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Bangor committee reviews conflict-of-interest rules for opioid-settlement grant scoring
Summary
City solicitor reviewed city code definitions of financial and special interests and the committee agreed to explore hiring outside reviewers to avoid perceived conflicts when scoring limited opioid-settlement grant funds; no formal votes were recorded.
City solicitor Dave Zemtak told the Bangor City Opioid Funds Advisory Committee on the evening the group must decide, before any review, whether a member has a financial or special interest in applications to be scored.
Zemtak said the city code’s ethics sections—cited in handouts to in-person attendees as sections 33-11 and 33-2—require that “no board member or commission member shall, participate in the deliberation or vote or otherwise take part in the decision making process on any agenda item before their collective body in which they or a member of their immediate family has a financial or special interest other than interest held by the public generally.”
The committee discussed how that rule would apply to scoring of grant applications against a limited pool of opioid-settlement funds. Several members said multiple committee members lead or are affiliated with organizations…
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