LINCOLNVILLE — This evening, at 6 p.m., the Lincolnville Budget Committee will hold a public hearing on proposed 2014-2015 school and town budgets. The hearing will be held in the meeting room in the Lincolnville Town Office, 393 Hope Road. The committee encourages citizens to attend.

David Kinney, Lincolnville Town Administrator, will present the warrant articles for the town budget and answer questions from both community members and Lincolnville Budget Committee members. Paul Russo, Lincolnville School principal, will present the warrant articles for the school budget and answer questions from community members and Lincolnville Budget Committee members.

Lincolnville has four budgets to consider at June Town Meeting: its Lincolnville Central School budget, which governs its K-8 school; the Five Town CSD budget, for Camden Hills Regional High School (Appleton, Camden, Hope, Lincolnville and Rockport); the municipal budget; and the Waldo County budget.

The proposed Lincolnville Central School budget for the coming year is $2.98 million, with a $70,000 increase, or 2.40 percent increase, over the current budget. Subtracting state aid, the local share of the budget that will all on property taxpayers is $2.44 million.

See attached PDFs for budget breakdowns.

The proposed $11.77 million Five Town CSD budget represents a 3.12 percent increase over the current budget. Lincolnville’s share is $1.6 million, an increase of $51,399 over last year.

The proposed Waldo County budget has decreased this coming year from $8.175 million to $7,994 million.

The proposed $1.874 million municipal budget represents a decrease of approximately $10,000 from the current budget. (The selectmen are recommending additional subtractions on the budget, which reduce the amount even more to $1.804 million.)

This is the last Lincolnville Budget Committee meeting before the final regularly scheduled committee meeting on May 6 when the Budget Committee will make their recommendations to the citizens of Lincolnville. The Budget Committee recommendations will appear on the final warrant articles alongside the Lincolnville selectmen’s budget recommendations when the budgets are presented to the townspeople at the annual town meeting on June 12, 2014.

The Lincolnville Budget Committee invites all of the citizens of Lincolnville to this meeting so its members can hear concerns and opinions on the school and town budgets for the upcoming fiscal year.

The committee consists of nine members, Thomas Wilhelm, chairman; Reed Mathews, Cecil Dennison, Tracy Colby, James Sinclair, Daina Hill, Cathy Hardy, Edward O'Brien and Seth Horton.

Members are elected for staggered three-year terms and they meet approximately six times during fall and winter months to help develop the budget for the upcoming fiscal year.