LIVERMORE — The regional school consolidation planning committee will meet Tuesday to discuss the plan to merge Jay and RSU 36 school systems.

The meeting will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. on Nov. 16 at the Livermore Elementary School cafeteria on Gibbs Mill Road in Livermore. Gibbs Mill is located off Route 4.

The committee will also conduct any business that needs to be addressed by the planning committee, RSU 36 Superintendent Sue Pratt said. The topics discussed will be up to Chairman Clint Boothby, she said.

Both Jay School Committee and RSU 36 Board of Directors voted last week to submit a plan to merge Jay, Livermore and Livermore Falls to the state Department of Education Commissioner Angela Faherty for review.

The Jay School Committee’s 4-1 vote on Nov. 8, with Michael Schaedler opposed, was to submit the plan. The board’s motion included that the reorganization planning committee be encouraged to meet “prior to their final submission to the Department of Education to discuss the concerns from each of the respective boards, especially the composition of the new school unit board of directors.”

Schaedler said previously that he believed Jay needs one more representative on a new school board to make it equal with RSU 36 in Livermore and Livermore Falls.

The plan is to have 13-member board to oversee a new school system, if voters approve a referendum measure in each town on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011, to consolidate the two systems.

The proposed new board, which would be elected after January, would be 13 members: six from Jay, four from Livermore Falls and three from Livermore.

School officials said that makeup comes as close to one board member representing the same amount of people in each town as possible. Another configuration that would come close is a 19-board member but it works out that Jay would still have one less board member than the other towns combined.

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