The deadline passed Friday and the serious candidates in Bangor have handed in their nominating papers. The election for City Council will feature eight candidates for three seats, and for the School Committee two candidates for three seats.

Of the three incumbents whose terms expire this November, only two are seeking re-election, although all are eligible — Patricia Blanchette, an employee of Doug’s Shop ‘n Save, and Jane Saxl who serves on civic organizations. Councilor William England chose not to seek re-election.

Of the six remaining candidates, two have been elected to the council before and both have served as council chairman. They are Marshall Frankel, proprietor of G.M. Pollack and Sons Jewelers, and Albert Weymouth, an associate professor at Husson College.

Rounding out the field are John W. Bragg, of N.H. Bragg and Sons, Garret Cole, president of Coles Express, Irene Estabrooke, who sought the office last year, and Bruce MacGregor, basketball coach at Husson College.

Issues that the council faced this year and which the candidates will have to address span the municipal spectrum, from those of concern throughout the state, over-reliance on property taxes as a source of revenue, to those peculiar to Bangor — the operation of Bass Park.

Environmental concerns also should weigh heavily in the race. The council serving 1990-91 will have to cope with the rising costs of solid-waste disposal and the fate of the Penobscot Energy Recovery Co., and with the rising costs of new sewers to meet federal clean water mandates.

Additionally, the council will have to figure how to manage the budget in the face of a sluggish economy and a slowly growing tax base, and the taxpayers who do not want to face another 8.3 percent increase in the property tax rate.

In the race for three Bangor School Committee seats only two candidates met Friday’s deadline, leaving the third seat open for write-in candidates.

Of the members whose terms expire in November, only Brenda E. Crowe sought reelection. Crowe is finishing her first term on the committee to which she was elected in 1987.

Susan Carlisle is the second candidate who is formally running for a seat.

Jennifer Coughlin, who has been on the committee since 1984 and a former chairman, did not take out nomination papers, a city clerk official said Friday. And by closing Friday, John McCarthy, who was elected to the committee in 1987, had not returned the paperwork.

Issues this year which will continue through the upcoming term range from declining state funding to reaching a number of state-mandated programs such as those for gifted and talented pupils and in special education.

With a wave growing enrollments in the elementary levels and declining high school enrollments, construction and renovations projects are high on the agenda in the coming years. A multi-million dollar project for the Garland Street Middle School is not expected to be far behind the project at the Fifth Street Middle School which is nearing completion.