Shorey hired as RSU 68 superintendent

By Stuart Hedstrom
Staff Writer

DOVER-FOXCROFT — The RSU 68 school board voted to hire Stacy Shorey, who currently is the assistant superintendent for AOS 43 in the Milo and Howland areas, as superintendent during an April 5 meeting. Shorey, who will be succeeding Robert Lucy after he has been in the position for two years, was hired at a salary of $97,500 with a two-year contract beginning on July 1.

Shorey, whose husband Arnold is the head of school for Foxcroft Academy, had been in SAD 41/AOS 43 for nearly five years. In January 2013 she became the assistant superintendent, overseeing curriculum, instruction and assessment.

In other business, Lucy provided the board with an update on the budget for the 2016-17 academic year.

“We have reached a point now where the finance committee has endorsed this preliminary budget,” he said. “I think we wound up with a budget that reflects the educational needs of our system with the needs of being fiscally responsible to our district.”

Lucy said the preliminary budget reflects an overall 3.92 percent increase in expenditures. He said the assessments for the four district communities would rise by 5.48 percent, a figure less than the 5.85 percent increase for the current year’s spending plan.

“We had to make some tough decisions but I think we did it where we could be fiscally responsible while still meeting the needs of our district,” Lucy said.

The school board is scheduled to formally vote on the 2017 budget at its May 3 meeting. From there a public information session and district budget meeting would take place on Tuesday, May 31. The validation referendum would be held on June 14 at the polls in Charleston, Dover-Foxcroft, Monson and Sebec.