News items announcing Town Meetings or information related to a Town Meeting.
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.)
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.
Continue reading “2026 Annual Town Meeting Materials”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:
At the Select Board’s last meeting, it was decided that the deadline for Town Meeting donation requests from third-party charitable organizations will be December 31, 2025, consistent with the policy adopted several years ago and in order to produce a budget and the town’s Annual Report on a timely basis.
Continue reading “Third Party Donation Request Form/Deadline”At the 2025 Annual Town Meeting, the Town directed the Select Board to communicate to state legislators, Members of Congress, Governor, and President of the United States that the town calls upon our Federal elected representatives to enact carbon pricing legislation to protect Maine from the costs and environmental risks of continued climate inaction.
Senator Collins recently responded to that letter; a copy of her response is available here.
The following are the Town-wide unofficial voting results from yesterday’s Special Town Meeting:
These results are subject to review and certification by the elected Moderator.
Thank you to all who voted!
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.
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.
With the legislation to authorize formation of a Toddy Pond Watershed Management District complete and the question and appropriation to be on Blue Hill’s November town meeting ballot, many people have asked what the cost would be for them personally–whether they own waterfront property on Toddy Pond or not.
Under legislation passed earlier this year, voters in the four towns abutting Toddy Pond and Alamoosook Lake will vote in November on whether to form two Districts, the Toddy Pond Watershed Management District and the Alamoosook Lake Watershed Management District, and to appropriate taxpayer funds for the Districts’ first fiscal year.
Everyone involved recognizes that most property owners and voters want to understand what the likely costs of assuming ownership of the dams creating those water bodies will be. To assist waterfront property owners and other town voters in understanding these costs, and putting them into perspective, volunteers have prepared two “Dam Ownership Cost Estimators” — one for the Towns of Blue Hill, Penobscot, and Surry and another for Orland. (Orland is more complicated because it has properties abutting both Toddy Pond and Alamoosook Lake.)
You can access the cost estimators here:
There will be a public hearing on the referendum question scheduled during the second half of October. Watch for the announcement.
At the Special Town Meeting held this evening, Blue Hill voters voted on four articles. Here are the unofficial results (to be confirmed by the moderator and Town Clerk):
Election of Moderator
Jeff Milliken
Article 2: Purchase of real estate for a relocated public safety building and land used by the Consolidated School
The article was approved by written ballot:
Yea: 227
Nay: 73
Blank Ballots: 13
Article 3: Confirming previous sale of real property
The article was approved by show of hands
Article 4: Amendments to Harbor Ordinance
The article was approved by show of hands
The Select Board thanks all of the approximately 300 voters who attended the meeting and who were gracious enough to help the Town work through the complications of having far greater turnout than the original, offical venue could accommodate.
