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Kennebunk subcommittee recommends $56,500 for social service agencies in FY27 budget
Summary
At a Jan. 14, 2026 Select Board subcommittee meeting, members reviewed 12 requests and recommended $56,500 in allocations for 11 nonprofit agencies to carry forward into the town's February budget discussions.
At a Jan. 14, 2026 meeting, the Select Board’s Social Service Agencies Subcommittee recommended $56,500 in town funding for fiscal-year 2027, to be considered during upcoming budget meetings in February.
Finance Director Kayla Tierney provided the subcommittee with an updated memo and spreadsheet showing agency mission statements, services provided, prior-year funding use, total clients served and counts of Kennebunk clients. The application period was reopened with a Jan. 7, 2026 deadline, and four additional requests arrived during that extension, bringing the FY27 total to 12 requests representing $66,000.
Town staff had initially recommended funding 11 of the 12 requests totaling $55,500. The subcommittee reviewed requests alphabetically, made a small number of adjustments to recommended amounts and settled on a final recommendation of $56,500 across 11 organizations. That recommendation will be forwarded to the town’s budget discussions in February.
The subcommittee’s recommended allocations are: A Place to Start — $3,500; Community Gourmet — $6,000; Community Harvest — $11,250; Community Outreach Services (COS) — $15,000; Day One — $1,500; Kennebunk Land Trust — $0 (no funding recommended); LifeFlight — $1,000; Southern Maine Agency on Aging — $5,500; Sweetser — $2,000; The American Red Cross — $500; The Center — $3,000; York County Community Action — $7,250. The memo attached to the meeting records increases or decreases from FY26 for each line item.
For comparison, the FY26 process produced 16 requests totaling $76,161; 14 organizations were recommended during that process and the adopted FY26 budget included $60,000 in social service funding. The meeting minutes note that four organizations that received FY26 funding did not apply for FY27.
The minutes do not record a formal roll-call vote on the subcommittee recommendation. The meeting was called to order in Town Hall Room 306 and adjourned at 12:08 p.m.; minutes were prepared by Finance Director Kayla Tierney.
