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.
Camden proposes easing density rules to encourage workforce, affordable housing
CAMDEN —The Camden Town Office and the Select Board have acknowledged for several years the deficit of workforce and affordable housing in Camden, as the hot real estate market raised the price tags on existing homes, and the available stock shrunk to almost nothing. (As of March 18, 2022, there were five active house listings and seven vacant parcels in Camden for sale).
Camden-Rockport, Five Town CSD to hold public input budget meetings March 21
Monday evening, March 21, the Camden Rockport Schools and Five Town CSD School Boards will hold Public Input Budget Meetings to present the 2022-2023 School Budgets to the community. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions and provide input before the School Boards approve the budgets in April.
Voters will consider the budgets at the polls at annual June Town Meeting.
Both meetings will be held in Strom Auditorium, Camden Hills Regional High School, Rockport… 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.