DIXFIELD – Directors of SAD 21 are to get a third chance next week to determine what the district’s new elementary school should look like.
The public can weigh in on the matter too, Superintendent Thomas Ward said Thursday, even though few district residents have been attending the concept design informational meetings.
Prior to the meeting at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 15, at Dirigo High School, directors will hold their regular meeting at 6 p.m.
An executive session to discuss the possible expulsion of a high school student is the first matter on the agenda. Ward said it involves an incident that happened in June.
The design meeting is to begin with Lyndon Keck of Portland Design Team Architects of Portland.
Keck, Ward said, is to provide the board with two design options for the 300-pupil school, which is to replace Canton, Dixfield, and Peru elementary schools. It is expected to open in 2008.
Directors are to examine two variations of a wedge-shaped school in greater detail than Keck has so far provided on designs.
In other business, an informational meeting about closing the Canton school is to be held at 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 12, in the Canton municipal building.
Canton voters are to decide by referendum Sept. 20 whether to close the school or keep it open. Directors have already voted to close the aging facility that sits in a floodplain and has been partially flooded several times over the years.
A majority of Canton voters and SAD 21 directors also agreed to send the school’s students to Peru Elementary, starting this fall.
“If they vote not to close the school, they’d have to raise $70,000, and we’d be required to put two students in there, not that we’d do that. We’d find a better use,” Ward said.
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