OROL: School Warrant 1996

To the Inhabitants of the Oyster River Cooperative School District of Durham, Lee, and Madbury qualified to vote upon District affairs:

You are hereby notified to meet at the Oyster River High School in said district on the 5th day of March, 1996, at 7:00 o'clock in the evening for action on Articles 1 through 16. The polls, which open at 11:00 a.m. for purposes of voting on Articles 1, 2, and 3, will close at 9:00 p.m. unless extended by vote of the meeting.

1. To choose a Moderator for the coming year.

2. To choose two at-large School Board members for the ensuing three years.

3. Submitted by twenty-five or more qualified voters of the Oyster River Cooperative School District on October 25, 1995:

   Shall we adopt the provisions of RSA 40:13 to allow official ballot voting on all issues before the school district?

   (60% majority vote required for passage)

4. To acknowledge the work of individuals and organizations on behalf of the District.

5. To determine and appoint the salaries and fix the compensation of any officers or agents of the District.

6. To hear the reports of Agents, Auditors, Committees, or Officers chosen and pass any vote relating thereto.

7. To choose Agents, Auditors, and Committees in relation to any subject embraced in this warrant.

8. Submitted by twenty-five or more qualified voters of the Oyster River Cooperative School District on January 19, 1996:

   Shall we adopt the provisions of RSA 194-B implementing a charter and open enrollment school program?

   Shall no more than zero percent of the district's current pupil enrollment be eligible for tuition to attend charter and open enrollment schools located outside the school district?

   Shall no more than four percent of the district's current pupil enrollment be eligible for tuition to attend charter and open enrollment schools located inside the school district?

   (Majority vote required)

9. To see what sum of money the District will raise and appropriate as a deficit appropriation to be added to the 1995-96 appropriation for purposes of meeting the unanticipated expenses of the district in special education.

10. To see if the District will vote to approve within the provisions of New Hampshire RSA 273-A:3 the cost items included in the collective bargaining agreement reached between the Oyster River School Board and the Oyster River Teachers' Guild which calls for the following increases in salaries and benefits over the prior year.

        Year          Amount of Cost Item
        1996-97               $211,294
        1997-98               $215,760
    

    and further to raise and appropriate the sum of $211,294 in 1996-97 for additional costs attributable to the increase in salaries and benefits over those paid in the prior fiscal year.

11. To see if the District will vote to approve within the provisions of New Hampshire RSA 273-A:3 the cost items included in the collective bargaining agreement reached between the Oyster River School Board and the Oyster River Educational Support Personnel Association which calls for the following increases in salaries and benefits over the prior year: $_____; and further to raise and appropriate the sum of $_____ in 1996-97 for additional costs attributable to the increase in salaries and benefits over those paid in the prior fiscal year. (Negotiations continuing.)

12. To see if the District will vote to raise and appropriate up to $50,000 to be placed in the School Board Capital Facilities Replacement Fund (a capital reserve fund under RSA 198:20-c), with such amount to be funded from the June 30, 1996 undesignated fund balance.

13. To see if the District will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of up to $51,000 for the purpose of partial reconstruction, enlargement, renovation, and original equipping of the middle school; and to authorize the transfer/use of that amount from the June 30, 1996 fund balance for this purpose. (This amount will represent the interest earned on bond proceeds transferred to the general fund on or before June 30, 1996.)

14. Submitted by twenty-five or more qualified voters of the Oyster River Cooperative School District on February 5, 1996:

    To see if the District will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,500 (two thousand five hundred dollars) to help support with other school districts the case of the Claremont School District et al., a court challenge to the constitutionality of New Hampshire's method of funding public education through near-total reliance on local property taxes.

    (Majority vote required)

15. To see what sum of money the District will raise and appropriate for the support of schools, for the payment of salaries of school district officials and agents, and for the payment of statutory obligations of the District. (Majority vote required)

16. To respond to other questions, comments, or motions that may legally come before this meeting.

Last update on 30-Mar-99 at 9:41 PM.

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