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Bangor Planning Board members receive annual training on public‑meeting law, ethics and stormwater rules
Summary
After the code-amendment item, planning staff and the assistant city solicitor led annual training for board members covering due process, Freedom of Access Act obligations, conflicts of interest, and stormwater permit requirements and best-management practices.
Following the public hearing and vote on the arterial-definition amendment, the Bangor Planning Board held its annual training session for board members and staff.
Grace Innes, assistant city solicitor, reviewed due process for quasi‑judicial decision-making, the Freedom of Access Act (public‑records and public‑meetings obligations), ex parte contacts and permissible executive-session uses. Innes emphasized that board members must base decisions on the evidence presented at hearings and disclosed a preference that members…
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