Lamoine town meeting to decide $691,000 municipal budget

LAMOINE – Voters will consider a proposed annual municipal budget of nearly $691,000 when they go to town meeting next week, but will have to wait to decide what the town’s education expenses will be.

They also are expected to decide whether to give incumbent selectman Cynthia Donaldson another term or to oust her in favor of challenger Robert Sharkey.

Elections will be held from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 1, at the Lamoine town office on Route 184. The open floor session of town meeting will be held the next evening, starting at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 2, at Lamoine Consolidated School.

According to the proposed municipal budget, posted on the town’s official Web site, the proposed municipal operations side of the budget is $690,678.89. This includes $25,000 for renovations that will address security, space.

and technology needs at the town office and $23,292 to be divided among other projects such as $10,000 for construction of a new entrance road to Bloomfield Park and an additional $10,000 for the town’s revaluation reserve. Voters also will consider whether to loan $12,000 to the Veterans’ Memorial Committee to complete construction of the veterans memorial at the town office.

The draft budget for the town’s school costs totals $2,258,525, but according to Administrative Assistant Stu Marckoon, there are no education articles included in the April town meeting warrant because the town still doesn’t know how much in education subsidies it will get from the state. Instead, voters will have to decide the town’s education budget on May 21 and then hold a second validation vote on May 27, Marckoon said.

“We knew we wouldn’t have the information ready for town meeting,” he said Friday.

The selectmen’s race is the only contested race for town office this year.

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