PARIS — The Oxford Hills School District Board of Directors unanimously approved warrants Monday night for the annual town meeting and election next month.

The vote allows the district to present the warrant at the annual town meeting at 7 p.m. June 7 at the Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School Forum when voters from the eight district towns will gather to vote on the proposed annual budget of $35.1 million for the next fiscal year. The new fiscal year begins July 1 and runs through June 30, 2013.

The school board vote also authorized a referendum question to validate the budget at the annual town election in each district town June 12. Additionally, the vote allows Superintendent of Schools Rick Colpitts to complete the referendum ballot notice by providing updated budget information based on the June 7 budget meeting to each of the eight town clerks.

The $35,162,603 budget, which was recently approved by board, represents a 1.48 percent increase in expenditures over the 2012 budget of $34,650,792. and a $964,616 increase (or a 6.03 percent increase) in local assessments over this fiscal year, which ends June 30.

The assessment figures show increases in the local share ranging from $661 in Oxford to a high of $278,267 in Norway.

A firm figure has not been reached yet for the new teacher’s contracts. Colpitts said negotiations between the teachers union and the school board are still ongoing.

“There’s no settlement yet,” Colpitts told the directors Monday night.

In other news, the board of directors held a brief reception at the Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School at the beginning of the meeting for the Class of 2012 “Top 5 percent.” The top students are traditionally recognized by the board just before their graduation in June.

The board welcomed Jason Manjourides as assistant principal at the Guy E. Rowe Elementary School. He was a Title 1 reading recovery teacher at Oxford Elementary School, a reading interventionist at Rowe Elementary School and for the past two years the assistant principal at Songo Locks Elementary School in Naples.

The board unanimously approved the purchase of 10 canoes and 10 kayaks using money from the Physical Education Program federal grant the school district received last fall.

The board also heard a report by Adult Education Director Clyde Clark outlining a recent Department of Education review of the adult education classes, and a they heard a presentation by teacher John Bell’s Engineering and Architectural Design class. The students spent this school year designing a community recreation center as part of their studies.

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