|  | This bill amends the procedures for adopting a budget for | 
| Sagadahoc County.  Under current law, the county commissioners | 
| submit a budget estimate to an advisory committee that makes | 
| recommendations back to the commissioners; but the budget is | 
| adopted by a majority vote of the county commissioners.  Under | 
| the bill, the county commissioners will submit a budget | 
| estimate to a budget committee that will conduct at least one | 
| public hearing in each of the 3 commissioner districts and the | 
| budget committee is responsible for final adoption of the | 
| county budget and any later amendments to it.  The bill | 
| retains the same make up of the advisory committee for the | 
| budget committee; that is, from each commissioner district, 2 | 
| elected municipal officials and one public member.  The bill | 
| provides that members currently serving on the advisory | 
| committee will serve on the budget committee until the terms | 
| for which they were elected expire. |