If nothing changes, property owners face 20.2% tax rate increase CARRIE JONES FEB 22, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—The plea came near the end of a 4.5-hour marathon Town Council meeting Tuesday night. “I don’t know how it’s going to come down, but it’s got to come down,” said Carol Chappell, who chairs one of the Warrant Committee’s subcommittees, speaking as a private resident before the … Continue reading Bar Harbor Resident Pleas For Lower Budget
Public Safety Subcomittee Meets Friday to Focus on Those Budget Sections CARRIE JONES FEB 6, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—And, he’s in. Bailey Stillman has returned to the Warrant Committee. The Warrant Committee’s Nominating Subcommittee met Monday to nominate a new member to take the place of Caleb Cough who recently resigned just prior to the beginning of budget season. According to Town Clerk Liz Graves, … Continue reading Bar Harbor Warrant Committee Nominates and Elects Bailey Stillman
Bar Harbor’s proposed municipal budget shows 8.9% increase CARRIE JONES JAN 24, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—Employee benefits, solid waste, and multiple bonds have combined to increase the proposed Bar Harbor municipal budget’s general fund’s overall spending for municipal operations by 8.9%, an increase of $1,141,909. “This has been a difficult budget to construct, as it is the first budget to assume the debt service costs … Continue reading Town Manager Hopes to be Arbitrator in Town Budget Process
MDI Bio Lab Scientist Receives $2 Million NIH Grant, First Baby, FOA and COA news and more CARRIE JONES JAN 22, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—Every week papers get briefs to put into their hard and digital versions. Since we don’t want to overload your inbox more than we already do, we are compiling them to put out once or twice a week. We’ve also added … Continue reading BRIEFS: BAR HARBOR WARRANT COMMITTEE LOOKS FOR NEW MEMBER
Warrant Committee and Town Council Budget Workshops Begin Next Week CARRIE JONES JAN 19, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—As the town’s months’ long budget process is set to begin, Finance Director Sarah Gilbert told town councilors at their January 16 meeting that for the first half of FY 2024 (July-December), the town is at 49.1% of its expected expenditures in the budget. The only departments ahead … Continue reading Legal Fees and Solid Waste Lines in Bar Harbor Budget Running High
Decisions leads to questions about legality of current Warrant Committee CARRIE JONES SEP 22, 2023 Share BAR HARBOR—After leaving one of three executive session during its Tuesday night meeting, the Bar Harbor Town Council voted to appeal again the October 24, 2022 decision against the town in Michael Good v. Town of Bar Harbor, a Superior Court case with Justice William Anderson presiding. According to … Continue reading Good Decision Appeal. Again. Sort of.
What actually is the Warrant Committee? CARRIE JONES JUN 30, 2023 BAR HARBOR—Town Clerk Liz Graves led the Bar Harbor Warrant Committee in its short organizational meeting on Thursday, June 29. The meeting at the Bar Harbor Municipal Building’s council chambers, lasted ten minutes, which had some members quipping that it was the shortest meeting the deliberative body had ever had. Graves first swore in … Continue reading Warrant Committee Organizes Itself, Reelects Officers
Attendees pass slightly revised budget at three-hour town meeting CARRIE JONES JUN 7, 2023 BAR HARBOR—About 175 Bar Harbor town voters and more than a dozen others gathered on a dreary Tuesday night for town meeting at the Conners Emerson gymnasium. The meeting focused on the municipal and school budgets with the main controversy focusing around the Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce’s wayfinding funds, which … Continue reading Updated: Town Strips Chamber of Wayfinding Funds
Committee Unanimously Supports Four Land Use Ordinance Changes Carrie Jones BAR HARBOR—The last meeting of the budget season for the Warrant Committee had no members of the public attending though it involved recommendations about the proposed school construction bond and other items for the town warrant. Bob Chaplin presented the education subcommittee’s 3-0 recommendation that the voters of Bar Harbor adopt Article 2, which is … Continue reading Split Warrant Committee Debates and Recommends School Construction Bond
Town Council uses ARPA funds to support the non profits Carrie Jones BAR HARBOR—As the snow trundled down, the Bar Harbor Town Council and Warrant Committee met in a joint session to discuss the town’s budget, which will be presented to voters in June. Both elected bodies have a role in the budget process, which has been shepherded this year by interim Town Manager and … Continue reading Library and YMCA receive requested extra funds
