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Auditor Ron Beaulieu said his firm had to correct more than $3 million in errors to complete the 2020 financial statements.

The town has paid more than $7,900 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020.

Read Article BUCKFIELD — With checks piling up at the Town Office, the Select Board appointed Town Manager John Andrews as deputy tax collector at Monday’s meeting. The town has not had an acting tax collector since early November when Town Clerk Cindy Dunn resigned. According to state statute, Dunn is still technically the tax collector until the town audit is completed. A legal opinion from the Maine Municipal Association said the town could appoint a deputy tax collector in order to cash the checks and tax payments in the interim. The board also appointed Andrews to be the point perso...

BUCKFIELD — The town is still struggling to close the books with its former tax collector. With the “consideration and discussion of settlement and discharge with tax collector” on its agenda Thursday night, the board requested that Town Manager John Andrews contact the town’s attorney on what their next step should be. The motion, proposed by Martha Catevenis, passed unanimously by the three members, who include Cheryl Coffman and Chairman Tina Brooks. “The term ‘settlement and discharge’ is the standard language used when a tax collector separates from a municipality,” Andre...

Read Article BUCKFIELD —  The Select Board held an emergency meeting Friday to meet with its auditor in an hourlong executive session. A representative from the accounting firm Ron Beaulieu and Co. of Portland met with the three selectmen behind closed doors to discuss the town’s finances and an employee, according to the representative. The complete overhaul of the small town office staff has left officials playing catch-up as Town Manager John Andrews gets new staff trained. He took over in November after the resignation of Joe Roach in August. Also in November came the resignation of...