LIVERMORE FALLS — The RSU 73 board Tuesday night heard a proposal to cut 84,000 from the proposed 2013-14 budget but took no action.

A fifth and final workshop is scheduled for 6 p.m. March 26 at the Central Office in Livermore Falls.

The district, which includes Livermore Falls, Livermore and Jay, made the cuts because several grants have expired. Positions eliminated include two aspirations teachers, two Reading 180 high school teachers and several elementary teachers.

Other cuts include two part-time secretaries, one of the two high school art teachers, a guidance secretary, two educational technicians, the elementary gifted and talented teacher, a special education teacher and two custodians.

At Tuesday’s workshop, the board added five bus monitors and additional time for a special education educational technician to help with discipline on buses, or when students board or get off a bus so the district can continue with one bus run. There was also a request for leasing another bus.

The proposed budget also eliminates one primary school teacher, and adds two aspirations educational technicians to replace the aspirations teachers.

Spruce Mountain High School Principal Thomas Plourde presented a series of proposals on how best to meet the needs of students who had previously benefited from the Reading 180 program.

Board Chairwoman Denise Rodzen said she wants residents of the district to understand why the $649,000 that has been needed to operate the high school campus in Livermore Falls was not cut from the budget. The academic portion of that building will be closed at the end of the school year.

A combination of losing grants, a proposal to have RSU 73 pay part of the state’s share of teacher retirement funds, and more than $100,000 to keep parts of the Livermore Falls high school operating have offset much of the potential savings.

Rodzen said some of those savings will prevent a significant school tax increase.

The board will act on the budget March 28. Residents will vote on it at 6 p.m. April 9 at Spruce Mountain Middle  School in Jay, and a validation referendum will be held in each town April 23.