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City manager briefs council on state bills, recycling-plant upgrades and downtown grant application
Summary
City Manager Deb Lohrey briefed the council on several state bills of local interest (including the biennial budget and proposed changes to revenue sharing and MUBEC), progress at the municipal waste facility, and a $150,000 Partner for Place grant application for the Union Street overpass area with Wabanaki Public Health as community partner.
City Manager Deb Lohrey told the Bangor City Council on Feb. 24 that staff have been tracking several bills at the statehouse and will submit testimony on items of local interest, and she outlined local projects and upcoming deadlines.
Lohrey said city staff submitted testimony on LD 210, the biennial state budget, and on an earlier supplemental budget provision that would have limited general assistance to three months in a 12-month period. The city’s earlier opposition to that limit, she said, was resubmitted in the biennial budget context. “We submitted testimony earlier today on LD 210,” she said.
The manager identified other bills and committee activity the city is monitoring: a public hearing to convene stakeholders to review the state’s subdivision statutes; a bill that would expand the state revenue-sharing pool to include meals and…
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