Town Meeting 2022: Candidates, Warrant Articles, Budgets
June is when Maine citizens weigh how much to spend on school budgets, and polls are open in many towns for voters to cast ballots on other municipal business.
While individual municipalities hold their annual meetings at various times during the year (some are in March, others in May, still others in June), a number of them now hold town meetings soon after the June elections are held.
This year, June 14 is the day for local elections and secret ballot articles on ordinance amendments, as well as school budgets and state primaries for political office.
Retain Union’s Thompson Community Center by the town, for the town
On June 14, we residents of Union will vote on the future of the Thompson Community Center. Our options are, essentially, to keep the building in town hands, for the benefit of the town, to sell the building to a 3rd party - either for senior housing, or some other purpose - or to demolish it.
As the board chair of the Thompson Memorial Association - the organization that has been managing the building since its previous operators left without notice in December 2021 -… Read more
Vote no vote on Camden Town Meeting Articles 15 and 16
On the issues: Camden Select Board candidate Robert Lawson
On June 14, voters in Camden will elect two candidates to serve on the Camden Select Board.
There are two open seats this June, one is a three-year term, the other a two-year term.
Thomas Hedstrom is running against incumbent Marc Ratner for the three-year seat. … Read more
On the issues: Rockport Select Board Candidate Denise Munger
On June 14, voters in Rockport will choose one of two candidates — Denise Munger and Jim Annis — to serve a three-year term on the Rockport Select Board. Penobscot Bay Pilot has posed questions to each candidate, providing the opportunity for the public to better understand their position on issues important to the town and region. Here, incumbent Candidate Denise Munger discusses her position on various topics.… Read more
On the issues: Rockport Select Board Candidate Jim Annis
On June 14, voters in Rockport will choose one of two candidates — Denise Munger and Jim Annis — to serve a three-year term on the Rockport Select Board. Penobscot Bay Pilot has posed questions to each candidate, providing the opportunity for the public to better understand their position on issues important to the town and region. Here, Candidate Jim Annis discusses his position on various topics.
Seeking Clarity on Tannery Park?
Should the town of Camden continue to own the Apollo Tannery property along the Megunticook River on Washington Street and keep it for a farmers’ market and park? Or should that property be sold for commercial development? It seems that’s the question-behind-the-question we Camden voters will be answering with our votes on Articles 15, 16 and 17 of the town warrant on June 14. Unfortunately, it isn’t a question that will appear on the ballot.
The wording of Articles 15, 16 and 17… Read more
On the issues: Camden Select Board candidate Thomas Hedstrom
On June 14, voters in Camden will elect two candidates to serve on the Camden Select Board. There are two open seats this June, one is a three-year term. Thomas Hedstrom is running against incumbent Marc Ratner for that seat.
The other seat is a two-year position, and Robert Lawson is running against Stephanie French for… Read more
On the issues: Camden Select Board candidate Marc Ratner
On June 14, voters in Camden will elect two candidates to serve on the Camden Select Board. There are two open seats this June, one is a three-year term. Thomas Hedstrom is running against incumbent Marc Ratner for that seat.
Union Sidelines: Town meeting warrant, property assessment
The following municipal newsletter, Sidelines, is circulated courtesy of the Union Select Board, and serves to update Union citizens about governmental news in town. Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in the Sidelines are the individual thoughts of the Select Board member.
The “Main Event” at the April 5 Select Board meeting was the finalization of the Town Warrants for our upcoming election. The warrant articles include:
Article 3, Pullen Fund: We will vote on… Read more
U.S. Cellular pushes for Rockport ordinance change to erect 145-foot monopole
ROCKPORT — More than a decade ago, former Rockport Town Attorney Paul Gibbons had the foresight to craft a wireless telecommunications ordinance that stipulated where in Rockport cell towers and facilities could be built, and the conditions by which their approval would be considered.
Voters approved… Read more
Town Meetings, Municipal and School Budgets, Warrants and Candidates
Below are area municipalities holding elections and town meetings in June
APPLETON
Annual Town Meeting, June 14, by Secret Ballot, Appleton Fire Station, 2899 Sennebec Road, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. The warrant includes a Site Plan Review Ordinance, Proposed sale of town-owned land, Select Board stipend pay, municipal budget
CAMDEN
Annual Town Meeting, June 14, Camden Public Safety Building, by secret ballot, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
All Camden ballots, including Five Town CSD and SAD 28 budgets, can be found here.
Camden-Rockport, Five Town CSD to hold public input budget meetings March 21
Camden Select Board Candidates
Stephanie French
Thomas Hedstrom
Robert Lawson
Marc Ratner
HOPE
Voters in Hope with go to the polls June 14 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. to consider candidates for Select Board (three candidates are running for two open seats: Bruce Haffner, Michael Schultz and Charles Weidman). Then, on June 16, citizens will gather at the Hope Elementary School at 6:30 p.m. for annual town meeting.
Two candidates for vying for one seat on the Hope School Committee Board: Jacob Eichenlaub and Nicholas O’Hara.
LINCOLNVILLE
Lincolnville voters will got to the polls June 14, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., at the Lincolnville Central School, to consider two school budgets, and a municipal ballot that features two Select Board candidates — incumbent Jordan Barnett-Parker and Stephen Hand – vying for one open seat. The municipal ballot also features open seats on various committees and boards with no candidates.
On June 16, citizens will gather at 6 p.m. at the Lincolnville Central School for Annual Town Meeting and to consider the town’s 2022-2023 proposed budget and a warrant that includes term limits for Select Board members of not more than three consecutive three-year terms.
NORTHPORT
Voting on the town’s municipal ballot will take place at the Northport Town Office, June 4, beginning at 8 a.m., to elect select board and school board candidates,
Annual Town Meeting will then continue on June 6, at the Edna Drinkwater School Basketball Court, 6:30 p.m. There, the townspeople will consider amendments to the town’s building and shoreland zoning ordinances, as well as municipal and school budgets.
ROCKPORT
Rockport’s Annual Town Meeting will take place over two days, beginning June 14 at the polls, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., when voters will consider the Five Town CSD and School Administrative District 28 budgets, as well as two candidates vying for one three-year seat on the Select Board.
On June 15, citizens will gather at the Rockport Opera House, 7 p.m., for Annual Town Meeting to consider ordinance amendments and the municipal budget.
Rockport Select Board Candidates
Jim Annis
Denise Munger
Rockport Municipal Warrant and Budget
U.S. Cellular pushes for Rockport ordinance change to erect 145-foot monopole
Camden-Rockport, Five Town CSD to hold public input budget meetings March 21
Annual Town Meeting, June 18, Town Office (Downstairs), 9 a.m.
Stockton Springs citizens will consider amendments to the town’s land use ordinance, and its Coastal Waters and Harbor Ordinance.
THOMASTON
Thomaston’s Annual Town Meeting will take place over two days, beginning June 14 at the polls, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., at the Thomaston Municipal Building (former Lura Libby School) where voters will consider electing two Select Board members for three-year terms, one Board of Assessors member for a three-year term, and one RSU 13 School Board member.
On June 15, citizens will gather at the Thomaston Municipal Building at 6 p.m. for annual Town Meeting and consider a municipal budget and a warrant that includes a land swap with George C. Hall and Sons, Inc., which would enable construction of workforce housing, a citizens’ initiative to dedicate the Thomaston Green for public park use, several land use ordinance amendments, as well as several other municipal ordinance amendments.
Thomaston has collected all of its Town Meeting business material, ordinance amendments, etc., on this page.
Union’s Annual Town Meeting will take place over two days, beginning June 14 at the polls, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., at the William L. Pullen Municipal Building Meeting Room, where voters will consider electing two Select Board members for three-year terms, one Board of Assessors member for a three-year term, and one RSU 13 School Board member.
There are two candidates running for one seat on the Select Board: Martha Johnston-Nash and Linda Waltz-Mountainland
The June 14 secret ballot also includes five options for the future of the town-owned Thompson Community Center. Voters are to vote for just one option.
And, the ballot includes the RSU 40 budget.
On June 21, citizens will gather at the William L. Pullen Municipal Building Meeting Room at 7 p.m. for annual Town Meeting and to consider articles on the rest of the Union Town Warrant
VINALHAVEN
Annual Town Meeting, June 128, Vinalhaven School, 6 p.m.
Details and Town Warrant coming soon
WALDOBORO
Waldoboro’s Annual Town Meeting will take place June 14 at the polls, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., at the Waldoboro Town Office, where voters will consider electing one Select Board member for a three-year term, and one member to the RSU 40 Board of Directors.
Candidates for the Select Board are Robert Butler and Seth Hall.
Candidates for the SAD 40 Board of Directors are Danny Jackson and Steven Karp.
The Town Meeting Warrant will be addressed entirely by secret ballot, including the municipal budget, a new Disorderly Property Ordinance (“This ordinance is not a property maintenance ordinance, but is an ordinance that would address properties in Town that have repeated complaints from neighbors, and are having a negative impact on the neighborhood,” the town explained, and the Town of Waldoboro Medical Marijuana Licensing Ordinance.
Warrant articles also include the creation of up to 36 units of affordable senior housing at the former A.D. Gray School property, the purchase of the Wooster Parking Lot, and the sale of the Friendship Street School.
Click here for the town’s explanation of the ordinance proposals.
Warren’s Annual Town Meeting will take place over two days, beginning June 14 at the polls, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., at the Warren Masonic Hall, 105 Camden Road, where voters will consider electing one Select Board member for a three-year term, and three members to the RSU 40 Board of Directors. The secret ballot also includes the RSU 40 budget validation.
Then, on June 21, citizens will convene again at 7 p.m. at the Warren Masonic Hall to consider the town warrant, which will be posted June 7.