LIVERMORE FALLS — Voters passed 10 municipal articles Monday as written and cut $3,000 from another one on a revote of 11 articles that were rejected in referendum form on June 12. About 60 voters turned out for the special town meeting that took 2 ½ hours for discussion, amendments and vote counting. Clint Boothby […]
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Voters to reconsider 11 articles that failed at polls
LIVERMORE FALLS — Selectmen will hold a special, open-style town meeting on Monday for voters to reconsider 11 articles that were rejected at the polls in referendum form on June 12. The town meeting will start at 6:30 p.m. July 16 at the Town Office. It will be followed by a regular selectmen’s meeting. A […]
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Mexico to vote on $114,842 recreation budget
MEXICO — Selectmen on Tuesday voted to reduce the town’s proposed recreation budget by 20 percent, to $114,842. That revised budget number will go before voters at a town meeting later this summer. Selectmen convened Tuesday’s budget workshop – held jointly with the Budget Committee — in response to a June 12 vote where residents […]
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RSU 73 voters to consider reduced $18.7 million budget
JAY — RSU 73 voters in three towns will be asked to consider a proposed $18.7 million school budget at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, July 10, at the cafeteria of the Spruce Mountain Middle School. It is the second time voters will consider a proposed budget after an $18.8 million budget failed at the polls […]
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Funding for school health coordinators eliminated
STATE — Funding for School Health Coordinator (SHC) positions in 31 districts across the state, including SAD 17, has been eliminated, effectively ending the program. Budget cuts at Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) have affected funding for the state’s 27 Healthy Maine Partnerships (HMP), which support the SHCs through the Fund for […]
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Leunig, Eaton reappointed interim principals
JAY — Regional School Unit 73 directors voted unanimously Thursday in two separate votes to appoint Steve Leunig and Gilbert Eaton as interim principals of Spruce Mountain High School south and north campuses, respectively. The decision came after more than an hour in executive session to meet with each of them individually. It will be […]
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Franklin County panel overrides three budget recommendations
FARMINGTON — Franklin County Budget Committee members voted unanimously Thursday to put $5,000 back into the budget to take care of holes in the employee parking lot off Church Street. The move overrides the commissioners’ action to restore $24,000 for reclaiming and pavement of the lot that the Budget Committee initially eliminated. It takes two-thirds […]
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Franklin County budget panel to consider commissioners’ proposals
FARMINGTON — Franklin County Budget Committee members will take up commissioners’ proposed changes to the spending plan Thursday. The meeting will begin at 4 p.m. June 28 in the Franklin County Superior Courtroom at the courthouse. The committee’s proposal is $5.27 million and the commissioners’ is $5.31 million. Committee reduced some amounts June 7, and […]
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Livermore voters approve a $1.22 million budget
LIVERMORE — Administrative assistant Kurt Schaub said the 2012-13 budget of $1.06 million is $16,466 more than this year’s net budget. It is about $6,000 below the state’s LD-1 growth cap, he said recently. The budget includes department revenues and carry-forwards. Residents passed a $1.22 million budget at the annual town meeting June 13. dperry@sunjournal.com
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Commissioners won’t request restoration of flex benefits
FARMINGTON — Franklin County commissioners voted Tuesday to send several modified budget items back to the Budget Committee to be reconsidered. It took more than two hours of discussion and deliberation before decisions were finalized. Commissioners voted 2-1, with Fred Hardy of New Sharon opposed, to ask the Budget Committee to restore commissioners’ flex benefits […]