GORHAM – With figures still in flux, a $32.6 million Gorham school-spending proposal, which cuts several education jobs, would increase the amount Gorham property owners would pay by nearly $1 million.

Superintendent Ted Sharp’s first budget rollout at a School Committee meeting on March 13 called for a $33.3 million spending plan. Two days later, Sharp revised it downward, to $32.6 milion.

School officials did not discuss the budget last week when Sharp first presented it.

“It’s not a done deal,” Kyle Currier, school committee chairwoman, said last week.

Sharp’s latest budget for the 2013-14 fiscal year is an increase of $368,630, 1.14 percent, from the $32.2 million approved for this fiscal year, which ends June 30.

“The rational for this revision is due to more definitive information from the Maine Department of Education,” Sharp wrote to School Committee members on March 15.

The committee will review Sharp’s most recent proposal in a televised, all-day workshop starting at 8 a.m. on Saturday, March 23, in a conference room near Sharp’s office in Gorham Municipal Center, 75 South St.

The meeting will be open to the public, but there won’t be public discussion. When presenting his initial budget last week, Sharp said discussion points in the workshop would be cast in “silly putty.” He said no one knew whether the figures would be real in June.

The Gorham School Committee is expected to vote on a budget in mid-April. The budget also requires Town Council approval and validation by the town’s voters in a referendum.

Under the latest proposed budget, the preliminary state subsidy figures for Gorham would rise to $17.7 million from $17.4 million this year, representing a $339,147.80 increase. The amount Gorham taxpayers would fund in Sharp’s latest budget proposal rises to $14,634,561 from $13,690,064, representing a $944,497 increase.

Under the town’s total projected evaluation, the tax rate per $1,000 of property value would increase 66 cents from $10.39 to $11.05 to support the town’s schools. Property taxes would jump $132 for a Gorham home assessed at $200,000.

Last year’s Gorham school revenues were bolstered by adding $620,000 from the designated fund balance, but the proposed budget indicates a zero amount in the column for the proposed budget. The proposed budget summary also reflects a $411,113 expenditure that Sharp attributed to Gov. Paul LePage’s proposal that requires local schools to fund a portion of teacher retirement costs previously paid for by the state.

Unchanged from his initial proposal, Sharp’s revised budget cuts 5.5 educational technicians, two teachers, 2.5 secretaries, and one technology position, and reduces ed-tech hours to six per day, down from 6.5 hours. It also saves $31,000 by reducing discretionary accounts and reduces capital improvements by $100,000.

Job cutbacks follow some 55 positions slashed during the past five years.

“We’re in the sixth year of an economic downturn,” Sharp said last week.

A study to implement all day-kindergarten will not likely be discussed in Saturday’s workshop. A committee that studied upgrading to all-day kindergarten from a half-day program will present its recommendation in a workshop at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 27, in Sharp’s conference room.

Several parents at last week’s School Committee meeting advocated a public discussion on the kindergarten issue. A resident, Stacy Smith, said the issue is “big” and asked that the kindergarten report be released earlier than planned. “It’s done,” Smith said.

Dennis Libby, a School Committee member who chaired the kindergarten study, wanted a separate workshop to present the kindergarten report. Despite a plea from parents last year, Gorham voters approved the school budget that didn’t include all-day kindergarten.

“I encourage you to put it in the budget this year,” said Noah Miner, a former town councilor, “and see where the chips fall.”

Sharp said in his March 15 letter that school districts were still waiting for confirmation of state subsidy figures.