Maine municipalities, counties gear up to spend federal relief funding centralmaine.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from centralmaine.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Maine Local Governments Don’t Have Set Plans for Relief Funds Many of the state’s towns and cities have yet to receive their American Rescue Plan Act funds and are still considering how the money would best be spent. The funds must be spent before 2026. July 07, 2021 • (TNS) Maine s local governments are set to receive more than half a billion dollars of pandemic-related federal relief funds, but most have yet to develop any major plans for investing the unprecedented windfall. County and municipal governments in the state are entitled to almost $502 million from the American Rescue Plan Act, a coronavirus relief bill passed by Democrats and signed by President Biden in March.
Maine's local governments in no rush to spend pandemic relief funds pressherald.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pressherald.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Legislature returns to State House for final push on key bills Tuesday sunjournal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sunjournal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
State terminates 15 contractors as talks continue on refund of software project spending sunjournal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sunjournal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
More than 160,000 Mainers in line for jobless-benefit tax break sunjournal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sunjournal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Legislature’s oversight panel expects answers about failed contract for human resources software The state s administrative and financial services commissioner will appear before the committee Friday to answer questions about a $22 million contract dispute with Workday, a Silicon Valley vendor. Share AUGUSTA A legislative committee will continue its inquiry Friday into the Mills administration’s effort to reclaim $22 million from a Silicon Valley software vendor in a dispute over a contract to upgrade the state’s outdated human resources management and payroll system. Commissioner of the Maine Department of Administrative and Financial Services Kirsten Figueroa Joe Phelan/ Kennebec Journal Kirsten Figueroa, commissioner of the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, will appear before the Government Oversight Committee to provide information and answer questions about the contractual dispute with Workday Inc., which was hired in 2018 to do the software systems upgrade.
State plans to cancel multi-million dollar contract over software delays sunjournal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sunjournal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Maine is threatening to terminate its contract with Workday - a California company that Iowa hired to update the state s information technology system - after Workday stopped work last month, according to news reports.
Maine not alone in finding fault with human resources software firm Some lawmakers are calling for an investigation of the state s contract with California-based Workday Inc., which was hired to update Maine s antiquated employee benefits system but walked off the job last month. Share The peppy, 46-second video promises state workers their new payroll and human resources system will provide them with greater flexibility and less paper. One frame in the video shows a male cartoon character sliding down a rainbow smiling, arms in the air, apparently freed from the burden of the paperwork required by the state’s current system.