DEXTER — The future employment status of 19 full- and part-time SAD 46 employees will come before the board of directors at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 18, at the Dexter Regional Vocational Center.

Whether the “pink slips” that these people might receive if directors go along with the superintendent’s recommendations become final will depend on voter action on the 1994-1995 budget next month.

Because SAD 46 is seeking $667,000 in local option money this year to balance the $6.5 million proposed budget, district administrators have compiled a list of the programs and personnel that can be cut from the budget next year, if necessary.

In what Superintendent Phil Dahlinger calls “the worst-case scenario,” if voters approve no money in local option funds next year, programs that could be eliminated include all sports, most extracurricular academic offerings, such as science fairs and math teams, art and many music courses, the program for the gifted and talented, the alternative education program, $42,000 in capital outlay, and high school and elementary school teaching positions.

Although this list is not binding because it depends on the outcome of the June 6 referendum vote, at least 19 part-time and full-time positions are being set for elimination Wednesday night because directors must give those being let go 90-day notice or face penalties, according to Dahlinger.

Delaying action on this list, he said, would result in the district having to pay these employees for any time after the 90-day notice that was included in the start-up of school, which this year is slated for the end of August.

Variations on this list of cuts is dependent on how much voters approve in local option funds. If voters approve $667,000 in local option funds, then the superintendent’s recommendations would be to put back into the budget those programs that are on the cut list.

The detailed list with the 68 recommended cuts is available at the superintendent’s office.