State aid for Wiscasset schools for 2017-18 is $167,516 higher than the $1,827,360 Superintendent of Schools Heather Wilmot projected in the spring, Wilmot said.

Wilmot called the news exciting and said the School Committee will talk Thursday, July 20, about what to do with the money it wasn’t counting on when preparing the budget voters passed in June. The item is on the agenda for the committee’s monthly meeting that starts at 6 p.m. in the Wiscasset Middle High School library. The Maine Department of Education regulates how the funding can be used, Wilmot said.

She received updated information Tuesday afternoon from MDOE on those requirements and would be studying it ahead of Thursday’s discussion on the committee’s options, she said.

The state’s total for Wiscasset came in at $1,994,887, Wilmot said. Asked why the amount differed from the projection, she said the state further revised the funding formula. As of Tuesday, she did not yet have all the information she needed to determine what factors led to Wiscasset’s bump-up in aid, she said.

Also Thursday night, the committee picks its officers and takes up some staffing changes, including Timothy Flanagan’s resignation as a WMHS math teacher and two new hires: David Melgard as a technology-STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) teacher at WMHS, and Ashley LaCroix as a computer-technology teacher at Wiscasset Elementary School.

The meeting is the last one planned for a Thursday night. The committee is switching to the second Tuesday of the month, starting Aug. 8. The meetings will still start at 6 p.m. in the WMHS library, Wilmot said.