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Bangor residents urge council to authorize action after encampment clearance
Summary
Multiple residents told the Bangor City Council the recent clearing of a railroad-track encampment displaced people and risked health harms; speakers urged the council to give the city manager authority to create a sanctioned stabilization site and to adopt a hub model for coordinated services.
Dozens of residents used the council’s public-comment period on Dec. 22 to push the Bangor City Council for faster, more coordinated action after a recent encampment clearing near the railroad tracks.
Sonia Mallor, who introduced herself as a taxpayer, told the council, "Over 50% of the taxpaying citizens of Bangor are seniors," and said seniors living on Social Security and small pensions worry when the council votes to spend money on people who are unhoused. "You need to stop thinking of our senior taxpayers before you vote to give more money to the unhoused," she said.
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