TOPSHAM — The proposed $33.3 million 2012-13 budget for School Administrative District 75 will be up for a final public hearing Thursday before it goes to a state-mandated district wide meeting on May 24.

The public hearing will start at 6 p.m. Thursday at Mt. Ararat High School.

The $33,394,830 school budget represents a decrease of $816,753 — or 2.44 percent — from the 2011-12 budget, but it will raise the cumulative local contribution by 0.52 percent.

Under this budget, Bowdoin will see an increase in its local contribution of $124,956 (5.98 percent); Bowdoinham of $104,038 (4.45 percent); and Harpswell of $150,026 (2.31 percent). Topsham will see a decrease in its local contribution of $280,950, or 3.6 percent.

A regular school board meeting is scheduled start at 6:30 p.m. at Mt. Ararat High School. The board will consider appointing eight teachers to probationary contracts and 10 teachers to continuing contracts.

The board also will consider offering second-year contracts to Kerry Bailey, principal at Harpswell Community School; and William Zima, principal of Mt. Ararat Middle School will also be considered by the board.

As a result of the budget, the school board approved April 26, board members also will consider voting to eliminate more than a dozen positions, some that are full time and some part time.

Proposed cuts at the elementary level include a fulltime kindergarten teacher at Woodside Elementary School; a full-time first grade teacher at Woodside Elementary School; a full-time first grade teacher at Bowdoinham Community School; a full time special education teacher at Woodside Elementary School; and a part-time counselor at Bowdoin Central School.

The school board will consider creating a part-time special education position at Woodside.

Proposed staff reductions at Mt. Ararat Middle School include a full-time sixth grade teacher; a half-time art teacher; a half-time librarian; and a part-time nurse.

Mt. Ararat High School would lose a full-time social studies teacher; a full-time science teacher; a full-time English teacher; a half-time health teacher; a half-time librarian; and a half-time art teacher as a result of the proposed staffing cuts.

The board also will consider eliminating a part-time speech and language position and a full-time director of post-secondary education at Mt. Ararat High School.

Also on the agenda are several proposed personnel transfers from school to school.

In other business, the school board will:

— Consider a request to continue the boys ice hockey co-op team agreement with Lisbon.

— Consider a request from Mt. Ararat High School health educator Stacey Vannah for a half-time leave of absence for the 2012-13 school year.

— Consider the resignation of Melissa Foltz, Mt. Ararat High School Spanish teacher, effective Aug. 31.

— Consider use of contingency funds to complete several facilities projects in the current fiscal year.

— Consider a first reading of a proposed policy regarding admission of non-immigrant foreign students (foreign, tuition and non-tuition).

— Discuss distribution of board subcommittee materials.

— Hear committee reports.

The school board is scheduled to enter into executive session to consider disciplinary action regarding a student.

Prior to the public hearing on the budget, the Policy Committee will meet at 5 p.m. in Room 200 to conclude discussion of a policy on exchange and foreign students; and start review of Maine School Management Association-recommended policy changes including supervision and evaluation of professional staff.

dmoore@timesrecord.com