Participants
Everyone heard or recorded as present. Names follow the agenda and approved minutes; where the dialogue file labels a person differently, the label is noted. The minutes record six members present and the chair absent.
| Name | Role | Participation |
|---|
| Heather Whitney | Board chair | Absent per the minutes; not on the recording. No written submission recorded. |
| Michael Petrin | Vice chair, presiding | Presided; pulled agenda item III.3; called each fund vote; seconded several policy motions; raised the Youth Risk Behavior Survey and whether the district must take part. The diarizer merged his voice with Sprague’s in several rows (Role column: diarizer merged). |
| Arlene Hawkins | Board member; Policy Subcommittee chair | Made three corrections to the agenda; ran the ten-item policy block and rewrote GBEBB and JLIF on the floor; moved the nonpublic session; seconded the assistant-principal appointment. “Arlene Hopkins” in the clerk’s exit roll call. |
| Candace Crawford | Board member; SRVRTC Subcommittee chair | Spoke “as a citizen” in citizens’ comments; explained the fund withdrawals as reimbursements; questioned McCosker on identification and services; moved GBEB and the assistant-principal appointment; announced the SRVRTC subcommittee meeting as public. “Kenneth Crawford” and “Candy George” in the transcript. |
| Frank Sprague | Board member; Finance Subcommittee chair | Moved all five withdrawals (per the minutes); led the questioning of McCosker; abstained on the assistant-principal appointment (per the minutes); moved to leave nonpublic session and to adjourn. |
| William “Bill” Madden | Board member | Led the Pledge; asked what the withdrawals were, whether Finance had reviewed them and whether the board had authorized the buses; volunteered for the communications ad hoc committee. “William Maddox” and “Madam” in the roll calls. |
| Loren Howard | Board member | Seconded all five withdrawals, the nonpublic motions and adjournment; asked whether a subcommittee member may second its motions; raised the NH Listens forum idea; defended the survey opt-out. “Lauren” and “Lord Howard” in the transcript. |
| Noelle Kronberg | School Board Clerk | Took three roll calls; prompted for the rest of the nonpublic citation and for a roll-call vote; recorded both sets of minutes. |
| Lilly Clark | Student board member | Student report: the Puerto Rico trip, spring sports, Music in the Parks, prom; said students fundraised for the trip. The dialogue file labels her “Lily Clark”, the spelling she is recorded using for herself; the agenda and minutes spell it Lilly. |
| Miles Sheehan | Student board member | In the roster; not recorded as speaking. |
| Christopher Pratt | Superintendent, SAU 6 | On IEP review cycles, out-of-district placement steps and tier 2 interventions; conceded the survey opt-out was not sent; named the assistant-principal candidate. |
| Mary Henry | Business Administrator, SAU 6 | Presented the five withdrawal requests, balances and the reimbursement mechanism; answered on related-services hiring. |
| Michael McCosker | Director of Student Services, SAU 6 | Answered the board’s written questions (Exhibit C) on referral, services, out-of-district process, private-school students and contracted staff. Labeled “Mike McCosker” in the dialogue file. |
| Jill Chastenay | Teacher and Youth & Government advisor, Stevens High School | Presented the delegation’s trip to the mock legislative session (Exhibit A). Spelling per the agenda and minutes. |
| Aubree Herzog | Student; New Hampshire Youth Governor | “This year I passed nine bills in vetoed. Four of those bills”. Spelled Aubree in the minutes; she says “Aubrey Herzog” on the recording, and the dialogue file follows the recording. |
| Noel Beauchaine | Student, Youth & Government delegation | Made the highlight reel; described serving as Senate clerk. Named in the agenda and minutes; labeled only “Noelle” in the dialogue file. |
| Carter Ryan | Student, Youth & Government delegation | Brief remarks. Named in the agenda and minutes; labeled “Carter” in the dialogue file, attributed there by elimination. |
Named on the record but not present: Debra Beaupre, appointed Stevens High School assistant principal effective July 1 (the superintendent says “Deborah Beaupré”); Michael Koski, referred to in the tier 2 discussion; Andrew Belinsky, speaker at a May 8 fair-funding event. No member of the public spoke. One row of the dialogue file is labeled Unidentified: the abstention at 1:47:44, which the minutes assign to Sprague.
Agenda
Items as posted in “CSB Agenda 5.7.25 (2).pdf” and amended on the floor, with dispositions from the recording and the approved minutes.
| Taken up | Item | Agenda text / disposition |
|---|
| 0:00:01 | I. Call to order and Pledge | Petrin: “I’d like to call the May 7th, school board meeting to order.” Roll call at 0:00:30; present Crawford, Hawkins, Howard, Madden, Petrin, Sprague; absent Whitney. |
| 0:00:43 | II.a Consent agenda | Four changes: item III.3 moved to the next meeting; GBCD removed from second read; “GBEB” struck from item h; the policy-withdrawal item removed. Agenda as amended and the 4.16.25 minutes approved by consent at 0:02:02. |
| 0:02:28 | II.b Citizens’ comments | Crawford: “As a citizen, may I speak?” She praised the Disnard art show; Hawkins added to it. No member of the public spoke. |
| 0:04:41 | II.c Student board member report | Lilly Clark. No action. |
| 0:12:21 | III.1 SHS Youth & Government delegation (Exhibit A) | Presentation; no action. |
| 0:28:25 | III.2 Request for withdrawal from trust funds | Five motions, each moved by Sprague and seconded by Howard per the minutes, each carried by voice vote: $283,860.00 School Bus Repair and Replacement Capital Reserve Fund (buses); $425,000.00 Special Education Expendable Trust (FY25 out-of-district tuition); $1,350.41 Capital Improvements and School Building Repairs Fund (FY25); $28,788.01 Claremont School District Capital Reserve Fund (FY25); $150,000.00 Building Repair & Renovation Capital Reserve Fund (FY24 roof). See flags 2, 3, 6, 7. |
| Not taken up | III.3 FY2026 General Assurances (Exhibit B) | Removed at the start and moved to the next meeting; the signed document is in the packet. The minutes print the heading with no disposition. |
| 0:40:33 | III.4 Director of Student Services (Exhibit C) | Discussion only. Crawford at 0:42:10: the report “is out there on the SA website”. |
| 1:25:07 | III.5 Subcommittee reports | Capital Improvement: quarterly meetings. Finance: purpose statement in draft; meeting the next morning at 8:00. Policy: below. Curriculum: summer math PD, Responsive Classroom PD, Title II courses. SRVRTC: May 14 meeting announced as public. |
| 1:26:39 | III.5.c Policy Subcommittee | GBEB moved as a first read (Crawford/Petrin) and carried; at 1:42:26 the motion was amended to adoption and carried (minutes: Howard seconded). GBEAB adopted (Sprague/Crawford). ACF adopted (minutes: Sprague/Petrin; on the recording Hawkins says she seconded, 1:30:43). Revisions accepted: EEAEA, EHB, JLF, GBEBB (reworded on the floor), IJOC, JLIF (amended on the floor). All voice votes, all in favor. |
| 1:45:38 | III.6 Nonpublic session | Agenda: “Non-Public Meeting Session 91-A:3”, followed by the text of ground (c). Hawkins moved, Howard seconded; roll call at 1:45:59; out at 1:46:21 (Sprague/Howard), roll call at 1:46:36. See flag 4 and flag 5. |
| 1:46:44 | III.7 Ratification of assistant principal candidate | Crawford moved to approve Debra Beaupre as Stevens assistant principal effective July 1; Hawkins seconded. Minutes: all in favor “with the exception of Frank Sprague who abstained”. |
| 1:47:55 | IV. Other business | (1) Ad hoc committee on board and community communication, possibly with NH Listens; to a future agenda. (2) Youth Risk Behavior Survey (Exhibit D) at 1:50:57; to a future agenda. See flag 1. (3) A May 8 fair-funding event at 1:55:38. |
| 1:56:24 | V–VI. Future dates; adjournment | Future dates include “Board Representative and Admin. Team meeting with Plodzik 5.16.25 @ 1:30”. Sprague moved, Howard seconded; adjourned 8:36 p.m. per the minutes. |
Discussion timeline
Chronological topics. Quotations are from the dialogue transcript as transcribed; bracketed text is an insertion or correction. The diarizer merged the presiding vice chair’s voice with Sprague’s in several rows; movers and seconders below follow the minutes.
| Time | Topic | What was said | Flags |
|---|
| 0:00:43 | The agenda corrected before business | Petrin: “I need to take item number three off. It’s going to move to our next meeting.” Hawkins at 0:00:58: “C policy GBCD is not here for second read. That was revised at our last meeting”; at 0:01:30: “Item H should not read under GBEB it should just read GBEBB”; at 0:01:45: “We are not prepared to ask the board to withdraw those policies. So I’d like to remove that from the agenda.” | OBSERVATION POSITIVE |
| 0:04:41 | Student report | Clark on Puerto Rico, a baseball record of 4 to 3, unified track, Music in the Parks, and prom (“Our theme is Night Out on the city”, 0:10:13). Madden at 0:11:47: “The students and the families of the students paid for the trip to Puerto Rico. It wasn’t the taxpayers.” | |
| 0:12:59 | Youth & Government | “We had seven students go down to Concord this year”. Herzog at 0:22:49: “This year I passed nine bills in vetoed. Four of those bills”. Beauchaine on serving as Senate clerk (0:24:12). | |
| 0:28:59 | The request: five motions | Henry: “There are five different motions that I am requesting. One would be for the school busses that have been purchased for $283,860. The next one would be to withdraw $425,000 from the Special Education Trust to help cover those costs that were over.” At 0:29:52: “for fiscal year 24, expenses that we have already spent and did not recoup in that year. We’ve talked with our attorney and we’ve talked with our auditors, and this is an acceptable practice for us”. | OBSERVATION |
| 0:30:55 | What is left | “Be a total of $888,998.42. That would leave a balance in those trust funds of $91,796.69, under the advice of our attorney and our auditors, we need to look at those and start building those back up in the future.” At 0:31:32: “those monies, we need to get them back into our general fund. So that we can pay our bills.” | OBSERVATION |
| 0:31:49 | Whose authority? | Madden: “I’m not sure what we’re doing here. And I’m not sure if this has been through the fiscal committee subcommittee.” Henry at 0:32:03: “the board has the right to withdraw money from their trust funds. That’s how they’re written. So you guys are the, there’s a term for it, and I apologize. I can’t think of what it is.” Madden: Trustees. At 0:32:46: “So yes, there expendable trusts where we are at. Taxpayers have put money in there.” | MEDIUM MEDIUM |
| 0:34:06 | The buses | Madden: “And I assume you got authorization from the board.” Crawford: “That’s what’s happened tonight.” Henry at 0:34:32: “We ordered these over a year ago.” The minutes: the buses were authorized and purchased about a year ago. No vote is cited. | MEDIUM |
| 0:34:43 | “All of this is already expended” | Henry: “All of this is already expended. I cannot we cannot ask for money out of a trust without spending money. We have to spend it before we can get it. So the special Education trust, the 425,000 really is going against offset that $1.4 million that we are short right now.” | OBSERVATION |
| 0:36:45 | Motion 1: $283,860 for two buses | “I want to make a motion to withdraw 283,800 and” / 60 / “Dollars from the school bus Repair and Replacement capital reserve fund for the purchase of two busses.” Crawford at 0:37:07: “we’re reimbursing ourselves from our savings account, if you will, to our operating expenses.” At 0:37:27: “the finance committee has reviewed these at nauseum.” | POSITIVE |
| 0:37:37 | Motion 2: $425,000 from the Special Education Expendable Trust | The segment carries the motion in garbled form: “I want to make a motion to withdraw. And 25,000 from the special education expendable trust. This amount will offset the overage and out of district tuition for FY 25.” The minutes and the request give $425,000.00. No hearing preceded it. | MEDIUM OBSERVATION |
| 0:38:04 | Motions 3 to 5 | “$1,350.41 from the Capital Improvements and School Building Repairs Fund for expenditures for FY 25”; Henry at 0:38:33 will bring the small remainder back so the account can be closed. At 0:38:45: “$28,788.01 from the Claremont School District Capital Reserve Fund for expenditures in FY 25” and “$150,000 from the building repair and renovation capital reserve fund for FY 24 roof expenditures.” | MEDIUM |
| 0:39:25 | A commitment to replenish | Sprague: “as the chair of the finance committee, is that these trust funds are very important to our onward budget planning, and we will be making every effort as we move forward to replenish these accounts”. | OBSERVATION |
| 0:43:59 | How students are identified | McCosker: districts are “required to evaluate or are required to go through a special ed referral process for any student who suspected of a disability, ages two and a half through 22”. At 0:48:37: special education “should never happen in a silo.” | |
| 0:58:54 | Out-of-district placements | Sprague wants a documented process “Before we even consider placing a kid out of district”; at 0:59:18: “It’s our fault as the board for a lack of oversight. I mean, it’s pretty clear that’s what the auditors told us.” Pratt at 0:59:24: “I don’t think the board can share all of it.” Sprague at 0:59:38: “But it is the board’s responsibility to hold you accountable.” | |
| 1:06:20 | Related services by contract | Sprague: “our VA [BA] told us recently that, that it’s much more expensive to hire related services than it is to have our own. So I’ve been watching on the employment page, and I’m not seeing any related services positions advertised.” McCosker at 1:08:45 on contracted speech pathology: “One one and a half to two times. What we’ll pay her.” Sprague at 1:09:50: “I’m advocating on behalf of the taxpayers.” | |
| 1:25:47 | Finance Subcommittee | “As far as our, purpose statement, I’ve written a draft.” Next meeting the following morning at 8:00 (1:26:03). | |
| 1:34:47 | May a subcommittee member second? | Howard: “Am I allowed to vote or like second these motions even though I’m on the committee?” The presider proceeded to the vote without answering. | |
| 1:35:07 | GBEBB reworded on the floor | Hawkins: “we added numbers 12 and 13”; the committee met that afternoon and found “strongly discouraged” not strong enough. At 1:36:27: “It should say staff members shall not. Yes. Socialize with students outside of school on social networking websites.” | OBSERVATION |
| 1:40:26 | JLIF repaired on the floor | A school-event clause was missing from the packet copy; Hawkins: “So I would suggest that we just do it now.” Sprague at 1:41:19: “We adopt JLIF with the modifications that we just made.” | OBSERVATION |
| 1:44:53 | SRVRTC subcommittee meeting announced | Crawford: “Our next meeting is, Wednesday, May 14th at 330 at the Tech Center. This is a public meeting.” | POSITIVE |
| 1:45:38 | The nonpublic motion | Hawkins: “I move that we move into nonpublic session under RSA 91-A colon three.” The clerk at 1:45:48: “The rest of it? No.” Howard seconds; the presider calls for ayes; the clerk at 1:45:55: “We have to do a”; Petrin: “Roll call. Yeah.” Roll call at 1:45:59. | MEDIUM POSITIVE |
| 1:46:21 | Back in public; the appointment | “I think we’re back.” Roll call out at 1:46:36. Crawford at 1:47:09: “I’ll make a motion to approve the recommended candidate.” An unattributed Abstain at 1:47:44; the minutes name Sprague. | MEDIUM |
| 1:48:17 | A community forum | Howard: “we reached out to NH listens, who’s going to work with us”. Petrin at 1:49:25: “I think we need to clarify whether there’s a cost”; a prior candidate forum cost about $500, now about $700. | |
| 1:50:57 | Survey opt-out not sent | Petrin: “We had the youth risk behavior survey that went out to the kids at high school. And we heard from some parents about it. There was no opt out option for that.” Pratt at 1:52:18: “inadvertently, the opt out did not get sent out”; “the law says we need to the requirements say we have to send it out.” At 1:54:17: after the last board meeting “I put the entire survey on there”. At 1:54:58: “It wasn’t sent out. It should have been sent out.” | HIGH |
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.
HIGH Parents were not sent the Youth Risk Behavior Survey opt-out, which state law requires, and the superintendent said so
RSA 186:11, IX-d requires each district’s survey policy to exempt the Youth Risk Behavior Survey from written consent and adds: “The policy shall also allow a parent or legal guardian to opt-out of the youth risk behavior survey developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.” The same paragraph requires non-academic surveys to be available for parents to review “at least 10 days prior to distribution to students.” At 1:50:57 the presiding vice chair reported parent complaints that “There was no opt out option” for the survey given at the high school. The superintendent confirmed it at 1:52:18: “inadvertently, the opt out did not get sent out”, and “the law says we need to the requirements say we have to send it out”; at 1:54:58: “It wasn’t sent out. It should have been sent out.” He posted the full survey only after the previous board meeting (1:54:17), that is, after students had taken it. The federal Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment separately requires direct notice to parents and a chance to opt out of surveys that ask about topics such as sexual behavior and illegal behavior, which the survey covers (Exhibit D). Mitigation: he said students were told verbally that the survey was optional (1:52:18); the state’s coordinator writes in Exhibit D that “Students may also opt-out of the survey at any time”; and the superintendent and board committed that it will not recur. Graded HIGH because the requirement is binding and the failure is admitted on the record.
Sources: RSA 186:11, IX-d, 2024 codification (note ends 2024, 235:1, 2, eff. Sept. 17, 2024; text read 2026-09-25); 20 U.S.C. §1232h(b) and (c)(2) (protected survey topics; parental notice and opt-out); Exhibit D- YRBS Information (1).pdf; approved 5.7.25 minutes.
MEDIUM $888,998.42 withdrawn from five funds with no record of the district votes that created them or named the board to spend them
Three of the funds are named in the minutes as capital reserve funds (buses $283,860.00; Claremont School District $28,788.01; Building Repair & Renovation $150,000.00); one is an expendable trust (Special Education, $425,000.00); the type of the fourth (Capital Improvements and School Building Repairs, $1,350.41) is never stated. Capital reserve money stays with the trustees “until such time as the town, district or county shall have voted to withdraw funds from such capital reserve fund or shall have named agents” (RSA 35:15, I). For an expendable trust, “The school board may be named agents to expend such trust funds” (RSA 198:20-c, I). Asked what authority the board was using, the business administrator said at 0:32:03 that “the board has the right to withdraw money from their trust funds. That’s how they’re written”, and could not recall the term; Madden offered trustees. The statutory term is agents to expend. Her answer fits an agency designation voted at some earlier district meeting, which would make these votes ordinary. But the packet holds only the request memo, and no warrant article, trust instrument or agency vote is in the record. Madden also asked whether the board had authorized the bus purchase (0:34:06); the answer was that the buses were ordered over a year ago, with no vote cited. Each motion recites a purpose matching its fund’s name, which satisfies the purpose limit on its face (RSA 35:15, V; RSA 198:20-c, I). The same authority question arose three weeks earlier on the April 16 page.
Sources: RSA 35:15, I and V (note ends 2021, 105:2); RSA 198:20-c, I (note ends 2012, 219:2, 3); Trust Fund Withdrawal 5-6-25_0001.pdf; approved 5.7.25 minutes.
MEDIUM No public hearing preceded the $425,000 draw on the Special Education Expendable Trust, which RSA 198:20-c requires if the trust was created under that section
RSA 198:20-c, II: “In order to expend such funds, the school board shall hold a public hearing prior to the expenditure to be made. Notice of the time, place, and subject of such hearing shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the relevant municipality at least 7 days before the meeting is held.” The agenda lists the withdrawals only as a discussion and vote item; no hearing was noticed or held, and by the administrator’s account the money had already been spent (0:34:43). The minutes name the fund the “Special Education Expendable Trust”, and Henry described the funds as “expendable trusts” (0:32:46). The limb applied: MEDIUM rather than HIGH because the record does not say whether the trust was created under RSA 198:20-c or as a reserve fund under RSA 35:1-c, which is governed by chapter 35 and carries no comparable hearing rule. If it is a 198:20-c trust, the hearing was required. The same question applies to the $258,000 and up to $50,000 drawn from this trust for the Maple Avenue building (April 16 page, flag 2).
Sources: RSA 198:20-c, II (text read 2026-09-25); RSA 35:1-c; CSB Agenda 5.7.25; approved 5.7.25 minutes.
MEDIUM The motion to enter nonpublic session stated no exemption; the clerk asked for it and the answer was no
RSA 91-A:3, I(b): “Any motion to enter nonpublic session shall state on its face the specific exemption under paragraph II which is relied upon as foundation for the nonpublic session.” The motion at 1:45:38 was “under RSA 91-A colon three”; the clerk asked “The rest of it?” and the reply recorded is No (1:45:48). The written record does not repair the citation: the agenda heads the item “Non-Public Meeting Session 91-A:3” and the approved minutes record the motion “under RSA 91-A:3(c)”, both without paragraph II; only the clerk’s nonpublic form marks “RSA 91-A:3, II (c)”. Mitigation: the agenda printed the full text of ground (c), so the public knew the intended ground, and the roll-call requirement was met because the clerk stopped a voice vote (1:45:55). A note, not a finding: the session’s recorded subject was “presentation of personnel recommendation & discussion and other personnel matters”, and the business that followed was a hire, which is ground II(b); discussion of a named candidate can also fall under II(c).
Sources: RSA 91-A:3, I(b), II(b), II(c) (2023, 189:1, eff. Oct. 3, 2023; text read 2026-09-25); CSB Agenda 5.7.25; approved 5.7.25 minutes; nonpublic minutes.
MEDIUM The nonpublic minutes were not sealed, but the earliest public copy located is dated 100 days after the meeting
RSA 91-A:3, III: “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 taken in public session. No seal vote was taken, and the clerk’s form says “minutes not sealed”, so disclosure was due by May 10, 2025. The only copy located, titled “5.7.25 CSB Non-Public Meeting minutes unsealed”, carries a Drive creation date of August 15, 2025, 100 days after the meeting, and now sits in a “2025 Non-Public” folder created January 11, 2026. The limb applied: the minutes exist, and the only decision taken (the appointment) was voted in public minutes afterwards, so this is MEDIUM. A Drive date shows when the district published a copy, not whether the form could be inspected at the office within 72 hours. The form itself is complete: ground, roll call, times in and out (8:15 and 8:26), persons present, a description of the matter, and the seal question answered.
Sources: RSA 91-A:3, III; 5.7.25 CSB Non-Public Meeting minutes unsealed (Drive metadata read 2026-09-25).
OBSERVATION Every withdrawal reimburses money already spent, one of them for the previous fiscal year
“All of this is already expended” (0:34:43); Crawford: “we’re reimbursing ourselves from our savings account, if you will, to our operating expenses” (0:37:07). The request memo itemizes the $30,138.42 behind motions 3 and 4 as seven repairs dated August 2024 to April 2025, all within FY2025. The $150,000 draw is for FY2024 roof work, which Henry described as expenses “already spent and did not recoup in that year” (0:29:52). She said counsel and the auditors called the practice acceptable. No verified rule forbids after-the-fact reimbursement from a reserve for its stated purpose, so this is an observation: the general fund carried these costs before the board voted, in a year the administrator described as $1.4 million short.
Sources: no verified rule; observation only. Trust Fund Withdrawal 5-6-25_0001.pdf; approved 5.7.25 minutes.
OBSERVATION The five funds drop from $980,795.11 to $91,796.69, and the special education trust to about $4,500 once the April 16 authorization is used
The request memo gives the May 5 balances: the five funds held $980,795.11, and the withdrawals take 90.6% of it, leaving $91,796.69 (0:30:55). The Special Education Expendable Trust goes from $479,539.39 to $54,539.39. On April 16 the board authorized up to $50,000 more from the same trust for the Maple Avenue building; the May 5 balance matches the $479,000 Henry gave that night, which indicates none of it had been drawn. If all of it is, about $4,539 would remain in the fund meant to absorb a bad special-education year, which Henry described as “the purpose of it” (0:39:58). The bus reserve is left with $14,834.47. Sprague committed to replenish the funds (0:39:25). No verified rule sets a minimum balance; recorded so the commitment can be checked.
Sources: no verified rule; observation only. Trust Fund Withdrawal 5-6-25_0001.pdf; April 16, 2025 page.
OBSERVATION What the board adopted is not what the packet shows for two policies, and the General Assurances were pulled
Four agenda defects were fixed in the first ninety seconds (0:00:43 to 0:01:45). GBEBB was reworded on the floor from the packet’s “strongly discouraged” to “shall not” (1:36:27), and JLIF was adopted “with the modifications that we just made” (1:41:19) after a missing school-event clause was restored. The adopted text of both exists only in the recording and the minutes. The FY2026 General Assurances (Exhibit B) were removed and moved to the next meeting. No verified rule governs packet accuracy; the board’s correcting in public is credited in flag 10.
Sources: no verified rule; observation only. h. Revision--Policy GBEBB; j. Revision--JLIF; approved 5.7.25 minutes.
POSITIVE Five withdrawals, five motions, five votes, each with its fund, amount and purpose
The board took the money as five separate motions rather than one, each reciting fund, amount to the cent and purpose (from 0:36:45 to 0:40:15), and the minutes record each with its mover and seconder. Crawford explained the mechanism in plain terms (0:37:07), and a new member’s questions (“I’m not sure what we’re doing here”, 0:31:49) were answered on the record. That is what makes flags 2, 3, 6 and 7 checkable.
Sources: RSA 91-A:2, II, 2024 codification (movers and seconders recorded); approved 5.7.25 minutes.
POSITIVE The clerk and the policy chair corrected the process in public, as it happened
The clerk asked for the missing exemption (1:45:48) and stopped a voice vote to require the roll call RSA 91-A:3, I(b) demands (1:45:55); both nonpublic votes were then taken by roll call. The policy chair corrected the district’s own agenda before business began (0:00:58).
Sources: RSA 91-A:3, I(b) (roll-call vote).
POSITIVE A subcommittee meeting announced at the table as public, with date, time and place
A subcommittee is itself a public body: RSA 91-A:1-a, VI(d) reaches any board of a school district “or any committee, subcommittee, or subordinate body thereof, or advisory committee thereto.” At 1:44:53 the SRVRTC chair announced “Wednesday, May 14th at 330 at the Tech Center. This is a public meeting.” The Finance chair gave his next meeting time as well (1:26:03).
Sources: RSA 91-A:1-a, VI(d).
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