3/6/14- Another mindless meeting I attended and summarize in the local paper, Republican Journal, Village Soup- Join me in protest- Boycott Belfast City Hall Corruption- email me laurieallen55@msn.com
After 10E this is posted NOTE: DUE TO TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES, THE REST OF THIS MEETING CANNOT BE DISPLAYED Strange, the meeting is airing in full, why can't they get the Thompson's Wharf debacle on. You can watch it though, hit 10E and ff to 12 minutes in when Harbor Master Kathy Pickering steps up. At 31:54 in Hurley says he does not know specifics but “did not feel good with exactly what went down with this situation … Reflect very poorly on the Harbor Committee in particular.”At 32 minutes in- City Planner, Wayne Marshall is motioning for City Manager, Joe Slocum to go for a private talk away from the meeting. Hurley does not want any loopholes to rebuild the wharf as is. Joe Slocum tells Council the motion will be in 2 parts, and it seems strictly a formality to get the project in motion. Knowing the Planning Board will over ride the Harbor Committee's final recommendations if they are not in favor again. At 39:40 Hurley pledges his respect for Kathy and the situation “bugs me”. To which Council Mary Mortier responds “It's dirty pool” Really, Ms Councilor/ Realtor, selling hell to the innocent and honest thorough buyers and then taking the 5th. Mortier refusing to even provide MLS listings on Seaview Terrace and I quote Mary Mortier's email dated 2/18/14 “It seems I will not be able to provide you with the Information you requested, per my office & Insurance.”
IT IS City Hall and Realtors playing dirty pool with people's lives but the people will shoot the final blackball. This is the first shot- boycott City Hall protest can be another. Slocum also mentions an engineer is hired to decide parking on the Common. Another force of force and sucking on residents and tax dollars. Later they nickle and dime every resident service and City employee as they blow our bucks out their blow hole for their wants. Someone has got to request a spread sheet now for 3 year spending on City Attorney fees, law suits, grants, consultations, projects (cost approved and final cost, harbor walk, Front Street parking lots, road and sewer work, Roger Lee's public access rocks, the Belfast signs, the Harbor Walk, the Rail Trail, that dam recreation area with 20k in consultations then dropped, etc) BEFORE THE BUDGET BEGINS!! They will not respond to my requests.
(At the 2/18/14 meeting
http://belfastme.swagit.com/play/02182014-1309/#2 I plead for saving at #4 and @ 10E- note that I was sent an email that the public hearing this is always at the start of meetings, would be heard THIS time, much later, at the agenda discussion. BIG FAT LIE to get me to come late and miss my chance to speak. Proven here- look at 10E- no section for public hearing. Slocum had to jump in with it and Ash was ready to move right past me. But I was ready to pounce as well. I figured they were setting me up, so I came early anyway and now they had to let me speak twice. Crime never pays. I was powerful at the 10E speaking. Mayor Ash trying to stop my freedom to speak of City Hall abuse and yelling at me.
City Hall made it loud and clear that they could give a damn about how they endanger residents and destroy their property. At minimum, the Northport Ave. TIF boundaries should have been changed to include Seaview Terrace via the 2012 Annex additions as I have asked at least 10 times prior for 2 years. No comment. Business tax dollars and business grant funding would lessen the cost for the water slaughter to Seaview Terrace from City Hall, businesses and D.O.T.- Rte 1 No and South, sparing the residents tax payer dollars.
Captain Albert Steven School was issued the building permit corruptly by Belfast Planning Board intending all along to slaughter water shed residents with illegal runoff. Sanderson fought the runoff for 3 years and won. In 2002, the water slaughter path site plans were changed and that water would be illegally sent to Seaview Terrace (one of 12? sites- could be more) Mayor Ash spoke in this 2/18/14 meeting of activity on the Sanderson properties during agenda 10G. Clearly identifying the property on the Rte 1 No. side- where in 2002 a proposal for a development of 80 homes was an option under negotiations with Richmond Group Subdivision for the 28 acre site, runoff to Seaview Terrace private property.
Open to the Public #6 – I came to the 3/04/14 meeting to address Mayor Ash's comment on that development. During the 3 years that I have exposed residents abuse and corruption to some 30 City Council meetings, not one Council member has responded, reacted, investigated, nothing, except drown Seaview Terrace, all corrupt and guilty. But at this meeting Mayor Ash spoke up and denied his Sanderson comment. Simply stupid- it's on the meeting video. After I put Mayor Ash in his place, Council Eric Sanders tries to diminish my concern for this new activity on this same parcel for an 80 home sub-division. As corruptly always, no concern for this document being removed from the file prior to my viewing by City Planner, Wayne Marshall (1 of 100 abuses over 3 years), or for the sheer corruption of the content. No, instead Eric and Ash proceed to laugh at me. This City Council and City Hall is a disgrace. Hurley calls Eric out later on his biased rhetoric in 10c when Eric is campaigning for his personal agenda with the ball field. Hurley never promotes his personal agenda and bias, they all do, and that is not ethical. Total blatant corruption in public view.
After Mayor Ash see's I am going to bury him again, he gives me and only me the 3 minute get out.
#7 -First communications has Council Mike Hurley stating Maine was ranked 13th for happy people. He states “considering all the people who complain about stuff in this town, I was kind of surprised by that.” Then Council Nancy Hamilton tells how she will go back to visit a town where people were nice to her and her husband, Chair Planning Board- Paul Hamilton. They are mindless to the corruption of City Council, Planning Board, ZBA, Code Officer, City Planner, City Manager and City Attorney. Neglecting basic 101 necessities, infrastructure and education. Creating mistrust, fear, disgrace, misery and helplessness among residents. Choosing recreation, wants, ego's and business while destroying lives and robbing people and their properties.
10C- Parks is trying to trim the budget as ordered. Sanders should not be speaking to this at all. Mayor Ash pleads for the poor, stating these cuts to residents services are not a drop in the bucket compared to what City Hall spends on wants and waste. Stating it takes approx. $770,000 to raise the rate a mil. They want to charge for the pool and the 17k for the Walsh/Dog Park grounds care taking. Yet you must forward to 10G.
10G. Economic Developer Thomas Kitteredge is speechless when he requests permission to hire Ron Harriman to administer grant money and Council Nancy Hamilton immediately motions approval. Thomas is shocked, AND STATES- DON'T YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW MUCH THIS WILL COST? And Council and City Manager Joe Slocum laugh. Hurley says, “We're on a roll, don't mess with us.” The cost was not requested nor a concern. But they'll spend weeks on the budget to stick it to the already strapped City Hall services for residents and blue collar City Hall employees. Protest and Boycott City Hall. laurieallen55@msn.com
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I beg for saving. click on #4, my first soft speech -and then click on 10E1 ff to 7:10 - worth the ff'g, it will blow your socks off to see them bury their heads and City Manager Joe Slocum baiting me off camera and telling me he is allowed to shake his head?? I could speak for hours of his corruption in this cover up death destruction forced flooding to Seaview Terrace but they will give me the gavel, and escort me out. I must be quick, civil and on point, even though 4 years of their bullying is burning my skin raw. Oh Alice, to the moon, right in the kisser- my dream.
2/21/14-Belfast City Wall not any better than Putin- mental flogging to a beat up survivor Mom is possibly even more disgusting. If they beat me physically, if my ex beat me physically, maybe people would help instead of looking away. 
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They have been forcing enormous volumes from business/highway impervious ground from miles outside and into the private property neighborhood, flood zone, flood plain, no ROW, no easements, of Seaview Terrace. Flooding us and endangering our lives daily. I have lived here 4 years and confirmed Seaview Terrace went under in 2009 and 2011. Honest residents are feared or bribed into silence. The City of Belfast has been forcing the water for 40 years and continues to do so until present day with new developments. City Hall denies this, locks up the documents and takes the 5th, refusing to speak and using any and all intimidation tactics to silence me. I first got wind of this TIF over 2 years ago and quickly began campaigning to get Seaview Terrace included in the boundaries to open up funding for infrastructure. Every meeting that the TIF was on the agenda, I was there, at least 5 meetings, countless emails, the City of Belfast refusing to hear me, to save us, continuing with their slaughter of water and stroking their ego's and visions of grandeur as the regular residents sleep. To date, I have attended over 30 meetings (see meetings in above tab on www.boycottbelfast.blogspot.com), volumes of emails, pouncing, pounding, protesting, relentless pressure and community alienation, state wide corruption involved- DEP, Attorney General, Governor, Senators, Belfast City Hall, enlisting protection from our police force and City Attorney. I stand, loud and true until...
Protocol for these public hearing is one speaking at the beginning. They sent me an email prior to the meeting TELLING me that the public hearing will not be in the beginning but when it comes up on the agenda. They were counting on me to come late, miss the public hearing and not allow me to speak. I came at the start of the meeting See City Manager Joe Slocum jump to tell me there will be 2 hearings. Clearly, his doing. Lucky me, now I get to speak 2 times- soft the first time, tough the second time. Also note just prior to my 2nd speaking- Mayor Ash does not open the meeting to the public hearing. They had an executive session prior to the meeting where I believe they rehearsed the public hearing portions, counting on me NOT showing up for the first one, and then not allowing me to speak at the 2nd hearing by stating they had a changed it in the beginning. They didn't get to do that because I was there at the beginning. Otherwise, City Manager Joe Slocum as he does at every meeting, issues last minutes changes to the agenda, would have said the public hearing for the TIF was listed twice in error, the second hearing is removed. But, I figured that out. Cop followed me out like I'm the criminal. Mayor Ash laughing after I announced BOYCOTT.
From: economicdevelopment@cityofbelfast.org
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 13:33:45 -0500
Subject: RE: Email TIF, Remove Snow, Save & Fix Seaview Terrace
To: laurieallen55@msn.com
Ms. Allen – I wanted to bring to your attention that the public hearing for the Northport TIF has been moved from immediately preceding tonight’s Council meeting, to the actual business agenda for tonight’s meeting, as item E-1. Agenda is attached. I am not sure exactly what time that we will get to it on tonight’s agenda, as it will depend on how quickly preceding agenda items go.
Thomas Kittredge
by Patrick Fitzgerald
U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois