Bangor’s finance director has resigned effective immediately, City Manager Carollynn Lear confirmed to the Bangor Daily News.
Stephanie Kimball has been in the role for less than a year. Kimball signed a three-year contract when she was hired in September, with an annual salary of $116,605.
The BDN was unable to reach her Tuesday.
Kimball had only worked for the city for a few months when her predecessor, David Little, resigned, citing unjust treatment from a city councilor. Kimball stepped into the position permanently after briefly serving as the interim finance director.
A job posting for a new finance director went up Monday night on the city’s website. The new hire will be paid between $120,000 and $161,000, according to the listing.
An interim finance director has not yet been named, according to Lear.
The former finance director, Little, became the city’s top-paid employee in 2025 after the city doled out nearly $81,000 to him in severance pay. Little submitted his resignation in May of last year after Councilor Joe Leonard accused Little of lying and misallocating resources in a public meeting — complaints the council chair at the time said should have been aired in private, per state law.
Life is “too short and too precious to continue in a stressful and uncertain situation waiting for the next aggressive comment to be directed at a fellow staff member or myself,” Little’s resignation letter said.
An outside investigation that cost the city nearly $10,000 found no evidence of wrongdoing by Little, and fellow councilors later voted to censure Leonard over his outburst.