BRUNSWICK — A proposal to borrow more than $21 million for school facility improvements won’t be ready for voters this year, according to school officials.

However, work continues on a plan that would permanently close Jordan Acres Elementary School and restructure grade configurations at Coffin School and Harriet Beecher Stowe School.

Following the Brunswick School Board’s endorsement of a preliminary facilities plan earlier this month, Superintendent Paul Perzanoski said not enough details of that plan will be ready to place a borrowing proposal before voters in November.

“Rather than try to rush it — which would not do anybody any good — we want to make sure that we provide enough time for public input and make sure that we have all of our numbers correct,” Perzanoski said.

Perzanoski said school officials hope to have a plan ready for a ballot in June 2013, which would still allow the district to make changes at Brunswick’s elementary level by fall of 2014. Budget constraints and structural problems spurred school officials to mothball Jordan Acres in 2011 and send all of the town’s second-graders to Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary School, a new school that opened for the 2011-12 academic year.

The original plan called for all of the town’s thirdthrough fifth-graders to attend Stowe, while Coffin and Jordan Acres schools accommodated kindergartners through second-graders. Adding second-graders at Stowe pushed enrollment there close to full capacity.

“The goal is still to have something finished at the elementary level by 2014,” Perzanoski said.

That plan includes adding a pre-kindergarten program in the district and reconfiguration of which grades each elementary school serves. Which grades will attend which schools is not set in stone, but it is clear what the plan won’t include: Jordan Acres.

“The next step is for the (School) Board to decide when it wants to deliver (Jordan Acres) to the town,” Perzanoski said.

In expanding Coffin, some board members said they would like to consider having both schools serve grades K-5, with an expanded Coffin hosting a pre-K program.

The rough plan also outlines approximately $10 million in proposed improvements at Brunswick Junior High School.

Whether that work can be done at the same time as renovations at the elementary level, Perzanoski said, remains uncertain.

Now, planning will enter “Phase 2,” which will identify specifics of proposed improvements at each site with cost estimates. That work will be done with around $72,000 remaining in an account set aside for the school department’s facilities master plan, done by Harriman Inc.

Perzanoski said the board also will decide whether to retain Harriman for the remainder of the planning work or consider other contractors.

The board is scheduled to meet Wednesday in executive session. A meeting currently scheduled for July 8 may be canceled, Perzanoski said, leaving the board to bring back any discussion related to facilities issues on Aug. 8.

dfishell@timesrecord.com