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April 2008 - Regional Efficiency Grant Funds Eliminated

Funding for the Efficient Delivery of Local and Regional Services was cut in supplemental budget actions for FY08 and FY09. $500,000 had been available for each year of the biennium. This spring, municipal and regional government applicants submitted proposals totaling $1.3 million for regional projects. A 7-member, independent, state-local-regional grants review panel had reviewed proposals, but not awarded any grants, pending budget deliberations. For more information, contact Torrey Gray at the Department of Administrative and Financial Services at 624-7802 or by email at torrey.j.gray@maine.gov


School Administrative Regional Efficiencies

Click here for the Maine Development Foundation Report
November 2007 - Maine Development Foundation Report

The Maine Development Foundation who adminstered the 2005 piolot grant program from the Fund for the Efficient Delivery of Local and Regional Services, recently released their report on the lessons learned from the pilot grants. Click here for the report (PDF 518KB)


November 2007 - Merging Two Quasi-Municipal Districts

With a final vote by voters in this year's general election, the Augusta Water District and Augusta Sanitary District became one Augusta Utilities District. A report prepared by Kay Rand, Consultant, Bernstein Shur Government Solutions, details the three years of hard work. Click here for the report (PDF 240KB)


Quality of Place reflects a region:

The Governor’s Council on Maine’s Quality of Place advocates that Maine’s economic future depends on quality of place. Yet, people live, work, and recreate within regions of multiple communities. Their perception of quality of place reflects the entire region. Therefore, each community’s quality of place choices affect its neighbors, and protecting or enhancing quality of place may only be done regionally. "Place and Prosperity" (PDF 180K) Released June 2007. Governor’s Council on Maine’s Quality of Place website