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Portland city councilors affirm support for 200-bed shelter, with referendum looming
The council commits the city to paying $250,000 to the Developers Collaborative to investigate whether a city parcel on Riverside Street can be developed into a homeless service center, even as residents seek a November referendum to block the project.
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The Portland City Council voted 6-3 to enter into a second agreement with a developer to build a 200-bed homeless shelter and service center in the Riverton neighborhood, even as residents seek a November referendum to block the project.
The agreement commits the city to paying a $250,000 fee to the Developers Collaborative, as they continue to investigate whether a city parcel on Riverside Street can be developed into a new homeless services center and get approvals for the $19 million project.
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Nearly 90% of staff at the Odd Fellows’ and Rebekahs’ Home of Maine on Caron Lane in Auburn are fully vaccinated, the third highest vaccination rate among staff at Maine’s 93 nursing homes, according to the Maine Department of Health and Human Services.
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AUBURN – Health care workers at six of the 14 nursing homes in Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties are vaccinated at a rate higher than the statewide average, data from the Maine Department of Health and Human Services shows, but nursing home residents are still vaccinated at a higher rate than the personnel who work there.
Portland manager’s budget begins to restore pandemic cuts
With the help of federal recovery funds, City Manager Jon Jennings proposed budget would decrease the municipal portion of the property tax rate, though taxes may slightly increase because of school spending.
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Portland City Manager Jon Jennings is scheduled to present a $212 million budget proposal to the City Council on Monday that would begin restoring cuts made last year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
But with the help of federal recovery funds, the proposed budget for fiscal year 2022 will not increase the municipal portion of the property tax rate, though the proposed school budget calls for higher taxes.
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Portland residents seek referendum to block large homeless shelter
The proposal aimed at the November ballot would limit the size of new shelters to 50 people and would thwart the city s efforts to build a new, 200-bed homeless services center in Riverton.
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A group of Portland residents is pursuing a citizen initiative to limit the size of new homeless shelters and block the city’s plan for a 200-bed shelter near the Westbrook border.
The proposal, which organizers hope to get on the November ballot, would limit the size of new shelters to 50 beds. That would exclude the 200-bed homeless services center planned for Portland’s Riverton neighborhood. Organizers say it will not affect the city’s existing Oxford Street Shelter, which has a capacity of 154 people.