Croydon School District

Meeting Minutes

Regular School Board Meeting

Time:
June 17, 2025
at 6:00 pm
Location:
Little Red

Meeting Minutes

  1. Call to Order 6:04
  2. Roll Call Aaron, Amanda, Samantha, Beth, Sue
  3. Public Forum #1 (15 minutes)
    1. Kaitlin Davis, nominee for DOE, current employee. Needs to be approved by executive counsel. 
    2. Rules for statute of Open Enrollment are written as if it is going to pass. Effective date is 60 days after it is signed into Law. Expected to be voted on by 6/26/25. Governor has all summer to sign or not sign.
    3. In Committee of Conference, meeting to ban cell phones/personal devices for middle and high school students. 
  4. Changes or Additions to the Agenda
    1. Kent’s website. Should discuss when we go over all other responses to RFP which closes 6/20
  5. Quick Action Items
    1. Approval of Sunapee contract
      1. Aaron – Motion to approve. Amanda – 2nd. All in favor
    2. Approval of Mount Royal Academy contract
      1. $12,175 for 25/26
      2. Amanda – Motion to approve. Samantha – 2nd. All in favor
    3. Approval of Newport Montessori contract
      1. $10,200 for 25/26
      2. Amanda – Motion to approve. Samantha – 2nd. All in favor
    4. Mascoma – need to make some updates to contract. One contract per child
  6. Discussion & Action
    1. Second reading and approval of meeting minutes policy
      1. Approving conditionally, need to add number of policy. Amanda – Motion to approve. Samantha – 2nd. All in favor
  7. Approval of May meeting minutes. 
    1. Amanda – Motion to approve. Samantha – 2nd. All in favor
  8. Informational Updates
    1. SAS results
      1. Sue – Does not have final scores. 5 students in 3rd, 3 in 4th. Pleased with 4th graders, majority are proficient or proficient with distinction. 3rd grade – 2 proficient. 2 students on the cusp of moving to level 2.
    2. Senior reception at CVS
      1. Kelly George, huge help in pulling Senior Reception together. Mary Beth Scanlon, huge help in prepping Little Red for reception. All Seniors received a copy of Dr Seuss, Oh the Places You’ll Go. Overall, Seniors were very happy that they attended.
    3. Field trip to Odiorne
      1. Full day with no rain. Paid Seacoast Science Center to do the rocky shore exploration. Sue will do this on her own if they go again. Bus behavior was great. Pickup after school went very well.
    4. District transition
      1. Put out RFP for construction. Not much activity. Aaron spoke with George Chait, wants to move forward with being Clerk of the Works. Toured the building and went over the project with Aaron. 
      2. Aaron met with Kearsarge Super. They are interested in being an anchor school for us. 
      3. Action items – will go through contract for Kearsarge and target the 2nd meeting in August. Elementary would be New London. Concerns from Board – They are trying to get district to downsize from 4 elementaries to 2. Even if that happens, no issue for us. Other concern is Open Enrollment, language of the bill is unknown. 
      4. Aaron also met with Grantham. They are interested in reconsidering taking our students. Their long standing policy of not accepting students from other disctricts will be pushed to the wayside depending on results of vote.
  9. Public Forum #2 (15 minutes)
    1. Amy Campbell – What is your gut feeling with KRSD being anchor school? Aaron – Feeling confident about a contract being drawn up and signed in August.
    2. Sunapee – Doesn’t feel they will ever become anchor school. Amanda and Aaron agree with this.
    3. Sue – Had a conversation with Larry, director of student services. They feel confident they could take care of any students in need. 
    4. Kathy Ivey – We are being PK-K, KRSD will be 1-12 option. Bussing could be an option. New London would be the elementary school. Aaron – none of this is written in stone, have only had 1 meeting. 
    5. Amy Campbell – Is there anything we can do regarding the bill being voted on? Board mentioned to reach out to the governor.
    6. Kathy Ivey – When is school board retreat? July 12, starts at 9am, place TBD, open to public, no final agenda yet
    7. Sharon – How is the new treacher search going? Sue – 3 candidates, 1 fell through. Other 2 candidates accepted jobs in other districts. Reposted as a 3/4 position. 
    8. Amanda – Was asked if we were in the practice of reading aloud email inquiries. Not currently, board will discuss
  10. Non-Public 7:21
    1. Non-public per RSA 91-A:3, II(a,c) 
  11. Next Meeting Date(s)
    1. Working Meeting – June 19
    2. Board Strategic Retreat – July 12 (9am – 3pm)
    3. Regular Meeting – August 19
  12. Adjournment 
    1. Amanda – 1st, Samantha 2nd, all in favor

nonpublic minutes

  1. Entered nonpublic at 7:17 per RSA 91-A:3, II(a,c)
  2. Attendees
    1. Aaron McKeon, Amanda Leslie, Samantha Nelson
    2. Invited – Sue Blair
  3. Conducted Sue Blair’s annual review.
  4. Discussed open teacher position.
  5. Ended non public
    1. Amanda – Motion to close, Samantha 2nd 8:38