Alna woman pays off shoreland fine
A Dock Road, Alna, property owner has paid off the rest of her shoreland fine after reporting 15 hours of community service, Town Clerk Amy Warner said.
That’s nine more hours than town officials were aware of Dec. 16, 2015, when selectmen gave Lisa Packard a $108 credit for six hours’ work at $18 an hour; they agreed to send Packard a letter giving her until Jan. 16 to pay $392.
In a split vote in January 2015, a prior select board fined Packard $1,000 and said half could be worked off. She had until November to complete the community service, town officials have said.
“Lisa Packard stopped in and paid the remainder of her fine which was $230. She had down that she worked 15 hours of community service, so that took off $270,” Warner states in a Dec. 30 email response to a question from the Wiscasset Newspaper.
Regarding the information that town officials’ prior calculation was based on, Warner writes: “She hadn’t responded to my email a while back for an accounting of her hours when I notified her of the deadline for finishing her community service.”
The fine was issued after a man staying part-time in a cabin at 91 Dock Road began building a tree house for his children who lived nearby. The tree house couldn’t be built near the Sheepscot River and the man’s stay at the cabin violated a court order imposed on the property under a prior owner, town officials have said.
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