PERU — The RSU 10 board hired two new administrators and adopted an option for the potential withdrawal of member town Byron when it held its biweekly meeting Monday night.

The board overwhelmingly voted to accept Option 3 from the Byron withdrawal plan that would allow students from this small town to attend RSU 10 schools on a case-by-case basis.

Under the proposal, Byron would pay tuition, transportation and special education costs for each student it would send to RSU 10. Other provisions call for the town to pay for its share of outstanding debt and lease-purchase agreements, among other costs.

Byron sends fewer than a dozen students to RSU 10 schools. Some Byron residents said they believed the cost the town pays to the district per child has been too high.

The town’s Withdrawal Committee will take the next step in the process.

Rumford board member Jen LeDuc said she felt the potential Byron withdrawal issue has been time-consuming. She also said she concerned about the precedent that could be made in the process.

In other matters, the board approved the employing Brian Desilets as the interim assistant principal at Dirigo middle and high schools, and as interim athletic director at the high school. Desilets has previous experience in the Littleton, N.H., school system.

He replaces former assistant principal Michael Hutchins, who left the schools earlier in the month for a position in China.

Dixfield resident Scott Holmes, who works at Irving Wood Products, was hired as assistant director of building, grounds and transportation.

The resignation of Joanne Jody Douglas, an educational technician in the Nezinscot-region library for 36 years, was accepted.

The Class of 2015 from Mountain Valley High School was granted permission and transportation for their Project Graduation event at Mount Cranmore in Conway, N.H., on June 4.

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