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Home My WebLink About2026-02-25 City Council Minutes MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING BANGOR CITY COUNCIL—FEBR UARY 25, 2026 Meeting called to order at 7:00 PM Chaired by Council Chair Hawes Councilors Absent:Deane Meeting adjourned at 7:59 PM PUBLIC COMMENT Evangeline White spoke in favor of a recreation center and the importance of girls' hockey.Katie Coe agreed Joe Garcia and Scott Pardy spoke against Ordinance 26-095. Richard Charleston asked if there was something that could e done to stop the foot traffic at the back of the school house apartments. Richard Ward spoke against supporting the Food 8r Medicine organization. Tyler Shanahan spoke regarding the correlation between housing costs and homelessness. Katie Coe and Adam Baker spoke in favor of Ordinance 26-095. CONSENT AGENDA ASSIGNED TO ITEMNO. 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. Any member of the public may request that the Council remove an item from the Consent Agenda for discussion. An item will only be removed if a City Councilor requests its removal to New Business. MINUTES OF: Bangor City Council Regular Meeting of February 9,2026 Action: Approved 26-092 ORDER Authorizing City Manager to Execute an Agreement with MALLAR the Maine Department of Transportation Related to Overweight Construction i�ehicles on US Route 2 for Cyclical Pavement Resurfacing Action: Passed 26-093 ORDER Authorizing the City Manager to Execute a Contract with DEANE Aerocloud Systems to Expand the Common-use System for Bangor International Airport Action: Passed REFERRALS TO COMMITTEE AND FIRST READING ASSIGNED TO ITEMNO. COUNCILOR 26-094 ORDINANCE Amending Chapter 165,Land Development Code,District FALOON Map to Re Zone a Property Located at 26 Walter Street from Urban Service District to Urban Residence 2 District Page 1 MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING BANGOR CITY COUNCIL—FEBR UARY 25, 2026 REFERRALS TO COMMITTEE AND FIRST READING ASSIGNED TO ITEMNO. COUNCILOR 26-095 ORDINANCE Amending the Code of the City of Bangor to Establish BECK Chapter 46, "E�nployee Authority in Immigration Matters" Action: Motion made and seconded to remove ordinance until the City Attorney completes his review. Motion and seconded withdrawn. 26-096 RESOL VE Authorizing the City Manager to Accept and Appropriate MALLAR $320,603 from the State of Maine Department of Transportation for the Purpose of Funding New Mobile Fare Technology, an Electric ADA Van, and Bike Racks Action: Motion made and seconded for Passage of Referrals to Committee and First Reading Vote: 8—0 Councilors Voting Yes:Beck, Carson, Faloon, Fish, Leonard,Mallar, Walker,Hawes Councilors Voting No:None Passed UNFINISHED BUSINESS ASSIGNED TO ITEMNO. COUNCILOR 26-086 ORDINANCE Amending the Land Development Code,Section 165-73 FALOON Parking Area Location and Screening to Remove the Buffer Requirement for Parking Lots Adjacent to Properties Zoned GBcISD,Except Where the Adjacent Property Contains a Residential, Cemetery, or School Use Action: Motion made and seconded for Passage Vote: 8—0 Councilors Voting Yes:Beck, Carson, Faloon, Fish, Leonard,Mallar, Walker,Hawes Councilors Voting No:None Passed 26-087 ORDINANCE Amending the Land Development Code,Section 165-13 WALKER Definitions to Remove State Street from the Minor Arterial Street Definition Action: Motion made and seconded for Passage Vote: 8—0 Councilors Voting Yes:Beck, Carson, Faloon, Fish, Leonard,Mallar, Walker,Hawes Councilors Voting No:None Passed Page 2 MINUTES OFREGULAR MEETING BANGOR CITYCOUNCIL—FEBRUARY25, 2026 UNFINISHED BUSINESS ASSIGNED TO ITEMNO. COUNCILOR 26-088 ORDINANCE Amending Chapter 165,Land Development Code,District CARSON Map to Re-zone a Property Located at R23-003-B from Rural Residence and Agricultural District(RR&A)to Government and Institutional Service District(G&ISD) Action: Motion made and seconded for Passage Vote: 8—0 Councilors Voting Yes:Beck, Carson, Faloon, Fish, Leonard,Mallar, Walker,Hawes Councilors Voting No:None Passed 26-089 ORDINANCE Amending the Code of the City of Bangor to Create a CARSON Standing Legislative Committee Action: Motion made and seconded for Passage Vote: 8—0 Councilors Voting Yes:Beck, Carson, Faloon, Fish, Leonard,Mallar, Walker,Hawes Councilors Voting No:None Passed NEW BUSINESS ASSIGNED TO ITEM NO. COUNCILOR PUBLIC HEARING: Application for Casino Operator License Renewal of HC BECK Bangor,LLC d/b/a Ho[lywood Casino Hotel&Raceway, 500 Main Street Action: Motion made and seconded to Open Public Hearing Public Hearing Opened George Lane spoke against approving the license. Motion made and seconded to close the Public Hearing Public Hearing Closed Motion made and seconded for Passage Approved PUBLIC HEARING Application for Special Amusement License Renewal of BECK Endwell LLC d/b/a Paddy Murphy's,26 Main Street Action: Motion made and seconded to Open Public Hearing Public Hearing Opened George Lane spoke against approving the license. Richard Charleston spoke in favor of approval. Page 3 MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING BANGOR CITY COUNCIL—FEBR UARY 25, 2026 NEW BUSINESS ASSIGNED TO ITEMNO. COUNCILOR Motion made and seconded to close the Public Hearing Public Hearing Closed Motion made and seconded for Passage Approved ATTEST: Lzsa J. Good an,MMC, City Clerk Page 4 Goodwin, Lisa From: O'Donnell, Courtney Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2026 8:09 AM To: Goodwin, Lisa Subject: FW: City of Bangor February 23rd 2026 council meeting, remote public comment Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed From:Cinema Hometheatre<cinemahometheatre@hotmail.com> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2026 11:17 AM To:Councilors<councilors@bangormaine.gov>; aoc.press@mail.house.gov;Alisa Bayes<amb10498@nyu.edu>; arupertus@bangordailynews.com; hr@michaeljfox.org; stewardship@caa.com;speakers@caa.com; admissions@nyu.edu; adne@adne.org Cc:our.parish.weekly@gmail.com Subject:City of Bangor February 23rd 2026 council meeting, remote public comment �; _ _F�.M �� '�-rr'��^+�sz��;re��;'F��' _�' '�a?�,'�'��.•p�a.�.. i` - �� - :B.L-xC EGIGaT• 5 ER S� •L2D,�E�S'�R�'� E � �ENIN�LI K�(3.. TT � E:N:�5:.�;� - ..��,,�_,...:.�,.� . --�:..�: � �..;- 1NA�tf��.G�.E�,��,A�EN�;i�14r_ .OU.,,�.��..�N_¢:E .,.��?�...�„��.��a_�,�. _��.,. �_.�..,.., M� � City of Bangor February 23rd 2026 council meeting, remote public comment "Good snow day,the name is Michael Anthony Norton and I live at 83 Elm Street in Bangor Maine. I figure since we use YouTube and Zoom Workspace and vice versa each meeting, even with remote public commenters and council members chiming in, I can simply email you my public comment for the meeting today. "The city's kids are in hypothermia so we don't have to worry about any limits for general audiences in our speech! "I think Zoom work space or workplace should change its name because it's a branding and marketing tool that limits the performances of people who understand velocity, labor, and spatial relationships. "Netscape Navigator" might be the better iconic and respectable choice in today's day and age. "I recently applied for a Dramatic Writing Professor position. People my age who were taught anything about dramatic writing during their time and enrollment with education understand clearly that email,text, text messaging,voice mails, and the like do not precede the discipline of dramatic writing. Nor does social media. But media and society do. "It seems my license and perhaps that of many others to be employed in the most in picture and entertainment and communications industries has been overwritten by social media and the tremendous erasure by 'new' dramatic writing by our web civilization. For example, if you have a screenplay written or a major studio or production company and it's customers,this century you are historically deferred with, well, you need to write a website and host one, you need a social media tool to get the word out, etc. i "Since the employment opportunity for this position is in New York City, I wonder how many schools today are teaching Manhattanomics. Seems like the task for a dramatic writing professor like me, because the mere utterance of the word suggests that there are probably a million ways to teach it. "Moving on. Today still no one understands in education or outside of it why dopamine is lost by those people with Parkinson's disease. No one today understands why some people diagnosed with cancer survive and others don't, regardless of all of this technology and instrumental instrumentation and medicine and equipment to help people fight and beat cancer permanently. People in our school systems don't know that these two enemies of human beings are magnetic temporal disorders. They are not taught that yet. It doesn't seem like we have a media able to indicate to the common audiences who are their customers that all of that equipment and medicine, once cancer and Parkinson's are defeated from the list of common diseases and disorders, can be applied to construct an extraordinary world far better than the one we are living in today and yesteryears. A vaccine or a cure that does not prescribe death for anyone of any age due to the diagnosis of the disorder. The magnetic temporal disorder. "Earth science and biology; physics, finance, and public administration:these are a few formalized education courses that I have experiences with that bookend my career focus track in cinema and television and the arts. Because I have failed to win the hearts of publishers, consumers, and studio system employers should not indicate that the bookends of my education should be overshadowed. - "If we all go down to NCI,the National Cancer Institute that's been around more than a life expectancy of a male or a female on this planet, over 80 years, and say to them something to the effect,thanks to our dramatic writing education, 'hey, I have experience with people having been diagnosed with cancer and Parkinson's since I was in my single digits of years. Where is my license to collaborate with you and your customers and constituents today?' What are they going to say? 'We only employ Gloria Swanson and Steven Segal?We only approach and offer licenses and permits for that kind'? "By the way, I could be wrong but nowhere in the New Testament do the words of Jesus ever indicate it is inappropriate for any of us to have our wedding ceremony on Good Friday. "Thank you. My three minutes is up. God bless and stay strong. And please get me to New York City in a New York minute!" Mike Norton 2