An Act To
Maine Legislature, Session 126, LD 1084
Committee Amendment CA_A_S153 (Senate)

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A " to S.P. 366, L.D. 1084, Bill, "An Act To 
Amend the Androscoggin County Charter" 
Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following: 
'Resolve, Directing the Androscoggin County Commissioners To Make Changes to 
the Androscoggin County Charter' 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the title and inserting the following: 
'Sec. 1. Androscoggin County Commissioners to make changes to the 
Androscoggin County charter. 
Resolved: 
That, notwithstanding the Maine 
Revised Statutes, Title 30-A, section 1324, the Androscoggin County Commissioners are 
directed to make the following ;;hanges to the Androscoggin County charter. 
1. The charter must be amended in section 2.2 to add language that allows the board 
to arrange by contract to have functions of one or more municipalities, the State, federal 
agencies, special districts or public or private entities to be transferred to and be 
performed by the county. 
2. The charter must be amended in section 3.1 to indicate that new commissioners 
elected take office January 1, 2015, except that a commissioner elected prior to the 
establishment of the new commissioner districts serves the remainder of that 
commissioner's term representing the commissioner district that contains that 
commissioner's place of residence; to eliminate the subsection establishing a special 
election for transitional terms; and to provide that, beginning January 1, 2015, terms of 
the commissioners are for 4 years, except that commissioners originally elected for tenns 
extending beyond December 31, 2013 serve the balance of their terms, and one newly 
elected commissioner in district 2, 4 or 6 serves a transitional term of 2 years and 
commissioners elected to succeed those 3 serve 4-year terms. 
3. The charter must be amended in subsection 5.5.3 to provide that the budget 
committee only approves a final proposed budget to be submitted to the board for its 
approval, rather than adopting a fInal budget that is transmitted to the board. 
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4. The charter must be amended in subsection 5.5.4 to give the board the authority to 
modify the proposed budget and to adopt the final budget and to require the board to vote 
to adopt the final budget. I 
SUM:MARY 
This amendment is the majority report of the committee and replaces the bill. In 
November 2012 changes to the Androscoggin County charter were presented to the 
voters at a countywide vote and accepted by the voters of Androscoggin County pursuant 
to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 3D-A, section 1324. After the charter was filed with 
the Secretary of State, it was realized that the wrong charter had been voted on; the 
changes included in this amendment were the intent of the charter commission and were 
presented by the county charter members at public presentations and at a county 
commission meeting. The purpose of this amendment is to allow the board of county 
commissioners of Androscoggin County to make the changes to the charter that would 
have been voted on in November without incurring the expenses of another countywide 
vote. 
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