Wiscasset selectmen to take up citizens’ request Tuesday night
SUSAN JOHNS Thu, 12/31/2020 - 6:30am
A cleared walkway along the front of the Wiscasset municipal building Jan. 5, 2018. File photo
Bill Maloney and Judith Colby do not know if Wiscasset would save or lose money tuitioning out its high school students. No one knows, they said in phone interviews Wednesday. And if it happened, both said they would want the town to go into it knowing the numbers. So the two are asking selectmen to ask voters next June for a committee to do the math.
“What’s the impact on money from the federal and state government; transportation costs of sending children, are they going to be accepted at say Bath or Lincoln Academy? There’s a lot of loose ends,” said Maloney, who serves on the budget committee and served on the downtown project’s public advisory committee. “So, if you get this stuff out of the way before, then if someone wants to eliminate the high school, yo