One night after the Wiscasset School Committee gave its final nod to the 2017-18 budget offer, the town’s budget committee is set to take it up Friday night. Superintendent of Schools Heather Wilmot said Thursday, the budget committee meets at 6 p.m at the municipal building and she will be there.

The budget panel recently reviewed an earlier version but took no vote, since it wasn’t the final one, its chairman, Bob Blagden, has said. The committee makes recommendations to voters on the school budget just as it does for the municipal budget. Since the earlier review, the school committee has wiped away a 1.3 percent tax increase. The $9,453,546 offer is up five percent over this year’s budget, but, as Wilmot explained at Thursday night’s school committee meeting, the cost to taxpayers is flat with the 2016-1 7 tab.

An April 20 workshop pared the $50,000 contingency hike to $17,000 and nixed a possible second teacher for pre-K. Losing the teacher job and revising down the cost of a K-2 employee’s benefits by $2,497 have now lowered the proposed regular education costs by $50,265. Wilmot said.

The budget the school committee approved Thursday goes on to a special town meeting tentatively set for May 15, then the polls in June. All the cost center votes were unanimous except facilities. Vice Chairman Glen Craig voted in opposition, due to the inclusion of $69,500 toward the $1.75 million energy project voters will consider in June. Craig reiterated his past point it shouldn’t be funded because voters have yet to decide on the project. “I’m all for the energy project,” he added.

Wilmot has said if the project doesn’t go through, the department would owe Siemens of Scarborough nearly $15,000 due to a letter of intent, and possibly costs for preliminary work. Whatever is left could be considered for meeting some of the needs the project would have addressed, she has said.

Craig also was the lone dissenter in the vote on the full budget.