The Bar Harbor municipal budget cleared the first hurdle — Town Council scrutiny — as the last of three budget workshops wrapped up on Jan. 26.
In its current incarnation, Bar Harbor’s proposed town budget for fiscal year 2013 will result in a 4.4 percent increase in property taxes. The budget is slated to increase by $4,514,189, to $22,019,378, a 25.8 percent increase over the current year. This is slightly …
