The Boxborough School Committee will not decide before the next school year whether or not it is interested in sharing administrative costs with Harvard, interim Harvard superintendent Joe Connellly told the Harvard School Committee last week. Boxborough will first take up the question of full K-12 regionalization with Acton before considering any form of administrative union at the elementary level with Harvard, Connelly said.

In two or three meetings with them, Connelly said, Boxborough representatives had expressed some interest in sharing costs for six administrative positions: superintendent, facilities manager, special education director, food services director, and assistants to the superintendent and the special education director.

As a result of Boxborough's decision, Connelly said, Harvard will have to choose whether or not to go ahead with its own search for a superintendent. The ideal time to begin such a search is late November, he said.

If Harvard wants to keep open the option of sharing administrative costs with the Boxborough, the Harvard School Committee will have to find a way to fill the superintendent's position for another one-year term.

The other administrative models for Harvard to consider, Connelly said, are a full-time superintendent, a part-time superintendent, or a combination principal-superintendent. He told the committee that he expects to present a final report on these models in early December.