Belfast Harbor Hell

Below is 4/21/2015 City Council Meeting with Army Corp - Jay Clements. He states the City has been sitting on this since 2012 and D-Day is nearing. City Council Heil Hurley stating he can do what he wants. Not on my 5 year watch... No way Commandant.

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.

The airport expansion, the rail trail, the downtown revitalization, City entities getting the treatment, on and on, all in calculated sync to overwhelm the public into division to conquer.  City Hall blowing through money that citizens cannot get an accounting of...absolute corruption off the charts.

5/5/2015 This is what I wanted to share with the residents from the Moral Mondays meeting last night @ 7pm Belfast City Park Pavilion. No one came. Sad, but I was happy to be there. It is beautiful.

In the Belfast City Council meeting tonight (5/5), City Manager Joe Slocum is placing more debt to the tax payer. Over the recent years, they have depleted the surplus including the mandatory 6 month cushion to cover operating expenses. In 9/2014, for the first time in over 30 years. City Manager Joe Slocum pushed through a 4 million dollar tax anticipation note. City Council voted it right through without ANY concern or discussion. Even Mayor Ash was shocked that there was not even a discussion. But, probably part of the ploy that Heil Hurley uses as well to save face.

Tonight they will crush us with another bond anticipation note of $1,000,000 and a later issuance of a general obligation bond NOT TO EXCEED $2,150,000. This is for the downtown revitilzation, Front Street and clean up of the Maskers building- all being coined as “The Project”. 

Wait until the new school district, 5 years in the planning and spending with no saving, hits us in the face. Per the Bangor Daily news 6/2014- The mil rate for the 2014-15 city budget contained an 8 percent jump in the municipal budget to $8.66 million. Because of that increase and the anticipated increase in the school budget, Belfast property taxpayers can expect the city’s mill rate to rise to 21.91 from 20.8 last year. The increase will mean an additional $111 in property taxes per $100,000 of valuation.  

Current budget is underway that is just stupid. Line by line to cut a buck on operating expenses and with holding the Cash Cow spending in executive sessions for wants and greed. 

4/21/2015 Belfast City Council Meeting Click 6 to watch the Prophet vs. Profit.
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."

@ 34:35 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.

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. .

Heil Hurley slanders the public again and again and City Hall/Council encourages it. He threatened Seaview Terrace residents by saying he is sick of Seaview, let them buy it back, he is not interested in fixing it, if we don't want the illegal paving job then we won't get paved at all. Stating that I am wrong, all this water is not passing through my yard and that I don't have a leg to stand on. One rant of the many over the past 5 years. I face off with him and he cowers. Never allowing for a debate. He states that I dominate each time I speak. Thug, the truth dominates. I want peace, safety and privacy. I never would have bought this hell and no one would ever my name. Now, I am the most hated woman in downtown Belfast up to Govnah Chuckie LeRage. Might as well live up to the expectations. Joisey girl takes on the greedy the best I can.

The lizards continue to send more water to private properties in the water shed. They lie, claiming it was at one time a stream- which is the loophole they use to coincide with local ordinance. Council can approve drainage to the nearest natural outlet. Maps on this blog from 1939 prove that was never a stream running through this have fabricated as the watershed. The maps shows a stream running above Congress Street horizontal all the way to Little River. The Rte 1 bypass constructed in the 1960's cut through that stream. That is where they began the corruption to avoid spending on storm sewers and send it to private properties. Leaving neighbors to send it to their neighbor and City Hall slithers away as neighbors sue each other. Or sell it to another...

They hide and with hold the public documents that prove the corruption. New site construction is corrupted with approvals granted months before construction begins. Appeals close 30 days after approvals and then months later you see that the site is not being built according to the approved plans. The final plans are locked up in the City Planners office along with the zoning conditions and an individual has zero chance of getting those final documents. City Council takes the 5^th and the City Attorney and police dept. step in to intimidate and try to force you into a legal action. They will bury you with red tape and break your bank and soul.

The real estate agents are partners in crime and enjoy the high turnover of the slaughtered properties. Currently the corrupt zoning is of high alert. The zoning for the new R1 and R3 was voted in by City Council in September 2014 according to City Planner Wayne Marshall . Contradicted by City Manager Joe Slocum who indicates it was in the October 2014 meeting. Both refuse to update the City Website with the final zoning maps for R1 and R3. I have been requesting this since September and receive rhetoric. Since the zoning change, Seaview Terrace has had 4 homes go up for sale with different zoning's on the listing. One listed as healthcare, another as R2 and another as R1. Real estate agents are taking the 5h and referring questions to the City Manager. He states that Seaview Terrace is R1 but also states he makes mistakes. Verbal and written responses from City Hall are worthless. Final documents are the only legal source. FOIA is useless- the corruption goes right up the ladder to the Attorney General's office. The FBI will not get involved.

The laws state they may take our properties for any reason. I have reached out to real estate agents. JB Turner, Greg Dutch and the downtown business for support as we support them. Their response was to award City Manager Joe Slocum, Citizen of the Year.

Inverse condemnation is a term used in the law to describe a situation in which the government takes private property but fails to pay the compensation required by the 5th Amendment of Constitution. In some states the term also includes damaging of property as well as taking it. In order to be compensated, the owner must then sue the government. In such cases the owner is the plaintiff and that is why the action is called inverse – the order of parties is reversed, as compared to the usual procedure in direct condemnation where the government is the plaintiff who sues a defendant-owner to take his or her property.
The taking can be physical (e.g., land seizure, flooding...


Or will they will take it through
Section 5204 prescribes procedures for municipal takings under the community development statute. These procedures are similar to, but not identical with, the procedures prescribed under Title 23 for local highway takings. Most significantly, community development takings under sec. 5204 are not subject to the limitations contained in 30-A MRSA sec. 3101 for other non-highway municipal takings. Specifically, a municipality may use the community development statute to acquire owner-occupied residential property, even if the owner does not consent, and use of property taken by the municipality is not restricted to the specific use for which it was taken.

 

Recently, I tried again with the corrupt Muck Suck. Back in August the City used Inland, Fisheries and Wildlife to trick us into thinking it was their idea to make the Muck a fishing hole through volunteers and at no expense to the tax payers... using eradication of the goldfish as reason to drain. Hurley spoke up saying he did not support it. This is his doing. I contacted DEP, EPA because it will drain down to my property. It's a toxic dump with heavy equipment in it. Testing is underway and DEP regulations- tax payers are footing the bill and Hurley is pushing the project. He is also lying again, he is claiming the Muck drains through a different path.

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.