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Votes at a glance: Rochester School Board approves policies, personnel actions, contracts and MOAs
Summary
At its March 13 meeting the board approved multiple items including personnel retirements and nominations, policy adoptions, a professional development expenditure, a health-insurance MOA and a consulting contract; the board also moved into nonpublic session and later voted to seal the minutes.
The Rochester School Board took a series of routine and substantive votes during its March 13 meeting. The actions below were recorded in the public minutes or on the meeting record:
- Policies: The governance committee moved several policies forward. Policies JFCI (student substance abuse) and BDE (board committees and structures) were presented for first reading; committee recommended GDF (hiring of non-certified staff) and JIC (student conduct) for second reading and adoption; the board adopted the second-reading policies as listed in its packet.
- Personnel: The board accepted multiple retirements (including Valerie Crossley, grade 2 teacher; Susan Orr, custodian SAU office) and approved nominations listed in the packet, including Christopher Zimpfer (skilled maintenance), Alton Hurd (custodian, Spalding High School), Mark Ernst (head groundskeeper) and Kendra Stratton (payroll clerk). Several resignations were presented and approved as listed in the addendum.
- Discipline committee: The discipline committee met in nonpublic session to consider a student matter; the committee recommended actions from the nonpublic session and the full board voted to approve those recommendations in public, noting the committee had met nonpublicly under RSA 91-A:3 II(c).
- Nonpublic session and sealing minutes: The board voted to enter nonpublic session under RSA 91-A:3 II(c) and later voted to seal the minutes of that nonpublic session.
- Expenditures, MOAs and contracts: The board approved a professional development expenditure presented by the assistant superintendent; approved a future MOA for health-insurance updates and authorized the chair to sign that MOA; and approved a consulting contract with Hickory Pines LLC.
- Addendum transparency discussion: Board members raised concerns that an addendum containing personnel names was not posted in advance for public review; members requested that addenda and the names included be added to the online agenda or included in meeting minutes for transparency.
Votes and process notes Most motions were moved and seconded from committee recommendations; the transcript records voice votes of “aye” and several roll calls where indicated. Where a formal roll call was recorded for specific items the meeting record shows members voting yes or no. The board chair confirmed that committee decisions taken in nonpublic sessions require full-board approval in public.
Ending District staff will post minutes and follow up on the addendum posting process; personnel actions recorded in the addendum will be reflected in the minutes.
