Background
The Committee on State and Local Government will hold a Public Hearing on Monday, March 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM at
📍 Cross Building, Room 214, 111 Sewall St., Augusta, to discuss LD 542 "An Act Regarding Municipal Property Tax Levy Limits."
If you want to read LD 542, click here: https://legislature.maine.gov/legis/bills/display_ps.asp?PID=1456&snum=132&paper=&paperld=l&ld=542
If you pick through the left side menu, you can find all kinds of good info!
In lieu of personally testifying in support of this bill, you may testify via Zoom, or by online testimony using the following link: https://www.mainelegislature.org/testimony/. Do this prior to the public hearing.
See below for EVERYTHING you're going to need to get this done, including testimony!
🔹 Steps to submit testimony online:
1️⃣ Click: "Public Hearing".
2️⃣ Choose a committee: "State and Local Government" - using the drop-down menu.
3️⃣ Choose date: March 17, 2025, 10:00 AM - using the drop-down menu.
4️⃣ Click: LD 542
5️⃣ Enter your testimony in the box (or click the checkbox if you want to testify via Zoom).
6️⃣ Complete your contact information.
7️⃣ Click: "I'm not a robot"
8️⃣ Click: "Submit/Register".
Action Time-Window
⚠️ Please consider taking action by March 15, 2025.
Template
The below is a community member's testimony. Feel free to use it, something of your own, or something as simple as "I support LD 542, and it "ought to pass." To get other wording ideas, as online testimony is submitted for this bill, you can see it here: https://legislature.maine.gov/ctl/SLG/03-17-2025?panel=0&time=0&sortdir=0&sortby=2 after clicking on the bill number.
I support LD 542 “An Act Regarding Municipal Property Tax Levy Limits.”
This bill establishes municipal property tax levy limits and allows for those limits to be exceeded only under certain specified circumstances.
Per the “Maine Wire” article dated Feb 18, 2025: “Most notably, Maine taxpayers have the highest property tax burden — and the fourth highest tax burden overall — when the amount owed to the government is taken as a percentage of residents’ personal income.”
I feel this bill, when enacted into law, would help to safeguard us property owners from municipal governments who wish to increase our property tax burden to an unsustainable amount.
I support LD542”, and it “ought to pass.”
Credit for the above goes to our community member Danny (@DannyEmerson61) from the South Berwick Republican Committee (@BerwickSouth).
Disclaimer
A community member has shared this personal template for those who wish to express their views on LD 542. This template is not an official PTP position, and using it is entirely up to you. Pine Tree Patriots encourages civic participation but does not endorse or support specific actions or policies. Please remember this is an individual initiative.
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