Ed Tolan, executive director of the Maine Chiefs of Police Association, the agency which established the Maine Law Enforcement Accreditation Program a few years ago, made the presentation Oct. 19.
The board earmarked $1.54 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act funds for the dredge, designed to keep channels open and supply sand to nourish eroding beaches up and down the York County coast and beyond.
Maine's county and city governments received a total of $191 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding, but the majority of the money hasn't been spent. Officials say they're deliberately sitting on the money.