Participants
Everyone heard or named on the record. Names and roles follow the posted agenda; the roll calls are too garbled in the transcript to settle attendance member by member, so attendance is stated only where the recording supports it. Dialogue-file labels that differ are noted.
| Name | Role | Participation |
|---|
| Arlene Hawkins | SAU 6 Board chair (Claremont) | Presided and delivered most of the agenda herself: the positions update, the consultant and TMS costs, the audit update. 194 of 380 dialogue rows. Required a roll call on the way into and out of nonpublic session; announced the former business administrator’s separation terms and pointed the public to RSA 91-A for her records. |
| Rocco Ruggeri | Vice chair (Unity) | Answered the roll (“Morocco. Here.” as transcribed); corrected the future dates (Unity now meets the second Wednesday at 5:30 p.m.); gave the Unity SAU update, “There’s nothing to update at this time”; moved adjournment. The dialogue file also gives him the 0:51:25 statement on Mary Henry, but the chair’s recognition just before it reads “Mr. Peterson”, the transcript’s usual rendering of Petrin, so that attribution is uncertain. |
| Candace Crawford | Member (Claremont); SAU 6 treasurer | Seconded the nonpublic motion; pressed the point that the business administrator would pay a larger share of his health premium than other staff; asked who signs off on payroll change logs (“Somebody should.”); moved to include SAU records in the forensic audit. The treasurer office comes from the 4/10/25 draft SAU 6 minutes, which record her election; this agenda names only chair and vice chair. |
| Heather Whitney | Member (Claremont; Claremont board chair) | Asked whether the SAU is “moving forward with aggressive headhunting”; asked for TMS to build working procedures rather than another review, because new hires would otherwise be “drowning as well”; moved the business administrator’s contract; closed with a special-education compliance question. |
| Frank Sprague | Member (Claremont) | Asked how the consultants would collect data and warned against “more layers of bureaucracy”; asked for an electronic copy of the financial report; seconded the forensic-audit motion; corrected the Claremont meeting date to November 19. |
| Loren Howard | Member (Claremont) | Asked how the communications consultant’s 23 October hours were spent, and objected that communications had become the largest TMS cost. Named in the roll (“Howard here”, in the caller’s row). |
| Michael Petrin | Member (Claremont) | Seconded two sets of minutes. Rendered “Mr. patron”, “Mr. pitcher”, “Michael. Patrick” and “Michael. Dietrich” in the transcript. May be the member recognized as “Mr. Peterson” at 0:51:23. |
| Shannon Popescu | Member (Unity) | Answered the roll; asked, for Unity residents, “what is the money going towards?” with so many SAU posts vacant; corrected the February date to the 12th. |
| Krystal Davis | Member (per the agenda) | Answered the opening roll (“Crystal Davis here”). No separately attributed speech. |
| Atonya Hart | Member (Unity, per the agenda) | Not identifiable on the recording; the roll is too garbled to say whether she attended. |
| Darlene Ayotte | Member (per the agenda) | The roll opens “Darling at. No.”, the transcript’s rendering of her name followed by no answer. Probably absent; the recording alone does not settle it. |
| William “Bill” Madden | Member (Claremont) | Absent: the nonpublic roll call records “And Bill. Not here.” |
| Noelle Kronberg | SAU 6 Board Clerk | Not identified on the recording. The chair asked the interim business administrator to call the roll, and no one is identified as taking minutes. |
| Kerry Kennedy | Interim Superintendent, SAU 6 | Put on the record that she had kept her previous health plan, “I refused to switch”; said the SAU is working with its special education attorney on compliance and would verify. |
| Matt Angell | Interim Business Administrator, SAU 6 | Called both roll calls; explained the 457 deferred-compensation request in his contract; delivered the financial update (dual authorization, positive pay, ACH, employee self-service, year-to-date figures). 53 rows; rendered “Mr. Angel”. |
| Jeff Small | Director of Technology (per the agenda) | Does not speak. The chair: “I just found out our technology director has resigned.” |
Named but not present: Mary Henry (former business administrator), Michael Campo (auditor, Plodzik & Sanderson), and the unnamed student-services consultant. No member of the public attended. The dialogue file labels 17 rows “Unidentified board member”, 8 “Unidentified” and 5 “Multiple”; the movers of the June 12 minutes and of the nonpublic motion are among them.
Agenda
Items as posted in “SAU6 School Board Agenda 11.13.25.pdf”. Its numbering runs I, II, III, V, VI, VII; there is no item IV. With no minutes, dispositions come from the recording.
| Taken up | Item | Agenda text / disposition |
|---|
| 0:00:03 | I. Call to Order and Pledge | Agenda: “6:30PM Call to Order and Pledge of Allegiance”. The chair: “I’d like to call to order six meeting for Thursday, November 13th.” |
| 0:00:56 | II. Roll call | Called by Angell at the chair’s request. The answers are absorbed into the caller’s rows; the chair concluded at 0:01:29: “We do have a quorum this evening.” |
| 0:01:59 | II. Minutes: 6.12.25; 8.21.25; 8.26.25; 9.4.25; 9.11.25 | Five meetings taken separately in under four minutes. June 12 accepted after a member said “I didn’t read it”; August 21 approved as amended (a misspelled name under the agenda); August 26 approved as presented; September 4 carried with two abstentions; September 11 carried with three abstentions, the chair abstaining because she “was not present”. No full tally was stated for any vote. See flag 3. |
| 0:05:43 | II. Agenda: Amendments and Final Approval | Moved and seconded; “It’s unanimous.” Just before, at 0:05:15: “The agenda was emailed to you today. I apologize for the lateness of getting it.” |
| 0:05:53 | II. Citizens Comments, per policy BEDH | “As there are no citizens present in the audience at this time. I close citizens comments and they may be reopened later.” No one attended; not reopened. |
| 0:06:20 | III.1 Non-Public Session, RSA 91-A:3, II(a) | The agenda prints the exemption with its text. Motion from the floor naming it, seconded by Crawford; roll call taken at the chair’s insistence. Entered at 0:07:04; the return was also roll-called from 0:07:23. No motion to seal and no decision announced. See flag 2 and flag 9. |
| 0:07:58 | III.2 SAU Positions Update (Discussion), Arlene Hawkins | Agenda sub-items: “Dismissals Resignations of positions Employee positions added Consultants: Student Services Contracted Services - TMS”. Covered the former business administrator’s separation, six central-office departures, three fixed-term hires, the interim business administrator’s contract (moved at 0:22:10, carried at 0:22:36), the student-services consultant’s rates and the three TMS contracts. |
| 0:34:27 | III.3 Financial Update (Discussion), Matt Angell | New bank controls, then the numbers at 0:38:26: revenues year to date $801,343 (district assessments); expenditures $859,000; encumbrances $932,000; operating budget remaining $805,000, or 31%. |
| 0:46:55 | III.4 Update on Financial Audits (Discussion), Arlene Hawkins | The auditor is reviewing the FY23 Unity report, then the SAU 6 FY23 report. Crawford moved to include SAU records in the forensic audit at 0:48:37; Sprague seconded; carried with no opposition or abstention announced at 0:49:06. |
| 0:49:06 | V. Future Dates/Future Agenda Items | Agenda: “SAU meeting in February - audit reports”, “Claremont School Board Meeting- Wed, Nov 18, 2025”, “Unity School Board Meeting - Tues, Dec 9, 2025”. Corrected on the floor: the Claremont meeting is Wednesday, November 19; Unity meets Wednesday, December 10, and now on second Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m.; the next SAU meeting February 12. |
| 0:50:32 | VI. Other Business: Update on Unity SAU move | Ruggeri: “There’s nothing to update at this time.” Then the statement that no public hearing will be held for Mary Henry, and Whitney’s special-education compliance question. |
| 0:53:04 | VII. Adjournment | Moved (labeled Ruggeri), seconded, carried; “Meeting adjourned.” at 0:53:12. |
Discussion timeline
Chronological topics with the moment each is taken up. Timestamps link to the same moment in the Cablecast recording.
Discussion timeline, November 13, 2025
| Time | Topic | What was said | Flags |
|---|
| 0:00:26 | “This is here virtually” | The chair’s opening line reads “This is here virtually. So I’m going to ask Mr. Angel if you would mind taking a roll call for attendance, please.” Whether any member attended remotely cannot be settled from the recording, and there are no minutes to settle it. | MEDIUM |
| 0:01:29 | Five meetings’ minutes at once | “The first item on the agenda is to approve or amend or correct the minutes from the meetings in June. June 12th. And we’re going to approve these separately. August 21st. August 26th, September 4th and September 11th. I know there was an issue last time with being able to open up those minutes, so they were posted on the web page.” | MEDIUM |
| 0:02:24 | “I didn’t read it.” | An unidentified member, into the June 12 vote: “I didn’t read it.” … “I don’t have enough information.” The chair at 0:02:29: “I know they were posted the last minute, so I understand that. Any abstentions?” At 0:02:56: “Do we have a majority? Yes, six. I think we do.” At 0:03:05: “Those minutes are accepted as presented.” | MEDIUM |
| 0:05:15 | The agenda went out the same day | “The agenda was emailed to you today. I apologize for the lateness of getting it.” The agenda PDF in the packet folder carries a Drive creation time of 8:26 a.m. that day. | OBSERVATION |
| 0:06:20 | Into nonpublic session, and out on a roll call | “Make a motion to move into nonpublic session for RSA 91 a colon three two a.” The chair: “Second Miss Crawford discussion. We need a roll call. Vote for that, Mr. Angel.” On the return, at 0:07:23: “You need a roll call vote, sir.” No seal moved; nothing of the session is on the recording. | MEDIUM POSITIVE |
| 0:07:58 | A separation, and an office “skeleton doesn’t even describe it” | “The dismissal former business administrator Mary Henry was dismissed by mutual agreement as of November 3rd.” At 0:08:28: “She received payment for unused vacation leave as required, and there was no other severance pay. Her records related to her employment termination are public under Right to Know law. RSA 91-A upon written request to the SA office.” Then the departures: assistant superintendent, grants manager, director of student services, HR director and coordinator, and the technology director; the curriculum director post “was eliminated by the SA Board on September 4th.” | POSITIVE |
| 0:09:45 | “Aggressive headhunting”? | Whitney: “Are we moving forward with aggressive headhunting or. I mean, there are some of these positions that are critical to fill”. The chair: “I don’t have an answer for that.” At 0:10:57 the realignments are “all interim until June 30th”, and the assistant superintendent post “was eliminated, as previously planned, to the unity departure.” | |
| 0:12:13 | Three fixed-term hires, and an $800,000 claim | An HR coordinator already in the budget, plus two time-limited posts two days a week: data entry and a health-insurance reconciler. At 0:13:12: “The person reconciling our health insurance has already saved both Claremont and Unity approximately $800,000, so that work is paying for everything else that we are putting into place at this time.” No document supporting the $800,000 figure is in the packet. | |
| 0:13:51 | The business administrator’s contract, read aloud | At 0:14:59: “the total salary employer contribution will not exceed 125,000 for fiscal year 2026. And the employer total salary contribution shall not exceed 135,000 for the following fiscal year 2027. Mr. Angel will get four weeks of paid time off, sick and vacation combined, and that accrued paid time off will not be paid out at the end of the contract or upon the termination of his employment.” Also “a single health plan insurance at a 10% employee match”, at-will, and an expiry “set in stone of June 30th, 2027.” Angell at 0:14:09: the 457 plan “has to be offered to everyone at DSA if they so choose to do it.” Carried at 0:22:36 on a voice vote, no tally stated. | POSITIVE |
| 0:17:12 | Benefit shares never approved by the board | Crawford: the business administrator would “pay a larger share, a larger proportion of your health insurance than the rest of the staff.” The chair at 0:17:46: employees “would pay anywhere from 5 to 10 or 15%. If I’m correct, that was never authorized by this board.” At 0:18:10: “It was never approved by this board prior to being implemented.” At 0:19:23: “that’s a heck of a benefit, which contributed to the big red numbers that we saw at the year end.” Kennedy at 0:21:08: “I refused to switch.” | OBSERVATION |
| 0:23:05 | The student-services consultant | A director of pupil services for 15 years and special educator for 27, on 15 days of professional development. At 0:24:10: “her charges are $140 per hour for remote contact. Professional development. 100, I’m sorry, 1500 for three hours or more, which is a full day, or 750 for less than three hours. Her bill for September was $5,650.” | |
| 0:25:05 | Three TMS contracts, and a total that does not add up | Superintendent mentoring at “$1,500 a month”, two invoices “for a total of $3,000”. Communications at 0:27:13: “The cost to date for September was 10.47 hours, for a total of $1,622.85 in October. It was 23.69 hours, for a total of $3,671.95. I added them up. I hope they’re correct. The total is $4,294.80.” The two figures sum to $5,294.80. Operational review at 0:27:53: “The cost to date is none because the saw is waiting for the audit reports to be completed”, then $175 an hour. | OBSERVATION |
| 0:28:25 | “They’re going to be drowning as well” | Whitney: “although we hired qualified people into these positions and tasks them with developing these things, it seemed like that just never seemed to happen”. At 0:29:01: “if we hire new folks into these positions, they’re going to be drowning as well when they step into these positions.” Sprague at 0:31:19: “It’s for another report where they just” “Created suggestions but didn’t do anything.” and “more layers of bureaucracy”. | |
| 0:32:08 | Howard on the communications bill | “I just am curious about how those 23 hours were spent.” The chair: “I don’t believe there were any hours in the office”. Howard at 0:33:10: “that’s become the biggest cost with them so far more than superintendent Leadership Services or in operational review. And that to me is just it should be the complete inverse in terms of money spent.” | OBSERVATION |
| 0:34:27 | New controls at the bank | “we implemented, dual, like, I want to say authorization for any bank transactions for all three school districts.” Positive pay “now active as of last week”; at 0:35:19, unapproved items are “automatically rejected” at noon. ACH “will save about 12 days worth of time”. Payroll reconciliation procedures at 0:38:06: “That’s been done for unity and saw it hasn’t been done for Claremont”. | POSITIVE |
| 0:38:26 | The SAU’s numbers | “Year to date are $801,343. And it relates to district assessments.” At 0:38:42: “So far we have spent year to date 859,000. We have 932,000. Of encumbrances are remaining. Operating budget is 805,000 or 31%.” Sprague asked for an electronic copy at 0:39:53; it went to the chair for the whole board. | |
| 0:42:16 | “And who signs off on that?” | Crawford, on employees editing their own records: “do those changes generate a report that the their as, supervisor signs off on the changes..” Angell: “The system generates a change log.” Crawford at 0:42:48: “And who signs off on that?” Angell: “It doesn’t.” Crawford: “Somebody should.” Angell at 0:42:52: the electronic PAR form “does do the authorizations, but it’s still a manual process.” | OBSERVATION |
| 0:43:44 | What Unity’s assessment is buying | Popescu: “with the loss of all of the positions, how is that going to affect our payment into the Sao?” At 0:44:53: “It’s just a question I’ve gotten from the community. If you know you guys don’t have all these positions filled, then what is the money going towards?” Angell at 0:45:01: at the end “there would be a division back to the the communities”. | |
| 0:46:07 | Unity’s data after July 1 | The chair: “the fact that unity will be leaving as of July 1st. All the work that’s being done to put information into systems to have systems operating, will that be able to be transferred”. Angell at 0:46:29: “We’ll have to talk with infinite visions. Okay. And it’s I don’t see any difficulty in them just plucking, unity out and making its own.” | OBSERVATION |
| 0:46:55 | The audits, and what waits behind them | “His firm is currently reviewing the FY23 unity report”. At 0:47:19: “And he’ll be moving into the saw 6FY23 report review. The draft of that report hopefully will be sent next week. And then his team is working with you to start the audits of those outstanding years across the SA and all the districts.” At 0:49:06 the next SAU meeting moves to February “because the audits won’t be ready until February”. | OBSERVATION |
| 0:47:59 | Forensic audit extended to SAU records | “It will most likely spill over into the saw and into unity as well, so that he needs the board’s authorization to hire a forensic auditor when that spillage occurs.” Crawford at 0:48:37: “I make a motion to include s a you, records as part of the forensic audit as needed as as it occurs.” Sprague seconded; carried at 0:49:06. | POSITIVE |
| 0:50:47 | Unity’s exit: “identifying a path” | Ruggeri: “There’s nothing to update at this time. We’ve had conversations with some local districts, and, we’re just still in the process of identifying a path, a viable path for moving forward.” | OBSERVATION |
| 0:51:25 | No public hearing for the former business administrator | “With Mary Henry accepting the termination agreement. There is no public hearing that’s going to happen for.” (Labeled Ruggeri; the chair had just recognized “Mr. Peterson”.) | POSITIVE |
| 0:51:54 | Special-education compliance | Whitney: “Do we have any issues with compliance related to our the director or the interim director of our special education services because of lack of credentials”. The chair: TMS is not involved “in any way, shape or form”. Kennedy at 0:52:47: “we’re working with our special education attorney to make sure with anything with the Department of Education is compliant and things too. So. But I will verify if there’s any question.” | |
Items flagged for review
These are a reviewer’s aid, not findings of violation and not legal advice. Each rule-based flag names the provision it rests on and links to the primary source; where no verified rule applies, the item is labelled an observation. Verify against the recording and the primary sources before relying on any of it.
MEDIUM No minutes of this meeting have been located, ten months on
RSA 91-A:2, II requires minutes to be “promptly recorded and open to public inspection not more than 5 business days after the meeting”, and, since August 22, 2025, to include “the start time and end time of the meeting, and name of the person who produced the minutes”, along with the members, persons appearing, subject matter, final decisions and the names of each mover and seconder. No minutes of this meeting have been located. The search was two-stage, as SAU 6 files its drafts in later packet folders: the meeting’s own folder holds only drafts of 6/12, 8/21 and 9/4/25; the two later SAU 6 folders, 13. SAU6 4.9.26 and 14. SAU6 5.28.26, hold agendas, a notice, a calendar and a contract, and no minutes; and the Claremont Meeting Minutes share has never held an SAU 6 file (all per MAP.md, re-read 2026-08-26). The gap matters more here than usual. The roll calls are unusable as an attendance record, the clerk is not identified as present, no one on the recording is named as taking minutes, and the chair’s opening “This is here virtually” (0:00:26) leaves open whether a member participated remotely, which under RSA 91-A:2, III would require every vote to be by roll call. Most votes here were voice votes. Graded under the user’s missing-records rule, MEDIUM limb: the meeting was noticed and packeted and only the minutes are missing. No inspection request was made or refused in building this page.
Sources: RSA 91-A:2, II (minutes within 5 business days; contents, including start and end time and producer from Aug. 22, 2025) and III (remote participation; all votes by roll call); 12. SAU6 11.13.25.
MEDIUM The nonpublic session was not sealed on the record, and no nonpublic minutes exist
The board entered nonpublic session under RSA 91-A:3, II(a) at 0:07:04 and was taking the return roll call at 0:07:23. RSA 91-A:3, III: “Minutes and decisions reached in nonpublic session shall be publicly disclosed within 72 hours of the meeting, unless, by recorded vote of 2/3 of the members present taken in public session” the body makes one of the statutory determinations. No such vote is on the recording, and no decision was announced on the return. No nonpublic minutes for this meeting have been located in the shares searched for flag 1. Two limits: a seal must be voted in public session, and the public portion is on the recording, but the recording cannot show whether nonpublic minutes were kept and held at the SAU office; and no inspection request was made. The same evening the board approved the business administrator’s contract in open session, so the closed session’s subject is not known.
Sources: RSA 91-A:3, III (nonpublic minutes and decisions disclosed within 72 hours unless sealed by a recorded 2/3 vote in public session) and II(a); SAU6 School Board Agenda 11.13.25.pdf.
MEDIUM Five sets of minutes approved after the chair said they were “posted the last minute”, one of them never located
Between 0:01:59 and 0:05:15 the board approved minutes for June 12, August 21, August 26, September 4 and September 11, 2025. The June 12 minutes were five months old. A member said into the vote “I didn’t read it”, and the chair answered “I know they were posted the last minute, so I understand that.” RSA 91-A:2, II sets no deadline for approving minutes; it requires drafts to be open to inspection within five business days. The chair’s own words bear on that duty: the minutes “were posted on the web page” because “there was an issue last time with being able to open up those minutes” (0:01:29). Of the five, drafts of 6/12, 8/21 and 9/4 are in this packet; a draft of 8/26 is in 10. SAU6 9.11.25; no draft of the 9/11/25 minutes has been located in either share, so the board approved minutes the public has not seen. The agenda also lists no minutes for the October 6, 2025 SAU 6 special meeting, and none have been located.
Sources: RSA 91-A:2, II (drafts open to inspection within 5 business days; no approval deadline); 12. SAU6 11.13.25; related page: SAU 6 special meeting, October 6, 2025.
OBSERVATION Two control gaps stated on the record: employee benefit shares set without board approval, and self-service payroll changes nobody signs off
The chair confirmed at 0:17:46 that the health-plan structure offered to SAU employees, under which they “would pay anywhere from 5 to 10 or 15%”, “was never authorized by this board”, and at 0:18:10 that “It was never approved by this board prior to being implemented.” Angell said no one pays 15%. She tied the cost to the year-end overrun (0:19:23). RSA 194-C:5, III gives the SAU board the fixing of SAU personnel salaries; whether employee premium shares fall within that is not settled here, so no violation is asserted. On payroll, Crawford established at 0:42:16 to 0:42:51 that employees can edit their own records through the new self-service portal, the system produces a change log, and no one reviews it. The remedy offered is an electronic PAR form, “still a manual process.” 2 CFR 200.303 requires internal control over federal awards, but no federal award is shown to be involved in either exchange.
Sources: RSA 194-C:5, III (SAU board fixes SAU personnel salaries); 2 CFR 200.303 (internal control over federal awards; not shown to apply).
OBSERVATION The FY2023 audits were still in review in November 2025, and later years had not begun
The auditor’s firm was “currently reviewing the FY23 unity report”; the SAU 6 FY23 draft “hopefully will be sent next week”; only then would the team “start the audits of those outstanding years” (0:46:55, 0:47:19). Waiting on them: the TMS operational review (0:27:53) and the board’s own next meeting (0:49:06). On the meeting date no located statute required an SAU audit or set its timing: RSA 21-J:19 lets towns, school districts and village districts hire independent auditors and does not name SAUs, and RSA 194-C:4, II(a) lists “audits” among the services an SAU provides to its districts. That changed after this meeting: 2026 N.H. Laws ch. 272 (SB 586), approved July 2, 2026, eff. July 1, 2026, reenacted RSA 198:4-d so that SAUs must be audited (¶VI) and the audit report for the last completed fiscal year is due “within 9 months of the end of the fiscal year” (¶VIII). It does not apply to this meeting.
Sources: RSA 21-J:19 (permissive; does not name SAUs); RSA 194-C:4, II(a); 2026 N.H. Laws ch. 272 (SB 586), RSA 198:4-d, VI and VIII (later law, context only).
OBSERVATION The agenda reached members on the day of the meeting
“The agenda was emailed to you today. I apologize for the lateness of getting it.” (0:05:15) Drive records the packet folder as created at 2:48 p.m. on November 12 and the agenda PDF at 8:26 a.m. on November 13, about ten hours before the gavel. RSA 91-A:2, II requires notice of the time and place posted in two appropriate places at least 24 hours ahead (excluding Sundays and legal holidays); it does not require an agenda to be circulated. Where and when the notice was posted is not in the record, and a Drive timestamp shows when a file entered the share, not when a notice went up, so no rule is shown to be engaged.
Sources: RSA 91-A:2, II (notice at least 24 hours in advance); SAU6 School Board Agenda 11.13.25.pdf (Drive metadata read 2026-09-25).
OBSERVATION The chair’s total for the communications contract is $1,000 short of its two parts
At 0:27:13 the chair read September at $1,622.85 and October at $3,671.95, then: “I added them up. I hope they’re correct. The total is $4,294.80.” The two figures sum to $5,294.80. The transcript may have misheard one number, and the invoices are not in the packet, so the error could sit in either figure or in the total. No member queried it. It matters because Howard’s objection at 0:33:10 was that communications had already become the largest of the three TMS lines; the stated total understates that line by the full difference. No rule is engaged.
Sources: the recording at 0:27:13 and 0:33:10. No TMS invoice or contract is in the packet folder.
OBSERVATION Seven and a half months before Unity leaves the SAU, the update was “nothing to update at this time”
The chair referred to “the fact that unity will be leaving as of July 1st” (0:46:07). The only mechanism any record identifies is Unity’s withdrawal from the unit under RSA 194-C:2, IV. Asked for the agenda’s “Update on Unity SAU move”, Ruggeri said Unity had talked with “some local districts” and was “still in the process of identifying a path” (0:50:47). The one transition question asked, whether the systems work being paid for now can move with Unity, got an untested expectation (0:46:29). No transition plan is in the packet. No verified rule sets a timetable for the receiving arrangement, so this is recorded as a gap visible only from the meeting, not as a finding.
Sources: RSA 194-C:2, IV (withdrawal from an SAU); the recording as cited.
POSITIVE The nonpublic session was entered as the statute requires, on the chair’s insistence
RSA 91-A:3, I(b): a motion to enter nonpublic session “shall state on its face the specific exemption under paragraph II”, and “The vote on any such motion shall be by roll call”. The agenda printed the exemption and its text in advance. The motion named it (0:06:20); the chair refused a voice vote, “We need a roll call”; and on the return she stopped the board again, “You need a roll call vote, sir” (0:07:23), which the statute does not itself require. What is missing is covered in flag 2.
Sources: RSA 91-A:3, I(b) and II(a); SAU6 School Board Agenda 11.13.25.pdf.
POSITIVE Personnel money was handled in open session, with the exemption available and mostly unused
RSA 91-A:3, II(a) would have allowed the board to discuss the dismissal of one employee and the compensation of another in private. It announced the separation terms of the former business administrator in public (0:07:58, 0:08:28), told the public that “Her records related to her employment termination are public under Right to Know law”, and returned to the subject at 0:51:25 to answer the public’s question about a hearing. The interim business administrator’s contract terms were read line by line before the vote (0:14:59 to 0:15:54), and the treasurer’s point about his premium share was made on the record. The contract itself is not in the packet; the terms here are the chair’s reading.
Sources: RSA 91-A:3, II(a); RSA 91-A:4 (access to governmental records).
POSITIVE The SAU opened its own books to the forensic audit, and reported new bank controls
No statute required the SAU to be audited on this date (flag 5), still less forensically. At the interim business administrator’s request the board voted, on Crawford’s motion and Sprague’s second, to include SAU records in the forensic audit “as needed” (0:48:37, carried 0:49:06); the chair said Claremont and Unity had already authorized it for their districts. The same evening Angell reported dual authorization on every bank transaction across the three entities, positive pay live with automatic rejection of unreviewed items, and payroll reconciliation procedures to be extended to Claremont (0:34:27 to 0:38:06).
Sources: the recording as cited; related page: Claremont School Board, November 5, 2025, where the Claremont board authorized a forensic audit.
Appendix — source files
Official and public sources
- Cablecast: SAU 6 Board Meeting - 11/13/25 (show 16976; 0:53:16)
- Drive folder: 12. SAU6 11.13.25, 4 documents, in the SAU 6 Schoolboard Packets share
- SAU6 School Board Agenda 11.13.25.pdf, the only document for this meeting
- Drafts of earlier meetings filed here: DRAFT SAU6 Meeting Minutes 6.12 .25.pdf stray space is the district’s; DRAFT SAU6 Meeting Minutes 8.21.25.pdf; DRAFT SAU6 Meeting Minutes 9.4.25.pdf
- Not located: minutes or nonpublic minutes for this meeting (own folder,
13. SAU6 4.9.26, 14. SAU6 5.28.26, and the Meeting Minutes share); any draft of the 9/11/25 SAU 6 minutes; TMS invoices and contracts; the interim business administrator’s contract.
- Related pages: SAU 6, September 11, 2025; SAU 6, October 6, 2025; Claremont School Board, November 5, 2025; Claremont School Board, November 19, 2025
Project files
Working files this page was built from. The dialogue file is linked; the others are not published with the page.
Dialogue/16976 SAU6-111325.mp4.CSV (380 rows)Input/Videos/16976 SAU6-111325.mp4Input/Transcripts/16976 SAU6-111325.mp4.jsonInput/SupportingDocuments/MAP.md, section 103
Laws and rules cited on this page
- Right-to-Know: RSA 91-A:2, II and III (2025, 112:1, eff. Aug. 22, 2025); RSA 91-A:3, I(b), II(a), III (2023, 189:1); RSA 91-A:4
- School administrative units: RSA 194-C:2, IV; RSA 194-C:4, II(a); RSA 194-C:5, III
- Audits: RSA 21-J:19; 2026 N.H. Laws ch. 272 (SB 586), approved July 2, 2026, eff. July 1, 2026 (post-dates this meeting)
- Federal: 2 CFR 200.303 (not shown to apply)