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Votes at a glance: Timberlane board actions on nominations, policies, grants and routine business
Summary
At its March 20 meeting the Timberlane board completed reorganization tasks, approved routine appointments and adopted several policy and administrative items, including accepting a $20,000 Moose Plate grant and approving policy FF on second read.
At the March 20 meeting the Timberlane Regional School District Board conducted routine reorganization and governance votes, and approved several administrative and policy items.
Key results
- Officers and appointments: The board elected Katie Knudsen as chair and reappointed Heather Greenfield as district clerk, Linda Caponi as school board recording secretary, Kathy Beatty as school treasurer and Deborah DeSimone as assistant school treasurer. The board also bonded the treasurer and assistant treasurer under RSA 197:122 and designated TD Bank as a district depository.
- Policies: The board reaffirmed policies DFA (investment) and EI (risk management). The board approved policy FF (naming new facilities) on second read with minor edits, and the board accepted policy EBB (school safety) for first/second adoption to align with statute; policy EBCC (bomb/false-alarm/active threat reporting) was accepted for first read.
- Instruction and materials: The board approved a first read adoption for the Myers (Myer) textbook for AP Psychology for Timberlane Regional High School; administration said 23 students have requested the course for next year.
- Athletics and boosters: The board approved the formation of the cooperative hockey team with Pelham (see separate article) and approved a spring track booster sign sponsorship request under policy KJA.
- Grants and donations: The board accepted a $20,000 “moose plate” conservation grant for the Atkinson Belfry (funding requires standard state acceptance procedures) and directed staff to send a thank‑you.
- Contracts and procurement: In addition to the firewall RFP (separate article), the board approved Phase 3 of the district lease (separate article).
- Other routine business: The board set the 2025 graduation date for June 14, approved public and nonpublic minutes from March 6, and approved the 2025‑26 school board calendar (tentative with conflict dates noted).
Vote notes: Most items were approved by voice vote with no roll‑call tallies reported in the public record; a few items recorded one or more abstentions. If specific roll-call tallies are required for audit, the administration indicated it will supply official vote tallies from the meeting record.
