Facing a 20% Tax Increase, Bar Harbor Council Makes No Changes: Yet

Council tackles “big and heavy and hard” budget CARRIE JONES MAR 5, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—The Bar Harbor Town Council quickly adopted a tentative municipal budget with expenditures of $28,023,0499 at its Monday night meeting, which (excluding an executive session) lasted approximately an hour. For revenues, the tentative March 5 budget calls for $13,397,226 in “other revenues,” $411,712 in cruise ship funds, and $455,976 in … Continue reading Facing a 20% Tax Increase, Bar Harbor Council Makes No Changes: Yet

Current Draft Budget Does Not Include Money for Cooperating Agencies or Suggested Increases for Y and Jesup

Bar Harbor Budget Update CARRIE JONES JAN 31, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—Due to a misunderstanding about the town’s process for funding requests from outside agencies such as Open Table or Hancock County Hospice, the current draft budget does not include any money for the 19 groups that requested approximately $83,000. That does not mean that those agencies will go without funds from Bar Harbor. It … Continue reading Current Draft Budget Does Not Include Money for Cooperating Agencies or Suggested Increases for Y and Jesup