HomeMy WebLinkAbout1986-03-12 86-113 ORDER86.113
Introduced by Councilor McCarthy, March 12: 1986
CITY OF BANGOR
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Carter - Deis of Municipal Flection
By EMC y Gerard of City of Banger.
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TEAT the Bangor City Council, by adoption of this Order, does hereby
determine that an ameafnent to the Bangor City Carter Providing for a charge
n the data of the municipal election to the same date for the election of
members of the State Legislature and the Governor should he considered, and he
it further
ORDERED, If NT the City Clerk is hereby directed, pursuant to 30 M.R.S.A.
SS 1911 at seq., as Amended, to provide for published notice of a hearing to
be held at 7,'7tfAf on Ns"-/ SVS , 1986 in the City Council
Chashers, for purposes of r vim public input on a proposed amendnent to
the Eangor City Charter, the test of said proposed mend1ment and a brief
explanation thereof being as follows:
THAT the first paragraph of Sec. 1, Article IV. Eamor City Charter,
is hereby sorbed to read as follows:
SEC. 1. hete of elections and procedure to determine results.
At the first election after this Charter is in force, to be held on
the first Monday in December, A.D. nineteen hurelad thirty-one, the
qualified voters of the city shall ballot for nine councilman, and
the qualified voters of each ward shall at the same time ballot for
warden and a ward clerk for his ward, and thereafter on hveQn4
MOMepit.-dY•Aae the Tuasda� following the firat Monday of November
in each year a regular mwicrpel election shall he held aM the -
qualified voters Of the city shall ballot for councilmen to fill
the office of the councilmen Minae terms of office expire that year,
and the qualified voters of each ward shall, at the sane time, ballot
to fill the office of wooden or ward clerk which shall expire that
War. Wardens and warl clacks shall be elected in alternate Were
for a tun -year term of office.
Explanation: She purpose of this amendment is to change the date of
the annual municipal election from the second Morday in October to time
Tuesday following the first Monday in November, the date established
under the Constitution of the State of Maine for the election of the
Governor and assists of the Legislature.
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CFPy OF B.9NKKR
PUBLIC =CE
PLEASE TAKE lYY1'ICE '1 T the Bangor City Council, Municipal Officers of
the City of Bangor, will hold a public hearing on March 24, 1986 at 7:30 P.M.
in the City Council Chambers, Fenger City Hall, 73 Harlw, Street, Bangor,
Maine, for purposes of receiving public input on a proposed mmendnent to the
Bangor City Charter. The amendment, if adopted, would change the date of the
annual municipal election. The text of the proposed amendment, and a brief
explanation thereof, is as follows:
Proposed hummoment: 1HAT the first paragraph of Sec. 1, article rv,
Bangor City Charter, be amended to real as follows:
SEC. 1. Date of elections and procedure to determine results.
At the first election after this Charter is in force, to he
held on the first Monday in Meanest, A. U. nineteen hundred
thirty-one, the qualified voters of the city shall ballot for
nine coamcLlnen, and the qualified voters of each ward shall at
the same time ballot for a warden and a ward clerk for his ward,
and thereafter on the-�nd Moeiaydn-&:to4er the Tuesday following
the first Monday of Mc Vr in each year a regular municipal
election shall be held and the qualified voters of the city
shall ballot for councilman to fill the office of the councilmen
whose terms of office expire that year, and the qualified voters
of each ward shall, at the same time, ballot to fill the office
of warden or ward clerk which shall expire that year. Wardens
and ward clerks shall be elected in alternate years for a
two-year term of office.
Explanation: the purpose of this amendment is to change the date of the
annual municipal election fres the second Monday in October to the Tuesday
following the first Monday in November, the date established under the
Constitution of the State of Maine for the election of the Governor and
members of the Ce9 islature.
March 19, 1986 Russell J. McKenna
City Clerk
and be it turtner,
oR MD, 1AAT the City Clerk take all necessary action at least 2 weeks
prior to said Special Election to provide information for Eangor voters on
said proposed anenM t as required under 30 M.R.S.A. 9 1915(3).
ad be it further,
ORDERED, 1EAT if said aneea8aent is adopted by the voters at said Special
Election it shall take effect m July 1, 1986.