OXFORD — Voters in the Oxford Hills School District will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday to act on a proposed $35.9 million budget for the next fiscal year.

The meeting and vote is set for June 6 in the Forum at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School in Paris. It will be followed by a validation referendum Tuesday, June 11, in each of the eight towns.

This week’s meeting will ask voters to approve individual articles that make up the school district budget, including the Oxford Hills Technical School and Adult Education.

The budget is nearly $783,000 more than last year, or a 2.23 percent increase. New expenditures include $419,000 for the district’s share of teacher retirement, $350,000 in negotiated salary increases and $438,000 in health insurance increases.

Superintendent Rick Colpitts has said there will be some cuts under the proposed budget, including an educational technician position and cuts in secretarial costs. He said the specific positions haven’t been identified.

Voters will be asked to authorize the following amounts: Special education, $4,218,023; career and technical education, $3,079,546; other instruction, $602,134; student and staff support, $2,681,537; system administration, $724,272; and school administration, $1,875,178.

Other amounts to be approved are: Transportation and buses, $2,524,055; facilities maintenance, $3,650,758; debt service and other commitments, $2,333,289.

Voters will be asked to confirm the overall expenditure of those articles — $35,721,705 — and to set the sum the school district will raise and assess from the district’s contribution to the total cost of funding public education as required under the Essential Programs and Services Funding Act.

The school administrative unit’s contribution to the total cost of funding public education from kindergarten to grade 12 is the minimum amount of money determined by state law that the district must raise and assess in order to receive the full amount of state dollars.

However, legislation is pending to extend the repeal of the minimum state required contribution for the 2013-14 fiscal year, which, if approved, will allow each town to be assessed less than the state required minimum for the coming fiscal year.

School officials say every town in the district will see an increase in its local assessment, ranging from a 4.22 percent in Waterford to a 10.35 percent in Otisfield.

The first 11 articles do not include the district’s $223,635 share of the $540,339 adult education costs, which is voted separately near the end of the warrant. The overall amount is shared with RSU 10.

In a separate article, voters will be asked to approve the Maine Vocational Region 11 operating budget of $3,670,800.

Voters will also be asked to authorize the Board of Directors to spend federal stabilization funds and other money received from federal or state grants or programs or other sources during the fiscal year for school purposes. That’s provided that such grants, programs or other sources do not require the expenditure of other funds not previously appropriated.

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