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SAD 17 board approves 2014-15 budget
OXFORD — The SAD 17 Board of Directors approved the proposed $37.65 million fiscal year 2014-15 budget at its meeting Monday night. The proposed budget will defer major maintenance projects but maintain programs districtwide and add teaching positions, Superintendent Rick Colpitts said . The budget, which is 4.27 percent more than this fiscal year, requires […]
SAD 17 budget adds teachers, defers roof, paving projects
NORWAY — The proposed $37.65 million SAD 17 budget will defer major maintenance projects but maintain programs districtwide and add teaching positions, Superintendent Rick Colpitts said at Tuesday night’s budget hearing. Less than a dozen people attended to hear Colpitts unveil details of the proposed fiscal 2014-15 budget. During the nearly 90-minute presentation at the Guy […]
SAD 17 budget hearing in Hebron rescheduled
OXFORD — SAD 17 Superintendent Rick Colpitts has announced the public hearing on the 2014-15 school budget for Hebron and West Paris residents has been postponed to Thursday, April 17. It will be held at 7 p.m. at Hebron Station School. It was originally scheduled for April 16. The others hearings are: * 7 p.m. […]
SAD 17 lowers average local assessment increase
OXFORD — The SAD 17 Budget Committee has reduced the expected average increase in the local assessment for 2014-15 from 4.5 percent to 3.99 percent. “We got our final rate increase for health insurance, and it was 7.5 percent,” Business Manager Cathy Fanjoy Coffey said. “We had budgeted 9.5 percent. We used that savings to […]
Superintendent presents $37.65 million budget
HARRISON — The SAD 17 Board of Directors got a first glimpse of Superintendent Rick Colpitt’s proposed $37.65 million budget for 2015, which includes measures to reduce class size at district elementary schools. The budget for fiscal years 2014-15 is 4.75 percent greater than 2013-14 and represents an overall 4.5 percent increase in what town’s […]
SAD 17 appoints two school principals, facilities director
HARRISON – SAD 17 directors unanimously voted Monday night to approve Superintendent Rick Colpitts’ nominations of two elementary school principals and a facilities director. Daniel Hart, who has served as principal of Telstar Regional High School for the past six years, will replace longtime Guy E. Rowe Elementary School Principal George “Beaux” Sincerbeaux, who is […]
Committee OKs $37.65 million school budget
OXFORD— The SAD 17 Budget Committee has approved preliminary $37.65 million budget for fiscal year 2014-15, a 4.5 percent overall increase in local spending. The proposed budget was one of two considered in last week’s final committee hearings, which will now be sent to the school board for approval. Town public hearings will begin April […]
School officials and DEP develop oil spill prevention plan
OXFORD — School officials said this week that oil spill plans have been developed, but efforts are still ongoing to evaluate how to address severely corroded supports under the above-ground oil tank at the Paris Elementary School. “We’re still doing inspections at the Paris Elementary School,” Operations Committee Chairman Nick DiConzo told the SAD 17 […]
SAD 17 considers option for heating school
OXFORD — SAD 17 directors were told Monday night that the Operations Committee and administrators are looking at several options in replacing an oil tank at Oxford Hills Middle School that the state Department of Environmental Protection said must go. “We’re still looking at all our options,” Nick DiConzo, chairman of the Operations Committee, said. […]