FARMINGTON – The SAD 9 Board of Directors moved one step closer to deciding on the future of the W.G. Mallett Elementary School Tuesday evening.

Directors voted unanimously to accept the Mallett School Planning Committee’s recommendation of razing the current school and building an entirely new facility at the current site. The plan was chosen over three other options – renovating the current Mallett building, adding on to Cascade Brook School and moving Mallett students there, or purchasing land and building a new facility – by a consensus vote by the committee.

Stephen Blatt, the project’s architect, stressed how early in the process the group is. “We have very, very barely started on building design,” he said.

The Mallet School Committee will meet again Wednesday at the Mallett School in Farmington.

Directors were also given a presentation on coordinating school health programs by SAD 9’s School Health Coordinator Alyce Cavanaugh. Cavanaugh discussed many healthy living programs throughout the system, including very successful belly dancing and line dancing instruction courses, and even passed out smoothies and fruit to directors and meeting attendees.

The SAD 9 Board of Directors will meet again on March 25 in the Mt. Blue High School library at 7 p.m.