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Parcel Grants

In the Resolve23 Study that lead to the creation of the Maine Library of Geographic Information (GeoLibrary), surveyed municipalities placed great emphasis on acquiring and updating digital tax parcel data. Having this local information in a standard format, and in a central repository, would assist individual communities and regional planners in various planning activities. In addition, municipalities will also be able to develop a regional outlook for whatever data is being studied. Consequently, the GeoLibrary Board approved two rounds of grants to Maine municipalities for the upgrading and creation of digital parcel data, budgeting $371,419 in total with awards varying from $1,000 to $10,000.

FIRST ROUND

UPDATE 03/30/2006

The digital parcel data received from the first round of grants will be published for download by township on the MEGIS Internet Data Catalog in April. As a recent meeting on the GeoLibrary Board the issue of lot owner privacy was re-visited and although a directive on privacy is included in the Parcel Standards, the Board felt the issue had not been fully addressed in the first round of grants. The Board voted to direct MEGIS not to publish the data on owner names, address, city, state, zip code, and country until further notice. In the interim, they directed staff to send letters to all the towns that submitted parcel data asking them to "Sign Off" on the release of this information.

Rapid Grants were reimbursements of up to $1,000 for conversion of existing digital parcel data to state standards. Proposals were received from 27 municipalities and 24 were approved:

Anson	Auburn	Bath
Biddeford	Bridgton	Brooksville
Casco	Castle Hill	Chapman
Cumberland	Denmark	Fort Kent
Harrison	Kittery	Madawaska
Mapleton	Mariaville	Raymond
Skowhegan	Stonington	Sweden
Verona	Woodland	Yarmouth

Standard Grants are payments, per parcel, up to a maximum of $10,000 per town for creation and/or upgrading of the spatial accuracy of digital parcels. Proposals were received from 54 municipalities and 21 were approved:

Cape Elizabeth	Casco	Ellsworth
Falmouth	Freeport	Gorham
Gray	Islesboro	Jackson
New Gloucester	North Yarmouth	Norway
Oxford	Paris	Raymond
Rockport	Rumford	South Portland
Thorndike	Unity	Woodstock

All municipalities submitted digital parcel data as required with the exception of nine (9) which were granted contract extensions and one (1) that withdrew from contract. The data will be made available as downloads on the GeoLibrary website and as an interactive Internet Mapping Site (IMS) accessed thru the new upcoming GeoLibrary Internet Portal.

SECOND ROUND

Rapid Grants were reimbursements of up to $1,000 for conversion of existing digital parcel data to state standards. Proposals were received from 3 municipalities and 3 were approved: Clifton, Phippsburg, and Whiting

Standard Grants are payments, per parcel, up to a maximum of $10,000 per town for creation and/or upgrading of the spatial accuracy of digital parcels. Proposals were received from 37 municipalities and 27 were approved:

Arrowsic	Bethel	Bowdoin
Bowdoinham	China	Dover-Foxcroft
Friendship	Hermon	Levant
Lincoln	Lovell	Lyman
Ogunquit	Readfield	Richmond
Saco	Searsmont	Searport
South Berwick	Standish	Topsham
Turner	Vassalboro	Waldoboro
West Bath	Winslow

 

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