BAR HARBOR—For just about a month or so, in the middle of winter in Maine, volunteers and staff in town after town hunker over spreadsheets, scan Excel documents, and shepherd the budgets of their town to voters.
Thank you for your comprehensive coverage of local government on MDI. As a Bar Harbor resident and tax payer I am concerned that emotion and lack of knowledge about the town's fiscal affairs led a slight majority of the voters to drastically cut the revenues received from cruise ships. It is possible that a second shoe will drop when owners of commercial property will ask to lower their tax bills because of the sales they lose due to drastically reduced cruise ship visits
Thank you for your comprehensive coverage of local government on MDI. As a Bar Harbor resident and tax payer I am concerned that emotion and lack of knowledge about the town's fiscal affairs led a slight majority of the voters to drastically cut the revenues received from cruise ships. It is possible that a second shoe will drop when owners of commercial property will ask to lower their tax bills because of the sales they lose due to drastically reduced cruise ship visits