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20-159 05/11/2020
CITY COUNCIL ACTION
Council Meeting Date: May 11, 2020
Item No: 20-159
Responsible Dept: Legal
Action Requested: Ordinance Map/Lot: N/A
Amending Chapter 28, City Departments, by Moving Responsibility for Oversight of the City's Stormwater
System from the Water Quality Management Department to the Engineering Department
Summary
This ordinance amendment would move responsibility for oversight of the City's stormwater system from the
Water Quality Management Department to the Engineering Department.
The City has a number of stormwater responsibilities, including maintaining stormwater infrastructure,
enforcing stormwater maintenance requirements, overseeing the stormwater utility, and ensuring compliance
with state and federal laws and rules. While a number of different City departments are involved in different
City stormwater responsibilities, oversight of City stormwater efforts in recent years has primarily been through
the Engineering Department. This ordinance amendment would recognize this by making the Engineering
Department responsible for overseeing and supervising the stormwater system.
This amendment addresses the goal of demonstrating leadership in storm water management to protect
surface water.
Committee Action
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Action:
Staff Comments & Approvals
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Introduced for: First Reading and Referral
CITY COUNCIL ORDINANCE
Date: May 11, 2020
Assigned to Councilor: Schaefer
20-159 05/11/2020
ORDINANCE, Amending Chapter 28, City Departments, by Moving Responsibility for Oversight of the City's
Stormwater System from the Water Quality Management Department to the Engineering Department
WHEREAS, the City has a number of stormwater responsibilities, including maintaining stormwater
infrastructure, enforcing stormwater maintenance requirements, overseeing the stormwater utility, and
ensuring compliance with state and federal laws and rules; and
WHEREAS, oversight of City stormwater efforts is now primarily through the Engineering Department;
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BANGOR AS FOLLOWS, THAT
Chapter 28 of the Code of the City of Bangor is amended as follows:
Article XVIII Water Quality Management Department
§ 28-61 Powers and duties.
It shall be the function of the Water Quality Management Department to oversee and supervise the operations
of the wastewater treatment plant,— and the wastewater collection system, and the steFn9wateF systeng.
Article XVIII Engineering Department
§ 28-86 Powers and duties.
It shall be the function of the Engineering Department:
G. Stormwater. To oversee and supervise the operations of the stormwater system.
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IN CITY COUNCIL
MAY 11,2020
Cord 20-159
Motion made and seconded for First Reading and Referral to Infrastructure Committee Meeting of May 19,2020
Vote: 8—0
Councilors Voting Yes: Fournier,Hawes,Nichols, Okafor, Schaefer, Sprague,Tremble,Davitt
Councilors Voting No: None
Passed
CIT CLERV
IN CITY COUNCIL
MAY 27,2020
Cord 20-20-159
Motion made and seconded for Passage
Vote: 9—0
Councilors Voting Yes: Fournier,Hawes,Nichols, Okafor, Schaefer, Sprague, Supica,Tremble,Davitt
Councilors Voting No: None
Passed
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