A slew of new teaching positions is up before residents at the Pelham School District’s Feb. 4 deliberative session at 7 p.m. at Pelham Elementary School.

The district is asking residents to approve a new assistant principal position for the elementary school as well as a unified arts and physical education teacher, a speech assistant and a parttime special education clerical position. At Pelham Memorial School, the district is asking for the addition of a seventh-grade teacher and a part-time special education clerical position.

Voters are also being asked to approve hiring an English teacher and a special education teacher for the town’s high school.

Pelham is one of 11 communities instructed by the state to start up a kindergarten program by next fall, and voters are being also asked to create a part-time nurse position to support the increase in the student body.

The district is also hoping to create the position of a full time technology technician – funded largely through the technology contracted consulted line in the operating budget if the warrant article is approved by voters – with an appropriation of $1.

A number of maintenance proposals are also up for deliberation, including an $80,000 appropriation to repair and pave the front parking lot of Memorial School, an appropriation of $85,000 for the purchase of a new telephone system for each of the town’s three schools and a $95,000 appropriation to remove an electrical transformer located in the high school building and reinstall it on the school grounds.

Residents will also have a chance to weigh in on the district’s $24.8 million operating budget for the next year. Were it to fail before voters in March as it is currently written, the district’s default budget is $24.9 million.

Per a collective bargaining agreement with the Pelham Educational Support Personnel Association, the district is asking for an appropriation of $49,031.11 to increase salaries and benefits for the current staff.

A further appropriation of $55,063 up before voters would go toward a 2.75 salary increase for the district’s non-union employees.