The Select Board will meet at 8am Friday, June 14, to review and sign the warrant for a Special Town Meeting to be held on Monday, June 24. The warrant detailing the articles to be voted on should be posted on Friday.
The meeting will be in person only, with no remote participation available.
At last Monday’s Select Board meeting, the Select Board indicated that it would try to make available, in an accessible format, more information about the 2024 property revaluation.
Attached is an Excel worksheet with comparative data, for each property in Blue Hill (identified by Map and Lot number). It shows the 2023 and 2024 taxable property valuations as well as an estimate of what the 2024 taxes on each property will be.
At its meeting on May 28th, 2024, the Select Board adopted a set of rules and regulations to apply to the Town’s three cemeteries. The rules govern the sale of rights to use lots in the cemeteries, maintenance responsibilities, monument specifications, decorations, and visitor use, among other things.
Continue reading “Cemetery Rules Adopted”As a reminder, all bids for the Town’s surplus floats are due at the Town Office no later than 5:00pm on Monday, June 3, 2024.
The Town of Blue Hill is soliciting bids for surplus floats previously used at the Village Wharf. Five floats are available for purchase—three floats approximately 16’x14′ and two 16’x6′ finger floats. The floats will be sold (individually) as is, where is, with no minimum bid.
The deadline for sealed bids is Monday, June 3 at 5:00pm at the Town Office; the bids will be opened at the Select Board’s public meeting scheduled to begin at 5:30pm that evening.
The bid form and terms and conditions of the auction process and sale are available here.
| Float 1 16’x14′ Mooring/chain not included |  |
| Float 2 16’x14′ |  |
| Float 3 16’x14′ |  |
| Floats 4 and 5 16’x6′ Ramp not included |  |
It’s not too late to sign up for SUMMER CAMP, brought to you by the Town of Blue Hill and the Downeast Family YMCA!
Blue Hill campers receive a discounted rate of $195 per week, with a further discount for siblings. Financial aid is also available for families in need.
Sign up this weekend—given the popularity of last year’s summer camp program, we expect the available slots to be taken quickly after registration opens up to all towns on Monday.
Any questions? Contact the Blue Hill YMCA at (207) 374-5359.
The Town’s audited 2022 financial statements are now available.
The Select Board and staff are working hard, together with the Town’s auditors, to provide audited 2023 financial statements on a more timely basis.
In recent years, a range of charitable organizations have requested funding from Town taxpayers in connection with the Blue Hill Annual Town meeting.
At its Monday meeting, the Blue Hill Select Board approved minor amendments to its “Policy Regarding Town Meeting Funding Requests from Nonprofit Organizations,” which describes the process for making such requests and identifies the information requested by the Select Board and the Budget Committee as they review incoming requests and consider their recommendations to Town voters.
The form identifying the requested information is available here and via the bluehillme.gov home page.
For this year, the deadline for submitting applications is January 31, 2024. (The normal deadline under the policy is December 31 of the preceding year.)
Click here for the draft agenda for the December 26, 2023 Solid Waste Committee meeting.
Due to the weather conditions, this evening’s meeting has been cancelled. Whether the meeting will be rescheduled for later this week is still to be determined.