MINOT – School Superintendent Nina Schlikin Tuesday night was given authority to offer a contract to an unnamed candidate for Union 29’s newly-created assistant superintendent position.

Schlikin said the search committee had settled on a suitable candidate and, provided references check out, wanted to get the person under contract before he or she makes a commitment elsewhere.

The advantage to having an assistant for Schlikin is that the endorsement that goes along with the superintendent would permit the second in command to take over in running meetings that require a superintendent’s presence.

Support services director Frank D’Agostino reported that David Snell has been hired as head bus driver and Mark Lippke as head custodian at the Minot Consolidated School. The duties of these two men formerly were held by Francis Dostie who left school service toward the end of the school year.

D’Agostino also just told the School Committee that he would like to dispose of two old and inoperable school buses as surplus property. The School Committee agreed the school had no further need for them and suggested that D’Agostino should check with selectmen on the disposal of the buses.

In other business, the School Committee approved submission of Bilodeau’s No Child Left Behind Act funding application and formally accepted the Union 29 curricula for science, health and English language arts.