A public hearing on the GSA Excess Charge referendum question and a review of the 2026 budget (and potential property tax implications) was held on Thursday, March 26.
A copy of the PowerPoint slides shown during that meeting is available here.
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A public hearing on the GSA Excess Charge referendum question and a review of the 2026 budget (and potential property tax implications) was held on Thursday, March 26.
A copy of the PowerPoint slides shown during that meeting is available here.
At last evening’s Select Board meeting, members of the public requested that the detail behind this year’s municipal (and school) budget be made available, and the Select Board agreed.
Continue reading “Detailed 2026 Municipal Budget”A public engagement meeting was held last week to review conceptual designs to make the Town’s wharves more storm resilient and less prone to flooding. About 20-25 attendees were presented with a description of the issues facing the wharves and some design examples (see the presentation).
At the meeting, it was agreed to share a summary of comments made at the meeting, and to solicit any additional comments or corrections, for two weeks. Please review the attached summary and email any additional thoughts to smiller@bluehillme.gov for inclusion in the final report and feedback for the engineers.
A public engagement meeting was held on Tuesday, September 16 to review conceptual designs for protecting Blue Hill’s town wharves from sea level rise and damage from increased storm intensity. Roughly 20 Blue Hill residents, including ~8 commercial fishermen, attended.
Attached is the presentation, prepared by GEI Consultants, that was reviewed as part of the meeting; a document describing some of the audience questions, comments, and discussion is in the process of being prepared and will be posted at a later date.
For those who could not attend Thursday’s information session on the 2025 budget, a copy of the PowerPoint presentation is now available. The presentation describes the major contributors to the overall budget and how the budget is proposed to be funded.
And the presentation provides an estimate of the 2025 property tax impact, assuming all of the “money” articles to be voted on at Town Meeting are approved: an 8.7% increase in property taxes.
The printed 2024 Annual Reports, with the 2025 Annual Town Meeting warrant, have been printed and are available for pick-up at the Town Hall.
For those who were unable to attend last week’s Public Input meeting with respect to the proposed abandonment of Toddy Pond Dam, attached is a video of the event.
Blue Hill Comprehensive Plan Presentation, Tuesday February 18 at Consolidated School
The Blue Hill Comprehensive Plan, which will go on the ballot of the April 4 Town Meeting, is being presented at a community information session this Tuesday, February 18th at 6:30 p.m. in the cafeteria of the Blue Hill Consolidated School.
Plan Committee members will provide an overview of the goals of the plan, with a question & answer session. This is the first information session before the Town Meeting, with a second to be held in the same place on Thursday, March 20th.
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Public Meeting at Maine Maritime Academy’s training facility in Bucksport on Thursday, November 14 at 5:00pm (details)
As you may be aware, Toddy Pond is what it is because of a dam in Orland that maintains the water level. This dam, originally associated with the paper mill in Bucksport, is now the subject of a petition by Bucksport Mill LLC has petitioned the DEP for permission to abandon the dam. Two other dams (creating Alamoosook Lake and Silver Lake) are also proposed to be abandoned.
In the event a new owner (prepared to maintain the dam(s) going forward) is not identified, Maine DEP’s preferred action is apparently to order release of the water held by the dam, which would all but drain the three water bodies.
Continue reading “The End of Toddy Pond?”