LISBON — By way of applause and comment, residents showed their support Monday night for the School Committee’s proposed budget for 2015-16.

Superintendent Richard Green said he would recommend to the Town Council that it “take a risk” on using the expected $304,551 surplus from the bond for the gym and track in the 2015-16 budget.

To legally use the surplus in this way, one must be “confident and understand there is a risk,” he said, adding he is confident because the School Committee has never had a project that’s gone over budget, and the project will be completed before December when the first payment is due.

Even after using the bond surplus, there would still be more than $500,000 for any contingencies. To date, there has only been $39,283 in change orders.

Green expressed his frustration and disappointment in the way his staff was treated by the town manager’s office. He said he got no cooperation Monday afternoon when requesting to speak with Town Manager Diane Barnes regarding what he deemed a simple clerical error over a journal entry. He was told she would not respond until she had a chance to meet with legal counsel.

“No one would answer my call or answer my question,” Green said.

A public meeting on the municipal and school budget proposals is scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 19, at Lisbon Community School. The council will vote on the school budget following the meeting.

In other business, committee members watched a presentation on the schools’ Special Olympics and Unified Partners’ competitive sports teams. The elementary school only has aquatics, and students are bused to the YMCA in Bath each week. The high school has competitive teams for bocce, tennis, track and field, skiing, aquatics and basketball, presenter Heather Wilmot said.

Fourth-grader Jordan Cabral showed off his two gold medals as School Committee members praised him for his accomplishments on the Special Olympics aquatics team at Lisbon Community School. Cabral won the 25-meter and 50-meter freestyle events.

High school students Jake Patenaude and Brandon Bartlett proudly displayed a plaque their Unified Partners basketball team received. They won the western Maine finals and lost at the state championship by one basket.