PARIS — The executive director of the Maine School Management Association told School Administrative District 17 directors Monday night they may campaign for election as individuals within a certain town but must serve as a team once in office.

“You have no authority as individuals, only as a team,” Steven Bailey, executive director of the MSMA, said at a workshop to review directors’ roles and responsibilities, powers, codes of conduct and Freedom of Access Act requirements.

Bailey told directors, whose function is to make policy: “The policy is the foundation on which the administration can take action. Policies are only as good as how well you follow them.”

In other matters, directors:

• Approved Superintendent Rick Colpitt’s recommendation to appoint Sam Iggulden as district technology director. Iggulden succeeds Mike Dunn, who retired in June. He holds a bachelor’s degree in information technology from Queensland University in Brisbane, Australia, and master’s degree in educational leadership from University of Maine at Farmington. He has worked as the district’s database manager since 2006.

• Approved the Selection Committee’s recommendation of Bary Patrie, Joe Vaillancourt and Mitch Green for two-year term on the Maine Vocation Region 11 board.

• Awarded a three-year lease-purchase agreement to Gorham Leasing for a box truck for $69,059 and for copiers for $45,000.

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