Teacher contracts are approved for warrant

[Omaha Steve]

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Anika Clark
Sentinel Staff


James I. Carnie, second from left, and fellow Monadnock Regional School District members contemplate warrant articles during the official ballot first session Saturday.
MICHAEL MOORE / Sentinel Staff


SWANZEY CENTER — At a time when residents of the Monadnock Regional School District face mounting challenges — including the shaky accreditation status of Monadnock Regional High School — voters approved on Saturday nearly all of the warrant articles, unchanged, that will appear on the 2008-09 ballot.

On Saturday, voters attended the district’s official ballot first session, where taxpayers can discuss and amend the articles which they will approve or reject at the district’s election in March.

Among them were contracts for the district’s support staff workers and teachers. If voters approve them in March, these contracts would be the first both sets of employees have had in years.

The Monadnock Regional School District includes the towns of Fitzwilliam, Gilsum, Richmond, Roxbury, Sullivan Swanzey and Troy. Surry is also part of the district, but residents of that town cannot weigh in on next year’s budget because of the town’s vote earlier this year to withdraw from the district, which will become effective July 1.