Deerfield Select Board votes to enter nonpublic session to review past minutes

The Deerfield Select Board voted unanimously to enter a nonpublic session to review nonpublic minutes from Nov. 18, 2025, and Jan. 6, 2026.

A member moved "Motion to go into nonpublic to review the nonpublic minutes of the November 18th, 2025 and January 6th, 2026 minutes," and a second was recorded. The board then conducted a roll-call vote and all members present voted in favor, sending the board into a nonpublic session.

The motion and vote were taken under a reference to New Hampshire’s right-to-know statute (the transcript contains variations of the citation, discussed on the record as "RSA 91 A3" and related subsections). The chair noted that any later vote on whether to disclose minutes of a nonpublic session must occur in public session.

At roll call, Select Board members present included Josh Cresswell, Tom Dillon, Bonnie Beaubian, Earl Rhodes, Stacy Marchionni, Maureen Quinn, Eric Seitz and Canon Catano; Mr. Vervais and Ms. Messier were recorded as excused absences. Eric Seitz arrived late but was present for the vote.

Before the motion, the board opened with the Pledge of Allegiance and brief technical/organizational remarks, and the chair recorded that there were no public comments during the public-comment period. Members discussed logistics for moving to an upstairs meeting room for the nonpublic session and confirmed the public would not be invited into that room.

The board’s action was procedural: it authorized a nonpublic session to review minutes from the two dates stated. The transcript does not record any substantive discussion of the minutes’ content in public session; any decision on disclosure was deferred to public session as required.