City Council 11.9.26

At its November 9, 2026 meeting, the Bangor City Council approved a $222,040 appropriation of customer facility charge funds for planning a consolidated rental-car facility at the airport. The work will be performed by Mead & Hunt under its existing five-year airport engineering services contract; the project is included in the airport master plan and capital improvement plan. The Council also approved, by a 7–2 roll-call vote, up to $65,000 from undesignated fund balance to fund a director of transit. Staff said the position would support transit-system oversight and future service improvements, with federal grants and partner contributions offsetting costs; discussion cited an estimated annual salary of approximately $120,000–$150,000 and Bangor covering about 62% of the local share.

The Council moved to first reading and committee referral a resolution to accept and appropriate $3,048,959 in Maine Department of Health and Human Services grant funds for the Women, Infants, and Children’s Program ($841,177 in administrative funds and $2,207,782 in food-benefit pass-through funds); the Finance Committee is scheduled to review it November 16. It also referred a proposed rezoning to the Planning Board. Public comments addressed syringe services, homelessness, transit, housing affordability, and access to public comment, but the transcript records no related policy action. The Council approved renewals of special amusement permits for three businesses; no procurement action was associated with those permits.