A behind-the-scenes conflict over who has final say on how to enforce mask mandates during annual meetings proved unnecessary Friday as the John Stark School District deliberative session raced through the entire warrant in less than an hour and.
The following local towns and school districts that use the SB2 style of annual meeting will hold their deliberation sessions in February.Allenstown: Feb. 5 at 9 a.m. at St. John the Baptist Parish Hall. The school portion will be held first, followed.
Weare School Board won’t delay deliberative session
Published: 2/4/2021 4:52:24 PM
The deliberative session for the Weare School District will happen two weeks from now after the school board declined Wednesday to delay it until April, the latest step in this complex tale of scheduling annual meetings during the pandemic.
The move comes as a state representative is questioning whether School District Moderator Luther Drake acted in accordance with state law in using multiple 72-hour delays to push the meeting from Feb. 3 to Feb. 17.
Communities throughout the state are wrestling with whether, and how, to change annual meeting schedules in hopes that increased vaccination and warm weather allowing better ventilation will make in-person gatherings safer and draw more voters.
Weare School Moderator delays annual meeting at least two weeks amid COVID concerns
As selectmen candidates debate road funding outside the Weare Middle School polling place, a school employee clears the pathway by using two shovels at once. March 14, 2017. David Brooks
Published: 2/1/2021 4:54:37 PM
The Weare School District deliberative session has been delayed at least two weeks, although a dispute over how to safely hold the meeting during a pandemic means the next meeting date is far from certain.
“We’re not absolutely sure,” said Moderator Luther Drake. “It is getting more interesting.”
The SAU announced Monday that the session which had scheduled for Wednesday evening has been delayed 72 hours to Friday evening and that the 72-hour delay will be repeated several times, delaying the meeting until Feb. 16.
Scheduling annual meetings is a convoluted knot right now – just ask Henniker and Weare
Henniker town officials set up the check-in area for the N through Z town residents in preparation for the town meeting on Saturday, June 6, 2020. GEOFF FORESTER / Monitor file
Published: 1/28/2021 5:11:09 PM
The two towns in the John Stark School District will face multiple local election days this year, although exactly when and for which offices is still up in the air, as a reflection of a statewide scramble to deal with last-minute changes in annual meeting dates due to COVID-19 concerns and the governor’s executive order last week.