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VOL. 11 NO. 245
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Laconia High School National Honor Society members Abby Teichart, McKenna Caldwell, Priya Nethala, Emily Dionne and Jared Guilmett bag leaves at a home on St. Catherine Street yesterday during their 2nd Annual Spring Clean Up Day event. Several teams of club members fanned out across the city to perform yard and maintenance chores at no cost to elderly and disabled residents of the city. (Karen Bobotas/for the Laconia Daily Sun)
Petition calls for special school district meeting Gilford School Board would be asked to defend post-vote hiring of a new superintendent By Michael Kitch THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
GILFORD — Nearly 70 residents have petitioned the School Board to convene a special meeting of the School District to address the issues raised by the success of the warrant article ordering the
board to operate the district in accordance with the plan approved by the state Department of Education in 1998, which did not provide for a superintendent. Kevin Leandro said that the petitioners acted on the basis of a statute (RSA 197:2) that
provides that a special meeting of the school district “shall be held whenever, in the opinion of the school, there is occasion therefor, or whenever 50 or more voters, or 1/4 of the voters of the district, whichever is less, shall have made written application to the school board
therefor, setting forth the subject matter upon which action is desired.” Strictly speaking, the petitioners have not requested any specific action beyond a discussion of why the the School Board has not followed the see GiLfOrd page 8
Laconia schools prepared to eliminate 19 jobs; sports & band spared LACONIA — Nineteen positions in the city’s six schools may be eliminated next year because of possible revenue shortfalls projected for the upcoming school year. Of those 19, said Superintendent Bob Champlin last night, five could mean the loss
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“We don’t know what our budget is yet,” Champlin wanted to emphasize, adding that the proposed $1,056,027 in personnel salaries and benefits cuts doesn’t get the budget in line “to the penny” but it does get see LaCONia page 8
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