BANGOR – School committee members Martha Newman and Phyllis Shubert were unanimously re-elected chairwoman and vice chairwoman respectively during an organizational meeting Monday at City Hall.

“I look forward to a very difficult budget year. I’m afraid of this year,” Newman said during the meeting.

In an interview after the meeting she said she was referring to skyrocketing energy costs and to the state’s underfunding of education.

Also during the brief gathering, newly elected school committee member Jeffery Wahlstrom was sworn in.

School committee members will be assigned to various subcommittees later, Newman said.