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09/14/202020-306
09/14/2020
20-306
Health & Community Services
Resolve
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Title, Resolve
Authorizing the City Manager to Accept and Appropriate $358,399 for the Supplemental Nutrition Education
(SNAP ED) Grant Program from the University of New England for a One Year Period Beginning October 1,
2020.
This Resolve Authorizes the City Manager to Accept and Appropriate $358,399 from the University of
New England for the Supplemental Nutrition Education Program (SNAP ED). FY21 is year three of a
five-year grant to provide nutrition education to SNAP eligible residents of Penobscot and Piscataquis
counties.
These are federal funds, passed from USDA through Maine's Office of Family Independence to the
University of New England who manages the SNAP Education Program statewide.
Bangor Public Health has been administering the SNAP education program locally since 2012.
Government Operations Committee
09/21/2020
Recommend for passage
First Reading & Referral
Government Operations Committee
09/14/202020-306
CITY OF BANGOR RESOLVE
09/14/2020
20-306
Sprague
Authorizing the City Manager to Accept and Appropriate $358,399 for the Supplemental Nutrition Education
(SNAP ED) Grant Program from the University of New England for a One Year Period Beginning October 1,
2020.
Whereas; The City of Bangor's Public Health Department has been administering a SNAP ED Program since
2012, and
Whereas; grant funding in the amount of $358,399 is available through the University of New England to
support this program, and
Whereas; the City of Bangor wished to continue to provide this program.
Be it Resolved by the City Council of the City of Bangor that, the City Manager is authorized to Accept and
Appropriate $358,399 for the Supplemental Nutrition Education Grant Program from the University of New
England for a One Year Period Beginning October 1, 2020.
IN CITY COUNCIL
SEPTEMBER 14,2020
CR 20-306
Motion made and seconded for First Reading and Referral to Government Operations Committee Meeting of September 21,
2020
Vote: 8—0
Councilors Voting Yes: Fournier,Hawes,Nichols, Schaefer, Sprague, Supica, Tremble,Davitt
Councilors Voting No: None
Passed
CITY CLERK
IN CITY COUNCIL
SEPTEMBER 28,2020
CR 20-306
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
CITY CLERK