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Kennebunk Select Board OKs purchase of new fire engine KENNEBUNK, Maine – You’re going to see a new fire engine around town sometime next year. The select board last week unanimously approved $587,750 for the purchase of a new 2021 pumper engine for the Kennebunk Fire Rescue Department from the Ohio-based Sutphen Corporation. At the annual town meeting in July, voters approved the purchase and issuance of bonds totaling $600,000 to replace Engine 2, a 1992 Kovatch Firefox that is currently kept at the West Kennebunk Fire Station, according to Fire Chief Jeffrey Rowe. To approve the purchase, however, the select board first needed to waive its purchasing policy on sole-source buying in order to take advantage of the same program the town used when it acquired Engine 4 in 2018. In that instance, the town went with the Houston-Galveston Area Council Collaborative, or HGAC, a bid and purchasing program that “collects pricing every two to three years on commonly p ....
Grant funding helped municipalities with election expenses The grants ranged from $50,000 to more than $260,000. Share A voter inserts a ballot into a ballot box at Tiger Gym in Biddeford on Nov. 3, 2020. Biddeford, along with several other York County communities, applied for and received grant funding to help pay election expenses during this pandemic year from the Chicago-based nonprofit Center for Tech and Civic Life. Tammy Wells Photo A nonprofit agency has distributed grants to 2,500 communities across the country, including several locally, to help pay for COVID-19 election related expenses like additional voting booths, outside ballot boxes, personal protective equipment, laptops, wages, cleaning, and more. ....