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.
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.