Wiscasset voters will return to the polls Tues., Sept. 14 to decide the fate of five department budgets that failed in the June 8 vote.
Municipal Planning ($78,671), Code Enforcement ($51,831), the police department ($339,834), the airport ($49,298) and Waterfront and Harbors ($51,218) all appear on the ballot.
All of the budgets have undergone significant changes from their earlier form.
Voters will also decide whether to approve $1600 for municipal boards and committees and a $20,000 transfer from existing funds to pay for a portable generator for operation of the Wastewater Treatment Plant and the town’s 17 pump stations.
Town Manager Laurie Smith and former interim Town Manager Don Gerrish have voiced support for all the budgets. Each budget also has the official recommendation of the Wiscasset Board of Selectmen and the Wiscasset Budget Committee. For more, please see Smith’s commentary in this issue of The Lincoln County News.
Voters can also decide to approve a measure to allow each department to continue to operate on 3/12, or three months of the 2009-10 budget, if rejected.
Polls will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Wiscasset Community Center on Rt. 27. Absentee ballots are available at the town office or by calling Town Clerk Chris Wolfe at 882-8200.
