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City council examines challenges to budget
South Portland s finance director presented impact factors on the city s fiscal year 2022 budget.
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SOUTH PORTLAND With COVID-19 impacting several facets of the city’s budget, the challenge moving into fiscal year 2022 will be keeping tax rates down, city councilors said on Jan. 5.
City Manager Scott Morelli is planning on presenting a budget proposal to city council on March 15, he said during the fiscal year 2022 budget guidance workshop.
The pandemic has impacted a variety of variables for the budget, Finance Director Greg L’Heureux said. In April of 2020, the city had planned to complete a property reevaluation but due to shutdowns, the process was delayed a year.
City council approves purchase of the piggery
The city will purchase the property for $1.5 million with a plan to resell a portion.
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SOUTH PORTLAND In a 5-0 vote on Dec. 22, the city council approved the $1.5 million purchase of “the piggery” property, addressing the need to preserve green space despite financial risk.
The six-acre property, sitting in between Sawyer Street and the Willard Square neighborhood, off of Broadway, is one of the largest undeveloped parcels in South Portland, said a 2019
Press Herald article by Kelley Bouchard.
A developer, Dan White of HW Fine Homes in Portland, is willing to work with the city in preserving part of the land, Morelli said. White needs to seek planning board approval for his development project, which is not expected to happen until late summer 2021, and then purchase a portion of the property back from the city.