LIVERMORE FALLS — Residents will head to the polls Tuesday, June 12, to elect town officials and vote on budget articles that total $2.5 million. The budget is more than $130,000 over last year. Voting takes place at the Town Office from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Running for a three-year term on the Board of […]
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Auburn budget passes first reading, CIP fails
AUBURN — The City Council approved the first reading Monday of next year’s $86.7 million budget after two hours of discussion, but the work is far from over. The budget resolution, marking a 2.9 percent tax increase for 2018-19, passed 5-2, but the council voted down $8.49 million in bonds for next year’s Capital Improvement […]
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Winthrop councilors to consider increased town, school budgets on Monday night
Road repairs, new school medical staff, and the town’s adult education program are among the items that the Winthrop Town Council will mull on Monday night, when it considers increased budgets for the town and the Winthrop School Department. After a public hearing, councilors will consider passing a $7.46 million town spending plan, which includes […]
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Auburn council set to vote on $86M budget
AUBURN — After weeks of discussion — and a last-minute unexpected revenue gap — the City Council will vote Monday on next year’s $86.7 million budget. The budget will need five affirmative votes from the council during two readings in order to pass. The fiscal 2018-19 budget represents a 3.8 percent increase from this year, […]
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Maine committee resuming work on state budget
AUGUSTA (AP) — The Maine Legislature’s Appropriations Committee is meeting to see if Democrats and Republicans are any closer to a compromise on a supplemental budget. Committee members on Wednesday will consider unfunded bills, bond proposals and other measures left on the table when lawmakers adjourned last month with unfinished business. Some of the matters […]
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Durham, Freeport, Pownal voters pass school budget
DURHAM — Regional School Unit 5’s $33 million budget proposal is going to referendum with no changes to the spending proposal. Only 50 voters showed up during Wednesday’s annual budget meeting — 28 from Freeport, 16 from Durham and six from Pownal — and without debate, approved 20 budget articles within 30 minutes. The budget […]
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RSU 16 budget to go to referendum
POLAND — Residents approved a proposed $22.3 million budget for Regional School Unit 16 on Monday night, sending it to a final vote in June. Superintendent Tina Meserve said about 75 residents attended the meeting and vote. Residents passed all articles as proposed — most with few questions or few dissenting votes. “It was probably […]
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Proposed SAD 15 budget passes first public hurdle
GRAY — The $26.7 million Gray-New Gloucester School District budget has cleared the first of two public votes. Each of the 18 warrant articles for the 2018-19 budget passed at the SAD 15 budget meeting May 17 at Gray-New Gloucester High School, Superintendent of Schools Craig King said. The budget will go a referendum in […]
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RSU 4 budget vote Wednesday
WALES — The Regional School Unit 4 board of directors will hold a hearing on the 2018-19 budget at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Oak Hill High School gym. The board is recommending a $19.1 million spending plan, which is $350,000 more than this fiscal year. It is a 1.87 percent increase. “Our goal this […]
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SAD 17 able to reduce budget, town assessments
PARIS — The SAD 17 Board of Directors approved a proposed Fiscal 2019 budget at its May 7 meeting that is nearly $229,000 less than the budget presented to the board last month. “We actually made some headway,” School Superintendent Rick Colpitts told the directors of further efforts made to reduce the budget and to include […]