Rockport budget grows by 3 percent

Rockport's proposed municipal budget for fiscal year 2012-13 continues a trend of keeping expenditures well below the cap on increases imposed by LD 1, the state law signed by Gov. John Baldacci in 2005 that was designed to reduce Mainers' property tax burden. Because Rockport's budgets over the last five years or more have averaged more than 10 percent below the allowable level of growth in the amount to be ...