LIVERMORE FALLS — RSU 73 directors spent the majority of three hours behind closed doors Thursday until 9 p.m., and then went into a third executive session.

More than 30 people, many of them students, had turned out for the meeting, spending more than an hour and a half in the hallway or outside while the board, accompanied by its attorney, heard two teacher grievances.

The first executive session lasted 58 minutes.

After exiting the session, directors vote 7-1-1 to uphold a teacher’s grievance. Director Darcie Comstock of Jay opposed the vote. Director Tim Madden of Livermore abstained and Vice Chairwoman Mary Redmond-Luce recused herself from the vote.

The second executive session followed immediately after the board voted on the first grievance.

It lasted 48 minutes. The board voted 7-3 to uphold another teacher grievance with Tammy Dwinal-Shufelt, Comstock and Vicki McLeod, all of Jay, opposed.

Twenty-four minutes after that, the board was back into executive session to discuss employment of employees.

Once the board got out of that executive session, they were scheduled to take up elimination of positions and contracts that went with those positions.

They also were expected to take up reducing some positions to half-time, reducing four education technician III positions and creating four ed tech II positions, among other matters.

In addition, the board was to take up administrative contract salary agreements with five administrators and the nomination of Gilbert “Specs” Eaton and Steve Leunig as interim principals of Spruce Mountain High School north and south campuses, respectively.

The decisions on those matters will be published in another article.

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