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Bangor begins city manager search; residents press for local residency, housing restraint and services for unhoused
Summary
At a public meeting in Bangor, consultant Don Garish outlined a multiweek search process for a new city manager and solicited community priorities, including whether the manager should live in the city, housing density limits, support for nonprofits and more drug- and mental-health services.
Don Garish, a consultant with Eaton Peabody Consulting Group hired by the Bangor City Council to run its city manager search, told residents at a public meeting in Bangor that the council will advertise the vacancy for about four weeks with a likely application deadline around Feb. 25 and that first-round interviews are planned for the first week of March.
The timeline Garish described calls for the council to review resumes in early March, hold first-round interviews (in person or by Zoom) and then invite finalists back for in-person visits and full background checks in late March or the first week of April, with a potential offer and public announcement in the second week of April if the process proceeds on schedule. Garish said his office will receive all resumes, provide weekly counts to the council (including how many applicants are from Maine) and perform full background checks only on finalists, including educational, financial and criminal checks and reference checks.
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