LIVERMORE FALLS — An unidentified person is interested in buying the former Livermore Falls Middle School, RSU 73 Superintendent Kenneth Healey told directors Thursday night.

“They have not made a financial offer,” he said.

Director Cynthia Young asked if the parking area next to the school, which is used by people attending athletic contests at Griffin Field, would be kept for public use if the building were sold.

Healey said the interested buyer would need the parking area. However, he added, RSU 73 could still ask for easements as part of the sale agreement. That would allow use of the parking lot immediately adjoining the school for certain functions such as football games.

The school was closed after the 2011 merger of the Jay School Department and SAD 36. Middle school students in Jay, Livermore and Livermore Falls now attend Spruce Mountain Middle School in Jay.

In other business, Special Services Director Tina Collins noted in her report that a speech/language pathologist position hasn’t been filled. As a result, a teletherapy service, using video communication with a speech/language pathologist in another location, will be used for certain students.

Collins explained that teletherapy service is becoming more common because of a lack of speech/language pathologists in Maine. Rooms with monitors have been set up for the service at Spruce Mountain Primary School in Livermore and Spruce Mountain Middle School.

“We’ll set up a space at the elementary school if there are targeted students on the caseload that this would work with,” she said.

Collins said the clinician who has worked with students the past several years in RSU 73 would be working with them through teletherapy. The clinician had moved to Virginia to establish her own practice.

“She can do either individual or small-group sessions like she normally would,” Collins said.

The service is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act compliant, and doesn’t use much broadband, she said. Shared information is encrypted.

A contract for one year has been set up to do this. Collins said it would be assessed midway through the school year to see how well it was working.

She added that the speech/language pathologist position would continue to be posted.

The board voted 10-0, with two members abstaining and one absent, to accept the 2016-17 Spruce Mountain Primary School handbook.

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