MANCHESTER – On January 2, the City of Manchester held the inauguration for Mayor Jay Ruais as well as the Board of Mayor and Aldermen and the Board of School Committee. After the ceremony, which was held at the Palace Theatre, both boards headed to City Hall for their organizational meetings.
We have updated information on the Board of School Committee web pages, including contact information for members and committee assignments. You can still find meeting agendas, minutes and videos on the site, too, all updated for the new year. You can find all of this information at https://www.mansd.org/page/bosc.
We now share weekly board meeting schedules, including agendas, on our social media, and we post live updates from full meetings of the Board of School Committee at https://twitter.com/mansd_nh. After the meetings, we post a recap at https://www.mansd.org/news.
The new members of the Board of School Committee include:
- Mayor Jay Ruais, chair of the Board of School Committee
- Ward 6 - Dan Bergeron
- Ward 8 – Jessica Spillers
- Ward 9 – Bob Baines
- Ward 10 – Joy Senecal
- Ward 11 – Liz O’Neil
The following board members were re-elected:
- Ward 1 – Julie Turner
- Ward 2 – Sean Parr
- Ward 3 – Karen Soule
- Ward 4 – Leslie Want
- Ward 5 – Jason Bonilla
- Ward 7 – Chris Potter
- Ward 12 – Carlos Gonzalez
- At Large – Jim O’Connell, Vice Chair of the Board of School Committee
- At Large – Peter Argeropoulos
You can find news coverage from the inauguration on the websites of the Union Leader and Manchester Ink Link.