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Public commenter and board spar over plan to move athletic director duties at Mountain Valley
Summary
A Rumpford resident told the RSU 10 board that shifting athletic director duties onto assistant principals at Mountain Valley would be unsustainable given its enrollment and event schedule; the board discussed athletic director stipend options and staffing tradeoffs.
During public comment, a Rumford resident identified as Jeff urged the board to reconsider a proposal to make athletic-director duties part of an assistant principal'9s responsibilities at Mountain Valley Community School, arguing the workload (he cited roughly 100 varsity home events and multiple tournaments) makes that assignment unrealistic.
Jeff compared Mountain Valley'9s enrollment (he cited an MPA number near 415) with Buckfield'9s smaller enrollment (cited around 149) and said Mountain Valley'9s athletics portfolio is substantially larger, with 19 varsity-level offerings versus eight at Buckfield. He said the proposed change would likely force out the current athletic director and urged the board to preserve a dedicated athletic director role or fund a stipended teacher to serve as AD instead.
Administrators acknowledged the disparity in school sizes and responded that the board'9s reduction packages include options: in the 3.013% baseline the budget assumes an AD stipend at Mountain Valley High School and an assistant principal who remains full time; a 4% option would convert Mountain Valley Community School'9s assistant principal role into a stipended AD model so assistant principals are not covering athletics on top of full administrative loads. Board members expressed concern about operational feasibility and the wider impact of cutting roles that are single points of failure.
The board did not take a formal vote on changing AD staffing at the meeting but discussed returning the items to the budget workshop for numeric modeling and for input from school staff and coaches.
