Dianne M. Messer has been on the school board for the past three years. She said she has particularly enjoyed the past year and would like to continue serving on the board.

She said she believes the school board works well with the administration, the students and the community.

“I think we’ve come a long way,” she said. “I think we’re a much more accessible school board.”

Messer, 51, has lived in Scarborough for 15 years. She has two children currently in the school system and two children who have been through the school system.

Messer said updating school facilities is a “great concern” of hers. She believes students would benefit both educationally and socially by grouping third-graders with fourth-graders and fifth- graders with sixth-graders. She said the overcrowding at the middle school “is going to get worse,” and something needs to be done.

Messer said she thinks the town would benefit from a new intermediate school building with two wings connected by large common areas.

As long as the school board does its job, Messer, who calls herself “fiscally conservative,” thinks the school budget will not have a hard time passing a citizen vote.

“I think the citizens of Scarborough will make the right choices,” she said.

Messer currently chairs the policy committee, where she worked on issues involving booster club finances. The full board voted to adopt Maine Municipal Association policies that require such clubs to provide more financial data to the board. It’s a recommendation she endorsed.

Messer said that, as a school board member for the past three years, she has seen a lot of new issues come to the surface that she would like to see through.

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