Votes at a glance: RSU 04 board adopts 2025‑26 budget, approves hires and warrants for budget referendum
June 26, 2025 | RSU 04, School Districts, Maine
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The RSU 04 school board took a series of formal votes at its June meeting, including adoption of the proposed 2025–26 school budget and multiple personnel approvals.
The board voted to approve the RSU 04 school budget in the amount of $23,136,171. That motion passed; the transcript records the vote as unanimous (count not specified).
The board also voted to call and approve the warrant for the budget meeting and the budget validation referendum and authorized the notice of amounts adopted. The motion was approved and recorded as unanimous in the meeting transcript.
Personnel votes approved by the board (motions were moved and seconded and recorded as approved):
- Elect Anne Thompson as a special education teacher at Libby Tozier (recommended by the superintendent).
- Elect Sean Knox as director of operations for RSU 04 (recommended by the superintendent).
- Approve Carol Mansfield, MD, as the school physician under Title 20‑A section 6402‑a (school health adviser).
- Elect Jennifer Waite as a registered nurse at Carey Ricker School (the board discussed that the district will move away from the LPN model and that all schools will have RNs; vote approved).
- Elect Casey Garretson as an eighth‑grade ELA teacher at Oak Hill Middle School.
Where the transcript records a general board voice vote it describes the outcome as unanimous; the transcript does not provide numeric tallies for those votes.
The board voted to approve the RSU 04 school budget in the amount of $23,136,171. That motion passed; the transcript records the vote as unanimous (count not specified).
The board also voted to call and approve the warrant for the budget meeting and the budget validation referendum and authorized the notice of amounts adopted. The motion was approved and recorded as unanimous in the meeting transcript.
Personnel votes approved by the board (motions were moved and seconded and recorded as approved):
- Elect Anne Thompson as a special education teacher at Libby Tozier (recommended by the superintendent).
- Elect Sean Knox as director of operations for RSU 04 (recommended by the superintendent).
- Approve Carol Mansfield, MD, as the school physician under Title 20‑A section 6402‑a (school health adviser).
- Elect Jennifer Waite as a registered nurse at Carey Ricker School (the board discussed that the district will move away from the LPN model and that all schools will have RNs; vote approved).
- Elect Casey Garretson as an eighth‑grade ELA teacher at Oak Hill Middle School.
Where the transcript records a general board voice vote it describes the outcome as unanimous; the transcript does not provide numeric tallies for those votes.
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