Sample Warrant Articles
SDGA offers a sample set of petition warrant articles which have been placed before voters in the past. When using these samples, be sure to check current statutory wording and adapt the warrant article to the needs of your school district as appropriate.
Title | District/SAU | Year | Binding or Advisory | Comments |
Brookline Town | 2026 | Binding RSA 32:5-g, RSA 32:5-h | New town budget cap using inflation index and change in population, effective Aug. 23, 2025. Statutory wording. Once proposed, question is not amendable by deliberative session or traditional meeting. | |
Brookline Town | 2026 | Binding RSA 32:5-b, RSA 32:5-c | New statutory wording for local tax cap using inflation index and change in population, effective Sep. 13, 2025. | |
Brookline Town | 2026 | Binding RSA 669:12 | New statutory wording for adopting partisan town elections, including budget committees that cover school districts, effective Sep. 13, 2025. | |
Hollis/Brookline | 2026 | Binding RSA 197:5-b, RSA 49-B:3 | First step in the process for adopting a charter for using the budgetary official ballot school district meeting (RSA 197:5-b), where the school district raises and appropriates money for the support of schools by voting on warrant articles via the official ballot. | |
Brookline | 2026 | Binding RSA 32:5-e, RSA32:5-f | Updated school district budget cap law, effective Sep. 13, 2025. Statutory wording. | |
Hollis/Brookline | 2026 | Binding RSA 32:5-b, RSA 32:5-c | New statutory wording for local tax cap using inflation index and change in population, effective Sep. 13, 2025. | |
Brookline | 2023 | Binding RSA 671:4 | Failed at 2023 district meeting. | |
Hollis/Brookline | 2022 | Binding RSA 198:4-b,II | Statutory wording. Failed after debate. | |
Hollis/Brookline | 2022 | Binding RSA 32:5,V-b | Statutory wording. Failed at district meeting. | |
Lincoln-Woodstock | 2022 | Advisory | Unknown result. | |
Brookline | 2022 | Binding RSA 194-C:2,IV(a) | Statutory wording. Failed after debate. | |
Hollis/Brookline | 2022 | Advisory | Failed at district meeting after 2+ hours of debate. | |
Hollis/Brookline | 2022 | Advisory | Failed at district meeting after ~1 hour of debate. | |
Hollis/Brookline | 2022 | Binding RSA 40:13 | Statutory wording. Failed at district meeting. | |
Brookline | 2021 | Advisory | Would move grades 7-8 to Brookline from Coop. Failed at district meeting. | |
Hollis/Brookline | 2021 | Binding RSA 195:16-a | Change to Articles of Agreement. Failed at district meeting | |
Hollis/Brookline | 2021 | Binding RSA 32:5-b | Statutory wording, binding if approved. Failed at district meeting. Similar tax cap petition passed in Brookline (2018). | |
Hollis/Brookline | 2020 | Binding RSA 195:18,III(i) | Change to Articles of Agreement. Failed after amendment. | |
Brookline | 2020 | Binding RSA 194-C,I | Statutory wording. Was presented at Brookline Town Meeting (not school). Failed after much debate. | |
Hollis/Brookline | 2015 | Binding RSA 195:19-b | Change to Articles of Agreement. Failed at district meeting | |
Hollis/Brookline | 2014 | Advisory | Passed at district meeting, but school board ignored advice |