The youngsters will travel to New York City to visit various sites.
GRAY – Gray-New Gloucester Middle School students told the SAD 15 board Wednesday about plans to visit New York and Montreal in the spring.
The board is expected to make a decision at the end of February.
Forty-four eighth-graders, teachers and chaperones want to travel to New York City in late April to visit Ellis Island, Ground Zero and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They will attend a Broadway play at the Gershwin Theater and visit the Sony Interactive Labs.
In May, another group of students want to go to Montreal to visit the old city, Mount Royal and the Biodome. In addition, students will visit the Iroquois Five Nations Village and experience a traditional Mohawk feast.
In other business, the board approved hiring James Sewell Co. to conduct a 10-year Capital Improvement Plan Asset Renewal Study for $20,100.
The study is required and will help forecast future capital improvements for district buildings.
The state is expected to reimburse half the cost.
The study begins next week. All district buildings, including the vacant Pennell Institute, will be assessed.
And a contract will be drafted to hire interim Superintendent Victoria Burns to that post permanently. A board vote to nominate Burns is expected later.
Burns, who was the district’s curriculum coordinator, took the interim post in July after the sudden resignation of Superintendent Michael Wood.
New Gloucester board member Carmel Morin objected to making a decision now, saying a superintendent search is needed based on the board’s earlier promise to take the year to hire a candidate.
Burns was credited for her leadership ability with the public and through several difficult issues, including firing a district business manager last November.
“It is not uncommon for people to be promoted into a position. My biggest concern is that we not go through the process to create controversy around the process,” Chairman Dan Maguire said.
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