DIXFIELD – Pending a SAD 21 board vote today, Canton Elementary School will once again belong to the town for which it is named.
Superintendent Thomas Ward said Friday that the vote to transfer deeds is a formality.
“It’s the last final legal thing to do,” he said.
The district is expected to return to Canton the deeds for the school and land on which it sits and another property adjacent to the school. The deeds date back to January 1965 when Canton joined SAD 21.
The transfer follows on the heels of last year’s merger between Peru and SAD 21.
A majority of parents of students attending Canton Elementary voted after the merger to send their children instead to Peru Elementary School.
A new 300-pupil elementary school in the design stages is expected to be completed by 2008. It will be located off Route 108 in Peru.
In other business, the 6 p.m. meeting is to start with a 60-minute executive session for negotiations on administration, specialists and classified salaries, Ward said.
Directors are then expected to vote on the recommended salaries.
The bulk of the meeting is to consist of work on the proposed 2006-07 school budget.
Ward said he expects to provide directors with a list of proposed budget cuts.
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