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Committee backs funding mechanism to address $32 million backlog at state historic sites
Summary
The Joint Standing Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry on April 1 recommended passage of LD 761, a measure aimed at funding maintenance, preservation and promotion of state‑owned historic sites after witnesses and the sponsor described a roughly $32 million backlog.
The Joint Standing Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry on April 1 heard testimony and voted to recommend passage of LD 761, an act to support the maintenance, preservation and promotion of state historic sites. Senator Nicole Grochowski, the bill sponsor, said the Bureau of Parks and Lands estimated a maintenance backlog across nearly 20 state-owned historic sites at roughly $32,000,000, and the bill proposes a transfer mechanism that would make up to $18,000,000 available to a non‑lapsing account if the State ends the fiscal year with a surplus.
Why it matters: Friends groups and local officials told the committee the lack of dedicated funding has left some sites—most notably Fort George in Castine—unsafe and effectively closed to…
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