BANGOR- Fifty-one years after the city vowed its intention to erect a memorial to those who served in World War II, it’s going to happen– without city money.

Councilor Don Soucy will introduce a resolution at the City Council meeting on Monday evening to support the efforts of, and express appreciation to, those who will erect and maintain the memorial–Galen Cole and the Galen Cole Family Foundation.

The meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. at City Hall.

The bronze memorial featuring a World War II Jeep and GI, to be located on the site of the Cole Transportation Museum on Perry Road, will honor Bangor residents and all Mainers who served in the war, including the 4,476 who died.

“Your city of Bangor has emerged from this period saddened beyond measure by the loss of its citizens who gave their lives in its defense,” read the city’s annual report for 1945, “and today stands in full acknowledgment of its debt to them and the 4,349 others who offered all they had in our behalf and who, in some cases, suffered irreparable physical and mental damage. It is the avowed intention of your city to erect a memorial that will, for a long time yet to come, suitably commemorate the unselfish devotion of these citizens to their fellow man.”

Cole, a World War II veteran, has been involved in a number of efforts to keep alive that history, from organizing last year’s celebration of the 50th anniversary of the end of the war to displaying World War II memorabilia at the museum and holding special events there on particular holidays.

Also on Monday the council will consider a development agreement with Eldur AG, the Swiss-German firm that announced in August it would put a manufacturing plant in Bangor. The city is working on a lease and purchase option agreement for 448 Griffin Road with Eldur, which would hire 30 to 50 people initially and expand to 100 within a year or two.

Parking will be the topic of the three ordinances on the agenda, one of which would allow the city to implement resident-only parking from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays in areas so designated. Some residents who live near St. Joseph Hospital have asked that this be done for a small section of the city in the area of Montgomery Street.

A second ordinance would legally allow emergency vehicles to make calls to locations even if they are marked for no parking.

The third ordinance, requested by some residents of Pearl Street between Garland and Mount Hope Avenue, would restore two way traffic to that portion of Pearl.

Officials said at an earlier meeting that the area’s current regulation on parking on one side of the street would have to be changed to no parking on either side of the street if two-way traffic were to return, but the council voted against making that change at its last meeting.

Up for a vote on condemnation is an apartment house at 30 Highland Ave., owned by Leon and Gertrude Kirkpatrick of Brewer. The item was on the agenda a month ago but was tabled.

According to the Code Enforcement Office, the property was placarded as unfit for habitation in 1983. The owner has done some work on it, said Code Enforcement Officer Dan Wellington, but the structure is in disrepair and is considered structurally unstable.