City of Bangor, Maine, Annual Report for 1959
- Title
- City of Bangor, Maine, Annual Report for 1959
- Alternative Title
- This Is Your City ... Bangor, Maine, 1959 Annual Report
- Creator
- Bangor (Me.)
- Date
- 1959
- Description
- The year 1959 will long be remembered as one of outstanding achievements in our city. It was a year of firsts, a year of celebration, and a year marked by the sincere hard work of your City Council and its associated boards and agencies. We celebrated 1959 as our Anniversary Year, our 125th as a chartered city, and a year-long program of superlative events was staged by an energetic and tireless Anniversary Committee of industrious citizens. "Building a Better and Busier Bangor" was the byword, and your City Council cooperated to the fullest in every respect. After several months of strenuous effort the Council, for the first time in seven years, held the line on the tax rate, and there was no increase, despite an upward adjustment on all City employee wages, and a final budget of $4,752,552.
- 1959--A Year of Progress: Began Construction of 14th Street Elementary School. Purchased Land for New High School. Installed Sprinklers in all Schools Not Already Sprinkled. Received $80,000 Urban Renewal Federal Planning Grant for Stillwater Park. Completed Fernald Heights and Woodlawn Trunk Sewers. Added Fourteen Beds at City Hospital. Purchased Land for Pickering Square Parking Lot. Began $50,000 Traffic Survey. Opened New Industrial Spur of Interstate Highway. Reinvested All Trust Funds at Increased Interest Rates. Continued Street Light Renovation Program and .Tax Rate Held at $26.00, the same as in 1958.
- Contents
- Your City Council Reports -- Your City Manager Reports -- Departmental Reports -- Charts and Graphs -- Financial Statements -- Boards and Commissions -- Proposed New High School
- Subject
- Bangor (Me.)--History
- Bangor (Me.)--Politics and government
- Municipal government
- Municipal reports--Maine--Bangor
- Municipal services--Maine--Bangor
- Type
- Annual reports
- Spatial Coverage
- Bangor (Me.)
- Language
- English
- Source
- Bangor Public Library Special Collections
- Rights
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