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| To: | laurieallen55@msn.com (laurieallen55@msn.com) |
Your post on the revitalization project was potentially libelous, so I have disabled your posts. At this point, I see no reason to reinstate your ability to comment on our site since we both know we will be having this conversation again in the near future if I do. You can still read stories on the site. Daniel Dunkle News Director The Courier-Gazette, Camden Herald and Republican Journal 594-4401 ext. 122
BELFAST — Three bids received by the city for the planned Downtown Revitalization project came in much higher than officials anticipated.
City
Planner Wayne Marshall briefed councilors on the status of the Downtown
Revitalization project during a meeting Tuesday, July 15. The three
bids the city received came in at $867,716, $1,162,210 and $1,203,15.
Those
amounts were significantly higher than the $650,000 cost estimate that
was prepared by the city's engineering firm Sebago Technics.
The
purpose of the Downtown Revitalization project is to rebuild Cross
Street between Main and Spring Streets, create additional parking and
enhance the infrastructure above and below the ground to encourage
redevelopment in the area.
The city received a $500,000 grant in order to help pay for the cost of the project.
Because
the bid amounts “considerably greater” than what the city anticipated,
Marshall recommended councilors accept the bids, which simply
acknowledges they were received, and then ask the Downtown
Revitalization Committee to reevaluate the project.
Once
the committee has time to review the bids and the project, it provide
recommendations to the council on how to proceed at a future date.
Marshall
also noted that the city was looking at splitting the project into two
phases with a portion of the work to be completed in the fall and the
remainder to be finished in the spring. However, he pointed out that
delaying the start of the project and seeking more bids in the spring
may encourage additional companies to express an interest in the
project. He noted one of the challenges of bidding a project during the
summer is that many of the businesses are busy with other projects.
Councilors voted 3-0 to accept the bids as presented with Councilors Mike Hurley and Eric Sanders absent.
POSTED BY: LAURIE LEE ALLEN | Jul 17, 2014 11:19
Ron
Harriman, economic consultant, , Sebago Technic Engineering, and City
Planner Wayne Marshall all on the tax payers payroll. Tying us into the
500k grant with a match requirement and corruptly under estimating the
tax payers tab to secure approval for acceptance of the grant. Again,
Marshall is "gravely" at the podium, like almost EVERY one of his
riddled planning projects. Stating the original bait cast by these con
artists would cost us "100k plus or minus" for this "greater
connectivity" City Hall want. Right there- when Council approved the
acceptance of the grant, the motion must include matching requirement
can not exceed 100k. They corruptly do not do that. Knowing the scheme,
the submitted match estimate is never true. 100k is not even in that
realm. They all knew it then.
Per
Maine Municipal Association, basic infrastructure for the residents is
automatic. Belfast Director of Public Works, Bob Richards stated 3
months ago in the budget hearings, that the City was over 1 million
dollars in neglect to just the UPKEEP of the roads. Wayne Marshall
admitting over and over again that resident drainage is a disaster..
Get
the project underway and then slam us. SOS- from 100k to a minimum of 1
million. Even the bids are not actual. Always a fore seen "unforeseen"
behind the scene to award the lowest bid and slam us again, again and
again. City Manager, Joe Slocum, corrupt steward of our money, casts
more bait- wait a few more months and see if bids come in lower when
they are hungry, unethical securing of easements after underway,
straddling those residents over a barrel again and again. Wayne Marshall
deflecting accountability by stating he's "just on the committee". Sue
Wayne Marshall, Ron Harriman, Sebago Technics and Joe Slocum for fraud
and embezzlement.
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Now read below and get your puke bucket first. Dunkle and his staff protects Belfast City Hall. Dan Dunkle, Jay Davis, and Heil Hurley "TEE"- Three Evil Ego's.
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Now read below and get your puke bucket first. Dunkle and his staff protects Belfast City Hall. Dan Dunkle, Jay Davis, and Heil Hurley "TEE"- Three Evil Ego's.
Whoa — Step Off, City Hall
| by Alice McFadden, Publisher, The Free Press |
Thursday,
October 29, 2015 10:44 AM
On
Tuesday afternoon, Rockland’s City Manager sent off a “news
release” to media outlets. Titled “City Council Has a Positive
Vision,” the communique began by claiming that Dan Dunkle’s
reporting for the Courier-Gazette on the council’s goal-setting
workshop, held on October 22, demonstrated a lack of understanding
of the content and structure of the workshop, took comments out of
context, and was “highly disappointing and counterproductive.”
It went on to describe his “brief attendance” at the meeting,
which resulted in statements being taken “out of context.”
OK, all well and good, a city manager has free-speech whining rights just like the next guy. This is not the first time that City Manager Chaousis has felt it his duty to instruct the press in their proper duties, as have other Rockland city councilors, on occasion. This latest missive, however, does rank right at the top of nominations for The Most Arrogant to emanate from City Hall. It, of course, doesn’t even begin to measure up to the ones that flow almost daily from Governor LePage’s office in Augusta. Those are unmatched in attacking the press and, well, pretty much everyone and everything, while planting another flag on the moral high ground and declaring bold public rectitude.
Rockland’s recent efforts to manage the flow of information — “speaking with one voice” — is, however, beginning to ape the LePage administration’s unprecedented efforts in that regard. The state’s departments are now fronted with highly paid media relations people, whose job, currently, is to block the media from direct access to public information, while the governor leads the charge to denigrate, insult, punish and get fired those who don’t march along to the tune of his singular brainwaves.
And sorry to say that Tuesday’s press release and many parts of the goal-setting SWOT analysis (including that name, which stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunties, Threats) did conjure up visions of George Orwell’s ghost. “Newspeak,” the fictional language created by Orwell’s fictional state, Oceania, to control the message, bears an uneasy resemblance to some of the communication improvement themes now emanating from City Hall.
And, the three-paragraph summary of the City’s Positive Vision of what Rockland will be as of June 2018, well it, too, smacks of Orwell’s Oceania: for example, “a place where public officials, private citizens and the press work together, with optimism, trust and collaboration … we have a strong legislative voice and are succeeding in our advocacy at the State level … we have increased tourism … there is an in-town housing renaissance for all socioeconomic levels, and young families are choosing to live in the City of Rockland due to the availability of middle-class housing and the quality of our education.…”
In Tuesday’s news release, the city manager chastised Dunkle for not conveying the Positive Vision. City Hall might want to step back for a moment and assess whether its recent efforts to, for example, subsume the duties of the school board, and now editorship of a local paper, might not actually be best described as bold visionary leadership, but rather as a tad too much top-down overdirecting.
OK, all well and good, a city manager has free-speech whining rights just like the next guy. This is not the first time that City Manager Chaousis has felt it his duty to instruct the press in their proper duties, as have other Rockland city councilors, on occasion. This latest missive, however, does rank right at the top of nominations for The Most Arrogant to emanate from City Hall. It, of course, doesn’t even begin to measure up to the ones that flow almost daily from Governor LePage’s office in Augusta. Those are unmatched in attacking the press and, well, pretty much everyone and everything, while planting another flag on the moral high ground and declaring bold public rectitude.
Rockland’s recent efforts to manage the flow of information — “speaking with one voice” — is, however, beginning to ape the LePage administration’s unprecedented efforts in that regard. The state’s departments are now fronted with highly paid media relations people, whose job, currently, is to block the media from direct access to public information, while the governor leads the charge to denigrate, insult, punish and get fired those who don’t march along to the tune of his singular brainwaves.
And sorry to say that Tuesday’s press release and many parts of the goal-setting SWOT analysis (including that name, which stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunties, Threats) did conjure up visions of George Orwell’s ghost. “Newspeak,” the fictional language created by Orwell’s fictional state, Oceania, to control the message, bears an uneasy resemblance to some of the communication improvement themes now emanating from City Hall.
And, the three-paragraph summary of the City’s Positive Vision of what Rockland will be as of June 2018, well it, too, smacks of Orwell’s Oceania: for example, “a place where public officials, private citizens and the press work together, with optimism, trust and collaboration … we have a strong legislative voice and are succeeding in our advocacy at the State level … we have increased tourism … there is an in-town housing renaissance for all socioeconomic levels, and young families are choosing to live in the City of Rockland due to the availability of middle-class housing and the quality of our education.…”
In Tuesday’s news release, the city manager chastised Dunkle for not conveying the Positive Vision. City Hall might want to step back for a moment and assess whether its recent efforts to, for example, subsume the duties of the school board, and now editorship of a local paper, might not actually be best described as bold visionary leadership, but rather as a tad too much top-down overdirecting.
And not to be
outdone, yesterday Fank Isganitis went where no former City Mayor
has gone before . . . Ordered to cut-off the microphone and direct
all the cameras away from the speaker. All the speaker was doing was
listing the recent "achievements" of the present city
manager. We The People can begin to take back City Hall by VOTING
NOVEMBER 3!
With election day looming and all the posts by the corrupt to re-elect puppet Eric Sanders is more of the same. Rip off the needs of 99% for more of the 1% wants. "If we fix one neighborhood, we'll have to fix them all." Let them crumble and pave paradise for economic development, protect the players. They will be at the polls. Fight corruption by resident committee's. The true forum for open discussion and resolution. Why wait to we're rubble? Save your home/town now, organize. www.moralmondays.blogspot.com.
I secured my protest signs to my SUV and away I went to Belfast City Hall to pay my property taxes. Parked in the center of downtown for over an hour and then up to Hannaford (grocery store). Lots of visibility and wind. Good thing a sturdy woman makes sturdy signs.
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