Warrants – Town of Blue Hill

Detailed 2026 Municipal Budget

03/24/2026 scott (Presentations, Select Board, Town Meetings, Warrants)

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.

Digital 2025 Annual Report

03/15/2026 scott (Town Meetings, Warrants)

As noted earlier, the 2025 Blue Hill Annual Report (and 2026 Annual Town Meeting warrant) has been printed and is available at the Town Office.

For residents who would like access to a digital copy, a PDF is available on the Annual Town Reports page. (Be forewarned, it’s a 20MB file.)

2026 Annual Town Meeting Materials

03/12/2026 scott (Budget Committee, School Committee, Select Board, Town Meetings, Warrants)

The warrant for the 2026 Annual Town Meeting has been posted (a copy is available here), and absentee ballots are available at the Town Office. Residents should note that the warrant can be amended until 7 days before Town Meeting; if such an amendment is made, it will be posted in the same physical locations and on the Town website.

In addition, the 2025 Annual Report for the Town has been printed and copies are also available at the Town Office.

Special Town Meeting Called

12/18/2025 scott (Select Board, Town Meetings, Warrants)

The Town of Blue Hill will hold a Special Town Meeting on Monday, December 29 at 5:30pm to consider three articles (after electing a moderator). The articles:

Seek authorization to sell a disused fire truck
Seek an appropriation to use Fire Station Relocation reserve funds to begin work on Public Safety building design
Seek an appropriation from the School Department’s Capital Equipment reserve account for walk-in/freezer repairs.

The official warrant for the meeting is available here.

New Town Meeting Warrant

10/27/2025 scott (Select Board, Town Meetings, Warrants)

An amended Warrant for the Special Town Meeting to be held on Election Day, November 4, 2025 was approved and signed by the Select Board this evening. The warrant adds two articles, one for the potential enactment of a moratorium ordinance on cannabis establishments and a second to appropriate funds for certain municipal expenditures that were not anticipated in the 2025 annual budget. These articles will be considered in an open Town Meeting to be held immediately after the election of a moderator.

A copy of the amended warrant is available here; together with the attached moratorium ordinance.

Public Hearing Reminder

10/20/2025 scott (Public Hearings, Warrants)

In advance of the November 4th election and Special Town Meeting, a public hearing will be held on Wednesday, October 22 in the Gordon Emerson Auditorium at the Blue Hill Town Hall.

The hearing will provide an opportunity for the public to speak in favor of, or against, the two questions to be put to Blue Hill voters:

Do you favor the establishment of and the town’s participation in the Toddy Pond Watershed Management District and the appropriation of $780 to provide the town’s share of the estimated budget for the first year of operation of the Toddy Pond Watershed Management District?
To see if the Town of Blue Hill will vote to opt-in to permit the operation of licensed Adult-Use Marijuana Stores (also known as retail marijuana stores) within the town, pursuant to Title 28-B of the Maine Revised Statutes, and further to direct the Blue Hill Select Board to develop a municipal ordinance for the regulation and local licensing of such stores, said ordinance to be presented for voter approval at a future Town Meeting.

A link for remote participation via Teams has been posted on the Town website calendar.

Special Town Meeting Warrant

09/29/2025 scott (Select Board, Town Meetings, Warrants)

As has been previously announced, the Town of Blue Hill will hold a Special Town Meeting on Election Day, November 4, to consider two referendum articles.

The official warrant for the meeting is available here.

Since this meeting will be held via referendum (secret ballot voting while the polls are open), absentee ballots will be available at the Town Office for registered voters who will not be able to vote in person on Election Day.

Special Town Meeting Warrant Posted

08/15/2025 scott (Town Meetings, Warrants)

The Select Board approved and signed a warrant calling a Special Town Meeting for Sunday, August 24 at 5:00pm, to be held in the Gordon Emerson Auditorium at the Town Hall.

The meeting has been called for the Town to vote on 1) the purchase (and financing) of property for the potential relocation of the fire station, 2) approval of a prior sale of Town-owned land, and 3) amendments to the Harbor Ordinance that would be in effect for calendar 2026.

There will also be an informational meeting on Thursday, August 21 at 6:30pm, also in the Town Hall Auditorium.

The warrant is posted on the Town Hall bulletin board, at the Hannaford’s bulletin board, and here on the Town website.

2024- Nov. Special Town Meeting Called

11/15/2024 scott (Select Board, Town Meetings, Warrants)

A Special Town Meeting has been scheduled for Monday, November 25, 2024 at 5:30pm in the Select Board Room at Town Hall.

In addition to selecting a moderator for the meeting, the sole article to be considered is whether Blue Hill should participate, together with Orland, Penobscot, and Surry, in the statutory “consultation” process associated with the proposed abandonment of the Toddy Pond Dam.

Here is the text of the article:

Shall the Town participate in the statutory consultation process (see 38 M.R.S. § 902), together with other towns affected by the petition to abandon ownership of the Toddy Pond dam and/or Alamoosook Lake dam, to obtain sufficient information about the dam and the towns’ legal options of facilitating an agreement for dam ownership, including whether to participate in or otherwise support a group that would accept ownership of the dam?

The full warrant has been posted at Town Hall and on the Hannaford’s bulletin board.

6/24/24 – Special Town Meeting

06/14/2024 Julie Atwell (Town Meetings, Warrants)

There will be a Special Town Meeting held on June 24, 2024 at 5:30pm. The meeting will be held at the Blue Hill Town Hall (18 Union Street, Blue Hill, ME). Topics will include requests from both the School and the Town to use Funds from the Undesignated Fund Balance.

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