Participants
Everyone heard or addressed on the recording. Names follow the speakers' own introductions, the clerk's roll call, how members address each other, and the project's 2015-2023 roster and attribution report; there are no minutes to check spellings against.
| Name | Role | Participation |
|---|
| Frank Sprague | Chair, Claremont School Board | Calls the meeting to order (0:00:08) and runs the minutes vote (0:01:28). Promotes the August 14 school funding forum in Newport (0:07:05); reports on meeting candidate Steve Marchand (0:54:46); answers the tabling roll call No. after the clerk calls Greg, the standing garble for his name (0:52:25); offers to book the Community Center for the forum (1:02:24); explains the Stevens biomass boiler (1:22:16). |
| Rebecca Zullo | Vice chair, Claremont School Board | The council half of the roll call as transcribed reads "Councilor. Zulu." (0:00:56); she is among the three abstentions on the June 21 minutes (0:02:32). Opposes the PIO position: "I feel like a lot of times we have champagne tastes on a beer budget." (0:29:05). On the behavioral health training: "This is what I do for a living." (1:11:13). |
| Jason Benware | Member, Claremont School Board | Called in the roll as "Jason Van Win" (0:01:12). Calls further PIO research "an exercise in futility at this point" (0:28:03); votes yes to table (0:52:17); argues for the August 25 forum date and for recording it (0:58:18, 1:04:19); seconds the training and adjournment motions (1:18:38, 1:33:40). |
| Steven Horsky | Member, Claremont School Board | Calls the PIO "a city position" (0:39:57); moves to table it (0:50:46) and votes yes (0:52:21); moves the training-date motion (1:18:21), the SB 365/446 information motion (1:28:44), November 15 for the next meeting (1:31:58) and adjournment (1:33:38). |
| Michelle Pierce | Member, Claremont School Board | Answers the roll (0:01:12). Proposes student internships and credit-bearing service in place of a paid PIO (0:35:15). Her Yes. on the tabling roll call, right after the clerk calls "Michelle Pierce." (0:52:22), is labeled Charlene Lovett in the dialogue file (0:52:23; see method note). Seconds the SB 365/446 motion (1:29:11). |
| Carolyn Towle | Member, Claremont School Board | Called as "Carolyn. Tall" (0:01:20). Reports the Berlin school funding forum drew "over 20 school districts" (0:09:24); says the PIO has come up at two board retreats (0:34:48); asks for materials seven days ahead (1:32:46). |
| Michael Petrin | Member, Claremont School Board | Two rows are assigned to him on Horsky's later cue "go with what Mike said" (1:18:21): he proposes that the mayor and chair pick the training date and invite the Unity board and legislators (1:16:03). The attribution is uncertain. The board's seven-vote tally on tabling (0:54:03) implies all seven members, including him, were present. |
| Charlene Lovett | Mayor, City of Claremont | Announces an EPA Region 1 merit award for the city's childhood lead poisoning work (0:02:44); introduces the PIO report (0:16:45) and argues for a one-year pilot (0:41:06, 0:44:03); reports on candidate invitations (0:56:53); proposes the New Futures training (1:05:04); reports on the Energy Advisory Committee and the SB 365/446 override letter (1:18:54, 1:21:22); proposes the next meeting date (1:30:00). |
| Allen Damren | Assistant Mayor | Seconds the June 21 minutes ("Mr. Derek Damron", 0:01:43). Wants a written plan before any PIO pilot: "But let's not do that until we have a plan." (0:50:02). Asks for a plain explanation of SB 446 (1:25:52). A council-roll No. labeled with his name (0:51:57) follows the clerk's "Yes Mr. Mayor." and may be the mayor's. |
| Jonathan Stone | City Councilor | "Councilor Stone, present." (0:00:52). Wants to hear from a working PIO and thinks the position belongs in "the 2020 fiscal year budget" (0:50:24). |
| Scott Pope | City Councilor | Named by the mayor ("Councilor Polk", 1:08:13) and by Pierce ("Scott was before you", 1:14:15). Supports keeping the PIO "on the radar" (0:37:53); votes no on tabling (0:52:03); suggests sending candidates written questions (0:59:42); says he received the training menu that afternoon (1:08:24). |
| O'Hearn (spelling unverified) | City Councilor | Recognized as "Mr. O'Hearn" (0:01:58) and "counselor O'Hearn" (0:30:38); notes he was absent from the June 21 meeting (0:02:01); wants the PIO deferred until a superintendent is hired (0:34:08); votes yes to table (0:51:54). Not in the project roster; first name not on the record. |
| Unidentified | City Councilor | Recognized at 0:30:38 with a garbled name; argues for a dedicated PIO in "our next budget" (0:30:42). Other unidentified voices raise the cost of SB 365 (1:27:26, 1:27:47). |
| Ryan McNutt | City Manager | Presents the PIO survey (0:18:13); recalls the $90,000 proposal of 2015 (0:20:04); says the FY19 city budget has no money for the position (0:22:37); offers to invite a working PIO (0:45:01); offers a Johnson Controls contact on the pellet boilers (1:23:17). The mayor thanks "Mr. Bennett" (0:17:28), an ASR rendering of his name. |
| Russell (first name not on the record) | City Clerk | Asked by the chair to take the roll (0:00:45); runs the tabling roll call and the tally (0:51:39 to 0:54:17). |
| Cory LeClair | Assistant Superintendent, SAU 6 | Ties the school funding crisis to student behavioral health needs (1:06:30); asks whether New Futures has been vetted (1:16:43); reports on the schools' pellet boilers and then corrects herself from the budget lines (1:22:44, 1:29:27). |
| John Cloutier | State Representative, Ward 1 (citizens' comments) | "I'm John Claudia from Ward one." (0:14:08). Asks to join the school board's August 15 discussion of state funding for the technical center renovation (0:14:33); asks the council to keep him informed on the Connecticut River boat landing (0:15:52); later describes the legislative calendar at the mayor's request (1:12:28). |
| Cornelia Sergeant (spelling unverified) | Citizens' comments, Ward 2 | "My name is Cornelia, Sergeant Ward two" (0:10:32). Urges the mayor not to sign the mayors' veto-override letter on SB 365 and SB 446 without further study (0:10:44). |
Order of business (reconstructed)
The chair refers to a numbered agenda ("not the number six old business", 0:16:32) and the mayor to a packet (0:17:28), but neither survives in the district's shares. The list below is reconstructed from the chair's and the mayor's transitions.
| Taken up | Item | What was said and done |
|---|
| 0:00:08 | Call to order, Pledge of Allegiance, roll call | Sprague: "I like to call this joint meeting of the Claremont City Council and the Claremont School Board to order on Thursday, August 9th, 2018." The city clerk takes the roll (0:00:45 to 0:01:20); several names are garbled in the transcript. |
| 0:01:28 | Minutes of the June 21, 2018 joint meeting | Moved by an unidentified member (0:01:39), seconded by Damren (0:01:43). O'Hearn notes he was not at that meeting (0:02:01). Approved by voice vote with "Three abstentions." (0:02:23), read as "O'Hearn. Zullo. Rebecca. Zullo. Like. Peter." (0:02:32). |
| 0:02:44 | Announcements | The mayor announces the EPA Region 1 merit award (0:02:44) and lead testing at the August 25 Back to School festival (0:05:26); Sprague reads the Newport School Board's notice of the August 14 school funding forum (0:07:33). |
| 0:10:10 | Citizens' comments | Cornelia Sergeant, Ward 2, on SB 365 and SB 446 (0:10:32); Representative John Cloutier, Ward 1, on the technical center renovation and the boat landing (0:14:08). Closed at 0:16:32. |
| 0:16:45 | Old business: public information officer (PIO) position | City manager's report (0:18:13) and discussion. Horsky moves "to table this topic until after the superintendent permanent search is completed." (0:50:46), seconded by an unidentified member (0:50:53). The voice vote is contested (0:51:27) and a roll call follows, school board first (0:51:36). Announced 7 to 6 to table (0:53:54, 0:54:22); by body, school board 5-2 yes and council 2-4 no per the tally at 0:54:03. |
| 0:54:40 | Invitation to gubernatorial candidates | Steve Marchand has offered August 17, August 25 at 6:30 p.m. or September 1 (0:57:21). Consensus on Saturday, August 25 at 6:30 p.m. at the Community Center (1:01:42, 1:02:11); the chair will book the room (1:02:24). No vote taken. |
| 1:05:04 | Scheduling New Futures training | Horsky: "I move that the mayor and chair, select the date, and from there they disseminate that information to us so we can see if we can or cannot make it." (1:18:21); seconded by Benware (1:18:38); voice vote (1:18:44). No tally announced. |
| 1:18:54 | New business: community-wide energy policy; SB 365 and SB 446 | Horsky moves "to have information provided on Senate Bill 365 and 446 presented to both the City Council and the school boards, with a feedback due back to City Council later than the 20th, so that they can decide if they're signing or not." (1:28:44); seconded by Pierce (1:29:11); voice vote (1:29:42). No tally announced. |
| 1:29:53 | Next steps: next joint meeting | November 15, 2018 agreed by consensus (1:31:58, 1:32:02). |
| 1:32:29 | Good of the order; adjournment | Towle on late materials (1:32:46). Horsky moves to adjourn (1:33:38), Benware seconds (1:33:40), the chair calls the vote (1:33:41) and the transcript ends. |
Discussion timeline
Times are taken from the dialogue transcript (Dialogue/9953 SchoolBoardCityCouncilJoint080918.mp4.CSV) and link into the recording. Quotations are as transcribed; bracketed words are corrections, with the transcript's wording kept where the correction changes sense.
Chronological topics with the most concrete material first.
| Time | Topic | What was said | Flags |
|---|
| 0:01:28 | June 21 minutes | Approved with three abstentions; O'Hearn: "I would like to make a note that I was not here at that meeting." The clerk then says she "Was recording this meeting here." (0:02:06). | MEDIUM |
| 0:02:44 | EPA merit award for lead poisoning work | The mayor: "the city of Claremont will be given a merit award by the United States Environmental Protection Agency." The ceremony is "September 12th at 11 a.m. in Boston, Massachusetts at Faneuil Hall" (0:03:11); she asked that the plaque name the city, with certificates for the hospital, school and city staff and Southwestern Community Services (0:04:06, 0:04:37). | |
| 0:05:26 | Lead testing; nurse aide training at the tech center | Free lead testing is sought for the August 25 Back to School festival because "the school district has the policy of showing, evidence of lead testing for enrollment purposes" (0:05:47). Mr. Herzog, the technical center's new director, told her trained instructors have retired and "the funding within the school district may not be available." (0:06:31). | |
| 0:07:05 | School funding forum in Newport, August 14 | Sprague: "I call it the pitchforks and torches meeting". He reads the Newport School Board's web notice: the forum is at Richards Elementary School, conducted by "Andrew Current [Andru Volinsky], executive councilor and former lead attorney in the Claremont lawsuit, and attorney John Tobin" (0:08:04). Towle: the Berlin forum "had over 20 school districts represented" (0:09:24). | |
| 0:10:32 | Citizens' comment: SB 365 and SB 446 | Cornelia Sergeant urges "mayor love it [Lovett] to defer this to further study the mayoral letter that is currently circulating urging and override of the governor's veto." Her chief concern: "this bill includes waste incineration as renewable energy." (0:11:51); "We in Claremont have learned that lesson the hard way." (0:12:29). | POSITIVE |
| 0:14:08 | Citizens' comment: technical center renovation | Representative Cloutier, on the House Public Works and Highways Committee, which handles the capital budget (0:14:33), asks to take part in the school board's August 15 discussion of state funding to "help renovate this particular center." He also asks the council to keep him "in the loop" on the Connecticut River boat landing (0:15:52). | |
| 0:18:13 | PIO: the city manager's report | "in 2015, the city proposed designating $90,000 for the budget" for the position; "This position was eliminated from the budget and no job description was ever formulated." (0:20:04). In SAU 6 the role "is assumed by the superintendent." For FY19, "the city does not have any money" for it (0:22:37). His staff concluded "the needs seemed to rest more in the short term towards the school district." (0:23:36). The city budget is "$17.5 million" and "We had to use fund balance to to lower the projected tax increase." (0:27:06, 0:27:29). | OBS |
| 0:28:03 | PIO: members' views | Benware: "it's an exercise in futility at this point." Zullo: "I feel like a lot of times we have champagne tastes on a beer budget." (0:29:05). An unidentified councilor wants it in "our next budget" (0:30:42). O'Hearn: "the school board is in the midst of looking for a new superintendent" (0:34:08). Pope: "I think we're going to talk this to death. I do support the position." (0:37:53). Horsky: "I think it's a city position." (0:39:57). | |
| 0:41:06 | PIO: the mayor's pilot proposal | Citing full-day kindergarten: "The breakthrough happened when the school board decided will take a chance. And we'll do a pilot program and we'll see what happened." She adds that an out-of-district student brings roughly $15,000 in tuition; an unidentified speaker: "Now the tuition fees of the districts are 14 and change. So 15 is a fair number." (0:43:00). "I think the time is to stop talking about it and take the risk" (0:44:03). | |
| 0:46:03 | PIO: plan first | Damren, who has "worked with the budgets of both the schools and the city", wants "a solid written plan that we agree with" (0:49:35): "But let's not do that until we have a plan." (0:50:02). Stone suggests "the 2020 fiscal year budget" (0:50:24). McNutt offers to invite a working PIO to the next joint meeting (0:45:01). | |
| 0:50:46 | PIO tabled on a combined roll call | Horsky moves to table "until after the superintendent permanent search is completed." The voice vote draws objections and the clerk calls a roll, "So yes would be for tabling. No would be not for table." (0:51:44). The count takes over a minute: figures such as 1924 (0:53:13) and "No. Should be like 7 to 6." (0:53:28) are heard before the tally "You have two school boards that are. No. So you add that to the four and that gives you six nos. And there then you had two yeses from your council to our five makes it seven yeses." (0:54:03). Result announced "Seven. Yes. Six." (0:54:22). | OBS |
| 0:54:46 | Meeting Steve Marchand | Sprague and Benware heard the candidate at the Senior Center; he said school funding "is not a conversation that he's even discussed in a town like Portsmouth." (0:55:29). Sprague: "we continue to level fund. That's essentially a cut because of our loss of state aid and other expenses that go up." (0:55:54). | |
| 0:56:53 | Gubernatorial candidate forum | The mayor "sent out an invitation to the three candidates"; "The two Democratic candidates would prefer to come to Claremont separately, not together." (0:57:21). Sprague: "I mean, I think if three of us and we happen to be the subcommittee, the three of us." (1:01:06), and "as long as the other members of the board are okay with us going" (1:01:15). Pope suggests sending written questions (0:59:42); Benware asks that it be broadcast or recorded (1:04:19). Set for August 25, 6:30 p.m., Community Center (1:02:11, 1:02:24). | OBS |
| 1:05:04 | New Futures children's behavioral health training | The mayor: "It's a 1 to 2 hour presentation" on bills affecting behavioral health (1:05:40); "we're more powerful if we make us take a position collectively rather than independently." (1:09:12). LeClair: "Our, our school funding crisis is directly tied to student behaviors and mental and emotional and behavioral health needs" (1:06:30), and later asks about "a vetting process for the provider." (1:16:43). Towle: "Just got this late this afternoon." (1:07:49); Pope: "I got this at 145 this afternoon." (1:08:24); Zullo: "I got it really late today" (1:10:46). | OBS |
| 1:18:21 | Training date delegated | Horsky's motion that the mayor and chair pick the date passes by voice vote (1:18:44). The training is expected in October or November, before the January session (1:13:58, 1:14:08). | |
| 1:18:54 | Energy Advisory Committee; renewable goals | The city has filled "the five primary and one of the two alternate seats" on the committee (1:19:22); the council will consider "a goal of 100% renewable energy throughout the entire community" and "the adoption of RSA 72" tax incentives (1:20:07). | |
| 1:21:22 | Mayors' letter on SB 365 and SB 446 | "there's an effort by the 13 mayors of this various cities in New Hampshire to sign on to a letter stating that we would like the legislature to override the governor's veto." The legislature takes up the vetoes on "September 13th"; "I'm told that 11 of the New Hampshire city mayors have signed on." and "Claremont is one of the last two" (1:26:36, 1:27:15). She is "a little hesitant at this point until I really understand the ins and outs of this bill, because of some of the strong sentiments I'm receiving from members of our community." (1:25:05). An unidentified speaker reads SB 365 as costing "our community about $100,000" (1:27:47). | OBS POSITIVE |
| 1:22:16 | School heating: biomass and propane | Sprague: at Stevens "the biomass, wood pallets is primary and there's propane for heating during what we call the shoulder months." LeClair first says "I, I believe we have wood pellet boilers in all the schools now." (1:22:44), then checks the budget: "I can confirm that the middle school and high school have pellets in a budget line." and "I don't see it in any of the other schools." (1:29:27). | POSITIVE |
| 1:28:44 | SB 365/446 information motion | Horsky: "with a feedback due back to City Council later than the 20th, so that they can decide if they're signing or not." The words "later than" are as transcribed; context suggests a deadline, but the page does not supply a missing word. "On the 22nd." (1:29:09) is the council meeting. Passed by voice vote (1:29:42). | OBS |
| 1:30:00 | Next joint meeting | The mayor: "we meet on a quarterly basis"; Horsky: "we're getting ready to gear up for budget." (1:30:36); "How about November 15th?" (1:31:58). | |
| 1:32:46 | Good of the order: materials in advance | Towle: "I find it very hard to receive information the afternoon of our meetings." and "I've kind of instituted that whole thing at the school board level about seven day in advance." | OBS |
| 1:33:38 | Adjournment | Horsky: "Now I'd like to make a motion to adjourn." Benware: "I'll second that." (1:33:40). The chair: "All those in favor?" (1:33:41); the transcript ends there. | |
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 August 9, 2018, or is labeled an observation where no verified rule applies. They concern the school board's records and conduct and the joint session; the City Council's own records were not inspected.
MEDIUM No district copy of the agenda, packet or minutes survives for this joint meeting
MAP.md records no Drive material: the district's shares hold no year folder older than 2022, and the Meeting Minutes share starts at 2023. The recording shows that an agenda and a packet existed (the chair's "number six old business", 0:16:32; the mayor's "has anybody seen the packet", 0:17:28) and that minutes of joint meetings were kept: the bodies approve the June 21, 2018 joint minutes at 0:01:28, and the city clerk is heard recording this meeting (0:02:06).
RSA 91-A:2, II, in the text in force for all of 2018, required minutes that "shall include the names of members, persons appearing before the public bodies, and a brief description of the subject matter discussed and final decisions", open to inspection "not more than 5 business days after the meeting". Paragraph II-b, in force from January 1, 2018, also required a body that maintains a website to post its approved minutes there or a notice of where they may be reviewed. The mover-and-seconder requirement did not yet apply (it took effect January 1, 2019). This page applies the MEDIUM limb of the project's severity rule because the record mitigates the gap: minutes were kept, by the city clerk, and the city's files were not inspected. What is missing is any copy in the school district's shares.
Sources: RSA 91-A:2, II and II-b (2017 codification; the text in force for 2018)
OBSERVATION The PIO position was tabled on a single combined tally that the City Council side voted against
After Horsky's motion to table (0:50:46) drew objections on the voice vote (0:51:27), the clerk called the roll body by body and the result was announced as 7 to 6 (0:53:54, 0:54:22). The tally that settles it, from an unidentified speaker, is "two school boards that are. No." plus four council no votes, against "two yeses from your council to our five" (0:54:03): the school board voted 5-2 to table and the council 2-4 against. Counting took more than a minute and produced several wrong totals on tape (0:52:59 to 0:54:17). One school board vote is also mislabeled in the dialogue file: Pierce's Yes. (0:52:23) is attributed to the mayor.
A joint meeting is two public bodies, and the Claremont City Charter makes a majority of the nine-member council its quorum (sec. 21). No rule this page verified says how a joint session must count a vote, and tabling a discussion bound neither body to anything. For a reviewer: the combined count let the school board's majority table an item that a majority of the councilors present voted to keep, on a position the city manager had just described as mainly benefiting the school district (0:23:36). If the two bodies later share an employee, RSA 53-A:3 (agreements between public agencies, school districts included since 2016) is the statutory route, and its paragraph II lists what such an agreement "shall specify".
Sources: Claremont City Charter secs. 16 and 21 (nine councilors; majority is a quorum; copy of undetermined date); RSA 53-A:3 (joint or cooperative action; source note ends 2016, 46:2)
OBSERVATION The three-member school funding subcommittee planned to attend the candidate forum as a group
Settling on the August 25 forum, the chair said "if three of us and we happen to be the subcommittee, the three of us." (1:01:06), with the next row ("Funding committee. Okay.", labeled for the clerk) completing the name, and asked the other members to send questions for the three to put "as a unit" (0:59:19, 1:01:15). Benware urged sending "as many as we can" (1:01:27); the chair said the whole board need not attend (0:59:19).
RSA 91-A:1-a, VI(d) makes "any committee, subcommittee, or subordinate body thereof" a public body, and RSA 91-A:2, I defines a meeting as "the convening of a quorum of the membership of a public body" to discuss or act on matters within its jurisdiction. Three subcommittee members presenting the board's agreed questions on school funding would be a quorum of that subcommittee doing its business, which would need the 24-hour notice of RSA 91-A:2, II. A forum the public attends is not the same as a noticed meeting. Whether a notice was posted, and whether four or more board members attended, cannot be checked from this record.
Sources: RSA 91-A:1-a, VI(d) (2019 codification; source note ends 2008, 354:1); RSA 91-A:2, I and II (2017 codification; the text in force for 2018)
OBSERVATION The two bodies' views on the SB 365/446 letter were to be gathered by e-mailed feedback to the mayor
The mayor proposed to "continue sending you information on this, getting your feedback" and to settle the city's position "by our next council meeting on the 22nd" (1:26:36). Horsky's motion, passed by voice vote, put that in terms: information "presented to both the City Council and the school boards, with a feedback due back to City Council later than the 20th" (1:28:44, 1:29:42). The school board met once before that deadline, on August 15, and the letter does not come up on that recording (August 15, 2018 page).
RSA 91-A:2-a, I requires public bodies to deliberate "only in meetings", and II says communications outside a meeting, "including, but not limited to, sequential communications among members", "shall not be used to circumvent the spirit and purpose of this chapter". Individual replies to the mayor are not deliberation by themselves; a reviewer would want to know whether the replies circulated among members, and whether the school board ever took a position in a meeting. The decision itself was left to the council's public meeting of August 22.
Sources: RSA 91-A:2-a, I and II (2016 codification; source note 2008, 303:4, unamended)
OBSERVATION Members received the training materials the afternoon of the meeting
Towle ("Just got this late this afternoon.", 1:07:49), Pope ("I got this at 145 this afternoon.", 1:08:24) and Zullo ("I got it really late today", 1:10:46) each said they had not read the New Futures training menu before discussing it. Under good of the order Towle said "I find it very hard to receive information the afternoon of our meetings." and described a seven-day practice the school board had adopted (1:32:46).
RSA 91-A:2, II in 2018 required 24-hour notice of the meeting, not advance distribution of packet materials, so no rule this page verified was broken. The point for a reviewer is that two motions were decided on material most members had not read. The seven-day practice Towle describes is not documented in any record available to this page.
Sources: RSA 91-A:2, II (2017 codification; the text in force for 2018)
POSITIVE A citizen's comment was heard before the business it concerned, and the bodies acted on it
Citizens' comments were taken before any business (0:10:10 to 0:16:32). Cornelia Sergeant asked the mayor not to sign the veto-override letter on SB 365 and SB 446 without further study (0:10:44). When the item came up the mayor cited "some of the strong sentiments I'm receiving from members of our community" (1:25:05), and the joint session voted to gather information before deciding (1:28:44, 1:29:42). The assistant superintendent also corrected her own statement about the schools' pellet boilers on the record, from the budget lines, within minutes (1:22:44, 1:29:27).
No public comment period was required of a school board in 2018: RSA 189:74's 30-minute comment requirement was enacted by 2022, 333:1, eff. September 6, 2022. Hearing the public before acting, and then responding to what was said, went beyond what the law required at the time.
Sources: RSA 189:74 (public comment; source note 2022, 333:1, eff. Sept. 6, 2022)
Appendix: source files
Official and public sources
- Cablecast: JOINT MEETING of the CITY COUNCIL & SCHOOL BOARD of 8-9 (show 9953; run time from the Cablecast API not retrieved, the API returned 403 on 2026-10-02)
- Google Drive: no packet folder, agenda or minutes. MAP.md: "neither share holds a year folder older than 2022, and the Meeting Minutes share starts at 2023 (checked 9/26/26)." Not searched again for this page, per the run instructions for meetings with no Drive material.
- City of Claremont: council notice, agenda, packet and minutes for August 9, 2018 not inspected for this page.
Project files
Working files this page was built from. The dialogue file is linked; the others are not published with the page.
Dialogue/9953 SchoolBoardCityCouncilJoint080918.mp4.CSV (558 attributed rows; the basis of this page)Input/Videos/9953 SchoolBoardCityCouncilJoint080918.mp4Input/Transcripts/9953 SchoolBoardCityCouncilJoint080918.mp4.jsonInput/SupportingDocuments/MAP.md, section 77Scripts/attribution_reports_2015_2023/9953 SchoolBoardCityCouncilJoint080918.mp4.md (speaker attribution report)
Laws and rules cited on this page
- RSA 91-A:1-a, VI(d), 2019 codification (source note ends 2008, 354:1, so in force in 2018): committees and subcommittees of a public body are public bodies
- RSA 91-A:2, I and II, 2017 codification (source note ends 2017, 165:1 and 234:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2018; next amended 2018, 244:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2019): meeting defined; 24-hour notice; minutes content and five-business-day inspection; II-b website posting of approved minutes
- RSA 91-A:2-a, I and II (2008, 303:4, unamended): deliberation only in meetings; no circumvention by outside communications
- RSA 189:74 (2022, 333:1, eff. Sept. 6, 2022): school board public comment period; not in force in 2018
- RSA 53-A:3 (source note ends 2016, 46:2, eff. July 2, 2016): agreements between public agencies for joint or cooperative action
- Claremont City Charter, secs. 16 and 21 (copy of undetermined date): nine-member council; majority is a quorum