LIVERMORE FALLS — The RSU 73 board changed the budget development timeline Thursday night so that more information on revenues and the potential tax impact on member towns would be available.

Superintendent Robert Wall said he wanted to know the expected amount of General Purpose Aid to Education before the board signs the election warrant.

“We want a more accurate picture of the impact on towns,” he told the board and the 20 or so staff members who attended the meeting.

The board completed its first review of the proposed 2013-14 budget Monday and Tuesday nights. It wants to review it in its entirety once more on Monday, March 4, at the Spruce Mountain High School, South Campus cafeteria.

As of Thursday night, the board intended to hold at least one more budget workshop on Tuesday, March 26, at the Central Office. By then, Wall hopes the state will have submitted its state aid total.

Tentative plans are now for the board to approve the budget warrant Thursday, March 28, and submit it for a town meeting-style, district-wide vote at 6 p.m., April 9, at the Spruce Mountain Middle School cafeteria.

Residents of Jay, Livermore and Livermore Falls would vote on the proposed April 9 figure in referendum on April 23.

The tentative budget is $18.5 million, which reflects a reduction from the current year of about $55,000.

However, the board does not yet know how that would affect the member towns.

Most of the savings expected from the planned closure of much of the South Campus will likely go to improving educational opportunities for the district’s 1,600 students.

Largely because of the consolidation of all high school students into the North Campus in the fall and the continuing merger of two former school districts, the board has a series of other meetings planned for work that must be addressed in the next few months.

On Friday, the Facilities Committee will meet with two candidates to choose which will serve as the architect for the $1.8 million renovation project that is about to begin. The project will ensure that sufficient space is available at the North Campus for all 500 secondary students.

On March 11, applications for the newly created position of assistant principal/athletic director for the combined Spruce Mountain High School will be reviewed.

Other upcoming meetings will address negotiations, finances and policies.