Regional Meeting Yields Call For Volunteers

(Ellsworth) — A meeting with the Hancock County Commissioners in March showed area communities are skeptical at best about regionalizing services. Selectmen Perry Fowler and Jo Cooper attended the meeting along with Administrative Assistant Stu Marckoon. Representatives from Mt. Desert, Franklin and Bar Harbor were very vocal in their opposition to exploring ways to regionalize and try to save money.

The Commissioners did agree to form a committee to look at where the County’s tax dollars are spent. A Selectman from Mt. Desert expressed serious concern that his town received virtually no services for hundreds of thousands of dollars in county tax payments.

The Commissioners sent out a flyer to all communities looking for volunteers to serve on the committee. Anyone interest from Lamoine must be an appointed municipal official, and should contact the Board of Selectmen for consideration to serve on the panel. A meeting schedule for the new committee has yet to be formulated.