ARUNDEL — The RSU 21 Board of Directors held a
public forum on Monday night at the Mildred L. Day Elementary School and
heard from several community members about the possibility of Arundel
leaving the district.
Town leaders in Arundel
recently received a petition with more than 300 signatures from
townspeople in support of leaving RSU 21. RSU Superintendent Andrew
Dolloff said the next steps in the withdrawal process would include the
Arundel selectmen approving the petition, holding a public hearing, and a
vote by secret ballot in a public forum-style meeting. If that vote
received a majority approval, Dolloff said, a withdrawal committee would
be formed and that committee would work with the district to form a
withdrawal plan. Once a plan was agreed upon it would go to the
commissioner of education for approval and an approved plan would then
need at least a two-thirds vote in an Arundel referendum ballot to be
finalized. Dolloff said the earliest that referendum ballot could take
place is November.
I think it is very hard for parents who have seen MLDay prior to RSU21 and MLDay after and still have kids there, to think of anything other than what we have...why would we ever, for our kids sake, want to go back to what we had before? It seems that some are more concerned with the prosperity of TA than Arundel.
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