The money was what was left of the $1.6 million the city has received in American Rescue Plan Act funding.
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Waterville City Council approves new uses for $1.16 million in recreation funds
Meanwhile, a former city councilor chided officials for spending on recreation upgrades instead of repairing city roads.
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Waterville to consider earmarking $1.16 million in unused recreation money
The funding is available for other projects now that recreation fields don’t need to be moved to accommodate plans for an ice arena.
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Waterville to launch program to help maintain, replenish neighborhood street trees
A task force is expected to inventory existing trees on streets in city neighborhoods and work to maintain and replenish those that have been lost, including elm trees, which were ravaged in the 1950s and 1960s by Dutch elm disease.
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Waterville City Council gives initial OK to funding housing, nonprofit initiatives
Councilors debated for hours Tuesday night about how to distribute American Rescue Plan Act funding, and must take second votes on funding for housing initiatives and outside agencies that requested money.
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Waterville council hears complaints about homeless people, gives nod to soup kitchen funding
Businesses around the Waterville Area Soup Kitchen complained to city officials that their employees are afraid of some homeless people loitering in the area and confronting and scaring them.
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Waterville City Council gives initial OK for $50,000 to soup kitchen
Some city councilors said they were concerned that American Rescue Plan Act money would not be given equitably if, for instance, other social service agencies asking for the same amount and are denied.
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Waterville City Council OKs homeless shelter funding
The Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter at 19 Colby St. was built for 48 beds, officials said, but now serves more than 80 people a night.
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Waterville City Council to review policy on remote meeting audience participation
The current policy dealing with remote meeting participation does not guarantee the public will be able to continue to take part in City Council meetings, and resident Nancy Sanford has urged the council change that.
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Waterville becomes first Maine city to endorse plan to study passenger rail expansion bill
The City Council voted 5-0 on Tuesday night to approve a resolution that seeks, ultimately, to extend passenger rail service to Lewiston-Auburn, Waterville and Bangor.