SALEM – At one of the shortest meetings of the 2004-05 school year, directors of SAD 58 wrapped up business Tuesday night before the May 24 public budget hearing.
The board quickly voted to renew contracts for 13 district teachers, and accepted the nomination of two new teachers to be hired for school year 2005-06. Maggie Nerney will fill a full-time 11th-grade English teaching position at Mt. Abram High School, and Katie Lee will fill a full-time elementary math position at Stratton School.
The directors voted unanimously to allow the district’s eight-student Special Olympics team to attend the summer games, which will be held June 10-12 at the University of Maine at Orono.
The board also voted to allow student council members from Phillips and Kingfield schools and from Mt. Abram High School to attend an overnight trip sponsored annually by the Maine Association of Student Councils and held at Maine Maritime Academy in Castine. The program, titled “Mysteries of Leadership,” will take place on May 24 and 25. According to a letter sent to the district by Paula Roy, student council adviser in Phillips, it is designed to “promote student leadership in the state of Maine.”
Superintendent Quenten Clark did not attend the meeting, and instead met with district residents to discuss the budget proposed for next year before the upcoming public hearing. According to Assistant Superintendent Lorrie Arruda, the budget increase between 2004-05 and 2005-06 is in large part due to changes in the state’s subsidization plan, which leaves SAD 58 with $13,000 more in state subsidies than last year, while oil prices for the district have gone up by about $60,000.
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