I can go on and on with 5 years of proven corruption. Property taxes are to go to the schools, resident infrastructure and basic services. It is not. It is going to the corruption, through hired engineers and consultants, low balling projects, grants locking us into the project and a landslide of unforeseen costs, attorney fees, lawsuits, splitting of the community, implicating businesses, all systems go for economic development and squeeze us dry and then take us out.
Outsourcing engineers and consultants is the defining corruption of unaccountability. Honest Belfast City Hall Treasurer, Ricki LeSans made sure to point out that years ago, Belfast always had a City engineer on Belfast City Hall staff. Back in the day before Heil Hurley pulled Belfast into his cesspool of corruption. Heil Hurley hales from NJ, same as me. He came to Belfast in the 80's and saw opportunity for greed. I came to the neighboring town of Northport in 1969 @ 8 yrs old and saw love. For the rest of my life, I gave all I had to make it my home. Greed makes liars and buyers. It implicates the innocent into their web and buys allegiance and silence.
4/23/15 Whoa and WOW. Belfast City Hall is spinning in their rat wheel with the Front Street Shipyard and Belmont Boat Works. They have been illegally allowing moorings to these businesses located in the FNP- Federal Navigation Project to turn a profit. 21 moorings inside the FNP that these businesses are using are at issue. In the FNP 15 moorings have permits, 5 or 6 do not. All 21 of these moorings are turning a profit. Front Street Shipyard snatched up Belfast Boatyard that originally had these moorings illegally in the FNP. http://bangordailynews.com/2012/07/30/business/front-street-shipyard-poised-to-buy-belfast-boatyard/
Do not tell me that the billionaire Front Street Shipyard owners bought the Belfast Boatyard with corrupt moorings inside the FNP in 2012 and didn't know it. In 2012, exactly the same time that Jay Clement states in the 4/21/2015 Belfast City Council meeting the Army Corp notified Belfast City Hall that these moorings had to get out of the FNP. As I have chronicled on project after project, their tactics are to back citizens into a corner for the slaughter. It is underway on Seaview Terrace, most likely all of the old Residential 2 zone and the healthcare business takeover (with Front Street Shipyard president, JB Turner taking a seat on the Board of Directors for the Waldo County General Hospital (filled with players) When I saw that, the rat wheel was smoking and squealing.
Profit has slammed into the Prophet. The ethical bone that I asked for stood up as Jay Clement, a team leader with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Maine Project Office in Augusta and has 33 years under his belt protecting tax payers money from corruption. I want to work withr this man.
4/21/2015 Belfast
City Council Meeting Click 6 to watch the Prophet vs.
Profit.
http://belfastme.swagit.com/play/04212015-1417/#13
http://belfastme.swagit.com/play/04212015-1417/#13
Jay Clement, a team leader with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Maine Project Office in Augusta and has 33 years under his belt protecting tax payers money from corruption. At the 4/21/2015 he made it crystal clear that Belfast City Hall could care less about it's citizens.
@ 31:35 Jay
Clements to City Council "If that passes the straight face test
with your citizens."
@ 34:53 Jay "All your decisions are supposed to be reflective of the public interest. YOU ARE ANSWERABLE TO YOUR CITIZENS."
@ 34:53 Jay "All your decisions are supposed to be reflective of the public interest. YOU ARE ANSWERABLE TO YOUR CITIZENS."
@
34:35 City Council Heil Hurley "IF WE WANTED TO, WE CAN DO
WHATEVER WE WANT OUTSIDE THE FNP!!!!"
The Feds loaned 10
million dollars of American citizens money to the Front Street
Shipyard in 10/2014.
JB Turner sits on the board of directors at WCGH with a host of
players for the 1%. JB and the owners of the FSS were in many of the
same meetings where I pleaded resolutions that would save the 12
families in the flood zone, flood plain from the forced City water
slaughter. Northport Ave TIF was the answer. City Council gave it to
the Downtown TIF. 80K would have saved us and opened up funding for
grants for infrastructure to build storm sewers that would have saved
all the miles and miles of private properties in the watershed
slaughter path. My property is the last one. I get it all. The
bottleneck that blew a ravine of wild rapids, 9 months after I moved
in. The previous owner, Minister Tarpley and real estate agent Bill
Ingersoll, filled in that ravine and sold the property without
disclosing the slaughter. They set me up, and detoured me from all
other dry listings. From day one I was adamant - NO WATER ISSUES AND
NO STREAMS!! Evil and greedy. Shame is theirs forever with all the
players.
City Hall has known
since early 2012 that those 21 moorings making a profit inside the
FNP (Federal Navigation Project) that are permitted to Front Street
Shipyard and Belmont Boat are illegal and must be taken out of the
FNP. Five of those moorings don't even have permits. City Hall, Front
Street Shipyard and Belmont Boat intentionally did nothing for 3
years and now they will force citizens with prime mooring locations
out. Planning disaster after disaster. The harbor is the greatest
asset to Belfast yet they spent millions to choke harbor expansion by
building a footbridge. Planning disaster of all time. Way to go
Belfast City Planner Wayne Marshall. That one is not even close to
human. I keep waiting for the skin to peel away and the lizard to
break free.
4/8/2015 City Council blames the Harbor Committee, City Manager Joe Sloscum blames the Army Corp as if he just found about the illegal use of the moorings in the Bangor Daily News and Abbie Curtis (reporter never challenges any of the corruption that she KNOWS is happening in Belfast. She lives here and has links to the corrupt. Abbie is sweet, but sweet enables the corruption.
Sloscum has known since early 2012 that these moorings had to be out by 12/31/2015. Abbie knows that too. http://bangordailynews.com/2015/04/08/news/midcoast/army-corps-decision-squeezing-commercial-moorings-out-of-belfast-harbor/
“The Army Corps of Engineers really got strong this year,” Belfast City Manager Joe Slocum said. “It’s put us in a pickle.”
The City's hiring of
their own surveyor to slaughter abutters private property of the
airport is corrupt. The rail trail abutters are involved in a law
suit. This is just the beginning of the new laws and taking through
the unknown Comprehensive Plan ordinances. The lizard's plan since he
slithered on board in 1999? Betcha Heil Hurley had a slimey hand in
that hiring along with the rest of the lizard pack. .
6/12/2015 The 10? years in the making Belfast City Hall Comprehensive Plan voted in by City Council is secret in the with holding and ongoing secret amendments. Just like the TPP secrecy Obama is trying to fast track where healthcare and business receive perks of more- Economic Genocide to 99%.
"We'll Huff and We'll Puff as We Help Drown You Out!!!!" Front Street Shipyard & Waldo County Healthcare.
From left to right: Taylor Allen: partner, Front Street Shipyard; owner, Rockport Marine Inc.; JB Turner: managing partner, Front Street Shipyard; former president, Lyman-Morse Shipyard; Ken Priest: partner, Front Street Shipyard; CEO, Kenway Corp.; Steve White: partner, Front Street Shipyard; owner, Brooklin Boat Yard
http://www.mainebiz.biz/article/20140630/CURRENTEDITION/306279999/front-street-shipyard-creates-a-buzz-about-belfast
Seaview Terrace/Gaza Strip is surrounded on all 4 sides by the Waldo County General Hospital and incoming healthcare industry.Weapon of choice, water slaughter. JB Turner, President of the Front St. Shipyard (I went public with the slaughter in 11/2011 in the same meeting where JB began his proposal to build the Front St Shipyard. I thought the FSS cared about the community that was supporting them. I thought wrong. They want more and more as residents private properties go under with misspending of our property taxes. The scale of Belfast corruption is enormous. The ego powers are on the Boards (JB Turner is NOW on the Board of Directors at Waldo County General Hospital) City Council Heil Hurley dictates the puppets for the powers. Several posts below (see pictures of FSS, WCGH Directors, Jayne Giles, Judge Patricia Worth 4/2015 posts under SHHHHH Sneak and Sell Hell...) name some of the powers and players.
2014-2015 Board of Directors
Members of the Waldo County Healthcare Board of Directors are, seated from left, J.B. Turner, John Worth III, David Flanagan, Peter Haddock, Wayne Hamilton, James Patterson, Ed.D and Benjamin Mailloux, MD (medical staff president). Standing from left are Catherine Reynolds, Syrena Gatewood, Lee Woodward Jr., Dale Kuhnert, Ann Hooper, Jenness Robbins, and James Delehanty, MD
Missing from the photo are: William Caron, CEO, MaineHealth and Kent Clark, MD. The officers of the board are: Lee Woodward Jr., president; Dale Kuhnert, vice-president; James Patterson, secretary; and Catherine Reynolds, treasurer.
7/22/2015 The Harbor is the big kill to residents. Beyond the scope of a resident that doesn't have interests in the harbor. Those residents don't have any say in what will be spent on the harbor. It is a done deal but the City is spinning it as an open forum with a deadline of 12/15/2015.
Since the Army Corp FREE dredging in 2002, the FNP boundaries mandated for the free dredging have protected that prime area for the public. Moorings inside the FNP cannot be commercial. Belfast broke that. The City has moorings (16? in the FNP but is allowed to rent those because the money will go back into the budget (public). But they basically gave those moorings over to the previous boatyard that was owned by Alex Turner- Belfast Boatyard. Alex used those moorings and turned a profit but that is history because Alex sold the boatyard to Front Street Shipyard. FSS owns the mooring hardware, but not the spots in the FNP. Of course everyone knew that and knew that FSS has to get those moorings out with by final deadline 12/15/2015. Mums the word until 2015 and no time for the public to react.
Certainly the plan was formed with the Front Street Shipyard way before the public was told in 11/2011 (same meeting that I first went public) that negotiations were underway to sell the old Stinson dump to become the FSS. 6 months later it the FSS was up. Warp speed. While I am getting destroyed for asking for a sewer and saving with FSS present and participating in the residents demise.
The tactics City Hall uses are the same. Delay public information until it will be too late for us to react. Spin them along in the interim through committee's and in the end, as Heil Hurley stated "we will do what we want". Belfast Harbor Master Kathy Pickering continual states that the FNP can be "deactivated" through an Act of Congress. Stating that the 2002 dredging was the first in over 100 years. Seems like bait to me. Who needs the FNP that protects public waters anymore, the dredging is done. Get rid of that and they will be able to do what they want. BREAKWATER on a 5 million dollar budget where residents are denied basic services. Where the City spends and spends on project after project with corrupt planning, with holding big expenses to get the project under way. And then bomb after bomb of totally foreseen "unforeseen's" Sucking more from the residents from the surplus, raising taxes and less basic services that property taxes are mandated to cover first. Resident infrastructure and safety.
This is how they do it. S.O.S with each already done corrupt plan. Buying time through bogus committee smokescreens until done. The only recourse will be a lawsuit. The resident foots the bill for the lawsuit and must foot the bill for basically bashing their head against the wall as the City Attorney and your attorney have a billable hour feast.You are on the spit, till your flesh is dropping off your bones. Next.
http://belfastme.swagit.com/play/06022015-1573 In the 6/2/2015 City Council meeting, click 6 open to the public and ff 10:27 to Joanne Moesswilde (Belfast recreational boater not chosen for the Harbor Committee but most likely will be offered to be one of the recreational casualties to be over rode as adhoc's) Joanne states at open to the public that she wants to be part of the NEW COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. The Plan is done Joanne. In the making for 9? years and voted through already. It's just not public. Buying time till they can toss residents to their pit bull- City Attorney Bill Kelly.
From there to click agenda 10C- Outer Harbor discussion- they play the part of the necessity to get a committee together to BEGIN fixing this planned disaster by 12/15/2015. Of course they have it done. Only the naive would believe that the Front Street Shipyard would be without security of being number one with a 6 month deadline. The Harbormaster, Kathy Pickering has stated many times that each harbor is original with it's original geographical issues. That she knows intimately. That the long time fisherman know intimately. That the harbor businesses know intimately. No doubt Front Street Shipyard has a GPS layout of every inch of that harbor as does City Hall. They bring in the corrupt layer through outside consultations and engineers who are sought because of their IGNORANCE to the harbor. How much will that consult cost us- 50K? Just to scam us! Feed them false information to get the results they want. And escape accountability. City Council Eric Sanders sends out the bait to hire a "hired gun" City Manager Joe Slocum cast the line further. Heil Hurley makes sure that the hired gun will not be at the public hearing on 6/12/2015. "Lets get through the public hearing and then see"
http://belfastme.swagit.com/play/06122015-512
The 6/12/2015 public hearing for concerns for the outer harbor should be watched in it's entirety with these key corrupt points. At 8:57 Harbor Master Kathy Pickering states that "this is a fairly current chart". This is crucial. City Hall is infamous for using tainted maps and charts to give to the "hired guns" of consultants and engineers. That tainted mapping is used to screw the residents and layer the blame and legal billable hours of endless foot dragging and lunches. They did it to me this past summer. Fabricating a stream running outside of my boundaries. In fact, they have taken my private property ditch and flood it into a ravine, then call it a natural outlet and move it outside of my boundaries on the tainted map that they engineer used to send slaughter me with more illegal water in 9/2014. And illegal paving. And we paid for the engineer to devise the plans to do us in.
@13.49 Jim Olin (sp?) Allyn St speaks of danger @ 18:46 Kathy speaks of deactivating the FNP.
@ At 21:50 Tom Maycock STATES THE CHART IS NOT ACCURATE AT THE COASTAL HARBOR/PATTERSON POINT.
@ 25:20 Kathy advises that the City is pursuing a breakwater with the Army Corp. in relation to the FNP/Front St Shipyard, Dredging...
@ 41:25 Dave Black states The Army Corp does not look into relations instead they take each project independently. Then Dave takes one for the Po'Folk team, pleading with them to leave a little bit for us.
@ 53:42 Lee Hirsch (sp?) states the same.
@ 54:30 City Council Heil Hurley smiles back, and states the he guesses he shouldn't have made Belfast so nice. (So corrupt is the problem)
@53:47 TJ Faulkingham states support for a breakwater.
@59:45 Jim Black states the biggest problem is the FNP
@ 65:37 Chris Hunt cites laws and smiles back to Heil Hurley "get rid of the middle class boaters and Belfast won't be that nice" Nailed Hurley.
In the mix is Harbor Committee member Belmont Boatworks Dan Miller going on and on about nothing- 2 times! Then Harbor Committee member David Carlson- 3 Tides and Marshall Brewery owner on the harbor- who's your Daddy- Front Street Shipyard and Belfast City Hall. Spreading more nothing with lots of ego. And City Council John Arrison plays his concerned boater part again.
http://belfastme.swagit.com/play/07072015-1353 Click 10 they buried the appointments in there. It's letter D- you can ff 26:30 to get to D. I copied it as well and uploaded it on you tube. The disturbed ego's. Ew.
Stacking the harbor committee ( breaking protocol by the corrupt motion @ 7/7/2015 CC meeting to deny moving the alternate and surely a threat to the stacking, Dennis Trefry to an open permanent voting position on the committee. Dennis is out.) To save face, the motions and vote are choreographed- proven with City Planner Wayne Marshall and City Manager Joe Slocum, whipping out their big bad bible to pre-marked pages of charter for committee rules. Slocum acting as if he just began looking while the discussion was happening. Sloscum has pre- planned this adhoc addition to divert from the stacking of all commercial members to the harbor committee.
City Council John Arrison plays his hand as a concerned recreational boater motioning to make alternate Harbor Committee member Dennis Trefry to permanent. Corrupt right there, precedence is that the alternate moves in automatically to a vacant voting position. It has been decided that Dennis has got to go. This is just a ballet for the public. Dave Black is another threat with respected Belfast history. The fabric of Belfast, born, schooled, family, life long harbor- lobsterman and committee chair and member (34? years on the committee). Council Eric Sanders took offense at the interview for his application and Dave was even more dead in the harbor at the public hearing for the outer harbor on 6/11/2015 @ 41:25 seconds in.
To save face, the 2 stooges here are Council Heil Hurley and Council John Arrison. Poor play acting as Stooge Hurley "acts" to motion Dave Black onto the Harbor Committee and Stooge Arrison "acts" to motion alternate Dennis Trefry (most likely a honest recreational boater). The 3 other stooges override their motions and their dirty deed is done. Players are being set in motion.
The Harbor Committee is now comprised change that to compromised with commercial interests. Faulkingham- lobsterman, Turner- Front Street Shipyard president, Carlson- harbor bar and brewery, Miller-Belmont Boatworks, Winslow- mooring repair/inspection/diving services. Slocum is fooling the public with adding an adhoc committee to this committee which will include the 5 members on the Harbor Committee and casualties to appease the recreational boaters. TJ (Faulkingham) is an honorable man. He will be over ruled by the un's. (un honorables). I hope the talk of a breakwater doesn't bind him.
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8/2/15
CORRUPT DEP COMMISSIONER AHO STATES BELFAST AND SEARSPORT ARE NOT TOWNS TO OVER RIDE OPPOSITION TO DREDGE DEATH
http://waldo.villagesoup.com/p/bep-votes-not-to-take-on-searsport-dredging-application-for-now/1382475#1384506
BEP votes not to take on Searsport dredging application, for now
Pity.. Perfect example of the Lepage administration's 'science be damned, there's money to be made' polic. This time geared toward taking down Penobscot Bay's $650 millions a year economic engine we call lobstering, so that absentee land speculators and their local hirelings can make a killing paving the bay coast. and replacing coastal forests with big boxes, condos suburban sprawl .Literally making a killing, for the plumes fr m the thousand bareloads will poison out the nearshore plankton so necessary for baby lobsters and fish. will drive away the adult fish and slay the bottom organisms that must breathe clean salt water.
The board opted to defy the science and hold with commissioner Aho that Belfast and Searsport are not separate towns under the law, Grrr.
By Staff | Aug 01, 2015
Augusta — Maine
Board of Environmental Protection voted July 16 not to assume
jurisdiction over a controversial dredging project application. The U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers plan would expand and deepen the navigation
channel at Mack Point cargo terminal in Searsport.
The BEP review came at the request of a coalition including lobstermen and environmental activists. For BEP to take jurisdiction from the Department of Environmental Protection, the application would have to have met three of four criteria, including having an economic and environmental effect on multiple municipalities, drawing significant opposition and having no precedent in the state.
Board members were in agreement that the dredging would have economic significance beyond Searsport, that it was not unique in the state, and that it had generated significant opposition. On the fourth point — environmental impact to multiple municipalities — most felt that it was unclear. Using municipal boundaries drawn over water, the dredging would be in Searsport and the disposal site would fall on both sides of the Islesboro/Northport line.
The board ultimately voted that the application did not meet three of the four criteria. Several members said they were inclined to take a more conservative stance because assuming jurisdiction at this point could short-circuit the process.
Members noted that DEP would hold a public hearing and that the outcome could still be appealed to BEP. If BEP upheld the application, the only recourse would be Superior Court.
The dredging, scheduled for late this year, would entail removing 900,000 cubic yards of sediment from the channel and dumping it in a "pockmark" recess in the bay floor between Islesboro and Northport.
Opponents believe the dredging would disturb toxin-laden sediment, release pockets of methane gas and cause turbidity that would wreak havoc on the bay ecosystem and the local lobster and shellfish industries.
The BEP review came at the request of a coalition including lobstermen and environmental activists. For BEP to take jurisdiction from the Department of Environmental Protection, the application would have to have met three of four criteria, including having an economic and environmental effect on multiple municipalities, drawing significant opposition and having no precedent in the state.
Board members were in agreement that the dredging would have economic significance beyond Searsport, that it was not unique in the state, and that it had generated significant opposition. On the fourth point — environmental impact to multiple municipalities — most felt that it was unclear. Using municipal boundaries drawn over water, the dredging would be in Searsport and the disposal site would fall on both sides of the Islesboro/Northport line.
The board ultimately voted that the application did not meet three of the four criteria. Several members said they were inclined to take a more conservative stance because assuming jurisdiction at this point could short-circuit the process.
Members noted that DEP would hold a public hearing and that the outcome could still be appealed to BEP. If BEP upheld the application, the only recourse would be Superior Court.
The dredging, scheduled for late this year, would entail removing 900,000 cubic yards of sediment from the channel and dumping it in a "pockmark" recess in the bay floor between Islesboro and Northport.
Opponents believe the dredging would disturb toxin-laden sediment, release pockets of methane gas and cause turbidity that would wreak havoc on the bay ecosystem and the local lobster and shellfish industries.
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