of Bluff School Student Activity Funds”, “Administration Contract”, “Communications Proposal”, “Board By-Laws Update”); June 19 finance subcommittee; July 21. Adjournment moved by Rapp, seconded by Petrin; minutes: 8:39. |
Discussion timeline
Chronological topics. Quotations are from the dialogue transcript as transcribed; bracketed text is an insertion or correction.
| Time | Topic | What was said | Flags |
|---|
| 0:00:45 | A nonpublic session added without a motion | “I would like to put in a nonpublic meeting into that slot. And it’s under RSA 91, a colon, three comma, section two, parents number one.” Rapp at 0:01:41: “Need a motion.” Crawford: “I don’t know what I need a motion.” At 0:01:46: “Unless there’s somebody who wants to object. I think we’re all set.” | MEDIUM |
| 0:03:24 | Yearbook | Walsh: “it started out as a club”; now a class. Lavalette at 0:06:43: “could you provide at some point, Noel, the list of all the students, their names so they could be added to the minutes?” | |
| 0:14:11 | Vacancies against the minimum standards | Whitney: “do we have a 50% vacancy in teachers? Do we have a 25% vacancy in teachers in specific schools? So kind of a school based vacancy based on minimum standards. That’s 306.” The answer in the same row: “middle school is probably the hardest hit, for sure.” | OBSERVATION |
| 0:15:30 | Why he writes memos | Broadrick: “I like writing memos. We do because they create records. Thank you. Right. So these are in your agenda packet. They’ll be in your minutes. They’re available to the public.” | POSITIVE |
| 0:18:09 | Hiring first | “I would like to counsel, giving it the next 4 or 5 weeks and letting us try to hire.” At 0:18:33: “So much disruption in the last 11 or 12 months.” The minutes record “20 open positions at the middle school.” | OBSERVATION |
| 0:20:28 | A contingency plan | Whitney: “I’m not looking for a change. I’m looking for us to be prepared in case we do have to pivot.” At 0:20:48: “I know we may not be able to exceed at 306 standards, but I want to ensure that we can meet them.” Broadrick at 0:21:16: “plans A and B are both hiring plans”; at 0:22:44: “I am just loathe to jump into a public conversation about those kinds of radical decisions.” | OBSERVATION |
| 0:23:21 | Learning loss | Whitney: “I have real concerns about learning loss that happened at the middle school this year.” Broadrick at 0:24:02: “we are going to end up talking about a multi-year recovery plan for learners.” | |
| 0:27:21 | Draft organization chart | “I am absolutely not asking for a decision. I’ll bring you a funding source before I ask for a decision about anything.” At 0:28:48: “a consolidation of what used to be three different positions in the essay [SAU]”; “this plan fits in the approved budget for fiscal 27.” | OBSERVATION |
| 0:30:09 | Splitting student services | “there’s been mission creep here where 20 years ago, we could have had a director of student services, and it meant special ed, but now there’s a k k through 12 comprehensive school counseling program, a civil rights officer, many more 504 plans.” | OBSERVATION |
| 0:33:30 | IEPs renewed late | “You have about 450, 460 IEPs in the district.” At 0:34:20: “it was close to 50% of the first 54 she looked at that had had a gap in approval from a day to a few months. So I told her to stop.” At 0:34:51: “I don’t know for how many years this has been going on.” | MEDIUM |
| 0:35:43 | The cost side | Whitney: “if we’re not getting Medicare [Medicaid] reimbursement for 50% of our kids … then we could be having the mystery of why we’re always overrunning our special education budget.” Broadrick had explained at 0:33:57 that with an expired IEP “We cannot be reimbursed by the MTS [Medicaid to Schools] Medicaid schools program.” | MEDIUM |
| 0:36:58 | Not yet in office | Crawford: “I would just like to add that to bribery [Broadrick] isn’t even our full time superintendent.” Broadrick at 0:37:10: “Three days and three hours.” | |
| 0:37:43 | A November vote and its follow-up | Lavalette: “November 19th, 2025. The board voted for to two to bring back the turnover as a hybrid position to include transportation under McKinney Vento.” At 0:38:26: “I’m just going as a public member looking at the minutes.” Broadrick at 0:38:46: home-to-school transport “requires a special license.” | |
| 0:40:48 | The truant officer’s license | Madden at 0:42:25: “it’s not that there’s some kind of reason the guy can’t be trained. It’s we haven’t trained that person yet.” At 0:42:46: “the expectations were made the day the individual was put before the board to be hired.” Angell at 0:43:05: “Some of the conversation that we need to have should be done in nonpublic because it it deals with personnel.” Lavalette at 0:43:52: “that’s why the minutes are so important.” | MEDIUM |
| 0:46:10 | A new calendar by July 21 | “I will bring you a proposed school calendar for next year on July 21st.” Petrin at 0:46:37: align with Newport. Broadrick at 0:47:30: “There are precious few real accountability systems in place in the Department of Education in Concord.” | OBSERVATION |
| 0:50:19 | How the hours fell short | “Some number of years ago figured out, well, if we just count ours in the first place, we only have to have 100 and 72.5 days and did it. Then you have a few snow days and realize, oh no, we are really short hours.” At 0:51:22: with “178 days on the calendar … we won’t have to worry about structured learning time at the end.” | OBSERVATION |
| 0:55:55 | Cash to year end | “the cash balance of the district in the bank right now is 5.1 million”; after the 1.1 million final payroll, “we’re going to have $4 million in the bank, and that’s going to carry us to the end of the year.” | |
| 0:56:40 | Auditors | “Reached out to me to start the fraud audit.” Crawford at 0:57:01: “How much money do we actually have that we started the year. A true balance for July 1st, 2025.” Angell at 0:57:16: “Just know they’re going to disclaim an opinion.” At 0:57:59: the annual report is “due to the state by September 1st.” | |
| 0:58:23 | A departed principal’s payments | Lavalette: “the principals paid $8,461.53 in moving expenses once, then $9,230.76 in moving expenses, and then paid an additional $4,365.39 under the title administrator principal.” At 0:59:08: “I’ll be sure to share those publicly because it’s from public facing documents.” Angell asked to meet to identify the employee. | |
| 1:02:10 | Summer programs | Summer camp, extended school year and credit recovery. The minutes: “IDEA, Title IV and local funds for ESY.” Credit recovery length as transcribed at 1:05:36: “about 2019 days or so”; the minutes record 19 days, July 8 to August 6. | POSITIVE |
| 1:08:58 | Eligibility lowered | Crawford: “How can a student who say has a 42?” Herrington at 1:09:53: “in an attempt to, boost the graduation rate. Mr. Pratt had moved it down five, five points.” At 1:10:49: “If you have not met every single criteria for graduation, you do not walk across that stage.” | |
| 1:15:24 | Meal prices | “through the tool that the USDA gave us, it’s recommending and I’ve also spoken with our food service provider. It’s recommending a quarter, or 25% [25-cent] increase to the meal prices.” | OBSERVATION |
| 1:17:23 | Bluff’s free-meal program | Howard asks what happened to it; Kennedy at 1:17:41: “Community Eligibility Program.” Angell at 1:18:18: dispersing the pupils “brings the poverty rate down in each of the schools and makes it so neither school is eligible for the program.” | OBSERVATION |
| 1:19:06 | Vote | “The motion carries 6 to 1.” No second or dissenter is audible; the minutes supply both. Whitney at 1:19:22: “it’s not some random calculation … There’s a whole formula.” | POSITIVE |
| 1:20:19 | State Police training at Bluff | Angell: “What I don’t know is, is the community’s flavor on using simulated ammunition.” Petrin at 1:23:29: “Is there a chance we’re going to sell that building before fall?” Insurance at 1:24:02. Whitney at 1:24:34: “I just want to be clear that we are approving the simulated ammunition.” Carried seven to zero. | |
| 1:25:37 | Vape detectors | Whitney: “They got a grant. A grant, and we didn’t know about it.” Herrington at 1:26:46: an email alert gives a time, then “I go into my camera and I go back and see who was in there”; at 1:27:07: “when they’re in the bathroom and that vape detector goes off, that standard is now met.” | OBSERVATION |
| 1:30:43 | Into nonpublic, and out | “I would entertain a motion to go into nonpublic session under RSA 91, a total of.” “Three.” “Section two sub part one.” Rapp: “So move.” Roll call at 1:31:12; the motion to come out follows at 1:31:27. | MEDIUM |
| 1:32:21 | Subcommittees | “The finance committee I know is going to take it up on June 19th.” Madden at 1:33:20: “Met and we set a target date to assess what we have now.” | MEDIUM |
| 1:34:59 | Filming subcommittees | Lavalette: “I know CCTV doesn’t have the staffing, but I’m willing to do.” Angell at 1:35:48: “we used to use the Owl camera for our subcommittees.” Howard at 1:36:05: “I might be able to find a cheap used owl camera.” | MEDIUM |
| 1:38:08 | Board members at the SAU office | Lavalette: ten minutes a week each “we would essentially take away 40 hours of productive work from the staff at the Dow.” Crawford at 1:38:49: “the board should not be going into the saw [SAU] office.” Howard at 1:39:37: “we only go in if we’ve been invited.” | |
| 1:41:19 | Right-to-Know requests by board members | Lavalette asks at 1:42:00 for “A list of all the requests that have been submitted name, short subject line and any cost to the district.” Whitney at 1:43:13: “Can’t tell you that there were board members that did right to know because it was me, because there were things that we were not given as board members.” | OBSERVATION |
| 1:46:11 | Information versus action | Kennedy: “one individual board member requesting something does not necessarily mean it’s the will of the board.” Rapp at 1:48:31: “I do not need a vote of a board to approve me getting information.” Crawford at 1:48:37: “When you’re asking for information, that’s one thing. When you’re asking for action for the administration.” | OBSERVATION |
| 1:50:49 | Raise problems | Madden: “Can we ask the administration that if they think there is a problem, they don’t just ignore it and they bring it up so we can be discussing it?” | |
Items flagged for review
These flags are a reviewer’s aid. They are not findings of violation and not legal advice. Each flag cites the rule it rests on; an Observation rests on no confirmed rule.
MEDIUM The nonpublic session: unnoticed, a spoken exemption that does not exist, a seal with no stated ground, and clock times that do not reconcile
The posted agenda gave no notice of a nonpublic session; the chair added it at the start (0:00:45) by consent after saying “I don’t know what I need a motion” (0:01:44). RSA 91-A:3, I(b) requires that a motion to enter nonpublic session “state on its face the specific exemption under paragraph II.” Paragraph II is lettered (a) to (m); the chair twice spoke a number, “section two, parents number one” (0:00:45) and “Section two sub part one” (1:31:02). The minutes record II(c), so the written record states a real exemption; the transcription is a machine one and this page does not assert that no letter was said. The public discussion just before concerned one employee, the truant officer, and Angell moved it to nonpublic because “it deals with personnel” (0:43:05). That subject is II(a), which applies “unless the employee affected (1) has a right to a meeting and (2) requests that the meeting be open”; II(c), reputation, carries no such right. The record does not show the board weighing the two. On sealing, RSA 91-A:3, III makes disclosure within 72 hours the rule unless two-thirds of members present, by recorded vote, determine that a statutory ground applies; the minutes record a motion, a second, a roll call and “until September 1, 2026,” but no determination. On the clock: entry at the minuted 8:01 p.m. fits the recording; the recording then runs 20 minutes 20 seconds from the motion to come out (1:31:27) to adjournment (1:51:47), so a return at the minuted 8:27 p.m. implies adjournment near 8:47, not the minuted 8:39. One of the two times is wrong; this page cannot say which. The minutes also give only the scheduled 6:30 start, where RSA 91-A:2, II has required the actual start time since August 22, 2025. Mitigation: the minutes name the mover and seconder, the roll calls were public, and the excision of the closed session from the broadcast is proper.
Sources: RSA 91-A:3, I(b), II(a), II(c), III (2023, 189:1, eff. Oct. 3, 2023; read 2026-09-25); RSA 91-A:2, II (2025, 112:1, eff. Aug. 22, 2025; read 2026-09-25); “6.3.26 CSB Meeting Agenda”; approved minutes, 6/3/26.
MEDIUM Close to half of a 54-file sample of IEPs had lapsed before renewal, and earlier years will not be reviewed unless the State orders it
The incoming superintendent reported that the district has “about 450, 460 IEPs” (0:33:30); a contracted consultant found that “close to 50% of the first 54 she looked at” had “a gap in approval from a day to a few months,” and he stopped the review there, estimating “40 or 45%” (0:34:20). The minutes record “about 50% in the sample pool that were not renewed on time.” Federal regulation requires that “At the beginning of each school year, each public agency must have in effect, for each child with a disability within its jurisdiction, an IEP”; a lapse is a period in which that condition fails. He added that an expired IEP cannot support Medicaid-to-Schools claims (0:33:57), and “I don’t know for how many years this has been going on” (0:34:51); he will not pay to reconstruct earlier years unless the Department of Education orders it. Graded MEDIUM on the mitigated limb: the disclosure was voluntary, public and specific, and the structural response (a director of special education with no other portfolio) was put in writing before any decision was sought.
Sources: 34 CFR 300.323(a) (IEP in effect at the beginning of each school year; 20 U.S.C. §1414(d)(2)(A)); Claremont Board Report - June 3 2026.docx.pdf; approved minutes, 6/3/26.
MEDIUM Subcommittees are meeting, and no notice or minutes for those meetings were located
A subcommittee of a school board is itself a public body, so its meetings need notice and minutes open to inspection “not more than 5 business days after the meeting.” Madden reported that the curriculum subcommittee “Met and we set a target date” (1:33:20), and on May 20 he had said the curriculum group would meet the next day. A Drive search on 2026-09-25 found no notice, agenda or minutes for a curriculum or capital improvement subcommittee meeting in May or June 2026; Drive search has under-reported before in this project, so this is a search result, not proof of absence. Graded MEDIUM on the mitigated limb: the chair has asked every subcommittee for a purpose statement and meeting schedule, one has filed, and the board is arranging to record subcommittee meetings (1:34:59–1:36:05).
Sources: RSA 91-A:1-a, VI(d) (a subcommittee is a public body); RSA 91-A:2, II (minutes within 5 business days); approved minutes, 6/3/26.
OBSERVATION Paid lunch prices rose 25 cents; the USDA tool in the packet required a weighted increase of 10 cents
The completed Paid Lunch Equity tool in the packet shows October 2025 paid lunches of 1,217 at $3.75 and 2,564 at $3.50, a weighted average of $3.58, against a target of $4.16. It computes a total increase of $0.57 but a “Required Weighted Average Price for SY 2026-27 (Increase with the 10 cents cap)” of $3.68, because 7 CFR 210.14(e) caps the required annual increase at ten cents; the tool’s guidance says “SFAs may increase their paid lunch price by more than 10 cents if they choose to.” The adopted prices give $3.83, and the tool’s report records a $0.15 credit carried to next year. So 15 of the 25 cents is the district’s choice. That is lawful, and the staff report gives a reason: the FY27 budget “includes a contribution of $190,000 for shortfalls in operations.” On the recording the increase was described as what the tool was “recommending” (1:15:24), and the tool’s note that districts with a non-negative food service balance at June 30, 2025 are exempt for 2026–27 was not discussed. The meeting also disclosed, only in answer to Howard, that dispersing Bluff’s pupils ended community eligibility for free meals (1:18:18).
Sources: 7 CFR 210.14(e) (ten-cent cap on the required annual increase; last amended 89 FR 32073, Apr. 25, 2024); SAU 6 Claremont SY 26-27 Contiguous States PLE Tool (1).pdf; Staff Report - Paid Meal Price Recommendation.pdf.
OBSERVATION More vape detectors under a grant the board did not know of, used to establish grounds for student searches
Whitney: “They got a grant. A grant, and we didn’t know about it” (1:25:37). Broadrick’s memo says previous leadership wrote the activity into the Title IV-A grant and that “I do not know the extent to which the board was or was not involved in the original decision to put vape detectors in the schools.” Herrington described the practice: an alert gives a time, camera footage gives a student, and “for me to search a student, I need to meet the standard of reasonable suspicion” (1:27:07), which he treats as met when the detector goes off. Reasonable suspicion is the school-search standard of New Jersey v. T.L.O.; whether an alert plus a camera match meets it in a given case is a fact question this page does not answer. The board’s search policy, JIH, was moved to a second read on February 18, 2026; this page did not establish whether it has since been adopted. No rule requires board approval of a grant activity, and no vote was taken.
Sources: New Jersey v. T.L.O., 469 U.S. 325 (1985); Claremont Board Report - June 3 2026.docx.pdf, section 5; the February 18, 2026 page for JIH.
OBSERVATION The State Board waiver of instructional hours, and a counseling-plan deadline, are known only from the incoming superintendent’s memo
RSA 189:1 requires schools “for at least 180 days in each year” or the equivalent hours set by department rule; Ed 306.15 sets 450 hours for kindergarten, 945 for grades 1–6 and 990 for grades 7–12. The memo says the waiver sought “last month” was “due to a misapplication of state regulation”: the district scheduled the minimum-length year by hours. On the recording he put it at “100 and 72.5 days” (0:50:19) and said the State checks only at year end (0:48:09). The memo also says the December 2024 rules require a K–12 comprehensive school counseling plan and “That work should be finished by next December, and it’s probably too late for that at this point.” Neither the waiver request nor the counseling plan has had its own agenda line in the records this page read. RSA 189:1 itself creates no State Board waiver power; the waiver’s basis is not stated in these records.
Sources: RSA 189:1 (2011, 42:1); N.H. Admin. R. Ed 306.15 (Doc. #14150, eff. 12-13-24); Claremont Board Report - June 3 2026.docx.pdf, sections 2 and 4.
OBSERVATION A second request for vacancies measured against the minimum standards produced a vacancy list, not the map
Whitney asked on May 20 and again here for a school-by-school view “based on minimum standards. That’s 306” (0:14:11), and said “I do see the vacancies, but I don’t see how they kind of overlay the staffing map” (0:13:44). Ed 306.14 sets student-educator ratios of 25 or fewer in K–2 and 30 or fewer in grades 3–5 and at middle and high school. The incoming superintendent reported 20 open middle-school positions (minutes) and asked for four or five weeks of hiring before contingency planning (0:18:09), with a decision point at the July 21 meeting. No rule governs when such an answer is due; recorded because the decision point falls about five weeks before school opens.
Sources: N.H. Admin. R. Ed 306.14 (Doc. #14150, eff. 12-13-24); approved minutes, 6/3/26.
OBSERVATION The draft organization chart moves the top box from the SAU 6 School Board to the Claremont School Board; no Claremont document explains the change
The packet PDF holds the chart “Updated 10.1.25”, headed by the SAU 6 School Board, and two drafts “Updated June 1, 2026”, headed by the Claremont School Board with Superintendent Timothy Broadrick beneath. The agenda masthead and mission statement still refer to “every student in Claremont and Unity.” On the recording the chart is described as a budget consolidation (0:28:48). The mechanism in the record is Unity’s withdrawal from SAU 6 under RSA 194-C:2, IV; SAU 6 continues with Claremont as its one district, so a chart headed by the Claremont board reflects Unity’s departure, not the end of the unit. The withdrawal is acted on by Unity and the SAU 6 board; the May 28 SAU 6 meeting that carried it has an agenda and no recording or minutes. Regraded from the archived page’s MEDIUM, which treated SAU 6 as ending on July 1; that premise was wrong, and no rule binding the Claremont board is engaged.
Sources: RSA 194-C:2, IV (source note ends 2024, 250:1, 2); SAU 6 Organizational Chart - June 2026 DRAFT.pptx.pdf; 5-28-26 SAU6 Board Agenda.
OBSERVATION The board’s chair used the Right-to-Know law to obtain her own district’s financial information
Lavalette asked for a register of Right-to-Know requests, with name, subject and cost, before September (1:42:00). Whitney answered that board members had filed them “because it was me, because there were things that we were not given as board members” (1:43:13), naming state information on grants, reimbursements and the district’s finances; Howard added that it concerned something received the previous April that was refused when she asked as chair (1:46:21); she wrote to the legislative delegation, which led to the bill Rep. Damon described on May 20 (1:44:06). The minutes record the exchange. RSA 91-A:4 gives every citizen the same right of inspection; it gives a board member nothing more. No rule is asserted to be broken. Recorded because, on the chair’s own account, the board that had to approve the budget was not receiving the financial information its administration held.
Sources: RSA 91-A:4 (right to inspect governmental records); approved minutes, 6/3/26.
POSITIVE Where the recording is unclear, the minutes and a written memo supply the record
The meal-price vote has no audible second or named dissenter on tape (1:19:06); the minutes record the mover (Lavalette), seconder (Rapp) and the one vote against (Howard), as RSA 91-A:2, II requires for movers and seconders. The State Police motion’s seconder (Whitney) is in the minutes only. The minutes correct two figures the transcription mangles: the meal increase as “25 cents across the board” against “25%” on tape (1:15:24), and credit recovery as 19 days, July 8 to August 6, against “2019 days” (1:05:36). The minutes are signed by the clerk and give an end time. The incoming superintendent explained why he writes memos: “they create records” (0:15:30); his five-page memo is the source for three flags on this page.
Sources: RSA 91-A:2, II; approved minutes, 6/3/26; Claremont Board Report - June 3 2026.docx.pdf.
Appendix — source files
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Project files
Working files this page was built from. The dialogue file is linked; the others are not published with the page.
Laws and rules cited on this page
- Right-to-Know: RSA 91-A:1-a, VI(d); RSA 91-A:2, II (2025, 112:1, eff. Aug. 22, 2025); RSA 91-A:3, I(b), II(a), II(c), III (2023, 189:1, eff. Oct. 3, 2023); RSA 91-A:4
- Schools: RSA 189:1 (2011, 42:1); RSA 194-C:2, IV (2024, 250:1, 2); N.H. Admin. R. Ed 306.14, 306.15 (Doc. #14150, eff. 12-13-24)
- Federal: 7 CFR 210.14(e); 34 CFR 300.323(a); New Jersey v. T.L.O., 469 U.S. 325 (1985)