{"id":12750,"date":"2026-09-25T19:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T19:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stage.pressherald.com\/voter-guide\/referendums\/old-orchard-beach-communications-center-bond\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T14:16:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T14:16:40","slug":"old-orchard-beach-communications-center-bond","status":"publish","type":"referendum","link":"https:\/\/stage.pressherald.com\/voter-guide\/referendums\/old-orchard-beach-communications-center-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Orchard Beach communications center bond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e44e021b wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-h-4-font-size\">Read more<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-left is-style-short-red\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-portland-press-herald wp-block-embed-the-portland-press-herald\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"tq5HxUjjPW\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2026\/08\/28\/scarborough-old-orchard-beach-could-vote-on-7m-communications-upgrade-in-november\/\">Scarborough, Old Orchard Beach could vote on $7M communications upgrade in November<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cScarborough, Old Orchard Beach could vote on $7M communications upgrade in November\u201d \u2014 The Portland Press Herald\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2026\/08\/28\/scarborough-old-orchard-beach-could-vote-on-7m-communications-upgrade-in-november\/embed\/#?secret=SlpDqlwqoz#?secret=tq5HxUjjPW\" data-secret=\"tq5HxUjjPW\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The people of Old Orchard Beach will vote on a $3.3 million bond referendum to support proposed replacement of an outdated radio communications system used by the public safety, public service and school departments of OOB and Scarborough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"voter_guide_referendum_type":"","voter_guide_referendum_needs":"","voter_guide_referendum_fiscal_impact":"The total cost associated with the referendum is $3,878,243.","voter_guide_referendum_effective_if_passed":"","voter_guide_referendum_sponsor":"","voter_guide_referendum_signatures_required":"","voter_guide_referendum_signatures_collected":"","voter_guide_referendum_legislative_action":"","voter_guide_referendum_on_ballot_since":"","voter_guide_referendum_vote_yes_means":"The town will spend $3,300,000 on new radio frequency equipment.","voter_guide_referendum_vote_no_means":"The town would have to find other ways to fund the project or return to voters at a later date.","voter_guide_referendum_related_links":"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2026\/08\/28\/scarborough-old-orchard-beach-could-vote-on-7m-communications-upgrade-in-november\/","_speedyseo_primary_vg_referendum_type":"","footnotes":""},"vg_scope":[899],"vg_municipality":[1166,1170],"vg_referendum_type":[],"class_list":["post-12750","referendum","type-referendum","status-publish","hentry","vg_scope-local","vg_municipality-old-orchard-beach","vg_municipality-scarborough"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.pressherald.com\/voter-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/referendums\/12750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.pressherald.com\/voter-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/referendums"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.pressherald.com\/voter-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/referendum"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stage.pressherald.com\/voter-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/referendums\/12750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13454,"href":"https:\/\/stage.pressherald.com\/voter-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/referendums\/12750\/revisions\/13454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.pressherald.com\/voter-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"vg_scope","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.pressherald.com\/voter-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vg_scope?post=12750"},{"taxonomy":"vg_municipality","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.pressherald.com\/voter-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vg_municipality?post=12750"},{"taxonomy":"vg_referendum_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.pressherald.com\/voter-guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vg_referendum_type?post=12750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}