MEXICO — Fifty voters have approved a $2.27 million budget for the Region 9 School of Applied Technology and $331,703 for adult education, school board Director Brenda Gammon said.
The 2017-18 spending plan was up $50,000 over last year, Gammon said, “but we used $10,000 less in carryover than we did last year, so it made it $60,000 more.” A payment of $265,311 for renovations to classrooms and a garage was included in the budget, she said.
At the May 3 board meeting, Region 9 directors tabled the resignations of culinary arts instructor Deborah Nokes and Technology Director Brian Keene because they have not signed contracts for those same positions with Regional School Unit 56, which begins operating July 1, Gammon said.
RSU 56 includes the towns of Dixfield, Carthage, Canton and Peru, which withdrew from the larger RSU 10 in November 2016.
Region 9 serves the towns of Hanover, Mexico, Roxbury, Rumford, Bethel, Greenwood, Newry, Woodstock, Canton, Carthage, Dixfield, Peru, Andover, Byron, Gilead and Upton.
The next Region 9 board meeting is at 6 p.m. June 7 at the school.
Region 9 School of Applied Technology sign at the school in Mexico.
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