Experience on Tantasqua-Union 61 School Committees include:
- Brookfield Elementary School Committee May 2001 – May 2007;
- Tantasqua Regional School Committee, March 2005 – May 2007; May 2010-2019.
Positions held include:
- Brookfield Elementary - Secretary, Chairman, Tantasqua Representative;
- Tantasqua - Secretary; Chairman of Policy and Bylaws Subcommittee, Chairman of the Turf Project Subcommittee, Budget Subcommittee, and Regional Agreement Update Committee.
Key accomplishments:
- Kept Tantasqua Budgets as trim as possible;
- Reinvigorated a previously defeated athletic turf field proposal for two of Tantasqua’s athletic fields, won adoption, and chaired the project subcommittee to completion;
- Lead revision of the Regional Agreement.
Other Elected positions
Town Moderator
Personal
- Father of 6 Tantasqua graduates, 4 from the Technical Program
- Brookfield Resident for 25 years.
Education
Ph.D., Agricultural Economics, Pennsylvania State University
M.S., Agricultural Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
B.A., Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Bill Gillmeister
Experienced School Committee Member
Help Bill bring experience back to Tantasqua Regional School District.
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Help Bill bring fiscal responsibility, his 15 years' experience, and recognition of parental rights.
Bill Gillmeister has over 15 years of experience serving on Tantasqua-Union 61 School Committees. Tantasqua and Union 61 School Districts are a complex of a five-town regional school district grades 7-12 and a Union of five towns’ k-6 school districts.