Budge v. Town of Millinocket

[¶ 1] Norman E. Budge and twenty-eight additional parties1 (collectively, employees) appeal from a summary judgment of the Superior Court (Penobscot County, Marden, J.) in favor of the Town of Millinocket. This appeal concerns three issues: (1) whether a 1991 personnel policy adopted as a town ordinance created an enforceable contract between the Town and its employees; (2) whether the Town is bound to pay the employees’ retirement group hospitalization and life insurance premiums by virtue of promissory estop-pel; and (3) whether the Town’s reduction in benefits resulted in a taking without…