The Wiscasset School Committee and Superintendent of Schools Heather Wilmot spent nearly an hour with a Lewiston lawyer Sept. 28 about the energy project voters rejected in June.

In interviews and via the agenda for the special committee meeting, Wilmot confirmed the project was the topic. She provided no further information. The committee met downstairs at the superintendent’s office with attorney Daniel C. Stockford of Brann & Isaacson. Afterward, the board moved onto a second executive session on a student matter. Before starting that session, Wilmot told the Wiscasset Newspaper the committee would be taking no action that night on the project.

In response to a request for comment Friday, Committee Chairman Michael Dunn texted: “We are continuing to explore our options, confirming that we have the authority to enter into a lease/purchase agreement without select board approval or a town vote.”

A $1.7 million proposal went down at the polls June 13, 384-329. In August, the panel voted 5-0 to put all $167,516 in extra state aid into the facilities-maintenance budget. Transportation and Maintenance Director John Merry planned to use some of the money to address one of the items the project would have addressed: getting temperatures back under control at Wiscasset Middle High School.

Wilmot said Sept. 29, that is still the plan, by winter, with Siemen’s of Scarborough as the contractor. She described the work as “foundational,” such as software, but added, it will not yield the savings the project would have.