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Maine Funeral Board sends complaint 2025-FUN-20829 to adjudicatory hearing, offers consent agreement with warning
Summary
On Sept. 9, 2025, the State of Maine Board of Funeral Service voted to set complaint 2025-FUN-20829 for an adjudicatory hearing while offering the respondent the option of a consent agreement that would include a warning; the motion passed 4–1 (one abstention).
The State of Maine Board of Funeral Service voted Sept. 9, 2025, to set complaint 2025-FUN-20829 for an adjudicatory hearing and to offer a consent agreement that would include a warning. Board member Thomas Newhall moved the motion and Julie Ann Johnson seconded; the motion passed with four in favor and one abstention.
The decision directs that the complaint proceed to the board's formal adjudicatory process rather than be dismissed or resolved administratively without a hearing. The minutes identify the motion text as setting the matter for an adjudicatory hearing while providing the option of a consent agreement including a warning; no hearing date is listed in the minutes.
The board record lists Peter Arsenault as chair and notes other meeting participants including Candice Wright, acting board manager/consumer assistance and hearing coordinator; Reid Hayton-Hull, AAG; and Tammy Reed, board clerk. The complaint appears on the meeting record under case number 2025-FUN-20829; the minutes do not disclose details of the underlying allegations in the complaint.
The board took the action during what the minutes describe as the complaint presentations portion of the agenda. The minutes do not record any public comment on the complaint, and no written consent agreement text or proposed sanction beyond the word "warning" appears in the excerpted record. Next procedural steps (hearing date, prehearing deadlines or staff assignments) are not specified in the provided minutes.
