LIVERMORE FALLS — Following a two-and-a-half-hour closed session Thursday night to discuss a grievance by the RSU 73 Education Association, the school board took no action, but Chairwoman Denise Rodzen said a response to the grievance would be given in five days.

The board and its attorney, Roger Kelley of Drummond and Woodsum, and Superintendent Robert Wall met for more than an hour-and-a-half with union co-presidents Chris Ellingwood and Jayne Costa, vice-president Lynn Ouellette, and grievance chairwoman Farrah Poirier, along with at least one of the two elementary school principals.

The remaining hour the board met with the superintendent and Kelley.

Teachers from each elementary grade waited outside in the hallway while the board met in closed session.

Details related to the nature of the grievance were not revealed.

Following that closed session, the board called into the meeting room elementary teacher Donna Labbe and Jay Elementary School Principal Chris Hollingsworth to discuss the leadership of Spruce Mountain High School North in Jay. That meeting was also closed to the public.

The north campus of the high school needs an interim leader for the remainder of the school year because of the resignation of Principal Gilbert Eaton, effective Nov. 9. Steve Leunig is the principal at the south campus in Livermore Falls.

Wall had said at an earlier board meeting that he believed the leadership duties at the school would likely be filled by current employees.

One principal will lead a combined SMHS in Jay beginning at the start of the 2013-14 school year. Deadline for those applications is Nov. 16, with a starting date of July 1, 2013.

The board went into a second closed session Thursday night.

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