JAY — School consolidation talks between Jay, Livermore and Livermore Falls resumed Tuesday with progress being made on the adoption of subcommittees.
The next meeting will be at 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 29, at the Jay High School library. The planning committee meetings are expected to happen every two weeks and for now will be at Jay High School.
All meetings are open to the public and input is welcome, members of the Regional Planning Committee stressed. If anyone is interested in being on a subcommittee, they should contact a member of the planning committee, school superintendents, or town managers/administrative assistants.
All subcommittee meetings are also open to the public. Meeting dates and times and minutes of meetings will be posted on each school system’s website once everything gets under way. They are also expected to be listed in newspapers.
The Regional Planning Committee is made up of 11 members and a nonvoting chairman, Clint Boothby of Livermore.
Representing Jay on the committee are Town Manager Ruth Cushman, teacher Annette Girardin, businessman Justin Merrill and school board Chairwoman Mary Redmond-Luce.
Livermore Falls representatives are Town Manager Jim Chaousis, RSU 36 Vice Chairwoman Denise Rodzen and businessman Kenny Jacques.
Representing Livermore are town Administrative Assistant Kurt Schaub, RSU 36 Chairman Ashley O’Brien, businessman Tim Madden.
Representing RSU 36 is teacher Ken Landry of Livermore. Jay schools Superintendent Robert Wall and incoming RSU 36 Superintendent Sue Pratt will be nonvoting members of the planning committee.
“There is a lot of work to do in the next six months,” Boothby said.
A final plan must be submitted to the Department of Education by Nov. 5 to go before voters in all three towns on Jan. 25, 2011.
There will be 10 working subcommittees that will be made up of staff, community members, students among others. There will also be a publicity committee to keep the public informed.
The planning committee increased the numbers of people to be involved in most committees on Tuesday, and attached a charge for them to target. In some cases, the charges are multiple.
Each committee will have a chairperson plus a delegated number of members.
Numbers of committee members that will develop plans to be proposed to the planning committee, not including chairpersons, are: finance, six; teaching/learning, 10 including special education directors; administrative leadership, system administration, six; facilities/maintenance/food service, nine; technology, six; sports/culture/co-curricular, 12 including students; transportation, six; personnel/staffing, 14. Also, legal framework/governance, nine, including manager/administrator each town, and two members from each town; policies and procedures drafts, six.
Superintendents were charged with putting administrators as chairperson of a subcommittee. Superintendents and school board chairpersons were also charged with reviewing community survey results and contacting those interested in serving on subcommittees and drawing on expertise in the communities.
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