Alna selectmen plan to give a Dock Road property owner until May before the town contacts her again about her unpaid shoreland fine. The board’s April 22 discussion on Lisa Packard’s fine followed Town Clerk Amy Warner’s April 1 reminder letter to Packard.

Reached April 23, Packard declined comment.

She has said she didn’t know a tree house couldn’t be built near the Sheepscot River, or that, under a court order involving a prior owner, no one was supposed to be staying in a cabin on the 91 Dock Road property. In a 2-1 vote on Jan. 29,  a prior board of selectmen passed the Alna Planning Board’s recommended $1,000 fine. Half was for the town’s estimated cost to deal with the infractions; the other half, punitive.

Selectmen at the time also went along with a suggestion from Packard and the planning board to let her work off the punitive part of the fine.

Warner’s reminder to Packard outlines the fine and cites the date selectmen approved the fine. The board has not yet heard from Packard about the proposed in-kind service, the letter states. It asks her to contact Warner to get on the agenda for a selectmen’s meeting and present a proposal.

On April 24, Warner said Packard had also not paid the $500 cash portion of the fine, or submitted a tree-planting plan. According to a Jan. 28 planning board letter to selectmen, Packard agreed to replace trees that she said were cut by the man who was building the tree house. He was building it for his children, who live nearby, Packard has said. The same man was living in the cabin part-time to be nearer his children, Packard said.

The tree house has since been taken down, town officials have said. The man who was building it has left the cabin, Packard has said.

Packard has not responded to Warner’s April 1 letter, Warner said April 24.

On April 22, selectmen decided to give Packard more time to respond. If she hasn’t responded by the board’s May 6 meeting, the board should send her a letter with a time frame to either pay the fine or set up a payment plan, Third Selectman Douglas Baston said.

Baston was the planning board’s chairman when it recommended the fine to selectmen. At the Jan. 19 meeting when the planning board voted 5-0 to recommend the $1,000 fine, Packard told the panel she was shocked at how steep it was.

In recommending it, the planning board looked at the magnitude of multiple violations, and the fact that Packard had been cooperative, Baston states in the board’s Jan. 28 letter to selectmen.