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Mayor Patricia Hart said Thursday the city manager position will be advertised again after Christopher Ryan notified city officials he was withdrawing himself from consideration.
With $4.5 billion headed to Maine state, city and county governments, the threat of wasteful or improper spending creates a need for systems to track and verify where the money goes.
Under the American Rescue Plan Act, Kennebec County will get $23.7 million to help recover from the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kennebec County jail bids come in higher than expected Officials are looking at scaling back some work and negotiating with bidders before awarding the project. Share Kennebec County officials are revising plans for an expansion at the Kennebec County jail after bids on the project came in more than three times higher than expected. The bids for converting an indoor recreation space into a two-story space to house 21 inmates, which were opened earlier this month, ranged from $784,700 to $937,500. County officials had expected them to come in between $125,00 to $250,000. Bids on work to add...
“It’s time,” Devlin said. “I’m going to be 71 in September.” Earlier this month, Kennebec County commissioners hired Don Gerrish of Eaton Peabody Consulting Group to conduct the search for the next county administrator. Gerrish is currently also conducting city manager searches for both Gardiner and Augusta. Related Devlin said he had initially planned to retire about four years ago, but committed to commissioners to stay four more years. Patsy Crockett, chairwoman of the Kennebec County Commission, said she knew Devlin before he came to Kennebec County through her work as a lobby...