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City Council – Oct 14, 2026

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Where
Council Chambers
73 Harlow St., Bangor, ME 04401

Location from the city calendar. The posted agenda is the official notice; check it if the two differ.

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What was decided

The Council passed routine orders including street renamings, airport service agreements, and a $7,000 grant to Together Place, and extended the data center moratorium 8-0.

Decisions recorded

6 decisions aren't shown: they couldn't be matched to the minutes.

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Agenda

The Bangor City Council will consider consent agenda items including property deeds, a constable appointment, and several construction and service contracts, plus a first reading on removing Floor Area Ratio rules downtown and a $823,851 nutrition education funding resolve. New business includes public hearings on special amusement licenses and appointing student election clerks for the November 3, 2026 election.

Agenda items

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  • Authorizing a Construction Contract with C&C Lynch Excavation, LLC for Sewer and Stormwater Improvements, $454,342 (26-292)
  • Ordinance Amending Chapter 165 to Remove Floor Area Ratio from the Downtown Development District, First Reading and Referral to Planning Board (26-293)
  • Resolve Accepting and Appropriating $823,851 for the Nourish ME Rural Nutrition Education Program (26-294)
  • Resolve Accepting and Appropriating Up to $6,000 from Johns Hopkins University for PrEP Access, First Reading and Referral to Government Operations Committee (26-295)
  • Public Hearing: Special Amusement License Application for 471 Stillwater Avenue d/b/a Bogey's
  • Public Hearing: Special Amusement License Application for HC Bangor LLC d/b/a Hollywood Casino Hotel/Raceway, 500 Main Street
  • Authorizing the Appointment of Student Election Clerks for the November 3, 2026 Election (26-296)

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Terms used here

resolve
A kind of City Council vote. In Bangor, the Council appropriates money and accepts grants by resolve.
consent agenda
Routine items, such as minutes and reports, voted on together in one motion without discussion. A member can ask to take any of them up separately.
credit enhancement agreement
An agreement, under a tax increment financing (TIF) district, in which the city or town returns part of a development's new property tax to its owner.
first reading
The first time a council or board takes up an ordinance or other measure. It usually votes on it at a later meeting.
M.R.S.A.
Maine Revised Statutes Annotated, the state's laws.
quitclaim deed
A deed in which the city or town gives up whatever claim it has to a property, such as one it took for unpaid taxes.
TIF
Tax increment financing: a district where some of the new property tax from development is set aside, for public projects or for the development itself.

All the terms in the glossary

Source

This meeting is listed in more than one place: the same board on the same day, and only one listing gives a time. The listings are shown here as one meeting.

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