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2026 Elections
Hollis Schools Annual Meeting
Hollis Schools Annual Meeting
Hollis Schools Annual Meeting
March 17
7 PM
@ HBHS (in person to vote)
COOP Meeting
Hollis Schools Annual Meeting
Hollis Schools Annual Meeting
March 19
6:30 PM
@ HBHS (in person to vote)
March 19, 2026 - COOP Meeting
6:30pm @ HBHS
Note: The Republican Legislature and Governor approved much greater state education aid in the state budget for us in SAU 41 (Hollis, Brookline, Co-Op). This is hardly "down-shifting" as the liberals incessantly message.
- FY27 Education Adequacy Grant estimated to be $8,118,469, which is a 12.5% aid increase from FY26 ($7,217,564).
- Special education aid received for FY26 is $840,828, which is a 38.3% aid increase from FY27 ($607,793).
Co-Op enrollment is down by 53 students from last year (4.8%), but proposed spending is up $1.34M with Co-Op taxes set to increase another 4.7% (Hollis) and 3.6% (Brookline), despite the greatly increased state aid.
Warrant Articles
ARTICLE 1 VOTE NO
Shall the District vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,230,494 as the Hollis Brookline Cooperative School District’s portion of the SAU budget of $2,560,328 for the forthcoming fiscal year? This year’s adjusted budget of $2,540,642 with $1,221,033 assigned to the school budget of this school district will be adopted if the article does not receive a majority vote of all the school district voters voting in this school administrative unit.
Note: School administrative costs keep rising despite declining school population. SAU recently added a second Assistant Superintendent. If people vote down the proposed budget, it just reverts back to the lowered budget as listed in the warrant article. See SAU41 budget history in the charts below.
ARTICLE 2 VOTE NO
To see if the school district will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of $31,716,292 for the support of schools, for the payment of salaries for the school district officials and agents and for the payment of statutory obligations of the district. This appropriation does not include appropriations voted in other warrant articles. Majority vote required.
$250,202 increase over 2 years; est. 6% raise year 1, 5.8% raise year 2
Continued accelerated operating budget despite enrollment down
53 students (4.8%) last year. Cadillac benefits and student loan repayment are driving $510K+ of this increase. Staffing is not scaling with declining enrollment. Expenditures per student up 13.8% in past two years (from $27,737 to $31,577) Tax impact: $5.99/1K (Hollis), $9.04/1K (Brookline)
ARTICLE 3
To see if the school district will vote to approve the cost items for the second year of a three-year collective bargaining agreement reached between the Hollis Brookline Cooperative School Board and the Hollis Education Support Staff Association for the 2025-26, 2026-27 and 2027-28 school years, which calls for the following increases in support staff salaries and benefits at the current staffing levels:
Fiscal Year Estimated Increase
2026-27 $131,512
and further to raise and appropriate a sum of $131,512 for the first fiscal year (2026-27 school year), such sum representing the additional costs attributable to the increase in support staff salaries and benefits required by the new agreement over those that would be paid at current staffing levels. Majority vote required.
ARTICLE 4
To see if the school district will vote to raise and appropriate up to the sum of $300,000 to be added to the previously established School Building and Facilities Maintenance Expendable Trust Fund. The sum to come from the Hollis Brookline Cooperative School District’s June 30, 2026 unassigned fund balance, available for transfer on July 1, 2026, and no amount to be raised from taxation. Majority vote required.
ARTICLE 5
To see if the school district will vote to establish a contingency fund for the current year for unanticipated expenses that may arise and further to raise and appropriate up to $125,000 to go into the fund. This sum to come from the unassigned fund balance available for transfer on July 1, 2026, and no amount to be raised from taxation. Any appropriation left at the end of the year will lapse to the general fund. Majority vote required.
ARTICLE 6
Shall the Hollis-Brookline Cooperative School District vote to adopt an open enrollment school program, designating the Hollis-Brookline Cooperative High School (HBHS) as open enrollment school pursuant to NH RSA 194-D, for the purpose of enabling the district to admit non-resident students to HBHS, with one hundred percent (100%) of its eligible resident pupils permitted to attend HBHS and zero percent (0%) of its resident pupils in grades 7-12 permitted to attend open enrollment schools located outside of the District, and further, to limit the number of non-resident pupils who may attend HBHS under the provisions of RSA 194-D to no more than 5 students total, with no more than 2 non-resident students being admitted to each grade (9-12), with zero (0) non-resident students permitted to attend Hollis Brookline Cooperative Middle School.
Note: There is a bill being heard at the State House about open enrollment (HB751). All school districts would need to receive students from other districts and allow their own students to attend other districts. In addition, the district losing a student would need to pay tuition to the district receiving that student. This warrant article would be rendered obsolete should the state bill pass. Read about HB175 here: READ HERE
ARTICLE 7 (Petition, i.e., citizen request) VOTE YES
To see if the School District will vote to require the Hollis School Board to prominently display current and previous year state assessment scores and state rankings on the school district website header, visible on every page, with said information to be updated within thirty (30) days of the official release of scores by the New Hampshire Department of Education.
Note: The school board is going to say this warrant article is unnecessary because there is already a plan to create a "data dashboard that will contain all of this information for all of the districts within SAU 41." Having said that, the SAU41 website has not been user friendly for some time, and displaying this information on each school website would ensure this information is more accessible to parents.
ARTICLE 8 (Petition, i.e., citizen request) VOTE YES
Shall we adopt the provisions of RSA 40:13 (known as SB2) to allow official ballot voting on all issues before the Hollis Brookline Cooperative School District on the second Tuesday of March?
Note: SB2 voting allows annual meeting decisions to be made via ballot versus an in-person meeting that sometimes lasts 4+ hours on a weekday night. SB2 voting allows those who are currently shut out of their school's decision-making process because they are unable to attend this once-a-year meeting where $$millions of property tax dollars are committed. Those affected by not having SB2 as a voting system include the disabled, those working, parents with small children, elderly who are unable to drive, military members, and anyone else who cannot attend the meeting. SB2 has not passed in the CO-OP because people must attend the annual meeting in person to vote for SB2. Those who typically stay until the end of the meeting resist the effort to pass SB2, and they also make procedural moves to avoid hearing the discussion on the issue. The only way around this is for people to attend the meeting and stay until the end.
ARTICLE 9 (Petition, i.e., citizen request) VOTE YES
Shall we adopt the provisions of RSA 32:5-e, and implement a budget cap whereby the school board (or budget committee) shall not submit a recommended budget that is higher than 27,500 dollars per pupil cost times the average daily membership in residence of the school district as of October 1 of the year immediately preceding the proposed budget year plus an annual increase for inflation using CPI-U for the Boston-Cambridge-Newton MA-NH area published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics as of October 1. Requires a 3/5ths majority of the school district.
Note: This petition warrant intends to limit spending to $27,500 per student, which adjusts annually with inflation. In addition to the tax cap.
ARTICLE 10 (Petition, i.e., citizen request) VOTE YES
Shall we adopt the provisions of RSA 32:5 V-b, requiring that the annual budget and all special warrant articles having a tax impact, as determined by the school board, shall contain a notation stating the estimated tax impact of the article? The determination of the estimated tax impact shall be subject to approval by the governing body.
ARTICLE 11 (Petition, i.e., citizen request) VOTE YES
Shall we adopt the provisions of RSA 32:5-b, and implement a tax cap whereby the governing body (or budget committee) shall not submit a recommended budget that increases the amount to be raised by local taxes (this year’s base), that is higher than the prior fiscal year’s actual amount of local taxes raised (last year’s base), adjusted for inflation using the inflation index CPI-U for the Boston-Cambridge-Newton MA-NH area published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the change in attendance, in accordance with RSA 32:5-b, I-b?
Note: This petition warrant intends to limit tax effort to percentage change in inflation and percentage change in student enrollment.
Hollis and CO-OP School District Spending and Proficiency Charts
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