RUMFORD – The SAD 43 board will welcome four newly elected members and choose officers for the upcoming fiscal year when they meet on Monday.

They will also reconsider the appointment of the high school varsity football coach.

The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. in the library of Mountain Valley High School.

In two closed sessions, the board will get an update on the superintendent’s search and discuss negotiations for the bus driver/custodian bargaining unit.

Superintendent Danny Michaud said the board will look at an action it took at a meeting earlier in the month that resulted in not reappointing Jim Aylward as high school varsity football coach. At that time, all but two board members voted against reinstatement. Aylward has coached football at the high school since the 1989 merger.

Newly elected board members from Mexico, Jarrud Dumas and Amy Bernard, along with newly elected Rumford board members, Michael Papsadora and Diane Paterson, will be welcomed.

The board will verify the adoption of the 2003-04 SAD 43 operating budget that was validated at referendum last Tuesday. They will also appoint several new teachers and accept the resignation of two teachers.

In executive session, the board will discuss bus driver/custodian negotiations. The current contract expires for the bargaining unit at the end of the month.

A second closed session will be on contract and benefits for the superintendent of schools or for an interim superintendent. Michaud leaves his post at the end of June after eight years.

Superintendent finalists

David McKivergan, a former board member who has headed up the Superintendent Search Committee, who chose not to run for a second term, said he will present the names of three finalists for the superintendency in a closed session. He said one is from Maine and two are from out of state.

With the recommendation of the three men, he said the search committee’s duties are concluded. The entire board will interview the three during the next couple of weeks.

Although he feels comfortable with any of the three, he said if the board does not, then a new Superintendent Search Committee will be formed to start the process again. Both he, and Rosie Bradley, who also served on the search committee, chose not to run for second terms. As of June 10, the date of the elections, they became advisers to the search committee, and not voting members.

“Each of the three is qualified and each is a little different from each other. They have what we are looking for,” he said.

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