JAY — The School Committee will have another chance on Monday to vote to submit a proposed school consolidation plan with RSU 36 to the commissioner of the Maine Department of Education.

The board will meet at 6 p.m., Monday, Nov. 8, in the cafeteria at the Jay Middle School, Superintendent Robert Wall said Friday.

Jay School Committee’s Vice Chairwoman Tammy Dwinal-Shufelt made a motion to submit the plan on Thursday night, but it did not get a second so the motion died on the floor.

No other motions were made.

School Committee member Michael Schaedler said Thursday that he believes the plan would have a better chance of being approved by voters in January if Jay had one more voting director on the proposed board. He believes that Jay needs to have an equal number of votes as the combined towns of Livermore and Livermore Falls, which make up RSU 36, so that Jay could stop anything it felt was unacceptable.

School officials pointed out that it is the voters in the towns that have the final say on major decisions, including budgets.

Without Jay’s vote to submit the plan to Augusta, the plan cannot move forward, and the voters in Jay, Livermore and Livermore Falls won’t have a chance to vote on it, both Wall and RSU 36 Superintendent Sue Pratt said Friday.

Under the plan, Jay would have six members, Livermore, three members, and Livermore Falls, four members. The makeup developed by a governance subcommittee of the reorganization planning committee in charge of establishing a proposed plan did a lot of research on the new board’s makeup, Wall said.

The planning committee approved the recommended board apportionment for the proposed plan. More than 90 people from the three communities have worked to develop the plan since May.

The apportionment is based on the number of people living in the towns, Wall said.

Those on the governance subcommittee thought that this board makeup was the “cleanest and most efficient,” Wall said Friday.

Each member on the new board would represent as closely as possible the same number of people, he said. Jay’s representatives would each represent 790.17 people., Livermore’s directors, 734 people, and Livermore Fall’s members 782. The standard deviation is 1.02 percent, he said.

“It is a question of fairness and equal representation,” Wall said. “It comes as close to one person, one vote as possible.”

The school consolidation plan that was rejected by voters in all three towns in 2009 included a 10-member board to oversee the new school system.

Jay would have had five members on it, each representing 948 people. Livermore would have had two directors on it, each representing 1,101 people. And Livermore Falls would have had three, each representing 1,043 people, Wall said.

The standard deviation in that board apportionment was 9.41 percent compared to the current proposal of a standard deviation of 1.02 percent, he said. The state requires the deviation to be less than 16.4 percent, he added.

Pratt said her board will get a briefing of the plan and will vote on submitting it to the state at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 9, at the central office.

The plan was put together collectively by a large group of people, Pratt said.

“We’ve really tried hard to include everybody,” she said.

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