As a reminder, the Fire Department will hold an open house at the existing Blue Hill Fire Station on Water Street on Thursday, April 2 from 4:00-6:00pm.
This will allow residents and voters to see the current layout, condition, and learn about the Town’s concerns about the facility before the Annual Town Meeting on Friday, April 3 and Saturday, April 4.
The Fire Department will hold an open house at its existing location on Water Street on Thursday, April 2, from 4-6pm.
This open house is intended to provide Blue Hill residents with an opportunity to tour the facility and to understand the various challenges and shortcomings of the building. Members of the Fire Department will be available to answer questions about the current facility and the proposed move to a new location on Tenney Hill.
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.
On March 25, the Select Board approved an amended warrant for Blue Hill’s Annual Town Meeting. The warrant:
Added an article (Article 65) that had been inadvertently omitted from the warrant relating to naming the AA Little League field the “The Steven P. Johnson Memorial Field.”
Specified the amount requested by the Blue Hill Public Library in Article 25.
Corrected a clerical error in the Select Board and Budget Committee recommendations in Article 37.
The Fire Department and Peninsula Ambulance Corps will hold an open house on Saturday, March 28 from 1:00-3:00pm at 30 Tenney Hill.
The open house is intended to provide members of the public with an opportunity to visit the proposed location of the new Public Safety Building, to review the plans to date for adjusting the interior of the existing building and the construction of an apparatus bay behind the existing building, and to hear why (and how) this site was chosen over others that were considered.
Reminder: There will a public hearing to discuss the GSA Excess Tuition request on Thusday, March 26 in the Gordon Emerson Auditorium at the Blue Hill Town Hall. The hearing will begin at 6:00pm.
All items to be considered by a referendum vote (such as the GSA request) must be preceded by a public hearing to allow voters to debate the pros and cons of the question.
After the public hearing, the Select Board, School Committee/Superintendent, and Budget Committee will review a summary of the budget articles in this year’s warrant, together with the potential property tax implications of the Town’s voting. This is intended as an opportunity to better understand the budget and to prepare for Town Meeting.
For members of the public interested in reviewing more detailed budgets, the municipal budget is available here and the school budget is available here.
The detailed 2026-27 school budget incorporated into this year’s annual Town Meeting warrant is available here. A copy is also available for review at the Town Office.
As a reminder, the detailed 2026 municipal budget is also available.