Sagadahoc County posts public notice: March 3 special meeting, March 9 budget session

Sagadahoc County’s official website posted a public notice that the Board of Commissioners held a special meeting on March 3, 2026, and scheduled a joint Board of Commissioners and Budget Advisory Committee session on Monday, March 9, 2026, to hear the county’s preliminary FY27 budget. The notices appeared under the county’s public notice section on the Sagadahoc County site.

The March 3 special-meeting notice and the March 9 budget-session notice as posted did not include times or explicit room locations in the excerpts supplied. Recent county minutes, however, identify the regular meeting venue as the Commissioners’ Meeting Room at the Sagadahoc County Courthouse, 752 High Street, Bath, Maine, which is the address used in the county’s meeting materials.

Budget discussion in the county’s minutes shows Administrator Jones told commissioners that “the BAC had already received the preliminary budget. The only change that she thinks needs discussion and isn’t already in there is the potential wage adjustments and COLA. After those things are decided, she said, then we have our proposed budget.” Jones also noted the timing pressure by saying “the big, all-day meeting is February 28, so there are possible changes because of that.” In the minutes Jones answered a timing question bluntly: “it is usually done by mid-April, then we have a public meeting that is also usually in April, and the official signing of the budget is in May.”

Scheduling around budget season drew contention in the minutes. One speaker, identified in the record only by the quoted remark, said they were “advised of availability when given 2-3 weeks’ notice. She furthered that it’s tough to set a meeting like this during budget season, but her request is to schedule it during the third week of March.” The minutes record that “Commissioner August stated that the third week of March was a conflict for him.” Commissioner Charles Crosby “expressed that he thought the meetings should be put off until after budget season, asking if that’s usually in June.” The record adds that “Crosby then suggested scheduling the first meeting for June. Jones felt that was reasonable.”

Public participation is noted in the minutes as well. The record shows “At 3:04 p.m. Commissioner Charles Crosby established a quorum and called the meeting to order.” During public comment, “Kelly James, resident of Georgetown, asked to speak. First, she requested that documents from meetings be made available to the public when the Commissioners receive them so that when she comes to meetings and has comments, she would have knowledge of the topics that are going to be discussed.”

Separately posted on the county site, Coastal Counties Workforce, Inc. listed a Board of Directors meeting for Friday, March 13, 2026, from 8:45 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., to be held via Zoom with Meeting ID 207 725 5472. That notice names the board as consisting of County Commissioners from Cumberland, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, and York Counties and the CCWB Executive Committee; the notice shows a “Zoom Link:” label but the URL was not included in the excerpt.

The county minutes excerpt also contains inconsistencies and truncations: a header line reads “Tuesday, February 18, 2025 – 3:00 p.m.” while the body states the regular meeting “was held at 3:00 p.m. on February 20, 2025,” and at least one sentence about County Treasurer Gail Eaton is cut off. The posted March 3 and March 9 snippets supplied do not show agendas or public-comment procedures; verification of times, agendas and any virtual links should be obtained from the full notices or the county clerk.