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What was decided

The Council held public hearings and took action on several items including a solid waste ordinance amendment, a mobile home park rent moratorium, a credit enhancement agreement for the Soleil housing project, and supplemental police overtime funding. The Council also approved parking changes, forfeiture funds transfer, a property disposition, and a housing authority appointment, while postponing ethics policy amendments and a railroad dissolution order.

Decisions recorded

• Entered Executive Session to discuss acquisition or disposition of Real Estate. p. 1page 1 of the minutes (opens in new tab)
• Approved amendment to Traffic Schedule adding 15-minute parking spots on Pine Street from Horton Street to Prince Street Alley. p. 3page 3 of the minutes (opens in new tab)
• Approved acceptance of transfer of forfeiture funds from sale of a 9mm Taurus Pistol to the Drug Enforcement Program account. p. 3page 3 of the minutes (opens in new tab)
• Approved disposition of 35 Beechwood Avenue to Ashley Woodbury for $1,000. p. 3page 3 of the minutes (opens in new tab)
• Confirmed appointment of Craig Tribuno to the Lewiston Housing Authority Board of Commissioners. p. 3page 3 of the minutes (opens in new tab)
• Gave final passage to amendments defining the automated side load trash collection program in the Solid Waste Ordinance. p. 4page 4 of the minutes (opens in new tab)
• Motion for first passage of the Moratorium Ordinance on rent increases for mobile home park lots did not pass. p. 4page 4 of the minutes (opens in new tab)
• Approved Order authorizing City Administrator to execute a Credit Enhancement Agreement for the Soleil Multi-Family Housing Project. p. 5page 5 of the minutes (opens in new tab)
• Motion to amend the Resolve to add $55,000 for a self-deploying drone did not pass. p. 6page 6 of the minutes (opens in new tab)
• Approved Resolve authorizing a $200,000 supplemental appropriation from the Salary Reserve account for police overtime. p. 6page 6 of the minutes (opens in new tab)
• Postponed amendments to the City's Ethics Policy, Policy Manual Number 94, to the next Council meeting.
• Postponed the Order directing the City Administrator to explore dissolution of the Lewiston Auburn Railroad Company to the next Council meeting.
• Approved Order directing the City Administrator to request an additional Agency Liquor Store License from the Maine Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations. p. 7page 7 of the minutes (opens in new tab)
• Entered Executive Session to discuss labor negotiations with MSEA Local 1989 and a personnel matter. p. 7page 7 of the minutes (opens in new tab)

The full text is in the city's PDF, linked below.

Minutes posted on the city website (PDF, 208 KB). Saved copy (opens in new tab), saved October 5, 2026.

Agenda

Agenda not recorded here. It may be in the city's Archive Center (opens in new tab).

Terms used here

first passage

The City Council's first vote on an ordinance or an amendment to one. It takes effect only after a second vote, final passage, at a later meeting.

credit enhancement agreement

An agreement, under a tax increment financing (TIF) district, in which the city or town returns part of a development's new property tax to its owner.

executive session

A part of a public meeting closed to the public. Maine's Freedom of Access Act (1 M.R.S. § 405) allows it only for specific reasons, such as lawsuits, real estate, contracts, or personnel matters.

M.R.S.A.

Maine Revised Statutes Annotated, the state's laws.

TIF

Tax increment financing: a district where some of the new property tax from development is set aside, for public projects or for the development itself.

All the terms in the glossary

Source

This meeting is known from its minutes in the City of Lewiston Archive Center (opens in new tab). First recorded by Lewiston Publick on October 5, 2026.