2/19/2013 Bill Kelly City Attorney Final Refusal to Resolve‏

2/19/2013 Bill Kelly City Attorney Final Refusal to Resolve‏

Kelly & Collins, LLC

Attorneys

96 High Street

Belfast, Maine 04915

kellylaw@bluestreakme.com

207-338-2702

207-338-0328 (fax)

February 19,2013

Re: City of Belfast/Seaview Terrace

Dear Ms. Allen:

I am writing to you in my capacity as the Belfast City Attorney.  I previously corresponded with you on April 26 and July 20, 2012.  In those letters, you were advised that the City had a disagreement with you as to any alleged allegations regarding the drainage that runs by and through your property on Seaview Terrace.  You were informed that the City had provided you with all documents in its possession relative to the issues that you complained of and that the City had reached a conclusion, after exhaustively looking at all of your claims and records within the City of Belfast, regarding the management of the flow of water through your property which has been mapped and depicted as a flood plain and a natural course of water flow for many decades.  You choose to ignore these important facts.

In my April and July, 2012 letters, I informed you that the City would not index documents, create memos, or draft narrative documents in response to your repeated questions.  There is no requirement under the Freedom of Information act that requires the City to provide verbal or written responses to these repetitive questions.  You continue to ask for these actions to be done and you ignore the clear statement from the City that it is not going to engage in responding to your questions.  You choose to ignore that City position.  Repetitive e-mails from you on this subject and your statements in Open to the Public are not going to change the City's position.  When you come to Council meetings and make these same arguments you should expect that the Council will not be responding to you because they have already made the decision that the do not agree with your position. 

The City respectfully, and for the third time, requests that you recognize we have a difference of opinions.  This matter is resolved front the City's perspective.

Thank you for your consideration.

Kelly & Collins, LLC

by: William S. Kelly

WSK/kjc

cc:  City of Belfast