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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1972-03-27 127-Z ORDER12/-z Introduced by Councilor Henderson, March 27, 1972 CITY OF BANGOR (TITLE.) (orbtrr, _ Providing for _Temporary Housing. for Homeless Persons By the City Gunwi! of City ofBaessr: ORDERED, THAT WHEREAS, ther a exists a problem of inadequate housing for homeless people in Bangor, WHEREAS, the Inner Cities Ministries of the Emmanuel Baptist Church, 255 Pine Street, Bangor has housed approximately twenty men at said church on aa emergency basis, WHEREAS, the Health Officer of the City of Bangor has deemed the existing arrangement at said church as unacceptable except as a temporary situation, WHEREAS, the problem of such housing, and public responsibility will become much more acute due to the Imminent closing of said church because of financl al reasons, WHEREAS, sufficient time does not exist to construct a new facility, through public or private means, before the church closes its operations, BE IT, THEREFORE, ORDERED that an amount of money, to be approved by the finance committee of the City Council, be appropriated which will allow the continuance of the residence program at 255 Pine Street for not more than two (2) months, and BE IT FURTHER ORDERED that the City Manager is authorized to pay said amount to the appropriate officials of the Inner Cities Ministries, and BE IT FURTHER ORDERED that the City Manager be authorised and directed to acquire (by purchase, lease or otherwise), equip, staff and operate, by June 1, 1972, a facility suitable for housing 30 to 40 homeless persona on a basis similar to the "First Step" program currently operated at the Don er Cities Ministries, such facility to be located in anarea reasonably convenient to the existing church structure, and BE IT FURTHER ORDERED that this order shall be reconsidered upon the provision of such a facility for such purposes by other agencies, private or public. PLCEIVED 1272 Mak 43 PM k; 01 carr a_EFM'S OFF EF .. ,'4s„eT rzC.M1F IN CITY Cp NCIL MaKh 27, 1972 127-Z ORDER Title, Providing Temporary Housing for Homele95 Pe.taona... .............................. Amended to read 155 Pine Street, Introduced and filed by failed passage because motion �f roc seconded. �rWl 0•/Jdi�.. ///1' Councilsan PTY