DOVER-FOXCROFT – The new elementary school to be built in Dover-Foxcroft will be named SeDoMoCha Elementary School to reflect the communities of Sebec, Dover-Foxcroft, Monson and Charleston.

Plans are for the $10.8 million school to be constructed on the campus at SeDoMoCha Middle School. The new school will be a separate facility but attached by one wall to the middle school.

The new name was selected Tuesday by SAD 68 directors from a pool of about 40 entries submitted by pupils. All the pupils who participated in the name contest will receive a token gift from the school board.

Directors selected Donald Lewis of Lewis and Malm Architecture of Bucksport to design the school. Lewis will receive 7.6 percent of the $9,010,760 construction costs as his fee. The difference between the $9,010,760 and the $10.8 million approved by voters represents the cost of certain permits and other work required, according to Superintendent John Dirnbauer.

In other business on Tuesday, directors approved the participation of 22 members of the middle school civil rights team and their chaperones in a three-day, two night, adventure-based program offered by Adventure Bound on June 1-3 in Caratunk.

The $4,833 cost of the trip will be paid by tobacco settlement funds, a federal safe and drug-free school grant and local fund-raising efforts by the pupils, Brian Welsh, school counselor, told directors on Tuesday.

Pupils will participate in high and low-ropes courses, a climbing wall, and white-water rafting on the Kennebec River, Welsh said.

Directors approved a transportation contract with Rowell’s Garage of Dover-Foxcroft for $286,133 and a similar contract with Robert R. Weymouth of Charleston in the amount of $123,944.

To make time and free money for instruction of a foreign language at the middle school, directors voted to eliminate the health education program at the end of the school year.

The last day of school for students now is set for June 16 as voted by directors. The extension was needed because of the district’s use of five storm days.

School officials also accepted a facsimile of a check for $2,291 from Graves’ Supermarket in Dover-Foxcroft. David Kinsman, store manager, who attended the meeting, told directors the store recently held a promotion where manufacturers donated dollars for schools when customers purchased certain products.

Because $1,291 was raised for the Morton Avenue Elementary School, the most funds raised by the four schools that participated in the promotion, Graves donated an additional $1,000.