RPC: 7 of 12 "Meets or Exceeds the Standard"?

We know they've been working very very hard. The voters will look at their work soon and each voter will make her own judgement as to the quality of that work.

But take a look at the agenda for Monday night's RPC meeting (announced on Saturday -- you had planned to attend, right?). Look at the membership list, and then compare it to those actually present at the last meeting (minutes here).

It was pretty sparsely attended. Of 36 members, 20 were present.

Of the 12 charged with representing SAD 46, only 7 were present.

Looking back through the six sets of minutes available at the RPC web site, here are the statistics.

SAD 46 was represented by 9, 7, 8, 8, 5, 6, and 7 of its 12 representatives, for an average of 7.1 out of 12, or 60% attendance.

The RPC as a whole had 20, 17, 22, 18, 15, 19, and 20 members present. Since the three named members from Willimantic never attended, presumably as a matter of policy, rather than count these attendance figures against a total of 36, we'll count them against a total possible attendance of 33. The average attendance of 18.7 out of 33 yields a rate of 62% attendance.

We note that for many voting bodies a simple majority constitutes a quorum. Against the "official" membership of 36, three out of the seven meetings lacked a quorum.

Other interesting facts:

• a vacancy from Cambridge has never been filled
• five members have never attended (including one from Exeter and one from Garland)
• the superintendents have had a very high rate of attendance
• at least one person on the list no longer represents his town

A number of participants attended every meeting, or all but one. In this district, these good citizens are: Steve Foster, Ella Munday, Julie Willcott, Peter Devine, Steve Gudroe, and Rodney Farrar.

They have our thanks! We hope that they have yours too!!