BATH

A report from a committee charged with studying a possible change in the district’s cost-sharing formula is among agenda items the Regional School Unit 1 board of directors will address at a meeting scheduled for this evening at the superintendent’s office on Wing Farm Parkway.

After the school board in April voted to change the formula used to allocate cost-sharing throughout the district, the school board established a cost-sharing committee — including members of each district community and Superintendent Patrick Manuel — to meet twice monthly and return to the school board by early September a recommendation on a new funding formula that “makes sense and is palatable for all the communities,” RSU 1 board chairman Tim Harkins said at the committee’s first meeting in June.

That timeline would allow any proposed changes to go to a referendum at the November general election.

Among the considerations, the town of West Bath has asked the committee to consider approximately $1.9 million it paid to RSU 1 over the past four years that — had the current cost-sharing agreement been followed — it would not have paid. West Bath Board of Selectmen Chairwoman Abbe Yacoben said in June that the town would like to recoup those funds.

Calls and emails last week to Manuel and Harkins seeking an update on the work by the committee to date were not returned.

Among other items on Monday’s agenda, the board will also:

— Hear reports from the Woolwich Building Committee and the Policy Committee.

— Hear a report from Superintendent Manuel.

— Review board goals.

— Consider the resignation of Rebecca Deschaine as world language integrator/teacher at Bath Middle School.

— Consider the nomination of Rebecca Deschaine as world language teacher at Morse High School.

The board will meet at 6 p.m. at the superintendent’s office.

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