Coverage of Trustees Meeting
Several media outlets reported on Monday’s UMaine System Board of Trustees meeting. Bangor’s WABI TV reported trustees approved the issuing of bonds to refinance $30 million of debt and to provide $7 million for a $14 million renovation project to the UMaine field house and Memorial Gym. The Bangor Daily News reported that several members of the Associated Faculties of the University of Maine System, the union that represents UMaine faculty members, stood outside the meeting on the University of Southern Maine campus to protest contract negotiations.
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