Our Voice : Citizens For a Better Lebanon Maine

The Video and Research pages have been updated. This includes the preliminary Town and School budgets [Read more →]

Budget Committee meets to review the Transfer Station [Read more →]

The Budget Committee met to review the Recreation Budget and also had a visit by the School Superintendent Paul Andrade, and School Board member Joanne Potter to discuss the upcoming Budget for the schools.  [Read more →]

Video of the Selectmen and Budget Committee Meetings has been interrupted on the website do to problems with the free provider.  I haven’t been able to add videos to the library since [Read more →]

Our Transfer Station since September of this year has taken in 48 Tons of Tires. This fury of mysterious deliveries has cost us taxpayers more than $7,100 so far this year, and more than $18,000 in the past 3 1/2 years. [Read more →]

I have been looking through the expenses and Town reports and have put together a worksheet to analyze the expenses of Vendors and Town Wages. The worksheet provides a reasonable picture of the last 2 1/2 years of expenses by vendor / employee. [Read more →]

In the Town Report and as observed during the present budget process wages are displayed for town employees. The wages as listed do not include taxes and or benefits and retirement expenses. The town pays these [Read more →]

I added the most commented posts back to the main page of the website to allow residents who may be new with site to see what articles brought the most discussion. Although not the only indicator, comments are one [Read more →]

Its that time of the year.  Selectmen Cole sent me a message explaining how work has begun one the annual town report and they’re looking for anything people would like to suggest.
Any residents who may have pictures of events or buildings in Lebanon to please send [Read more →]

Meeting Highlights:

This week the Budget Committee reviews the Code Enforcement Officer (CEO) and Road Commissioners Budgets.

I would like to mention there were Three residents who came and observed. It is great to see people taking an interest in seeing for themselves how things are run and monies are handled. We need more involvement and support… [Read more →]

Shouldn’t we  start posting our available positions for 2010? I made a pass at the Road Commissioner posting, hopefully we can generate some interest in the lucrative position. [Read more →]

The Lebanon Fire Dept. & Ladies Auxiliary will be having a Boiled Dinner on Saturday March 13th from 5pm to 6:30pm at the East Lebanon Fire Station. [Read more →]

The citizen’s round table for this evening will be postponed. We may re-schedule for later this month. I will keep you posted.

Fellow Residents, I sit hear typing this post with a sense of consternation, aggravation and dismay. I would like You to take a moment to reflect and ask yourself a couple questions…

What do You expect of your Budget Committee and the Budget process?

What do You see as the Budget Committee’s  purpose and function?

What amount of influence, guidance, control, input and authority do you expect it has? [Read more →]

A benefit for juvenile diabetes research will be held June 5th from 10am – 4:30pm at the Rochester Fair Grounds. See this flier for details.

As we come out of yet another large storm, I think we all owe a big thanks to all the town departments that played a critical part in the response and clean up to the storm that started Thursday afternoon. I know that I only got about 6 hours sleep between 7am on Thursday and yesterday afternoon, like most volunteers did. [Read more →]

The Budget Committee met last evening to review the Fire Department budget. [Read more →]

The Budget Committee met last evening to review the Planning Board and Library budgets. [Read more →]

The Lebanon Rescue Chief’s weekly Report is available Here in PDF.

This is the first evening meeting of the Selectmen since 1/5/10. Meeting lasted roughly 7 1/2 minutes.

Meeting Highlights: [Read more →]

The Fire Department has placed information for residents to review online. The information may be found here https://www.lebanonmefire.org/Need_for_New_Truck.html I encourage residents to look at the information to gain an understanding.

Meeting Highlights:

• Minutes were read and approved
• The Budget Committee had not met in two weeks due to lack of Budgets being available from Selectmen. [Read more →]