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Bangor staff to place three council priorities on next agenda; committees to handle follow-up work
Summary
City staff asked council to formalize three top priorities—comprehensive homelessness planning, continued housing work, and regional cost-sharing—and councilors agreed staff should schedule follow-up strategy work through existing committees rather than a single additional meeting.
Unidentified staff told the council the top three straw‑poll priorities for the coming year are establishing a comprehensive plan to address homelessness, continuing to address housing needs, and working toward a fairer share of regional costs and participation. The staff memo and a draft council order will be placed on the agenda for the next full council meeting for formal consideration.
Councilman Henry urged that items outside the top three—such as infrastructure—be advanced through regularly scheduled committee meetings, which would allow subject-matter committees to hear expert testimony and maintain continuous conversation rather than squeezing all follow-up into one extra strategy night. Staff said it will schedule the items in priority order and fit them into committee calendars.
The approach won general assent at the workshop; staff summarized next steps as preparing the council order for the next meeting and scheduling committee-level strategy sessions based on priority and committee jurisdiction. No final vote on the order occurred at the workshop; the action is to place the draft order on the next meeting agenda for formal consideration.
