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Penobscot County draft seeks $8 million from governor for jail costs, plans legislative visits to Augusta
Summary
County leaders discussed a revised letter asking the governor for $8,000,000 tied to jail/corrections funding, prepared supporting fact sheets, and agreed to pursue meetings in Augusta with legislators and appropriations chairs to press the request.
At a Penobscot County commission workshop, commissioners reviewed a revised draft letter to the governor seeking additional funding to address county corrections costs and infrastructure strains.
Speaker 2 summarized the draft and said the commission was "requesting $8,000,000 to alleviate the lease on the onboarding cost" the county is forecasting. The draft, as described in the meeting, also "includes the 2,000,000 per per annum for previous 3 years" (language used in the transcript).…
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