LIVERMORE FALLS – A planning committee is scheduled to meet Wednesday to review legal recommendations of a plan to consolidate Jay, Livermore and Livermore Falls schools.

The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Nov. 12 at the Cedar Street Learning Complex in Livermore Falls.

Committee members previously voted 9-1, with Jay School Committee member Dan DiPompo opposed, to use a town’s state valuation to determine the costs each member town would pay for local additional money needed above the state’s funding formula for a period of five years.

Drummond Woodsum & MacMahon law firm’s recommendations to the plan adds wording addressing the period commencing with the sixth budget year, the regional school unit may adopt a different cost-sharing method unless the original valuation method was previously amended by the district’s voters as provided in the plan.

The new section also allows for amendments to be made to the cost-sharing formula to incorporate any factor or combination of factors permitted by law in addition to or in lieu of valuation and resident pupils.

The method to amend the formula prior to the end of the fifth year of the incorporation of the new school system or after is recommended to be either by request of written petition containing at least 10 percent of the number of voters voting in the last gubernatorial election with the new school unit, or if approved by a majority of the full regional school unit board. If the latter method is used, the school board would then be required to hold at least one meeting of municipal representatives to reconsider the method of sharing costs.

The school reorganizational planning committee will also consider the law firm’s recommendation for a timeline leading to a Jan. 27 referendum in all three towns on the proposed consolidation plan.

The Jay School Committee and the SAD 36 Board of Directors are holding separate meetings Thursday, Nov. 13, to discuss the proposed plan.

The Jay panel will hold a special meeting at 4:30 p.m. at the middle school library and will also consider a vote to submit the plan to the state Department of Education.

SAD 36 is holding a regular meeting at 7 p.m. at the Cedar Street Learning Center in Livermore Falls with an update on the planning committee listed on the agenda.