Nottingham School Board

Public Session
December 16, 2009
Official Minutes as of January 6, 2010

School Board Members Present: School Board Members Absent:

Jack Caldon, Chair
Amy Plante, Vice Chair
Dave O’Brien
Frank O’Hanlon
Dawn Fernald

Others Present:
Michael Ludwell, Superintendent
Terry Leatherman, Assistant Principal
Lorraine Ferland, School Board Secretary
Mike O’Neill, Consultant MRI
Dave Sommer, Business Administrator

Visitors:
There were no visitors.

Opening
Dr. Caldon called the meeting to order at 7pm.
Dr. Caldon introduced Dave Sommer, Business Administrator.

Non Public Session

A non-public session was held.

Public Comments
There was no public.

School Board Business

A. Approval of School Board Minutes—12-2-09 Public/Non-public Minutes
Ms. Fernald made a motion to approve the public minutes of December 2, 2009.
Mr. O’Hanlon seconded.
Motion unanimously approved.

Ms. Fernald made a motion to approve the non-public minutes of December 2, 2009.
Mr. O’Hanlon seconded.
Motion unanimously approved.

B. Principal’s Report
The Winter Concert will be at 6pm on December 17.

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There is a planned presentation about an integrated unit with Ms. Carroll, music
teacher, and Ms. Polski, 8th grade teacher, at the first meeting in January.

C. Superintendent’s Report
Dr. Ludwell asked if the Board wanted to use the services of a Residency/Truant
Officer. Strafford and Northwood are using his services.

Dr. Caldon stated the Residency/Truant Officer should be billed out of the SAU
budget.
The consensus of the Board was to share the cost with the SAU.

Dr. Ludwell reminded the Board to sign up for the Delegate Assembly.

A newspaper article about Dover and Barrington discussing potential high school
split was distributed.

Old Business
A. Dover Tuition Rate
December 29 at 9am will be the meeting with Dover.

B. Budget and Warrant Articles

Ms. Carvalho went over reductions to the budget:
Contracted services for the copiers have been reduced due to not replacing the
library copier.
Computer technology has been reduced due to federal funds being used.
Restriping for asphalt and paving costs were reduced.

Mr. O’Neill made a change to the high school tuition line.

The proposed 2010-2011 proposed budget is 9,873,219.76 which is $586,901.25 over

2009-2010. It is a 6% increase over 2009-2010. The default budget is $9,826,586.81.

Mr. O’Brien made a motion to approve the 2010-2011 budget, as presented.

Ms. Plante seconded.
Motion unanimously approved.

The proposed warrant articles were distributed. Changes were made.

Consensus of the Board is to include numeric tallies for the Budget Committee and
School Board for the recommendations of the warrant articles.

Warrant Article 5 was unanimously approved.

Mr. O’Brien made a motion to approve Warrant Article 6.

Ms. Fernald seconded.
Motion unanimously approved by a vote of 5-0.

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Mr. O’Brien made a motion approve Warrant Article 7.

Ms. Plante seconded
Motion unanimously approved by a vote of 5-0.

Ms. Plante made a motion to approve Warrant Article 8.

Mr. O’Hanlon seconded.
Motion unanimously approved by a vote of 5-0.

Ms. Plante made a motion to approve Warrant Article 9.

Ms. Fernald seconded.
Motion unanimously approved by a vote of 5-0.

Mr. O’Brien made a motion to approve Warrant Article 10.

Mr. O’Hanlon seconded.
Motion unanimously approved by a vote of 5-0.

Negotiations warrant article needs to be prepared which will then become Article 6
and the rest will be moved to Articles 7-11.

The January 7 will be needed for budget preparation.

New Business
A. Monthly Enrollment Report-Elementary/High School

B. Other
Several parents haven’t paid for Coe Brown tuition. Dr. Ludwell will present the
Board with more information regarding this at a later meeting.

Dr. Caldon will meet with PTA to discuss proposed budget and default budget.

There was discussion about putting article in community newsletter about the
proposed budget, default budget and warrant articles.

There was discussion on how to present information at the Deliberative Session. It

was decided that as each Warrant Article is read, there will be a discussion and
presentation on it.

Financial Business
A. Bills and Manifests were reviewed and signed.

B. Operating Budget Statement (2nd meeting of the month)

The operating budget was discussed.

Set Next Agenda

Items to include: Coe Brown tuition, student/teacher presentation, budget, negotiations
with Dover and teachers.

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Future Meeting Dates

January 6, 2009 7pm School Board Meeting
January 20, 2009 7pm School Board Meeting

Adjournment
Mr. O’Brien made a motion to enter into non-public session per RSA 91-A:3 IIc and e at
8:28pm.
Ms. Fernald seconded.
Roll Call was taken. Dr. Caldon-yea, Ms. Plante-yea, Mr. O’Brien-yea, Mr. O’Hanlon-
yea, and Ms. Fernald-yea.

Motion to move into non-public unanimously approved.

The meeting returned to public meeting at 8:54pm.

Ms. Fernald made a motion to grant a one year childrearing leave for Laurie Ducharme.
Mr. O’Hanlon seconded.
Motion unanimously approved.

The SAU will write Ms. Ducharme a letter regarding her leave of absence.

Ms. Plante made a motion to adjourn the meeting at 8:55pm.

Mr. O’Brien seconded.
Motion to adjourn unanimously approved.

Respectfully Submitted by Lorraine Ferland, School Board Secretary