Appeal of Dunbarton School District

Although I agree that the majority’s construction of the pertinent provisions of RSA chapter 195-A is a reasonable one, I am not *59persuaded that its construction is consistent with how the legislature really intended the pertinent provisions to operate. Therefore, I respectfully dissent.

It is a fundamental principle of statutory construction that we “do not construe statutes in isolation; instead, we attempt to do so in harmony with the overall statutory scheme.” Holt v. Keer, 167 N.H. 232, 241 (2015) (quotation omitted). “When interpreting two statutes that deal with a similar subject matter,…