Category: Budgets & Taxes

Fiscal Year Ends With Expenses & Revenues Above Projections

By Zendelle Bouchard At the City Council meeting on August 1, 2023, City Manager Steve Buck presented some information on the status of the municipal budget for fiscal year 2022/23, which ended July 31. Expenses are closing at $39,402 over budget for the fiscal year, primarily due to overages in the General Assistance budget ($664,525) and payroll costs for overtime due to staff shortages and buyouts due to retirements ($241,891). In the past few years, unexpended funds in the Public…
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News Notes

Notre Dame Church in Springvale would be demolished in about a year if voters approve construction of a new fire substation at the site.  Fire Station News: The site of the former Notre Dame Church on Payne Street in Springvale could be the new home of the Springvale Fire Station following the city's signing of a lease-purchase agreement with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Maine. Voters would have to approve a bond to build the replacement for the antique station on Oak…
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School News

School Budget Approved   A small cohort of voters approved a $61 million school budget Tuesday by an 80-20 percent margin, according to Sue H. Cote, City Clerk and Registrar of Voters. The turnout of 488 voters represented just 3 percent of the registered voters in the city, according to Ms. Cote. The spending plan is 2.3% more than the current budget, which equates to a 34-cent increase on the mil rate from $14.80 to $15.14 (as of 5/16/23) per thousand…
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School Department Proposes 4% Increase

At its meeting on February 27, 2023 Sanford School Committee approved what Superintendent of Schools Matt Nelson described as “a bare bones budget” for fiscal year 2023/24, which will be presented to the City Council on March 7. When the budget was developed in January, School Department administrators had originally proposed a 6.1% increase in spending. The “turn the page” increase –what it would cost to keep expenses at current levels, with no new spending – would have been 4.9%,…
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Despite Dramatic Drop in Mill Rate, Taxes Still Going Up

At the City Council's meeting on Tuesday, August 2, 2022, City Manager Steven Buck presented some brand new information on the Budget and Tax Commitment for 2022-23. The School and Municipal appropriations were already finalized months ago, but some of the other items that affect our property tax bills, including total valuation of property in the City, and certain tax reimbursements the City receives from the state of Maine, had to be adjusted with the final figures. The biggest change…
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