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.
Below was not part of above post, but part of my blog.
City
Council approving all the spending, all the committee's, all the Kings
horses and all the Kings men that are slaughtering the residents basic
rights and safety. Mayor Ash slams down his gavel, not even allowing me
3 minutes to speak at open to the public where every other speaker is
not timed. I have proved the corruption again and again, put myself out
there to make everyone aware and react.
This
meeting was dangerous for me. Mayor Ash was looking to the Chief of
Police to take me out. JB Turner and the owners of Front Street Shipyard
were there. They have seen this again and again. JB and I were at the
same meeting where he was pitching the purchase of land for the future
Front Street Shipyard in November 2011. The contrast is sickening. How
they sit next to me silent as I beg to save Seaview Terrace is beyond
me.
Mayor
Ash refuses to allow me a few minutes to finish the proving of the
corrupt City slaughter to Seaview Terrace. I am begging him, he tells me
basically, he is sick of hearing it, wants something new. I respond,
like what- when Seaview Terrace is under water, Becky Gibbons house is
gone, maybe dead? Chief McFadden tells his new officer to follow me out.
Right, like I am the danger. I come back into the meeting and wait for
the 2nd open to the public to finish pleading to save us and stop the
corruption.
Because
I am a single Mom, who won difficult contested relocation, the danger
the City and others further imposes on us is beyond maniacal. The local
real estate agents were the vultures fully aware of our battered
situation to relocate to safety and privacy. The led us to slaughter,
did not disclose the water, (previous and later Seaview Terrace listings
disclose stream- the Maine Real Estate Commission and Mary refuse to
provide those listings- not public- Commission corruptly dismissed
complaint just like DEP/Aho). Property Inspector DJ Brown recommended by
real estate agents, inspected in Spring- did not report
stream/brook/ditch with water running through it and un-stabilized
banking. Agents did not advise of flood zone. I would have refused this
property and they knew it. I was paying cash and they nailed me.
Counting on my situation to stay under cover and succumb to more abuse.
What
they can't understand is that I will not succumb, even if it kills me.
Stress kills. Water kills. White Collar Terrorism with City Attorney and
Law Enforcement Support. I will never give up. My kids will have the
recorded City Hall meetings and my blogs. I stood. I spoke. Until.
7/15/14
City Council Meeting Click both open to the public and business- ff to
Downtown Revitalization. No one is accountable. Pass it on to us. Do we
stand up for our children and for those who risk their lives for our
rights? Or pretend it's just me?
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