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Select Board approves routine business, renews school disbursement policy and changes school account signer
Summary
The Town of Blue Hill Select Board on July 13 voted unanimously on several routine items — approving minutes and a mobile vending permit, renewing the municipal education cost disbursement policy, authorizing an MOU signature and updating signatories on a school checking account — and directed staff to address account consolidation.
The Town of Blue Hill Select Board approved a package of routine items at its July 13 meeting, voting on minutes, a vendor permit, a policy renewal, an MOU authorization and a change to a school checking account signer.
By unanimous 5–0 votes the Board approved the minutes of July 6, 2026; granted a single-event mobile vending permit to Tapley Oyster Cove; renewed the Municipal Education Cost Disbursement Policy for the 2026–27 school year as required by applicable Maine statute; and authorized A. Woog to sign a revised Island Institute fellowship memorandum of understanding that requires the Fellow to follow Town Office employee policies. The MOU item included a staff note that housing for the Fellow has not yet been secured.
On the school account matter, M. Cousins reported she had spoken with J. Atwell, School Union 93 business manager, who said the Bar Harbor Bank & Trust account was being used as petty cash with expenditures approved after the fact. S. Miller urged transferring the funds into the school’s regular account used for accounts payable and payroll and closing the secondary BHBT account. The Board voted 5–0 to remove D. Ormsby and L. Smith as signatories and to add M. Cousins as the sole signatory on the account; the Board did not record a separate motion to move the funds during the meeting but members signaled intent to consolidate the school’s accounts in the coming weeks.
All votes reported in the meeting record were unanimous except where noted; minutes reflect the Board’s direction to pursue administrative follow-up to ensure funds are held in the appropriate account.
