First Published: 1999-03-07
It took just three hours to approve all 74 articles on the warrant before town meeting voters Saturday.
Although the tax rate won’t be set until May, when the School Administrative District 55 budget is voted on, Town Clerk Donna Hammond said the 1999-2000 budget figures looked promising. “The town’s operating budget went up a little over last year’s,” she said. “But we have enough in revenues so that taxes should be lower or remain about the same depending on how the school budget comes out. Read more…
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Published in The Maine Sunday Telegram.
Founded in 1862, the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram is a daily newspaper with a website that serves southern Maine and is focused on the greater metropolitan area around Portland, Maine, in the United States.
Citation: “Hiram Budget rises, but tax rate likely to hold” Newspapers.com, Portland Press Herald, March 7, 1999, https://pressherald.newspapers.com/article/portland-press-herald-hiram-budget-rises/127865439/