LIVERMORE FALLS – The SAD 36 directors will meet in special session at 7 p.m. Monday to sign the warrants for the June 8th referendum on the proposed $8,082,157 budget for 2004-05.
Absentee ballots will be available May 26. A public hearing and information meeting on the budget will be held at 7 p.m. May 27 in the high school cafeteria.
Adult Education Director Mac Haynes was at Thursday’s SAD 36 board meeting to explain a new, $20,000 budget appropriation for the public access TV channel.
This is a one-time expense for equipment, he said. Haynes gave a brief history of the channel, which now runs four hours of programming six nights a week.
He said he needs more volunteers to bring about his long-range plan to have School Board, Board of Selectmen and Planning Board meetings on the public access channel.
“I saw Channel 7 as a chance to show local residents the good that goes on in this area,” Haynes said.
Since he has only had five volunteers in four years, Haynes said he may have to back off on a previous promise that no one will be paid.
Superintendent Terry Despres announced Haynes’ upcoming retirement – except from Channel 7 – and introduced his replacement, Gerald Bean, who’s presently teaching at Buckfield.
Named to continuing contracts were: Jenny Baillargeon and Fran Spiotta at Livermore Elementary School; Laureen Olsen and Amanda Schultz at the Middle School; and Gladys Russell and Ginger Stoneton at the High School.
Listed as probationary teachers were: Darren Akerman, Penny Grant, Mary Leighton, Nichole Wagner, Abby Ellingwood (one year, long-term substitute), and Cindy Crabtree at the Elementary School; Brad Bishop, Susan Boyce (half teacher, half ed tech III), Chance Carlson and Chris Moreau at the Middle School; and Thomas Marshall at the High School.
The board approved a job description for a new position at the Middle School, which will be dean of students/home school coordinator. That person will give the principal administrative and guidance backup.
Despres announced that the trees have been taken down by the baseball field. No decision has been made yet about about the house that sits on the land needed for field expansion.
June 17 will be the final day of school and will have a noon release, Despres said.
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