The Bangor City Council took several formal actions during a meeting that combined routine municipal business with contested public testimony on a rezoning request.

Key outcomes:

- Ordinance 25‑295 (rezoning for 1009 Ohio Street): Approved 6–2 after extensive public testimony (see separate article). The ordinance changes the land‑use district for the parcel to Government & Institutional Services District (GISD).

- Order/Resolve 25‑311 (first reading/referral): Council referred for committee and took first-reading action on accepting and appropriating $3,045,785 in grant funding from the Maine Department of Health and Human Services for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program and related services. Public questions sought breakdowns of program allocations; the council recorded the first reading and referral.

- Ordinance 25‑293 (amend city code chapter 165-11): Passed unanimously to remove application fees for disability variances and Fair Housing Act reasonable accommodation requests, aligning city practice with the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.

- Resolve 25‑297: Council accepted and appropriated a one‑time payment of $156,970.96 from Maine DHHS to offset municipal general-assistance cost increases. The Government Operations Committee recommended allocating $60,000 of that funding to support warming shelters during the 2025–26 winter; an application process for organizations to apply will be developed.

- Order 25‑312: Passed to amend the schedule of fees and remove the Board of Appeals application fee for disability variances and reasonable-accommodation requests, consistent with the ordinance already passed.

Consent agenda items including multiple quitclaim deeds, bills of sale, and property actions were approved by unanimous roll call. The council closed the meeting with farewell remarks for departing councilors and staff acknowledgements.

Actions recorded at the meeting will be followed by typical administrative steps: mapping updates for zoning changes, program‑level grant acceptance paperwork, and development of a warming-shelter application process as described by staff.