Response to a Recent Citizen Letter

RESPONSE TO JUDY AND ANDY RIORDAN

Bill Bauer is NOT the problem with the Town of Lisbon. I have known Mr. Bauer for many years. He is a good and honest man. Has always worked in the best interest of the Town of Lisbon.

If you would read the article just above yours, written by Roger Cote on The Lisbon Reporter, AND attended some Town Council meetings and workshops like I have been doing for several years, or at the least watch them on TV, you might have some idea of some of the problems the Town of Lisbon has been facing for the past several years. Meetings are the first and third Tuesday’s of the month, and are televised on Channel 7 the same week, Thursday evenings at 7 p.m.

Incompetent and unqualified people have been hired for key positions. Case in point, your current tax bill. The person hired to fill the position of tax assessor did not fill out, sign or submit to the State of Maine Bureau of Taxation the required Tax Commitment form. The Town of Lisbon has been collecting taxes illegally. Check it out with Town Manager Eldridge. You may not get a straight answer. One rarely gets one from some town officials.

How to fix Lisbon?

First step: Re-call Town Council chair, Michael Bowie. A request for his re-call has been filed with Town Clerk and petitions are now circulating.  Your signature simply means that in compliance with the Charter for the Town of Lisbon, that a recall vote should occur.  Six citizens of Ward 2, Lisbon Falls, will be circulating the petitions beginning, Friday October 8. The names of the circulators will be posted on The Lisbon Reporter. We will be at the Transfer Station on Saturday and will be knocking on doors this weekend.

Second step is to get the re-call on the November 2, 2010 ballot.  Otherwise, a special vote/election will be needed which is an unnecessary expense.

When Mr. Bowie is removed from the Town Council their House of Cards will collapse.

Then and only then can Lisbon be fixed. Then and only then will we see positive changes in our town.

Respectfully,

Dot Fitzgerald

A Lisbon Concerned Citizen

Running for Town Council, At Large

(The seat is NOT to replace Michael Bowie’s)