Board asks staff to investigate moving SAU preschool administration to Madison

The SAU presentation proposed that Madison become the administrative home and preschool of record for the SAU early childhood program, arguing that local administrative oversight would improve continuity and reduce costs for families. The superintendent said bringing the program into Madison's campus would provide "administrative on-site supervision right there" and could allow Madison to hold spots for Freedom and Tamworth students under an MOU.

Board members asked staff to reassemble prior cost analyses and to outline how an interdistrict MOU and tuition arrangements would work. The board made and approved a motion to investigate moving the early childhood program to Madison and tasked Heather Sherwood with compiling the financial numbers and producing a draft MOU or documentation for the next joint-board meeting.