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The Select Board has scheduled a public hearing at its next meeting on Monday, August 10 at 5:45pm to receive public feedback on a proposed administrative consent agreement (available here) between the Town of Blue Hill and Pub Ciao, LLC (d/b/a Blaze Blue Hill).
This agreement was developed to address various violations of town ordinances.
As part of the process for replacing the Stevens Bridge over the reversing falls in South Blue Hill, MaineDOT committed to several actions to help preserve the memory of this iconic feature, including an infographic plaque about the bridge and the location and an accompanying video. The plaque is currently held at the Town Hall.
MaineDOT announced the release of the video in a July 28 press release, which provides more background on the mitigation commitment and summarizes the video contents. The video itself is available on YouTube:
Connecting Blue Hill Through History: The Stevens Bridge
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.