LIVERMORE FALLS — Regional School Unit 73 directors will consider Thursday a proposal by Bailey Bros., Inc. to do bus fleet, vehicle and equipment maintenance beginning July 1.

It is one of numerous items on the agenda for the meeting at 6 p.m. June 23 at the Central Office at the Cedar Learning Center in Livermore Falls.

The Bailey dealership of Livermore Falls currently does bus work for Regional School Unit 36, which will join with Jay on July 1, to become RSU 73.

Superintendent Robert Wall passed out a draft proposal for an agreement at a meeting on June 15. He said the district needed to reach an agreement for service to the bus fleet to begin on July 1, the start of the school fiscal year. The school budget approved June 14 included money to contract for the service.

The agreement calls for a service technician to be available to the district from 6 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. during the normal school year as needed for repairs, maintenance, breakdowns and more. Additional technicians would be supplied throughout the day as needed.

The fleet would receive a discount off the company’s normal, heavy truck labor rate due to the size of the fleet. The hourly rate would be $56, according to the proposal.

All parts and fluids would be billed directly to RSU 73.

Some items that would not be handled by Bailey’s are factory warrant work, major bodywork, towing and some diagnostic work on emissions and drivability on new buses.

RSU 73 employees would be responsible to change bulbs, check fluids, replace wiper blades and repair seat covers.

In other business, directors will consider personnel appointments in executive session. The board went into executive session on June 14 for more than two hours to consider appointments before returning to open session.

Directors then voted to send a proposed personnel policy for 2011-12 in regards to support staff not covered by a collective bargaining agreement to the Policy Committee.

They also tabled action on the appointment to the positions listed in the policy. They will take up the policy again Thursday.

Among those covered under the policy are business manager, technology director, special education administrative assistant, food service director, transportation and maintenance director, curriculum administrative assistant. Also, adult education director, dean of students, food service team leader, superintendent administrative assistant, assistant superintendent’s administrative assistant, repair and data technicians, payroll clerk, accounts payable clerk, transportation scheduler and social service worker in Livermore Falls. Some of these positions are held by the same person.

Other items on the agenda include: Final approval of the list of employees to be transferred from RSU 36 and Jay School Department to RSU 73 on July 1, and nominations for coaching and other positions.

Those include nominations to fill the following positions for 2011-12 at the Spruce Mountain Middle School: Angela Courchesney, girls’ varsity soccer coach; Ryan Wilkins, girls’ varsity basketball coach; Barbara Dufour, winter cheering coach; Paul Berkey, boys’ varsity basketball coach; and David Frey, boys’ junior varsity basketball coach.

Other nominations are Jeanie Rackliff and Christopher Ellingwood to each fill a position of special services extended school year lead teacher at Livermore Elementary School for 12 sessions July 12 through Aug. 4; Bonita Melcher and Joyce Quirrion to each fill a position of special services extended school year educational technician II at Livermore Elementary School for 12 sessions.

Also nominated are Julie Imbruno to fill the position of special services extended school year lead teacher at Spruce Mountain Middle School for 12 sessions, and Jason Wyman to fill the position of special services extended school year educational technician II.

dperry@sunjournal.com

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