Participants
Everyone heard or addressed on the recording. Spellings follow the agenda and approved minutes; the incoming superintendent's surname follows his own signed report (Broadrick). Students are described by role, not named. Unidentified voices stay unidentified; 61 of 552 rows carry that label, mostly board-table crosstalk and voice votes.
| Name | Role | Participation |
|---|
| Candace Crawford | Chair; Finance Subcommittee chair | Presides. Reads the Alumni Association citation (0:01:40) and announces the bank's $10,563.11 check (0:03:54). Swaps the by-laws item for Rapp's appointment and treats the consent agenda as accepted absent objection (0:07:42, 0:12:51). Explains cash versus accrual reporting of grants (0:35:20). Says rumors of board members meeting city councilors are "totally false" (0:51:03). Asks whether the board authorized "up to 50,000" for the forensic audit (0:57:38). Drops the administration-contract item (1:09:55). Thanks Kennedy (1:19:13). |
| Michael Petrin | Vice chair; SRVRTC Subcommittee chair | Answers both roll calls (0:07:31, 1:11:07). No other speech is attributed to him. |
| Heather Whitney | Member; Finance Subcommittee | Adds her staffing-metrics request to the June 3 minutes (0:11:54). Asks about graduation numbers (0:19:16). Says federal time-card language "has been a reoccurring finding from when we've had the fiscal monitoring reports" (0:28:09). Moves to seal the nonpublic minutes (1:12:31). Raises NHSBA resolutions and an agenda dating error (1:16:05, 1:18:44). The minutes credit her with moving Rapp's appointment and the nonpublic motion; neither mover is identified on tape. |
| William Madden | Member; Capital Improvement Subcommittee chair | Answers the roll calls (0:07:31, 1:12:25). |
| Loren Howard | Member; Policy Subcommittee chair | Asks for McKinney-Vento driver training requirements (0:47:07) and a visual status of the three audits (1:01:20, 1:01:40). Seconds the seal motion (1:12:35). Moves to authorize volunteer painting at the middle school (1:13:57). Follows up a PhD study request (1:15:38). Will set up a camera to film subcommittees for CCTV (1:18:01). The minutes name him as mover of the motion to return to public session. |
| Donald Lavalette | Member; Policy and Finance Subcommittees | Dictates four corrections to the June 3 minutes (0:09:06, 0:09:43, 0:10:28, 0:11:06): "if it's not in the minutes, it didn't happen" (0:10:16). Asks for exit-interview questions (0:18:20), a live vacancy list (0:40:32), and the duties of coordinator titles (0:48:27); relays a parent's report of a teacher discussing middle-school closure with students (0:48:42). Asks about the forensic audit (0:56:50) and the departed principal's payments (0:58:45). Moves the Bluff activity-fund closure (1:09:20). Raises the Makerspace vandalism (1:16:47). |
| Brian Rapp | Member; appointed to the maintenance negotiation team | Asks whether the $2 million is prior-year money and whether it reduces the deficit (0:32:50, 0:34:12). Seconds the nonpublic motion and the return to public session (1:10:57, 1:12:17). The minutes name him as seconder of the Bluff fund and painting motions. |
| Noelle Kronberg | School Board Clerk | Calls the roll (0:07:31, 1:12:22, 1:12:39); asks whether a second nonpublic is being added (0:08:39). Submitted the minutes. |
| Kerry Kennedy | Interim Superintendent (last meeting in the role) | Summer program dates (0:13:35); 103 eighth graders and more than 85 seniors honored; over $100,000 in scholarships (0:14:13, 0:15:05); departures in student services (0:16:51); exit interviews; graduation requirements (0:19:35). Thanked by the chair (1:19:13). |
| Dr. Timothy Broadrick | Incoming Superintendent (starts July 1, 2026) | Written report: central office open all summer (0:20:41); summer program funding (0:21:21 to 0:26:34); grant time cards (0:26:55); $2 million in FY2026 grants to claim (0:30:04); hiring and contracts (0:38:46, 0:42:46); holding out for certified special-education and business administrators (0:44:35); a logo without Unity (0:45:43); the truant officer's reports (0:46:09); keeping the status quo on middle-school configuration if possible (0:50:29). |
| Matt Angell | Senior Comptroller / Interim Business Administrator | Grants are "just a cash flow issue" (0:34:27); the state asked him "to try to rebuild all the grants from 2021 to the present" (0:37:01). Burbee Fund payout (0:52:31). Finance report (0:54:55 to 0:55:54). Forensic auditors want "$10,000 up front" (0:56:54). Explains the principal's payments (0:59:48). Presents the Bluff activity-fund closure (1:06:39). |
| Carolyn (surname not stated on tape or in the minutes) | Officer, Stevens High School Alumni Association | Describes handling donated activity money all year: "we had no discrepancies. None whatsoever." (0:07:03). |
| Other Alumni Association officers | Honorees | Addressed by first name only during the recognition (0:03:02); not named in the minutes. |
| Unidentified | Crosstalk and voice votes | 61 rows, including the movers of the nonpublic motion (1:10:56) and of Rapp's appointment (1:09:55). |
Agenda
Official agenda items (6.17.26 CSB Meeting Agenda) with the time each was taken up and its disposition. Movers and seconders follow the approved minutes where the recording does not identify them; the board voted by voice except on the nonpublic motions.
| Taken up | Item | Agenda text / disposition |
|---|
| 0:00:08 | Call to order and Pledge | 6:30 p.m. on the agenda. |
| 0:00:37 | Recognition: SHS Alumni Association; Claremont Savings Bank | Citation read to the Alumni Association for "accepting, raising and distributing donations" for school activities (0:01:40). The bank's check for $10,563.11, "The exact amount of money that the district paid in interest" on the $4 million loan, "makes the loan effectively interest free" (0:03:54, 0:04:23); the bank also gave $100,000 to the alumni fund (0:05:16). |
| 0:07:31 | Roll call | Seven members answer. |
| 0:07:42 | Consent agenda: agenda amendments; 6.3.26 minutes; "Approval of Manifest:" (agenda text, blank) | By-laws update moved to July and replaced by Rapp's appointment to the maintenance negotiation team (0:08:14). Four corrections to the June 3 minutes from Lavalette and one from Whitney (0:08:57 to 0:11:54). Accepted by general consent: "Is there any objection to accepting the consent agenda? Great." (0:12:51). No manifest is presented; the minutes repeat the blank line. See flag 4. |
| 0:12:51 | Citizens' comments (Policy BEDH) | None. "It's a quiet crowd." (0:13:17). |
| 0:13:17 | Superintendent's report: Interim Superintendent Kennedy (graduation, end of year) | Summer dates, graduations, scholarships, staff departures, exit interviews. |
| 0:20:10 | Incoming superintendent's report: truant officer; summer school and credit recovery; SAU office summer hours; hiring | Taken in the order of his written report, which adds grant administration and the SAU separation. |
| 0:52:23 | Finance update (report): May 31 expenditure and revenue reports; Burbee Fund | Burbee payout (0:52:31); monthly figures (0:54:55); deficit estimate (0:55:54); forensic audit (0:56:50); principal payments (0:58:45); audit status (1:01:20). |
| 1:06:11 | Follow-up: bus aides between runs | Deferred to July with the new superintendent. |
| 1:06:11 | Closure of Bluff School Student Activities Fund (vote) | Allocate the balance by pupils transferred: Disnard 43 students, Maple 80 (staff report: $2,295.93 and $4,271.51 of $6,567.44). Motion by Lavalette (1:09:20); the minutes name Rapp as seconder, but no second is called or heard on tape. Voice vote, no dissent heard (1:09:26). See flag 5. |
| 1:09:43 | Administration contract (discussion/vote) | "I don't have any information on this." Angell: "One is not mine." Dropped: "just table. Just eliminate that." (1:09:55). Struck through in the minutes. |
| 1:09:55 | Board by-laws update, replaced by: appointment of Brian Rapp to the maintenance negotiation team | Mover and seconder not identified on tape; the minutes name Whitney and Lavalette. Voice vote, no dissent heard (1:10:38). |
| 1:10:38 | Non-Public Meeting: Negotiations RSA 91-A:3, II(a&c) (agenda text) | Chair: "That gets us to the non public meeting which is negotiations. RSA 91-A3 part two A and C." Second by Rapp (1:10:57); roll call, seven yes (1:11:03 to 1:11:10). Return to public session: second by Rapp (1:12:17), roll call (1:12:22). Seal: Whitney, "to seal the minutes until July 1st, 2026" (1:12:32), Howard second, roll call (1:12:39). See flag 2. |
| 1:12:49 | Subcommittee reports | Dispensed with; subcommittees to be discussed at the July 29 goal-setting meeting. |
| 1:13:22 | Other business | Motion by Howard to empower Lavalette to work with Angell on volunteer painting at the middle school and solicit contributions (1:13:57); the minutes name Rapp as seconder; carried by voice (1:15:34). PhD study follow-up; NHSBA resolutions; Makerspace artwork; filming subcommittees. |
| 1:18:13 | Future dates | June 19 Finance Subcommittee at 1 p.m.; July 21 board; July 29 goal setting, 6 to 8 p.m. |
| 1:20:30 | Adjournment | Chair asks for a motion; the recording ends. Minutes: 8:52 p.m., no mover recorded. |
Discussion timeline
Times are taken from the dialogue transcript (Dialogue/17418 SchoolBoard061726.mp4.CSV) and link into the recording.
Chronological topics. Quotations are the transcript as recorded.
| Time | Topic | What was said | Flags |
|---|
| 0:00:37 | Alumni Association recognition | The association stepped in to hold and spend donated money for student activities this year (0:01:40). Its officer: "There were no supplies that went negative. Everyone got what they needed all year long." (0:06:23). | |
| 0:03:54 | Claremont Savings Bank refund | $10,563.11, the interest on the $4 million loan, returned "makes the loan effectively interest free" (0:04:23); plus "$100,000 to the alumni fund" (0:05:16). | |
| 0:08:39 | A second nonpublic? | The clerk asks to add a nonpublic; the chair: "It's for A and C right. We will note. We'll note that when we go into nonpublic." (0:08:47). | MEDIUM |
| 0:08:57 | Corrections to the June 3 minutes | Lavalette asks that the minutes carry the November 19, 2025 McKinney-Vento vote (0:09:43), the bus aide's "$42,130.02, plus $24,522.04" (0:10:28) and the "$8,461.53, and then another $9,230.76" moving payments (0:11:06): "if it's not in the minutes, it didn't happen" (0:10:16). Whitney adds her request for staffing metrics tied to "the 306 minimum standards" (0:11:54). The approved June 17 minutes record all five. | POSITIVE |
| 0:13:35 | End of year | ESY July 7 to 30; summer camp July 6 to 31. "We celebrated 103 eighth graders" (0:13:53); "over 85 high school seniors" (0:14:13); "over $100,000 in scholarships" (0:15:05). Whitney: "We had a projected enrollment of 120, and the number of graduates was in the 80s." (0:19:16); Kennedy: some had not completed requirements (0:19:35); Crawford: "I think it was 88 graduates." (0:19:51). | |
| 0:20:41 | Central office open all summer | Closed July 3 only; "one of us should be in the building every business day this summer" (0:21:02). | |
| 0:21:21 | Summer programs and how each is paid for | Tech-center camp: "funded entirely by a federal grant, the Perkins five grant" (0:21:43). ESY: FY2027 operating budget, "$120,866.65" (0:22:08); contract requests encumbered at "121,497 and $0.59, which is about a half a percent over the total in those budget lines" (0:23:23). Credit recovery: a 2024–25 Title IV-A activity "for up to a total of $58,661 over the two years combined" (0:25:49), of which last summer used "a little over $19,000" (0:26:13). "not only what we're doing and why, but how we're paying for it" (0:26:34). | POSITIVE |
| 0:26:55 | Grant-compliant time cards | "the time cards need to include certain language" for federally funded pay (0:26:55); "we're not in trouble" (0:27:37). Whitney: "that has been a reoccurring finding from when we've had the fiscal monitoring reports" and "we've been assured that it's been done" (0:28:09, 0:28:24). Broadrick: the language was added to the electronic system that day (0:28:41). | MEDIUM |
| 0:29:32 | $2 million in federal grants to claim | "the Claremont School District has not successfully claimed and received all of those federal funds to which it was entitled" (0:29:32). "There are about $2 million in available grant funds that need to be claimed between now and next fall" (0:30:04); the NHDOE grants office "is extremely short staffed" (0:30:47); goal: monthly claims by August 1 (0:32:10). The money is "against fiscal 26 spending" (0:33:00). Angell: "It's just a cash flow issue" (0:34:27); "it's not a deficit in the sense of the $5 million deficit" (0:34:53); prior-year recovery is hard because "the records back then are disaster" (0:36:19); the state asked him "to try to rebuild all the grants from 2021 to the present" (0:37:01). | MEDIUM |
| 0:38:46 | Hiring and contracts | Six principal candidates interviewed; Stevens "pretty close to having filled every open position"; "about ten candidates in process for the middle school" (0:39:14, 0:39:39). "Last year's contracts are absent from many personnel files" (0:42:46). Holding out "for certified, qualified, experience candidates" for special education and business administrator (0:44:35). | OBS |
| 0:45:43 | SAU separation from Unity | A new logo "that doesn't say unity anymore" from July 1. | |
| 0:46:09 | Truant officer and McKinney-Vento driving | The officer filed year-end reports; Broadrick asks for a few more weeks. Howard could find no public source on the training (0:47:07); Broadrick: "I think we can do the training right here" (0:47:41). | |
| 0:48:42 | Middle-school rumors | Lavalette relays that a teacher told students the middle school "Was probably going to close". Broadrick: about 20 hired employees "never got to start" last fall (0:49:29); he will try "to let you keep the status quo" (0:50:29). Crawford: rumors of board members meeting city councilors are false (0:51:03). | |
| 0:52:31 | Burbee Fund | A 1921 bequest; non-truant students split $8,204 in $2 bills, "between $11 and $65" each (0:52:58, 0:53:32). "one of the manifesto [manifests] signing is the burpee [Burbee] fund" (0:54:43). | OBS |
| 0:54:55 | Finance report | May inflation 4.2%. "Cash balance as of this morning was 3,537,000", heading "well with under $1 million" by year end. Revenue through May "39,095,000", 619,000 (1.56%) left to collect (0:55:20). Encumbrances "5,459,000"; appropriation remaining "4,234,000, or 10.66%" (0:55:54). "I'm still projecting to carry a deficit, but it's probably going to be less than $1 million." The minutes give the exact figures, including expenditures of $30,020,932.89 (the transcript reads "30,070,000"). | |
| 0:56:50 | Forensic audit | "They want $10,000 up front"; if not on this manifest, "I'm going to have a bunch of, manifests that I need to have the school board, get two signatures on" (0:56:54). The auditors will work "on a month to month basis" (0:57:25). Crawford: "Didn't we authorize up to 50,000?" Angell: "I forgot." (0:57:38, 0:57:40). | OBS |
| 0:57:50 | Paraprofessionals for teachers | Lavalette asks if two and a half paraprofessional positions could fund a teacher; Angell cites ratios of two or three to one (0:58:06). | |
| 0:58:45 | The departed principal's payments | Lavalette: two moving payments, "$90,453.60 salary as administrator", and "another stipend for $4,365.39". Angell: each position change created a new transaction (0:59:48); "in their contract, if they had worked the whole year, there was a $20,000 moving" provision (1:00:37). Lavalette: "And that was school board approved." Crawford: "That was unique." (1:00:57); the minutes record that "it was not Board approved" (minutes text). Angell confirms one other contract like it (1:01:08). | OBS |
| 1:01:20 | Status of the FY2023 to FY2025 audits | Howard asks for percent-complete charts; the FY2022 report came in September (1:01:40). Crawford: the auditors are doing 23, 24 and 25 "simultaneously" and will first give "a verified beginning balance" for July 1, 2025 (1:03:33). Lavalette proposes a standing agenda item (1:05:42). | |
| 1:06:39 | Bluff School student activity fund | "This goes into a separate bank account held by the building principal" (1:07:00); the records handed over lacked detail "by grade level" (1:07:30); "I couldn't find one" (a closure policy) (1:07:57). Allocation by pupils transferred (1:08:25, 1:09:02). Motion by Lavalette; vote with no second heard (1:09:26). | OBS |
| 1:09:43 | Administration contract dropped | No materials; "just table. Just eliminate that." (1:09:55). | OBS |
| 1:10:38 | Nonpublic: "negotiations" under II(a) and (c) | Motion stated on tape, roll call seven yes. Crosstalk on the far side of the cut includes "There's nothing from policy tonight" (1:11:31). Return to public session (1:12:10); seal "until July 1st, 2026" by roll call (1:12:32, 1:12:39). | MEDIUM |
| 1:13:22 | Painting the middle school | Lavalette has parent volunteers; Howard moves to empower him to work with Angell (1:13:57); carried (1:15:34). | |
| 1:16:47 | Makerspace vandalism | Lavalette proposes displaying the vandalized artists' work in the schools; deferred to July (1:17:47). | |
| 1:18:01 | Filming subcommittees | Howard: an Owl camera at subcommittee meetings, with recordings given to "the CCTV so that those can be aired after"; the chair says the Finance Subcommittee meeting on Friday is set up (1:18:13). | |
| 1:19:13 | Thanks to the interim superintendent; close | "She stepped up when no one would do it" (1:19:13). Crawford on graduation: "It's a miracle that we made it." (1:20:30). | |
Items flagged for review
These flags are a reviewer's aid. They are not findings of violation and not legal advice. Each names the rule it rests on and links to the primary source; where no verified rule supports a concern, the flag is an Observation.
MEDIUM Federal grant controls: a recurring monitoring finding on time cards, and about $2 million in FY2026 grant money not yet claimed
Dr. Broadrick reported that federally funded pay requires "certain language" on time cards and that it was added that day (0:26:55, 0:28:41). Whitney said the gap "has been a reoccurring finding from when we've had the fiscal monitoring reports" and that the board had been "assured that it's been done" before (0:28:09, 0:28:24). Federal cost rules require that "Charges to Federal awards for salaries and wages must be based on records that accurately reflect the work performed", supported by internal control (2 CFR 200.430(g)(1), as revised effective October 1, 2024; earlier awards carry the same standard at 200.430(i)). On the same evening the written report states that "for several years the school district has not successfully claimed all the federal funds to which it was entitled" and that "about $2 million" for 2025–26 "can not yet be claimed" (report text); the business administrator says the state has asked him to rebuild every grant "from 2021 to the present" (0:37:01). Mitigation: the money is reimbursement for FY2026 spending, most programs allow costs through September 30 and claims after that (0:33:00), Angell calls it a cash-flow matter (0:34:27), and the superintendent has a written action list and an August 1 target (0:32:10). MEDIUM because a monitoring finding recurred and the claims are late; it becomes a loss only if the claims are not filed in time.
Sources: 2 CFR 200.430(g)(1) (documentation of personnel expenses); 2 CFR 200.303 (internal controls); 20 U.S.C. §1225(b) (carryover limited to one additional year); Claremont SB report, June 17, 2026.
MEDIUM Nonpublic session on "negotiations" cited II(a) and II(c), and the minutes were sealed without a stated finding
The agenda titles the item "Non-Public Meeting: Negotiations RSA 91-A:3, II(a&c)" and prints the text of II(a) (agenda text); the chair states the same grounds on tape (1:10:38) and the roll call is taken, which meets RSA 91-A:3, I(b)'s form. The fit is less clear. Strategy for collective-bargaining negotiations is excluded from the definition of a meeting by RSA 91-A:2, I(a), so it needs no nonpublic exemption at all; II(a) covers "the dismissal, promotion, or compensation of any public employee"; II(c) covers matters likely to harm the reputation of a person "other than a member of the public body itself". The board had just appointed a member to the maintenance negotiation team (1:09:55) and dropped an administration-contract item from public session (1:09:55), so either subject is possible; the record does not say which, and RSA 91-A:3, I(c) confines discussion to the matters in the motion. The seal was voted in public by roll call (1:12:32, 1:12:39), as RSA 91-A:3, III requires, but neither the motion on tape nor the minutes state the required determination (that disclosure would likely harm a person's reputation, render a proposed action ineffective, or concern terrorism preparedness). The seal lapsed on July 1, 2026; a Drive search on 2026-10-03 did not locate released nonpublic minutes for this session, and MAP.md lists none, but Drive search has missed files before, so this is "not found", not "does not exist".
Sources: RSA 91-A:2, I(a) (bargaining strategy is not a meeting); RSA 91-A:3, I(b), I(c), II(a), II(c), III (motion, scope, grounds, sealing with a finding); 6.17.26 CSB Meeting Agenda.
OBSERVATION A principal's contract carried a $20,000 moving provision the chair says the board never approved, and one other contract is like it
Following up June 3, Lavalette listed two moving payments ($8,461.53 and $9,230.76) and a $4,365.39 administrator stipend on top of a $90,453.60 salary for the departed middle-school principal (0:58:45). Angell explained the split payments as transactions created by position changes and said the contract held "a $20,000 moving" provision for a full year (0:59:48, 1:00:37). Asked whether it was board approved, the chair answered "That was unique." (1:00:57) and the minutes record "it was not Board approved" (minutes text). Angell confirmed one other current contract with similar terms (1:01:08), to be discussed in nonpublic session. No statute verified for this page fixes which official must approve an administrator's contract terms; the question for the board is whether its own policies delegated that authority, and whether the second contract is within it.
Sources: 6.17.26 Approved CSB Meeting Minutes; see also the June 3, 2026 page, flag 9.
OBSERVATION Manifests signed outside the meeting, a $10,000 forensic-audit retainer, and uncertainty over the authorized ceiling
The agenda line "Approval of Manifest:" is blank and no manifest is approved on tape; the consent agenda passed by general consent (0:12:51). Angell said the Burbee payout was on a manifest awaiting signature (0:54:43) and that the forensic auditors' "$10,000 up front" would go on a manifest needing two board signatures (0:56:54). RSA 197:23-a lets the treasurer pay "only upon orders of the school board or upon orders of 2 or more members of the school board empowered by the school board as a whole", so two-member signing is lawful if the board has empowered those members; this meeting's record does not show that delegation. When the chair asked "Didn't we authorize up to 50,000?" for the forensic audit, the answer was "I forgot." (0:57:38, 0:57:40), and the engagement was described as open-ended, month to month (0:57:25). The board's own earlier minutes should settle the authorized amount.
Sources: RSA 197:23-a (payment on orders of the board or empowered members).
OBSERVATION Bluff activity fund: no closure policy, an incomplete ledger, and a vote taken without a second on tape
The staff report says the Bluff fund was a separate bank account managed by the principal under policies JJE and JJF, that the ledger by grade level was not provided, and that "Usually there is a policy that discusses this process; however, I could not find one in this instance" (staff report text); the balance was $6,567.44. The board split it $2,295.93 to Disnard and $4,271.51 to Maple by pupils transferred. On tape the chair calls the vote right after Lavalette's motion with no second requested or heard (1:09:20, 1:09:26); the minutes record Rapp as seconder. For accounting, activity money that district staff administer under board policy is generally governmental, not fiduciary, under GASB 84, so these principal-held accounts belong in the district's financial reporting; the audits now under way would show whether they are.
Sources: Staff Report - Bluff Elementary School SAFs.pdf; GASB Statement 84 (fiduciary activities); RSA 91-A:2, II (movers and seconders recorded).
OBSERVATION Minutes and recording differ on several movers, and the approved minutes file dates from July 14
The minutes name movers and seconders the recording does not capture: Whitney as mover of Rapp's appointment and of the nonpublic motion (unidentified on tape, 1:09:55, 1:10:56), Howard as mover of the return to public session (the chair's words at 1:12:15 do not name anyone), and Rapp as seconder of the Bluff fund motion (no second on tape). The tape ends with the chair asking for a motion to adjourn (1:20:30); the minutes give 8:52 p.m. with no mover. An agenda item noticed for "discussion/vote", the administration contract, was dropped because neither the chair nor the business administrator had any information on it (1:09:43, 1:09:55). The approved minutes are a Google Doc created July 14, 2026, 27 days after the meeting; no earlier draft was located. For the June 3 meeting the same clerk's document was created minutes before the call to order, so the July 14 date may mark a re-created file rather than the first draft; it cannot test RSA 91-A:2, II's five-business-day rule either way. The minutes name the clerk who produced them and record adjournment, and the times they give fit the recording to the minute.
Sources: RSA 91-A:2, II (contents and timing of minutes); 6.17.26 Approved CSB Meeting Minutes.
OBSERVATION Last year's employment contracts are missing from many personnel files
Dr. Broadrick: "Last year's contracts are absent from many personnel files, so it there probably is something electronic." (0:42:46). Rather than search, the office is issuing new contracts and correcting them when employees object (0:43:08). His written report adds "inconsistencies in job classifications, certifications, work year, and some benefits" (report text). RSA 189:29-a requires the school board to "establish a records retention and disposition schedule for all official records of the school district"; contracts are official records. Whether a schedule exists and covers personnel contracts is the question this raises.
Sources: RSA 189:29-a (board establishes a records retention schedule); Claremont SB report, June 17, 2026.
POSITIVE Each summer program reported with its funding source and dollar figures
The incoming superintendent's written and spoken report tied each July program to a named source: Perkins V for the technical-center camp, the FY2027 operating budget for ESY ($120,866.65 budgeted; $121,497.59 encumbered), and a 2024–25 Title IV-A activity of up to $58,661.40 for credit recovery, $19,295.63 of it used last summer (0:21:43, 0:22:08, 0:23:23, 0:25:49). After a year in which board members repeatedly could not see where program money came from, this is disclosure beyond what any statute requires: "not only what we're doing and why, but how we're paying for it" (0:26:34).
Sources: Claremont SB report, June 17, 2026.
POSITIVE Members corrected the June 3 minutes on the record before approving them
Before the consent agenda passed, Lavalette and Whitney put five specific corrections on the record, with exact dollar figures and the date of the earlier board vote (0:08:57 to 0:11:54), and the approved June 17 minutes reproduce each one. RSA 91-A:2, II requires minutes to give "a brief description of the subject matter discussed and final decisions"; these members asked for more, so that a later reader could reconstruct the figures from the minutes alone.
Sources: RSA 91-A:2, II (contents of minutes); 6.17.26 Approved CSB Meeting Minutes.
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