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City Council 6/21 Meeting Summary

The Sanford City Council met June 21, 2022. It was the first in-person meeting held in almost a year. Councilor Ayn Hanselmann joined via Zoom as she was on vacation. Mayor Anne-Marie Mastraccio led the Pledge of Allegiance. Newly elected Councilor Michael Termath was sworn in by City Clerk Sue Cote. The minutes of the last meeting were approved. Subcommittee Reports Councilor Hanselmann gave a report on last week’s Public Safety Subcommittee meeting - see this story. Councilor Bob Stackpole…
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Municipal Operations and Property Subcommittee Notes

The City Council's Municipal Operations and Property Subcommittee met with City staff on June 14. This is a summary of items presented and discussed. Midtown Mall: The proposal for the Midtown Mall Development District and Maintenance Assessment was discussed. Community Development Director Ian Houseal told the Subcommittee members that his analysis shows a 60% assessment for property owners and 40% for City would be reasonable (initially, a two-thirds/one-third split was proposed). Kristin Collins, an attorney for one of the property…
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Public Safety Subcommittee 6/14 Meeting Summary

The City Council’s Public Safety Subcommittee met with City staff June 14, 2022 via Zoom. Councilor Ayn Hanselmann sat in for Mayor Anne-Marie Mastraccio, joining Councilors Becky Brink and Jonathan Martell. Covid Update Community Development Director Ian Houseal presented an update on Covid-19 statistics for the state and county. The number of hospitalized patients in the state with Covid peaked in mid-January of this year, but another spike in April showed over 200 hospital patients testing positive at that time.…
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City Council 6/7 Meeting Summary

The Sanford City Council met via Zoom on June 7, 2022. All members were present. Councilor Becky Brink led the Pledge of Allegiance, following which Mayor Anne-Marie Mastraccio made this statement: “A string of shootings left at least fifteen people dead and more than 69 others wounded in eight states this past weekend. 156 days into 2022, our country has now seen at least 246 mass shootings. Since May 14, when a racist attack at a Buffalo, NY supermarket took…
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Charter Amendments Proposed

The Charter Review Committee (CRC) will hold a public hearing on June 9, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. for input on the proposed changes to Sanford’s City Charter. Some of the changes will clean up or clarify language in the Charter, while others are of a more substantive nature. The biggest proposed change to the Charter is to expand the Budget Committee from seven to seventeen members. The Budget Committee would include all seven members of the City Council and five…
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