LEWISTON — The June 10 vote to select the Lewiston Auburn Charter Commission looks to be fairly inexpensive based on candidate spending.
The 12 candidates for the six open seats were required to submit their campaign spending forms to their city clerks by 4:30 p.m. Friday.
Clerks in both cities said most candidates have spent very little in their efforts to get elected.
In Lewiston, candidate Lucien Gosselin spent $350 of his money to purchase promotional cards and signs. Richard Grandmaison and his wife used $233.87 of their money to purchase newspaper advertisements, and Chantel Pettengill spent $31 of her money on promotional cards.
The remaining Lewiston candidates, Charles Soule, David Chittim and Eugene Geiger, reported no campaign contributions or spending.
In Auburn, candidate Chip Morrison spent $237.38 for campaign yard signs. The remaining candidates reported no spending or donations. They are Alfreda Fournier, Holly Lasagna, John Spruill Jr., Michael Beaulieu and Verne Paradie Jr.
Voters go to the polls Tuesday, June 10, to select six people to sit on a charter commission. Those six — three from Auburn and three from Lewiston — will begin drafting a plan to make one larger city out of two medium-size ones.
They’ll write a new charter as well as a plan for all the other details. Those include what a new combined Lewiston-Auburn would be called, where its offices would be, how to divide it politically. Most importantly, they’ll decide how debt, city assets and services should be parsed up and paid off.
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