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MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING BANGOR CITY COUNCIL – NOVEMBER 13, 2013
Meeting called to Order at 7:30 PM
Chaired by Councilor Sprague
Councilors Absent: Blanchette
Meeting adjourned at 8:07 PM
PUBLIC COMMENT Skip Black of Larkin Street congratulated Benjamin Sprague on
becoming Bangor’s newest mayor. He also informed the Council on
an abandoned building on the waterfront, and would like to have
something done about this.
Charles Boothby of Kenduskeag Avenue spoke about the Cross Center
and how far of a walk it is for people that want to vote. He asked how
this would be handled in the future when the new hotel will be built in
the Spring.
CONSENT AGENDA ASSIGNED TO
ITEM NO. COUNCILOR
MINUTES OF: Bangor City Council Meeting of October 28, 2013, Government
Operations Committee Meeting of August 5, 2013 and November 4,
2013.
Action: Accepted and Approved
14-002 ORDER Authorizing Execution of Municipal Quitclaim Deed – Real Estate BLANCHETTE
Located at 50 Grove Street
Action: Passed
14-003 ORDER Acknowledging Receipt of the Official Results and the Declaration CIVIELLO
Results of the November 5, 2013 State Referendum & Municipal
Elections
Action: Passed
14-004 ORDER Authorizing the City Manager to Execute a Memorandum of NEALLEY
Understanding with Sebasticook Valley Health as the Fiscal Agent for
Healthy Sebasticook Valley
Action: Passed
14-005 ORDER Authorizing Settlement of Worker’s Compensation Claim – Thomas DURGIN
Goehringer
Action: Passed
REFERRALS TO COMMITTEE AND FIRST READING ASSIGNED TO
ITEM NO. COUNCILOR
14-006 ORDINANCE Amending Land Development Code – Contract Zone Change – 2 SPRAGUE
Fourteenth Street from Urban Residence One District to a Contract
Urban Residence Two District
Action: First Reading and Referral to Planning Board Meeting of November
19, 2013
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MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING BANGOR CITY COUNCIL – NOVEMBER 13, 2013
REFERRALS TO COMMITTEE AND FIRST READING ASSIGNED TO
ITEM NO. COUNCILOR
14-007 RESOLVE Authorizing the City Manager to Accept and Appropriate $32,518 in DURGIN
McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Funds from the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for the period
12/31/2013 to 12/30/2014
Action: First Reading and Referral to Government Operations Committee
Meeting of November 19, 2013
14-008 RESOLVE Authorizing the City Manager to Accept and Appropriate $117,535 in BLANCHETTE
McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Funds from the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for the period
12/1/2013 to 11/30/2014
Action: First Reading and Referral to Government Operations
Committee Meeting of November 19, 2013
14-009 ORDINANCE Enacting a Moratorium on Expansion of Buprenorphine Treatment CIVIELLO
Facilities
Action: First Reading and Referral to Government Operations Committee of
November 19, 2013
UNFINISHED BUSINESS ASSIGNED TO
ITEM NO. COUNCILOR
13-349 ORDINANCE Amending Chapter 260, Signs, of the Code of the City of Bangor, By NEALLEY
Providing for a Sign for the Bass Park District
Action: Motion made and seconded for Passage
Vote: 8-0
Councilors Voting Yes: Baldacci, Civiello, Durgin, Gallant, Graham,
Nealley, Plourde, Sprague
Councilors Voting No: None
Passed
13-350 ORDINANCE Amending Land Development Code – Contract Zone Change – 76 GALLANT
Dutton Street from General Commercial & Service, Urban Residence 2
and Urban Service District to Contract Bass Park District
Action: Motion made and seconded for Passage
Vote: 8-0
Councilors Voting Yes: Baldacci, Civiello, Durgin, Gallant, Graham,
Nealley, Plourde, Sprague
Councilors Voting No: None
Passed
13-351 ORDINANCE Enacting a Moratorium on Certificates of Occupancy for Facilities BALDACCI
Providing Suboxone Treatment
Action: Motion made and seconded to postpone until the 11/25/13 Council
Meeting
Passed
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MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING BANGOR CITY COUNCIL – NOVEMBER 13, 2013
UNFINISHED BUSINESS ASSIGNED TO
ITEM NO. COUNCILOR
13-352 RESOLVE Accepting and Appropriating funding in CIVIELLO
the amount of $19,480 from the Maine
Health Access Foundation
Action: Motion made and seconded for Passage
Passed
NEW BUSINESS ASSIGNED TO
ITEM NO. COUNCILOR
14-010 ORDER Appointing Nominees to Various Boards, DURGIN
Commissions, and Committees
Motion made and seconded for Passage
Passed
14-011 ORDER Accepting $6,834.50 in Donations from BALDACCI
various Individuals, Businesses, and the
Dinner Fundraiser for the Continuation
of the Community Connector Odlin Road
Bus Route
Action: Motion made and seconded for Passage
Passed
14-012 ORDER Authorizing Grant of $2,000 to the GALLANT
Downtown Bangor Partnership to
Support the Downtown Countdown New
Year’s Eve Event
Action: Motion made and seconded for Passage
Passed
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