HomeMy WebLinkAbout2022-04-25 City Council Minutes MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING BANGOR CITY COUNCIL—APRIL 25, 2022
Meeting Called to Order at 7.30 PM
Chaired by Council Chair Fournier
Councilors Absent:None
Meeting Adjourned at 8:08 PM
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PROCLAMATION Proclaimed April 29, 2022 as Arbor Day
PROCLAMATION Proclaimed May as Mental Health Awareness Month
PUBLIC COMMENT Larry Dansinger encouraged the City Council to continue
its work on affordable housing.
CONSENT AGENDA ASSIGNED TO
ITEM NO. COUNCILOR
*Explanatory Note:All items listed in the Consent Agenda are considered routine and are proposed for adoption by the City
Council by one motion without discussion or deliberation. If discussion on any item is desired any member of the Council or
public may merely request the removal of the item to its normal sequence in the regular agenda prior to a motion for the
passage of the Consent Agenda.
MINUTES OF. Bangor City Council Regular Meeting of April 11, 2022,Bangor School
Committee Meeting of March 30, 2022, Government Operations Committee
Meeting of January 19, 2022, Finance Committee Meeting of April 4, 2022,
Infrastructure Committee Minutes January 4, 2022 and February 8, 2022,Airport
Committee Meeting of April 4, 2022 and Business and Economic Development
Committee Meeting of April 19, 2022
Action: Accepted and Approved
LIQUOR LICENSE Application for Liquor License Renewal,Malt, Wine, and HAWES
RENEWALS. Spirits of Woodman's Brewing Company,LLC d/bla
Orono Brewing Company, 26 State Street
Action: Approved
22-152 ORDER Authorizing Execution of a Municipal Corrective YACOUBAGHA
Quitclaim Deed For 13 Mount Desert Drive
Action: Passed
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MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING BANGOR CITY COUNCIL—APRIL 25, 2022
CONSENTAGENDA ASSIGNED TO
ITEM NO. COUNCILOR
22-153 ORDER Appointing Nominees to Various Boards, Commissions, HAWES
and Committees
Action: Passed
22-154 ORDER Appointing Election Clerks TREMBLE
Action: Passed
22-155 ORDER Appointing Members to the Voter Registration Appeals TREMBLE
Board
Action: Passed
22-156 ORDER Authorizing Execution of a Contract for Pickering OKAFOR
Square Parking Garage Restoration,Phase 8 Contract
Award with Structural Preservation Systems,LLC. in the
Amount of$260,824
Action: Passed
22-157 ORDER Authorizing Execution of a Contract with Eurovia OKAFOR
Atlantic Coast DBA Northeast Paving for Services&
Materials-MDOT MPI 50150 Projects on State Street,
WIN#21932.22&Hancock Street WIN#24641.12 in the
Amount of$830,042
Action: Passed
22-158 ORDER Authorizing the City Manager to Execute Easement for SCHAEFER
Versant Power- Waterfront Concerts,Main Street
Action: Passed
22-159 ORDER Authorizing Purchase of a Replacement Forestry Division YACOUBAGHA
Bucket Truck from Freightliner of Maine
Action: Passed
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CONSENT AGENDA ASSIGNED TO
ITEM NO. COUNCILOR
22-160 ORDER Authorizing Purchase of Two Replacement Tandem-axle SPRAGUE
Cabs and Chassis with Dump Body and Plow Equipment
from Freightliner of Maine
Action: Passed
22-161 ORDER Authorizing the City Manager to Execute a Right-of- DAVITT
Entry Agreement Extension with the Department of the
Army
Action: Passed
22-162 RESOLVE Ratifying the City Manager's Action to Apply for a IM WES
Tobacco Prevention and Treatment Grant in the Amount
of$100,000 from the Maine Cancer Foundation
Action: Passed
REFERRALS TO COMMITTEE AND FIRST READING ASSIGNED TO
ITEM NO. COUNCILOR
22-163 ORDINANCE Amending Chapter 165,Land Development Code,District OKAFOR
Map, by changing an unaddressed 4,110 SFportion of
the Parcel of Land directly adjacent to land addressed at
130 Thirteenth Street from Government& Institutional
Service District(G&ISD) to Urban Residence I (URD-1)
Action: First Reading and Referral to Planning Board Meeting
on May 3, 2022
22-164 ORDINANCE Amending Chapter 165,Land Development Code,District DAVITT
Map, by changing the Parcel of Land addressed at 22
Cleveland Street from Shopping&Personal Service
District(S&PS) to Government& Institutional Service
District(G&ISD)
Action: First Reading and Referral to Planning Board Meeting
on May 3, 2022
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REFERRALS TO COMMITTEE AND FIRST READING ASSIGNED TO
ITEM NO. COUNCILOR
22-165 ORDINANCE Amending Chapter 116, Fire Prevention, to Allow for SCIMEFER
Automatic Updating of the National Fire Protection Code
(First Reading)
Action: First Reading
22-166 ORDINANCE Amending Chapter 211,Plumbing Code, to Allow for 11AWES
Automatic Updating of the Uniform Plumbing Code
(First Reading)
Action: First Reading
22-167 ORDINANCE Amending Chapter 120-13, Floodplain Management, TREMBLE
Word Usage;Definitions, to Allow for the City's
Engineer,Planning Officer, and Director of Code
Enforcement to Deem a Variance Appropriate
Action: First Reading
22-168 RESOLVE Authorizing the City Manager to Accept and YACOUBAGHA
Appropriate $3,460,873 in Grant Funding from the
Maine Department of Health and Human Services for
the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program
Action: First Reading
UNFINISHED BUSINESS ASSIGNED TO
ITEM NO. COUNCILOR
22-147 ORDINANCE Amending Chapter 165, Land Development Code, DAVITT
District Map, by changing the Parcel of Land addressed
at 64 West Street from Urban Residence 1 (URD-1) to
Urban Residence 2 (URD-2)
Action: Motion made and seconded for Passage
Vote: 8—0
Councilors Voting Yes: Davitt,Hawes, Okafor,
Schaefer, Tremble,Yacoubagha,Fournier
Councilors Voting No: None
Passed
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UNFINISHED BUSINESS ASSIGNED TO
ITEM NO. COUNCILOR
22-148 ORDINANCE Amending Chapter 165,Land Development Code,District SCHAEFER
Map, by changing the Parcel of Land addressed at 1456
Union Street from Rural Residence&Agriculture
(RR&A) to Government& Institutional Service District
(G&ISD)
Action: Motion made and seconded for Passage
Vote: 8—0
Councilors Voting Yes:Davitt,Hawes, Okafor,Schaefer,
Tremble, Yacoubagha, Fournier
Councilors Voting No:None
Passed
22-149 RESOLVE Authorizing the City Manager to Accept and Appropriate SPRAGUE
$18,124 from the Maine Department of Transportation
for the Purchase of a Service Vehicle for the Community
Connector
Action: Motion made and seconded for Passage
Passed
NEW BUSINESS ASSIGNED TO
ITEM NO. COUNCILOR
22-169 ORDER Authorizing Transfer of$8,000,000 from Unassigned SPRAGUE
Fund Balance to Various Assigned Fund Balances
Action: Motion made and seconded for Passage
Passed
ATTEST.
4Lisa . 00diin,MPC, City Clerk
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