NEW GLOUCESTER – Selectmen on Monday signed the warrant for SAD 15’s budget referendum on June 10.

The unanimous vote authorizes polls to be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at AMVET Post 6 Hall on Route 100.

Voters will be asked to appropriate $13,089,045 from the foundation allocation for school purposes and raise $6,429,287 as the local share of the foundation allocation in question 1.

In addition, voters must raise another $1,838,658 in additional local funds that is an integral part of the total spending request of $16,307,196. That will be question 3 on the referendum ballot.

Question 2 asks voters to appropriate $647,874 from the debt service allocation for school purposes and raise $294,063 as the local share of the debt.

Question 4 asks voters to spend $16,307,196 for fiscal year 2003-04 from the foundation allocation, debt service allocation, unexpended balances, tuition receipts, local appropriations, state subsidy and other receipts for the support of schools.

Additional funds of $48,019 are requested to be raised and appropriated for adult education.

Finally, voters will be asked to appropriate and spend state, federal and private grants and other forms of aid received for school purposes, provided that such additional funds do not require spending of local funds not previously approved.

At the same time, New Gloucester voters will elect two selectmen for two vacant posts and two school board members for two positions.

In other business, selectmen voted 4-0 to name Neal Allen, executive director of Greater Portland Council of Governments, and Michael Shutts, a Portland deputy fire chief, to serve on an advisory panel to Town Manager William Cooper’s search for a full-time fire chief for New Gloucester.

Voters this spring approved enacting a fire department ordinance that changes the authority and structure of the volunteer New Gloucester Fire Department and creates a full-time fire chief position, a town employee.

Currently New Gloucester’s full-time fireman, Bruce Tupper, is the chief. He was named after a vote by the Fire Department last winter.

Tupper is among the candidates applying for the job.

The new ordinance disbands the New Gloucester Fire Association whose authority came from six trustees and volunteers who in the past elected officers for the Fire Department and first respond rescue unit.

Within the month, the committee is expected to begin reviews of applications for the post.