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RSU 10 board approves budget adjustments, personnel items, school transfer and other motions on June 16
Summary
The RSU 10 School Board on June 16 approved multiple budget, personnel and operational motions, including cost center adjustments, a teacher hire, a tentative teachers’ contract, a senior class trip and the conveyance of Morobe Elementary to the town of Mexico with timing tied to RSU 10 vacating the building.
The RSU 10 School Board took a series of formal actions at its June 16 meeting. Below are the motions the board considered, the outcomes, and available vote details.
Votes at a glance
- Motion: Approve amendment to the minutes of the May 28 annual budget meeting to add total registered voters (add 16 voters from Mexico for a stated total of 236). Outcome: Approved; recorded as passing with one abstention (name not specified in the public record excerpt). (Motion/second: not specified in transcript excerpt.)
- Motion: Approve minutes of the June 2 meeting as presented. Outcome: Approved (motion and second noted in the record). (Mover/Second: Lisonbee; Kristen second—per transcript notation.)
- Motion: Approve cost center adjustments based on the annual budget meeting results (district presented reassignments including moving portions of a position between transportation and maintenance, reducing overtime lines where underspent and placing $45,000 in special education tuition). Outcome: Approved (board recorded "all in favor"; passes). (Mover/Second: motion and second recorded; specific names: motion and second present in packet.)
- Motion: Approve the Buckfield Junior Senior High School class of 2026 trip (36‑member class, 27 students signed up; travel by charter bus to Baltimore and 7‑day cruise to The Bahamas; cost per student provided to board). Outcome: Approved (announcement in the meeting: "looks like it passed; all in favor"). (Mover/Second: motion and second were present.)
- Motion: Approve the computation and declaration of votes dated 06/10/2025 and to enter certified copies upon the RSU 10 records and send certification to municipal clerks. Outcome: Approved (motion and second; vote recorded as passing).
- Motion: Approve assessment warrants and installment schedules prepared by the treasurer for FY 2025–26 and authorize the treasurer to deliver warrants to member municipalities. Outcome: Approved unanimously (motion by Allison Long; passed).
- Motion: Approve the superintendent’s recommendation to hire Sean Procre as physical education teacher at HSES for 2025–26. Outcome: Approved (unanimous; motion seconded and passed).
- Motion: Approve the tentative collective bargaining agreement between RSU 10 and teachers, including two memoranda of agreement (one establishing a planning‑time study committee; one correcting a salary scale error). Outcome: Approved unanimously.
- Motion: Authorize the superintendent to hire certified teachers between the meeting date and 08/04/2025. Outcome: Motion passed after roll call. Roll‑call summary as recorded in the meeting transcript: Aaron Hingley: No; Allison Long: Yes; Chad Cullerton: Yes; Veronica Child: Yes; Peter DePhillip: Yes; Doug Stone: Yes; Darcy Klein: No; Jennifer LaDuke: No; Ed Bulger: No; Dan Hodge: Yes; Kristen Chapman: No. The transcript notes a close count but records the motion as passing.
- Motion: Authorize the conveyance of Marobe (Morobe) Elementary School to the town of Mexico. Board amended the motion to specify the transfer would occur "once RSU 10 vacates the building." Outcome: Amended motion approved unanimously. The board asked the district’s attorney to prepare deed/easement language to reflect that timing and to record agreed property lines and necessary easements (including bus access easement).
Notes on procedure and documentation
- Several items were accompanied by supporting documents (contract schedules, memoranda of agreement, cost center worksheets) that the board referenced during discussion. Where exact mover/second names were not plainly stated in the audible transcript excerpt, the record indicates a motion and second were present.
- Where roll calls were conducted, the meeting transcript records member votes verbatim; in other cases the board approved items by voice vote.
The board signed several documents before adjournment and directed staff to follow up on scheduling, deed/easement language, final Title II allocations and other items mentioned during administrative reports.
