JAY – The school and budget committees will take up a new budget proposal of $9.7 million on Thursday to support education in fiscal 2010. The new plan reflects no tax increase for the school by factoring in some increased revenues, Superintendent Robert Wall said.

Additional revenue includes $345,818 from the federal stimulus package and $216,000 selectmen agreed to let the School Committee use from undesignated funds to offset a state penalty for not consolidating with another school system.

Wall will give committee members an overview of the proposal before they vote on warrant articles and make recommendations to go before voters at 7 p.m. March 14, at the middle school cafeteria. That meeting will be an open town meeting-style session where voters will set the budget, which will go for a validation referendum vote on Monday, April 27.

Thursday’s meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m., April 2, at the high school library.

School officials originally anticipated more than $1 million in loss of revenue for the 2009-10 school year. Initially, the administrative budget started at $9.2 million and has now increased to $9.7 million, which is about $482,234 less than this year’s $10.2 million budget.