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Title, Order
Authorizing the City Manager to Execute a Memorandum of Agreement with Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Karen Gardner to Provide Clinical Oversight for the HIV Intensive Case Manager Program
Summary
This Order will authorize the City Manager to execute a Memorandum of Agreement with Karen
Gardner, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, to provide clinical oversight for the Intensive Case Manager
Program.
The City Council approved the use of Bangor Opioid Settlement Funds to support an Intensive Case
Management Program to support people impacted by the HIV outbreak. To ensure high quality
intensive case management programming, Bangor Public Health and Community Services will
contract for clinical oversight of the case managers. Oversight includes four hours/week to review
and sign off on treatment plans, discuss barriers and needs of clients, and provide guidance to case
managers. This approach aligns with MaineCare policy for targeted case management.
Karen Gardner is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a Masters in Social Work. She has decades of
case management experience including clinical oversight. She has provided case management for
people struggling with substance use disorder, mental health challenges, and housing instability in
the Bangor area.
The MOU will be for two years and not to exceed $26,000.
Committee Action
Committee: Government Operations Committee Meeting Date: 09/15/2025
Action: For: 5 Against: 0
Staff Comments &Approvals
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City Manager City Solicitor Finance Director
Introduced for: Consent
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i%�m��;� ��m Date: 09/22/2025
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°Rar�n,��-�� Assigned to Councilor: Tremble
Authorizing the City Manager to Execute a Memorandum of Agreement with Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Karen Gardner to Provide Clinical Oversight for the HIV Intensive Case Manager Program
Whereas, The City Council approved the use of Bangor Opioid Settlement Funds to support an Intensive Case
Management Program to support people impacted by the HIV outbreak; and
Whereas, To ensure high quality intensive case management programming, Bangor Public Health and
Community Services will contract for clinical oversight of the case managers. This oversight would include four
hours/week to review and sign off on treatment plans, discuss barriers and needs of clients, and provide
guidance to case managers; and
Whereas, Karen Gardner is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a Masters in Social Work with decades of
case management experience including clinical oversight; and
Whereas, The Memorandum of Understanding will be for two years and not to exceed $26,000.
Be it Ordered by the City Council of the City of Bangor that, the City Manager is hereby authorized to execute
a memorandum of understanding with Licensed Clinical Social Worker Karen Gardner to provide clinical
oversight for the intensive case manager program.
IN CITY COUNCIL
SEPTEMBER 22, 2025
CO 25-274
Passed
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