Featured Programs
Maine Infrastructure Adaptation Fund
The Maine Infrastructure Adaptation Fund will offer grants to communities to improve storm water, drinking water, and wastewater infrastructure from climate change effects such as flooding, rising, sea levels and extreme weather. Applications are being accepted through May 31, 2022.
Affordable Homeownership Program
Financial support to build new, affordable single-family homes is now available through MaineHousing’s Affordable Homeownership Program. Applications are now open.
Pre-Kindergarten Expansion Grants
Maine's Department of Education has launched the Pre-Kindergarten Expansion Grants program offering funds to establish or expand public pre-kindergarten programs. Awards to fourteen communities to start or expand programs for the 2022-23 school year were announced in January 2021. Applications will open summer 2022 for a second round of grant funding for the 2023-24 school year.
Property Tax Deferral Program
The State Property Tax Deferral Program covers property tax bills of income-eligible Maine people who are 65 and older, or permanently disabled who cannot afford to pay them on their own. Applications are now open.
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About the Jobs Plan
The Jobs Plan was introduced by Governor Mills in May 2021 with broad support from Maine business, education and civic leaders. It draws heavily on recommendations from the Governor’s Economic Recovery Committee and the State’s 10-Year Economic Development Strategy.
Jobs Plan Coordination
Coordination of the Jobs Plan is led by the Maine Department of Administrative and Financial Services and the Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future.
American Rescue Plan Act
Funding for the Jobs Plan is through the federal American Rescue Plan Act, which allocated $4.5 billion in funds to Maine in 2021, as part of the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds program.
Financial Reporting
Visit the Department of Administration & Financial Services' American Rescue Plan Act resource page for Maine's quarterly reports to the U.S. Treasury and information about all ARPA funds in Maine.