To the inhabitants of the School District in the Town of Andover qualified to vote in District affairs:
You are hereby notified to meet at the Andover Elementary/Middle School Gymnasium in said District on Tuesday, the 1st day of March 2016, at 7 PM to act upon the following subjects:
ARTICLE 1. To see if the District will vote to accept the reports of Officials, Agents, Auditors and/or Committees as printed in the School District report.
ARTICLE 2. To see if the District will vote to authorize the School Board to make application for, to accept and expend on behalf of the District any and all advances, grants or other funds for educational purposes which may now or hereinafter be forthcoming from the United States of America and its agencies or from the State of New Hampshire and its agencies.
ARTICLE 3. To see if the District will authorize the School Board to accept and expend on behalf of the District private gifts and contributions for educational purposes.
ARTICLE 4. To see if the School District will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Four Million, Eight Hundred Sixty Two Thousand, Three Hundred Dollars ($4,862,300) for the support of schools, for the payment of salaries of School District officers and agents, and for the payment of statutory obligations of said District and to authorize the application against said appropriation of such sums that are estimated to be raised from the state’s equalization payment, together with other income. The School Board shall certify to the selectmen of Andover the amount to be raised by taxation of said town. (The School Board and Budget Committee recommend this appropriation.)
ARTICLE 5. To see if the School District will approve the cost items included in the collective bargaining agreement reached between the Andover School Board and the Andover Education Association, which calls for the following estimated increases in salaries and benefits:
2016-2017 $ 3,564.18
2017-2018 $34,470.85
And further, to raise and appropriate the sum of $3,564.18 for the 2016-2017 fiscal year, such sum representing the additional costs attributable to the increase in salaries and benefits required by the new agreement over those that would be paid at current staffing levels. (The School Board and Budget Committee recommend this appropriation.)
ARTICLE 6. Shall the School District, if Article 5 is defeated, authorize the governing body to call one special meeting, at its option, to address Article 5 cost items only? (Majority vote)
ARTICLE 7. To see if the School District will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000) to be placed in the Regular Education High School Tuition Expendable Trust Fund previously established. (The School Board and Budget Committee recommend this appropriation.)
ARTICLE 8. To see if the School District will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Twenty Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000) to be added to the Special Education Expendable Trust Fund previously established. (The School Board and Budget Committee recommend this appropriation.)
ARTICLE 9. To transact any other business that may legally come before this meeting.