Bangor’s City Council will vote Monday on whether to censure Councilor Joe Leonard for “inappropriate” accusations he made this spring against a city employee, according to a meeting agenda .

The censure would be the council’s first formal reprimand of Leonard for his comments in a budget workshop meeting on May 7 that prompted Finance Director David Little to resign. In the meeting, Leonard accused Little of lying and misallocating resources — comments that he should not have made publicly against a city employee, according to the censure order placed on the agenda by Council Chair Cara Pelletier.

Councilors debated for weeks if or how they should punish Leonard for the outburst but struggled to agree on a solution, although most of them agreed his behavior was out of line.

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