MEXICO — Residents voted 10-1 during a special town meeting Tuesday evening to allow the town to allocate $150,000 from the undesignated fund balance to reduce the 2014-15 tax commitment. The residents also voted to allow the town to use an additional $150,000 from the same balance to reduce the town’s debt service budget. Prior […]
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RSU 58 board funds five projects with leftover money
KINGFIELD — The Regional School Unit 58 board learned Thursday night there is $308,000 left over from fiscal year 2013-14, and they decided to use $80,000 of it for five projects. Business manager Luci Milewski told directors from Avon, Phillips, Strong and Kingfield that each year’s budget is calculated on anticipated revenues and expenses for […]
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Livermore Falls residents approve $100,000 TIF budget
LIVERMORE FALLS — Residents voted by a 2-1 ratio Tuesday to approve a $100,000 tax-increment finance district budget. The move was expected to raise taxes by $30 on $100,000 property. Voters authorized town officials in February to capture up to 90 percent of the new value of Central Maine Power Co.’s $14 million upgrade at […]
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Dixfield residents to vote on rejected budget items at Aug. 12 referendum ballot
DIXFIELD — Residents will vote Tuesday on the two municipal budget items that were shot down at the June 10 town meeting. Polls will be open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Aug. 12 at the Dixfield American Legion. Voters rejected the $297,667 Executive Department budget by a 206-217 vote , and the $15,515 Health, […]
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Proposed $100,000 TIF budget going to Livermore Falls voters
LIVERMORE FALLS — Residents will be asked Tuesday, Aug. 19, to consider approving a proposed $100,000 tax-increment finance district budget that is expected to raise taxes on a $100,000 property by $30. The amount is estimated to increase the tax rate from $20.80 per $1,000 of valuation to $21.10 per $1,000 valuation, Town Manager Kristal […]
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Cuts to Buckfield emergency providers postponed
BUCKFIELD — Selectmen have postponed outlining a plan to cut services from emergency providers until residents meet later this month. The decision halts formal recommendations on how to cut $52,000 from the Rescue Department’s budget, made in light of voters taking up the issue on whether to restore the funding at a special town meeting […]
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Maine federal candidates largely united on balanced budget amendment
LEWISTON — Maine Republicans, Democrats and independents running for seats in Congress on Thursday seemed to be mostly in agreement on at least one thing. The federal government should have to balance its budget, the same way many states do to stay open. Of the five candidates running for the U.S. House in Maine’s 2nd […]
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Republican Flood throws support to independent Cutler in Maine governor’s race
AUGUSTA – A well-respected Republican state lawmaker said Wednesday he is supporting Eliot Cutler, an independent candidate, in Maine’s 2014 governor’s race. State Sen. Patrick Flood, R-Winthrop, the lead Senate Republican on the Legislature’s powerful budget-writing Appropriations Committee, said Cutler has the “experience, vision, judgment and character” needed to be governor. Cutler is challenging incumbent […]
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Livermore Falls officials discuss development of TIF budget
LIVERMORE FALLS — In order to keep the tax rate stable this year, the town would only be able to capture $50,000 of the $248,000 available from the tax-increment financing district, Town Manager Kristal Flagg said Tuesday. Flagg and selectmen Louise Chabot, Jim Collins and Ron Chadwick met with consultant John Cleveland, president of Community […]
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Voters approve nine articles in referendum
MECHANIC FALLS — Voters approved all nine of the articles set before them in Tuesday’s referendum on the town’s municipal budget for the fiscal year that began July 1. The nine articles passed by comfortable margins, ranging from 77-44 for articles funding legal services, a health officer and the pensions and insurances budget to 67-54 […]