PERU – At Tuesday night’s Peru School Committee meeting, directors moved one step closer to merging with SAD 21.
The committee reviewed the latest draft of the proposed merger agreement line by line and agreed to meet with SAD 21 directors in Dixfield on Monday, Dec. 1, Superintendent John Turner said.
At that meeting, Turner expects both boards to “come out with an agreement they all can agree to.”
Then, on Wednesday, Dec. 3, Turner said he would hand deliver the document to Maine Education Commissioner Susan A. Gendron in Augusta to expedite the process. Gendron is expected to review the contract that day and sign it.
“It looks like we’re just about there,” Turner said Thursday afternoon.
Peru directors also tentatively scheduled a public informational meeting on the merger contract proposal for Jan. 13 and set a public hearing for Jan. 26 on the matter. Gendron will attend the Jan. 26 meeting to answer any questions voters have.
If the public meeting dates stand firm, Turner expects that Peru voters will decide the matter sometime during the week of Feb. 9 through 12. A yes vote to merge means the ball moves to SAD 21’s court and the district would then hold its own public informational meetings before scheduling a referendum vote in its towns of Canton, Carthage and Dixfield.
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