| This bill amends the procedures for adopting a budget for |
| Sagadahoc County. Under current law, the county commissioners |
| submit a budget estimate to an advisory committee that makes |
| recommendations back to the commissioners; but the budget is |
| adopted by a majority vote of the county commissioners. Under |
| the bill, the county commissioners will submit a budget |
| estimate to a budget committee that will conduct at least one |
| public hearing in each of the 3 commissioner districts and the |
| budget committee is responsible for final adoption of the |
| county budget and any later amendments to it. The bill |
| retains the same make up of the advisory committee for the |
| budget committee; that is, from each commissioner district, 2 |
| elected municipal officials and one public member. The bill |
| provides that members currently serving on the advisory |
| committee will serve on the budget committee until the terms |
| for which they were elected expire. |