CONWAY — Discussion should be lively at this afternoon's emergency meeting of the Conway School Board's ad hoc Health Insurance Derivative Committee.
The meeting, set for 3:45 p.m. in the conference room at the SAU 9 Office in Conway, was called for by Mark Hounsell, school board member and committee chair, on Tuesday morning.
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