{"id":417,"date":"2008-12-03T20:24:47","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T00:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=417"},"modified":"2017-12-07T15:23:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T20:23:52","slug":"monadnock-school-chair-apologizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2008\/12\/03\/monadnock-school-chair-apologizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Monadnock School Chair Apologizes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keene Sentinel – Monadnock\u2019s school board aims to bring civility to its meetings <\/a><\/p>\n

SWANZEY CENTER \u2014 With people still reeling from an overexcited meeting Nov. 18, Monadnock Regional School Board Chairman Eugene M. White 3rd of Swanzey said he\u2019d try to maintain a higher degree of order in the future.<\/p>\n

The last meeting \u201cwent places that it\u2019s never gone before,\u201d White said.<\/p>\n

As detailed in the Nov. 18 meeting minutes, White got into an argument with fellow board member James I. Carnie of Richmond, prompting the board to agree that Vice Chairman Jane Fortson of Swanzey should run the rest of the meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cI lost my temper and the board called me on it and I did not run the meeting from that point on,\u201d White said this morning, adding that he later apologized for his actions.<\/p>\n

While the meeting minutes don\u2019t contain specific quotes from the public, White said they were peppered with personal attacks directed at board members \u2014 including Monadnock School Taxpayers Association President Richard E. Bauries\u2019 calling a school board member \u201cugly\u201d and \u201cold.\u201d<\/p>\n

This morning, Bauries said he\u2019d told a school board member he should join the grumpy old men\u2019s ice fishing club. Bauries said the same comment had been made to him, in the past, by another school board member and it was a reference to the 1993 film \u201cGrumpy Old Men.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way I said it may have been strong. But, you see, if you don\u2019t do it strong they say, \u2018Thank you\u2019 and nothing gets done,\u201d Bauries said this morning of his comments at the Nov. 18 meeting.<\/p>\n

But regardless, the meeting \u2014 along with the theatrics of previous board meetings \u2014 prompted numerous members of the public to speak out Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cI certainly was upset as I heard of what happened here,\u201d Michael Hoefer of Richmond said. \u201cWe have an anti-bullying … policy in the school. I think it is very appropriate for the board to follow that here as they work with one another and accept comments from the public.\u201d<\/p>\n

Current school board policy about public participation at board meetings said comments should be brief and not contain discussion of personnel issues. But White said the policy lacks teeth and said the policy committee is working on firmer guidelines recommended by the N.H. School Boards Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Keene Sentinel – Monadnock\u2019s school board aims to bring civility to its meetings SWANZEY CENTER \u2014 With people still reeling from an overexcited meeting Nov. 18, Monadnock Regional School Board Chairman Eugene M. White 3rd of Swanzey said he\u2019d try to maintain a higher degree of order in the future. The last meeting \u201cwent places […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,100,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-nh","category-education","category-school-governance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5589,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/5589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}