When New Hampshire lawmakers consolidated the state’s public retirement systems in 1967, they offered cities and towns a deal: Add municipal employees to the system, and the state would pick up 35 percent of the cost.At the time, the offer was deemed.
In school districts like ConVal, Jaffrey-Rindge and Mascenic, which operate under the SB2 Town Meeting system, voters choose to accept or reject the district budget after a deliberative session for debate and amendments, and if defeated, a “default.
A petition article that appears on the ConVal and in Jaffrey-Rindge warrants, with almost identical language, calling for school boards to make publicly available all classroom learning materials originated with a man in Alstead who wrote the article.
During a ConVal deliberative session that resulted in no changes to the warrant, much of the discussion centered around a petition warrant article that would ask the school district to make all teaching and professional learning materials publicly.