One spot left on Marblehead tech board

MARBLEHEAD-Eighteen of the 19 members of the Technology Sub-Committee are in place.School Technology Director Kathy Comeau was still looking for a Grade 10 student as of the last School Committee meeting.The sub-committee is an advisory panel that will set the schools? short-term and long-term technology goals, write a five-year master plan for school technology and locate and possibly develop funding sources for technology purchases.Or, as School Committee Chairman Dick Nohelty put it, “To look at what there is, what we should think about and what we could be.”The committee is scheduled to discuss the mission of the reactivated subcommittee Thursday evening.Sub-committee members include Comeau, School Committee members Jonathan Lederman and Amy Drinker, Principal Sean Satterfield, Marblehead High science teacher Deb O?Reilly, Marblehead Veterans Middle School Assistant Principal Kilmer Sweazy, Marblehead High video production teacher Henry Christensen, Marblehead Village School teacher Jonathan Heller, Veterans Middle School Library Specialist Elizabeth Lutwak, Glover School teacher Diane Gora, Bell School Teacher, Gayle Stoll, seventh grade student Kirby Heffrin and at-large members Karen Chemel, Kent Larson, Kris J. Larson, Jeff Flowers, Adrian Bathurst and Chinnappa Codanda.?I?m very, very excited,” Comeau told the School Committee.Superintendent of Schools Paul Dulac said that once the new subcommittee begins holding its posted public meetings, it will have an advisory role to play in next year?s school budget.?We?re looking at technology as a system,” he said. “(For example) We may make a decision to buy Smart Boards and projectors, so we have to make a decision by May 3, the date of the annual Town Meeting. Once the technology subcommittee is created (technology spending) has everything to do with the technology subcommittee.”