JAY — A senior accountant with the town’s auditing firm gave selectpersons an overview of the audit and financial status for the year ending June 30, 2014, on Monday. “I think your town is a very healthy town. I think everything is running pretty well,” Bill Hall of RHR Smith & Co. told the board […]
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Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills
Oxford County officials cleared in unofficial review
PARIS — An Albany Township resident who requested county officials clarify why taxes spiked dramatically said he’s satisfied those funds were properly awarded for construction projects. In a meeting Thursday morning with Oxford County Administrator Scott Cole and road agent Todd Sawyer, longtime lawyer and Albany Township resident Jeffrey Rosenblatt said he was confident public officials […]
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Selectmen discuss status of Worthley Spring, dog complaints
PERU — Selectmen discussed the latest test of Worthley Spring’s water at their regular Monday night meeting. The July sample tested positive for coliform bacteria. Selectmen’s Secretary Angela Barkhouse posted a boil-water notice at the spring, where many people regularly get their drinking water. It must have three good tests before the boil-water order can […]
Posted inFranklin, The Franklin Journal
Energy projects could give Rangeley school 40 more years of life
RANGELEY — The RSU 78 board voted Tuesday to apply for a Maine Bond Bank loan to pay for energy-saving projects at Rangeley Lakes Regional School, including a state-of-the-art wood pellet boiler and water heater. Virginia Nuttall of the district Facilities Committee presented recommendations from Siemens Industry Inc. of Scarborough. They included, besides the boiler […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Bethel, Oxford Hills, River Valley
Auditor tells Newry selectmen town’s books in great shape
NEWRY — Prior to starting work Tuesday night on the 2014 budget, town officials learned their financial books were in great shape. Town auditor Vernice Brooks, a senior accountant at RHR Smith & Co. of Buxton, spent all day Tuesday going over Newry’s books, Administrator Loretta Powers said. “I am very happy to state that […]
Posted inFranklin, The Franklin Journal
Rangeley’s municipal audit presented to selectmen
RANGELEY — Ron Smith of RHR Smith & Company presented the completed 2012-13 town audit at Tuesday’s selectmen meeting. Smith said that because revenue projections had come in a little higher than expected and expenses a little lower, the town is in good financial shape. The reserve accounts total about $9 million, with $1.6 million […]
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Audit shows health care subsidies are open to fraud
WASHINGTON — Government subsidies to help Americans buy insurance under the health care overhaul may be vulnerable to fraud, a Treasury Department watchdog warned on Tuesday in the latest indication that troubles are far from over for President Barack Obama’s signature legislation. The rollout of the law has been hurt by canceled policies and problems […]
Posted inFranklin, The Franklin Journal
McAninch appointed to fill vacant RSU 73 term
JAY — Selectpersons voted to accept the resignation of RSU 73 Director Clint Brooks. Selectpersons also voted Monday to appoint Kathy McAninch to fill the term until the next election in June 2014. McAninch was the only person to contact the Town Office to say she was interested in filling the position, Town Manager Ruth […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills
Paris finally receives 2011-2012 audit
PARIS — The town has finally received a financial audit for fiscal year 2011-2012, almost a year late. In a presentation to selectmen at their meeting Monday, Greg Chabot, the town’s auditor from South Portland-based Runyon Kersteen Ouellette accounting firm, apologized for the delay and assured that the FY 2012-2013 audit would be prepared by October. […]
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Audits cite serious problems in the state’s day-to-day operations
That’s because the state has no well-documented disaster recovery plan and doesn’t run periodic disaster tests. Thousands of Mainers may be taking advantage of the unemployment system run by the Maine Department of Labor, forcing the state to spend millions of dollars more than it should. Or not. No one really knows. One-third of the […]