Vote ‘no’ to change Seabrook scholarship program

To the Editor:

Seabrook Scholarship – petitioned article

Petition Article 62 asks voters to have the Seabrook Scholarship board set standard guidelines and to allow three students that appealed to the Selectmen receive the 2016 scholarship.

Bylaws for the Scholarship Funds Committee were set in place January 1989. These bylaws may be amended by a two-thirds vote of those members present at any meeting. The 2016 committee met in November of 2016 and voted to make no changes to the bylaws. This committee found them to be fully sufficient.

Bylaw Article 9 reads, in part, "The committee shall determine the number and the amount of individual scholarship payments within the budgetary limits each year."

Under this bylaw, we did determine the number of scholarships to be given. There were more than three applicants that fell below the number we chose and did not receive a scholarship. This occurs every year, but it also occurs with other scholarship committees.

I did make an error in not posting a scholarship meeting. I do not live in a perfect world – in turn, I am not a perfect person, the situation was corrected.

Petition Article 62 – should have a No vote.

Dotti Chase

Chairman of the 2016 Scholarship Committee

Seabrook

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