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Three-town withdrawal committee reviews retainer, timeline and early budget estimates
Summary
A joint withdrawal committee for Buckfield, Hartford and Sumner reviewed a draft withdrawal agreement, agreed to seek outside budget modeling and discussed a proposed $10,000-per-town retainer for legal counsel ahead of a possible November ballot.
Members of the withdrawal committee for Buckfield, Hartford and Sumner met to review a draft withdrawal agreement and outline next steps for a possible split from RSU 10.
An unnamed consultant who led the session proposed a single engagement letter and asked each town to deposit a $10,000 retainer into a shared account to fund counsel and initial work. "If each of the towns would do a retainer deposit of $10,000," the consultant said, "that way, all in the pot... it's gonna be taken out evenly." The consultant said any leftover retainer would be returned in equal thirds, and additional deposits would be requested only if the work exceeded the initial allotment.
The group agreed on an accelerated schedule modeled on a prior withdrawal. The consultant said she would draft a…
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