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Resident urges safe injection site and warns against spending reserves before raising taxes

3802096 · June 10, 2025
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Summary

A Bangor resident told the City Council during public comment that public restrooms are being used as unsafe injection sites and urged the city to consider establishing a supervised consumption site. The resident also urged caution about using reserve funds and warned against raising taxes after depleting reserves.

During the meeting’s public comment period on June 9, resident Scott Hardy urged the Bangor City Council to consider establishing a supervised consumption or "safe injection" site and criticized the condition and use of recently installed public restrooms.

Hardy said the city’s public restrooms “have in fact been turned into unsafe injection sites” and described…

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