Town Council Meeting Minutes DO NOT Reflect Accuracy Of Details

ATTENTION

The residents of Lisbon need to understand the minutes of the Town Council meetings, posted to the town web site, do not contain an accurate reflection of what took place during the council meeting.   When the town council changed the method of recording the minutes to the meetings from verbatim to just summarizing the meetings, this became a license to alter the minutes.

The manager took this opportunity to eliminate questions and answers asked by concerned citizens or councilors which did not reflect favorably on him or the Town Council.  This enabled the town clerk to alter the events which took place during the meeting. 
During the August 16th council meeting, I pointed out the minutes were NOT an accurate account of what transpired during the meeting.  I explained the minutes do not match the video of the meeting.  Eldridge announced the minutes do not have to match the video.  So I asked the Chairman Lunt to ask the town attorney, Roger Therriault when the minutes become “Public Record”.  Therriault had absolutely no clue because he just shrugged his shoulders.  A simple question asked by myself and the Chairman Mark Lunt could not be answered by the town attorney.  Great town attorney, wouldn’t you say?

The point of this article is to make the residents of the Town of Lisbon, who read the minutes of the meetings to be more informed; the minutes are not a true and accurate account of what took place during the meeting.  In order to know what actually took place during the meeting, you need to review the video instead of the minutes.

This is another example of how Eldridge, Bowie (puppet master) and the puppeteers keeping the citizens from knowing what are truly going on in Lisbon.  This censorship is utilized to make the town council look good to the people, when in fact; they are hiding a great deal from residents. 

In accordance with, Title 17-A Statute 456. Tampering with public records or information which reads:  

1. A person is guilty of tampering with public records or information if he: 

 A.  Knowingly makes a false entry in, or false alternation of any record, document or thing belonging to, or received or kept by the government or required by law to be kept by others for the information of the government; 
or
B.  Presents or uses any record, document or thing knowingly it to be false, and with intent that it be taken as a genuine part of information or records referred to in subsection 1, paragraph A; 
or
c. Intentionally destroys, conceals, removes or otherwise impairs the verity or availability of any record, document or thing, knowingly that he lacks authority to do so.

2. Tampering with public records or information is a Class D crime.

I will leave it up to the citizens of Lisbon as to where or not altering the minutes of Town Council meeting to reflect anything other than what took place during the meeting meets the requirement of the above cited Maine Statute.  I believe the Chief Administrative Officer and Town Council are violating the Maine Statute by not accurately reflecting what took place during Town Council meetings in the minutes.
 
LarryA.Fillmore                                                                                    
Concerned Citizen