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Bangor City committee seeks city solicitor guidance on scoring conflicts as subcommittee readies to grade grants
Summary
Members raised appearance-of-conflict concerns about a three-person scoring subcommittee and proposed third-party scorers; the committee asked the city solicitor for a written opinion and agreed members may recuse if they feel conflicted.
Committee members raised conflict-of-interest concerns about having a three-person subcommittee perform all grant scoring and debated whether outside reviewers should be engaged.
S2 (committee member) said the rest of the committee risks becoming marginal if the subcommittee does all scoring: “What are the rest of us here for?” Several members noted the public’s perception of fairness matters and…
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