AUGUSTA (AP) — A state of Maine office will remain closed after lawmakers chose to table a bill on Wednesday that would have re-opened it.
Department of Administrative and Financial Services Commissioner Sawin Millett recently decided to close the Maine Revenue Services office in Houlton to save $900,000 over two years. Five of the jobs are moving to the Augusta office and nine jobs are being eliminated, said David Heidrich, spokesman for the Department of Administrative and Financial Services.
If it had been approved on Wednesday, the bill would have been taken up by the full Legislature during a special session today.
But Senate Democratic Leader Troy Jackson of Allagash, the bill’s sponsor, said Republican Gov. Paul LePage, who opposed the bill, told lawmakers he would rescind his order for a special session if the bill was advanced Wednesday.
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