BANGOR — Applicants to a subcommittee that will look at the feasibility of a multipurpose stadium should be prepared to move quickly. Members will be named Monday morning and find themselves at work that afternoon.

The city’s community and economic development committee met Wednesday and set down a quick schedule to help the City Council come to some fast decisions about whether a Bangor stadium could be built.

A 9- to 11-member subcommittee, explained Councilor Jim Tyler, will include representatives of the Bangor Blue Ox, harness racing, Penobscot County, the hospitality industry, the general public, and possibly the agricultural fair.

It will meet in public session at 4 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays at City Hall for at least two weeks, Sept. 15 and 17, Sept. 22 and 24.

In addition to those city meetings, a county meeting will be held the evening of Sept. 24, said County Commissioner Peter Baldacci. Elected officials from each community in Penobscot County will be invited to discuss whether the county should plan to contribute toward a stadium’s debt service in next year’s county budget.

The process for coming to a decision about a stadium, which could cost up to $4 million, was set in motion Monday by a resolution passed by the City Council.

The subcommittee should be kept small, councilors agreed, because a large group would prove unwieldy, especially with the city looking at a deadline of Oct. 1.

Bangor Blue Ox baseball team President Dean Gyorgy told the committee that the date had been chosen to facilitate scheduling for next year, and that “a week either way” wouldn’t be a problem.

The actual recommendation to the full council will come from the three members of the community and economic development committee: Tyler, Joseph Baldacci and Michael Aube.

The subcommittee will assimilate the information that is gathered and pass that on to those councilors. That should be factual information, Tyler said, rather than opinion.

Citizens could share their opinions during the public forum of the council when it’s time for the decision to be made, he said.

Tentative areas to be covered by the subcommittee are:

Operating expenses.

Operating revenues.

Capital costs, financial sources, regional support and private funding, including the potential of Blue Ox and financer Vince Burns to pay for a portion of construction.

Options for a temporary team site for 1998, including the possibility of playing most of the schedule at Mansfield Stadium, with a few games at Garland Street Field.

Options for a permanent site, and possible impacts on Bass Park and harness racing.

Other tasks, such as a review of the Coopers and Lybrand feasibility study, questions of whether the Bass will would allow certain aspects of a stadium at Bass Park, league experience on revenues and expenses, and coordination with Husson College.

“It’s an amibitious agenda,” Gyorgy commented after the meeting. “We want to do anything we can” to help the city come to a decision.

Peter Baldacci said he believed that there may be some private individuals who would contribute to the building of a stadium.