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Committee advances Maine Prevention Network contract extension and school tobacco‑treatment partnerships to council
Summary
The Government Operations Committee moved to approve extending a Maine CDC contract and to authorize partnership agreements with Bangor and Brewer school departments to place tobacco‑treatment specialists in high schools; both items were described as fully grant funded and were advanced to the full City Council.
The Government Operations Committee on Sept. 3 advanced two related items tied to the Maine Prevention Network to the full City Council: an amendment to a FY2025 subcontract with Northern Light Mayo Hospital and partnership agreements with Bangor and Brewer school departments to provide school‑based tobacco treatment.
Jamie Comstock, health promotions manager in Public Health and Community Services, said the Maine CDC extended the city’s FY2025 Maine Prevention Network contract into a two‑year agreement rather than issuing a separate FY2026 contract. “Originally, we had a 1 year contract with the Maine CDC for the Maine Prevention Network work for FY ’25,” Comstock said. She told the committee that the subcontract with Northern Light Mayo Hospital must be extended to follow the state contract’s new cadence.
Comstock described the school partnerships as a continuation of last year’s work that will place tobacco treatment specialists at Bangor High School and Brewer High School. “We provide a tobacco treatment specialist to spend a day a week at each school. They see students and provide tobacco treatment. The schools provide the space, and each school decides the process that the kids get to the tobacco treatment specialist,” she said. Comstock added that Public Health will perform recordkeeping and reporting required by the grant. Committee members asked whether the work is fully grant funded; Comstock replied that it is.
Councilor Hawes disclosed that he occasionally substitute teaches for Brewer and asked whether that presented a conflict of interest for the school partnership item. The committee discussed the disclosure and concluded there was no conflict for this agenda item.
Both items were moved and seconded in the committee. There were no objections on either motion, and the committee chair directed the items to the full City Council for final action.
The committee did not provide a roll‑call vote tally in the transcript and did not record the names of the council members who made or seconded the motions in committee.
