Follow up to all, (City Council, Mayor,City Manager and Belfast Engineer Mandy Olver, and cc's mentioned below)
Most disgusting is that I am sure you thought I'd be in Anniston Alabama for my brother's funeral yesterday and sent in the trucks today. City Hall knew my brother died on Thursday. I told the workers out here that there is no hard feelings, I know they are just doing their job as I held back my sobs.
City Manager Joe Slocum stated in the 9/2/14 City Council meeting that he had to meet with Seaview Terrace residents and discuss the options. City Council was reviewing the options and would be voting their decision in the next meeting- 9/16/15. These have not happened yet the trucks rolled in before 8 am - tell me why and how? Slocum has not meet with Seaview Terrace and Council has not voted. They were counting on me not being here. Their tactic is just that- do it without approvals and after neighbors would have to sue the City.
Most disgusting is that I am sure you thought I'd be in Anniston Alabama for my brother's funeral yesterday and sent in the trucks today. City Hall knew my brother died on Thursday. I told the workers out here that there is no hard feelings, I know they are just doing their job as I held back my sobs.
City Manager Joe Slocum stated in the 9/2/14 City Council meeting that he had to meet with Seaview Terrace residents and discuss the options. City Council was reviewing the options and would be voting their decision in the next meeting- 9/16/15. These have not happened yet the trucks rolled in before 8 am - tell me why and how? Slocum has not meet with Seaview Terrace and Council has not voted. They were counting on me not being here. Their tactic is just that- do it without approvals and after neighbors would have to sue the City.
You are all despicable.
Real Time Corrupt Illegal Slaughter Suspending Ordinance for City Work on Private Property 9/8/14- Mine.
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The slaughter is underway- Belfast Public Works is out there right now- digging to flood me more. I sent out this email at 9 am to Belfast City Council, City Manager Joe Slocum, Mayor and Belfast Engineer Mandy Olver. I copied UU Minster Perkins (who has been watching the corruption and promoting a Compassionate Cities Charter with UU treasurer and Belfast City Council Roger Lee) Governor LePage, EPA- Cyndy Mackey, Attorney General Office-Brenda Kielty, Belfast Chief of Police- Mike McFadden, JB Turner- President of Front Street Shipyard (we began at the same meetings in 2011- he to transform the waterfront into glory, me begging for a sewer to save Seaview. JB is flying and Seaview is dying) and new media- Portland Press, Bangor Daily News, PenBay Pilot and Republican Journal Village Soup.
City Council, Mayor,City Manager and Belfast Engineer Mandy Olver,
The Belfast Public Works Department is on Seaview Terrace this morning, Monday, September 8. It appears you have chosen to send me more water illegally and have spent more tax dollars to cover up this corruption. Employing Olver Engineer, providing them will corrupt boundary lines showing my private property drainage ditch, turned City Hell storm ravine- is not my property. With this corrupt map and superimposed corrupt boundary lines, Mandy Olver proposed illegal draining and the City Manager set up the corruption.
The City Manager with City Council and Mayor support has strung this along in view of the public and this movement for Compassionate Cities. The hope it gave me is beyond cruel. City Manager Joe Slocum lying at the City Council meeting on 9/2/14, stating this fictitious meeting for Seaview Terrace residents on 9/3/14 to go over these option. Bogus. There was never a meeting. City Council Mike Hurley also threatening Seaview Terrace residents and the rest enabling and supporting in sick silence.
http://belfastme.swagit.com/play/09022014-1530/#2
In this 9/2/14 meeting, I questioned the agenda item in the Comprehensive Plan first readings to basically making Belfast ordinance free to clearly slaughter my property with a legal loophole nightmare and it was not even read in them motion, just voted through. You are all without any compassion or conscience. Hypocrites are the worst of all. All the employees, committees, and those who thought Belfast was good, all of those who work so hard to make Belfast good, and me, blaring the horn that it is falling. Shame on you. This was the chance to make things right. Furthermore, by not answering my questions, or providing public documents and information, you force me into conjecture, waiting for me to make a mistake so that you can rip me to shreds. It is all so disgusting. I am trapped in hell because of Belfast City Hall corruption.
Yes, this email is choppy. I am in extreme mourning and am very distraught. I'll take your punches and kicks.
Sincerely,
Laurie Allen
from www.boycottbelfast.blogspot.com (specific points extracted -the whole can be read on the blog)
Manager Joe Slocum with the article and asked Mandy to revise that option 1 is the only option.
The only option is 1. The other's violate Maine State Law Title 17 & 38 stated here http://boycottbelfast.blogspot.com/p/breaking-law-title-17-38.html
Specific to title 17 is the harboring of water... deposited or allowed to accumulate, in such manner or in such location or situation either within or without the limits of any highway, as to be unsightly, detracting from the natural scenery or injurious to the comfort and happiness of individuals and the public, and injurious to property rights, are public nuisances. [2005, c. 397,Pt. A, §11 (AMD).]
The harboring of water as evidenced in these pictures at 22,18 and 17 Seaview Terrace would be injurious to property rights by ditching them to drain to another's private property.
Your letter (Joe Slocum's to residents received on 8/30/14) does not provide a mapped plan for each option with specs. At the work shop, Mandy Olver stated the ditch would be right next to the road- there is little right of way to spare and not recommended. Hurley stated he is "not interested in spending 135k to solve this." The road will be 18', shoulder and the ditch itself would be 2 feet wide and 3 feet deep with no stabilization. These ditches will be unsightly and dangerous. Soon they will erode and keep widening into our front yards. Huntress Ave. is an example. Weather patterns are flooding hell.
Paving with legal roadside drainage. Period. Sending roadside drainage to my private property. ILLEGAL. Option 1 is the only option to correct with legal drainage. Period.
The water district (separate from the City) replaced the water lines this summer. They had to dig up pavement and would have repaved. City Manager Joe Slocum cut a deal to take their paving funds and incorporate it into the full pavement needed. It must be paved- the water lines are covered with dirt- a storm can wash out the dirt making even bigger problems. As you read below you will see that they destroyed Seaview Terrace and want to send me more water. They cannot do that and are strong arming. Below is the link to the meeting, but I'll write out what City Council Michael Hurley threatened against Seaview Terrace. And this meeting was never a meeting. I think Slocum was baiting me to speak out during communications so I would be banned from meetings. Other's can make a comment, but I'm held to a different standard- the nail that honest woman standard.
City Council Michael M******* to City Manager Joe Slos*um in response to my speech just prior at open to the public "If you run into the kind of treatment that you're running into, I'd pull the plug on it. Just say forget it. You guys don't want your road paved, fine. I'm not gonna, ya know, we're not gonna like- I've really had it on Seaview Terrace. People don't want their road paved, fine. I wish they'd buy that road back. Let it be a private road, they can do what the want."
City Manager Joe Slocum states he is having a meeting tomorrow, 9/3/14 with Seaview Terrace residents in City Hall?????????? I have not been told about this meeting it is now 8:17 pm.
Below is my speech at the open to the public portion from the 9/2/14 meeting, documenting the chance for City Council to save face, save Seaview Terrace, and change the path of corruption and abuse to the "undesirables in the path of Belfast City Hall greed.
“On the agenda I see a rush of reading on the Comprehensive Plan and I am alarmed at "Current ordinance provisions for the above zoning districts will be eliminated." What does this mean and what is the effect? Council has not voted the plan in, or had public notice.
Seaview Terrace residents received a letter on Saturday 8/30/14 from City Manager Joe Slocum stating the road will not receive it's 40 year overdue proper road side drainage. Insanely stating that if the City repairs one of the City forced disasters for residents, they will have to fix others. Neighbors through out Belfast are suing each other for water run off because of exactly this refusal from Belfast City Hall to provide mandatory infrastructure 101.Residents previously with dry properties become flooded because of planning and development.
City Planner Wayne Marshall states “This is a significant neighbor to neighbor issue.” It is a CITY issue but the City pits neighbors against each other instead.
Councilor Roger Lee said in the last meeting that there is not any other Belfast private property that receieves the enormous amount of City runoff like Seaview Terrace. Seaview Terrace cannot be compared to any others. This is an emergency situation. As a flood plain flood zone it is your civic duty to divert all runoff away from the road to City rights aways and not to other residents.
Slocum's letter is persuading the residents to ignore the illegal forcing of ALL neighborhood drainage from above, across and even behind residents on the south side to my private property. Neighbors are pumping their basements into the ditch and into these City culverts and it is all forced to me. Flip the flow of water to any other residents private property and they would be standing here right now and I would be supporting them.
The City must correct this. Real estate agent and prior owner of my home, Puzz Caswell told me this in 2011, prior to the Seaview Terrace street meeting that she attended in August 2011 with me and my neighbors. Puzz stating that the flooding is worse than ever. Which is why she probably sold in the 90's, who sold it to another, who sold it to another, who sold it to me. Undisclosed hell. The buck stops here.
City Manager Joe Slocum, saw first hand, the destruction on Seaview Terrace with me in August 2011. He said then the road was in need of repair from all the water underneath, cracking it and heaving it. He has had 3 years he had to plan proper drainage with funding. Nothing done. I offered resolution again and again through the TIF. Seaview Terrace could have been included into the Northport Ave. TIF via the new Annex.
Right now there is the 90k in that TIF along with the budgeted 45k that would fix Seaview Terrace correctly. We have been servicing all these business sites and highways, taking their runoff and melt-off into the private properties of Seaview Terrace. TIF's have been used to assist with business and infrastructure. We have been a free sewer for miles of roads, highway, business storm water and snow melt for 50 years.
AGAIN- we are not a natural outlet, the City has no rights of ways or easements. Even if we were a natural outlet it is insane slaughter to force all the impervious runoff up and down and across town to us. Road side sewer drainage is an absolute necessary. The roads may last for 50 years. A band aid pave job over frost heaving culverts as stated by Mandy Olver, consulting engineer is the worst option. The City made this disaster. The time is now to correct it.
There is more water into Seaview Terrace every year, more water under the roads. 17 years prior and 17 years future are not the same and is a ridiculous formula to even mention.
As a dead end street, a turn around is ordinance mandated. A resident has stated that their private property is used by the City as a turn around. Case in point- the City maintains that private property section with snow plowing. The City dug the private property ditch @ 23 Seaview Terrace in 2009 to send harboring water to me. The City does do work on private property where there aren't any easements or right of ways.
The 3 culverts running under Seaview Terrace carry harboring water from the south side to my private property on the north side. The City is breaking the law under Title 17 by sending harboring water to me. The City is breaking the law under title 38 by the severe erosion to my property from sending me the harboring water.
There is harboring water roadside at several areas. Slocum's resolution is to send it to me. Roadside sewers would take all the water away from the road legally and remove the culverts.
City Manager Joe Slocum is not planning, providing or protecting residents as mandated by the Maine Municipal Alliance. This constant denying and bullying is a disgrace and threatening our health and safety.
Seaview Terrace did not spend the surplus, we did not get a say in how you spent all of our property tax dollars. Bob Richards said in the budget meetings that road repair was a least a million dollars behind. Infrastructure is denied to residents in the watershed.
Tonight Joe Slocum is asking for permission to borrow 4.5 million just to cover basic operating expenses. The first time in 35 years that a loan is needed to keep City Hall open. Regardless of the split tax bill, that should have been covered by the surplus. The school tax is out of this world and you talk of floating bonds for a public works building, upgrading City buildings and City properties like you're buying toilet paper. While flushing the residents into a cesspool. You can find the money for option 1 for Seaview Terrace. Please do the right thing and save Seaview Terrace."
(end of email sent 9/8/14)
9/4/14- The corruption NEVER ends. I just saw the one sided article in the Republican Journal with the pictures of Seaview Terrace. Mandy Olver, the engineer was given false boundaries. They don't even have that stream running through my yard. It is absolutely illegal under Title 17 to send me this harboring road side water which is what option 2&3 do. OPTION 1 is the only legal option. I sent an email today, to Mandy Olver, City Council, Mayor and City Manager Joe Slocum with the article and asked Mandy to revise that option 1 is the only option.
I am happy to report a Mainer, about my age, drove past in his truck- not from the neighborhood. On his return, his window down, we were almost face to face. I held my breath as I waved, not sure if he would wave or give me the finger. He pointed at me and said You Go Girl! I was in rapture and hollered back- Alright, Alright, Alright!!
Paving with legal roadside drainage. Period. Sending roadside drainage to my private property. ILLEGAL. Option 1 is the only option to correct with legal drainage. Period.
The water district (separate from the City) replaced the water lines this summer. They had to dig up pavement and would have repaved. City Manager Joe Slocum cut a deal to take their paving funds and incorporate it into the full pavement needed. It must be paved- the water lines are covered with dirt- a storm can wash out the dirt making even bigger problems. As you read below you will see that they destroyed Seaview Terrace and want to send me more water. They cannot do that and are strong arming. Below is the link to the meeting, but I'll write out what City Council Michael Manical Hurley threatened against Seaview Terrace. And this meeting was never a meeting. I think Slocum was baiting me to speak out during communications so I would be banned from meetings. Other's can make a comment, but I'm held to a different standard- the nail that honest woman standard.
City Council Michael Maniacal to City Manager Joe Sloscum in response to my speech just prior at open to the public "If you run into the kind of treatment that you're running into, I'd pull the plug on it. Just say forget it. You guys don't want your road paved, fine. I'm not gonna, ya know, we're not gonna like- I've really had it on Seaview Terrace. People don't want their road paved, fine. I wish they'd buy that road back. Let it be a private road, they can do what the want."
9/2/14- See below pictures for link to meeting and writing of my speech. City Councilor Michael Maniacal Hurley threatened Seaview Terrace again. Wanting to get rid of Seaview Terrace (no kidding, flood us to death in hopes of a total loss and taking it for nothing, until then, tried to illegally rezone us to a new zone R3 in anticipation of the flood to take us out and make it a parking lot, now they have to pave- the road is throwing itself up it's so bad, and they want to do a cheap job, send me more water, rather than the right job.
City Manager Joe Slocum states he is having a meeting tomorrow, 9/3/14 with Seaview Terrace residents in City Hall?????????? I have not been told about this meeting it is now 8:17 pm.
Maniacal Mike tells Slocum that if he encounters any negativity then shut it down. NO PAVING FOR SEAVIEW. This man is very sick and very dangerous.
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