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Peter M. Wlodylo |
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Mr. Orman
Whitcomb, Director
Department of
Economic and Community Development
59 State House
Station
Dear Mr. Witcomb,
This
letter is our appeal as per our: phone conversation of
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Jeff Kobrock city of
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Has denied my right to file a final appeal with the State
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Has violated the states right to hear the final appeal
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Has violated the program directors (Orman Witcomb) right to
carry out his responsibilities as final appeal decision maker
This content of Jeff Kobrock’s denial letter dated
“You admit to having a copy of, but not following
our complaint guidelines, which details the appeal process. You have discussed
your circumstances with both state and federal housing officials before allowing
the city to respond to your concerns as detailed in these complaint guidelines”
Excuse
me, am I suppose to take the advice of a man who violates his own written
rules, lies and allows his staff to lie, violates my appeal rights and then
tries to shift his wrongdoing onto me? I think not. In fact.
Is it any wonder that I have to call state officials? Yes, the part about his
staff lying is real; I actually recorded it and I will let you listen to it. (wave
file) When I complained to Jeff Kobrock
about Chris Paszyc lying his response is “I do not want to talk about this,
let’s talk about your problem”
I have enclosed a copy of the appeals process they
sent me so that you can look at it and decide for yourself. Are they indeed
following their own written rules? Are they saying and doing something very
different?
Emergency
Assistance Appeal
Our appeal to the city manager Jeff Kobrock is based on the emergency assistance provision.
Jeff
Kobrock has turned this provision into disaster relief and has altered this
provision, has denied us based on his altered interruption, has sent us back to
the housing committee for the third and final round, as he has terminated the
appeal process with the housing committee having the final say.
There
is something defiantly wrong with the way they run this program; it’s like this program is for the benefit of the city and
not for the people who really need it. The emergency assistance provision of
this program is for those people who need it.
How
can someone who has had a foundation cave in (winter 2002) not qualify? How can
we prove it? We had to jack up the house with steel cellar posts and we ended
up charging the posts at LaPointe Lumber otherwise that part of the house would
have caved in. Is this a serious emergency? I think it is, however Kobrock simply
ignores this problem and says “your house has always
been bad” so does this mean that the foundation caving in, never happened?
How are we suppose to know that the man who poured this foundation decided to
leave steel posts inside the foundation walls and therefore had weakened the
walls, this is exactly where they broke. The photos that we gave him, when we
first applied for this program shows these same steel posts that we installed
to keep the building from collapsing in winter of 2002. Does this event meet
the emergency criteria?
How can we deal with a man
on an intelligent level that refuses to talk about issues that he does not
like?
The Tax Issue
The
fact that we paid the city nearly $1,600.00 in property taxes in one lump sum in
Nov/2003 is never mentioned in any correspondence ever and he gives the
impression that we didn’t pay our 2001 taxes, in fact our 2001 taxes are paid
in full. Mr. Kobrock is misleading the reader deliberately. We simply do not
have the$4,000.00 needed to pay everything. There are reasons for this, these
reasons will be discussed.
According to
our denial letter of 02/05/04 Mr. Kobrock has made an issue of our past tax
history in an effort to add creditability to his denial decision, he states
“Your history of tax and sewer liens is not recent, and have been recurring
since 1993”
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Exactly what does this have to do with the Emergency Provision?
2.
Because of the bad condition of our home, we had to spend our
money on critical repairs that pertain to safety and health issues. At no
expense to the city I might add.
3.
It takes us months and years to do piece meal repairs on our
own.
4.
Our priorities, heat, heating system, insulation, electrical
wiring, bathroom fixtures, water heater, some vinyl windows, roofing.
5.
These types of expenses are on going and essential and have put
a strain on our budget.
Mr. Kobrock says,
“you have made investments in your property (without addressing the foundation
condition)
How exactly are we suppose
to piece meal a foundation that costs thousands of dollars? Can you explain
that to me Mr. Kobrock? He simply ignores this question, makes it into an
issue, and tries to incorporate this statement into his overall decision making
process of denial, of Emergency Assistance that, we are rightfully entitled to,
according to my understanding of the definition of Emergency Assistance, that
just happens to be the same meaning and intent of HUD.
Mr. Kobrock’s denial letter
states “However, your claim that life and safety are an immediate concern is
compelling enough to remand the question to the housing committee” That
statement concerns me, because he has trampled our right to a fair hearing and
has denied our right to Emergency Assistance, and yet he is concerned about our
health and safety. Something is just not adding up. I am concerned that he will
try to condemn our property and kick us out of our own home in addition to
denying us access to government funds that were intended to be used to
rehabilitate property’s like ours according to HUD’s definition of the rules,
not his.
In addition to our constant
repair expenses, we are also faced with, medical bills, prescription drug
bills, funeral expenses, and all the other bills associated with constant
doctor visits that are not covered by Medicaid. The fact is we had two
terminally ill kids, one of them died, the other one is in the same boat and
has lived in a bunk bed for 21 years and still does. I would like to see him in
his own room before he dies. This is why we are doing some remodeling in
another part of the house. We simply do not have the money to do it, we are
piecemeal it as we go. We have been working on this for several years and this had
nothing to with our application for emergency assistance. Mr. Kobrock states in his
denial letter “I am aware of new construction of an addition permitted in
October 2002 presently started but unfinished”
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Again
Mr. Kobrock tries to mislead the reader into thinking there is a new addition
by the use of the above statement.
Exactly where is this
addition? Answer
THERE IS NONE,WE ARE NOT ALLOWED BY CITY ZONEING
ORDANCES TO BUILD ANY KIND OF ADDITIONS EVER.
2. Mr. Kobrock tries to
blame us for not fixing our foundation.
Our foundation problem cannot be piecemealed. Mr.Kobrock does
not understand construction. You cannot add a cubic yard of cement whenever you
have money to add to it, the foundation would be worthless.
3. Mr. Kobrock tries to
imply that we are wasting our money by trying to fix our building, by using
these types of statements Mr. Kobrock specifically leads the reader to conclude
that the people involved are just
wasting their resources and therefore
substantiate his denial of our
application of Emergency assistance.
The fact is this, this was
an existing building in a state of collapse, and has no connection with our
application for emergency assistance, our decision to repair and or replace
parts of this building was based on the fact that my son who is 21 years old
had no place to live other than his bunk bed that he has been living in since he
was born, he is going to die in this bunk bed, if we do not reconstruct this
building, he is terminally ill, his brother has already died.
In addition to dealing with
family problems, I now have to deal with people at city hall that lie to me.
People that are suppose to be helping me, people that are suppose to be
following the rules, people that are paid by my tax money, people that are
abusing the very public they that they are sworn to serve. I find these kinds
of actions reprehensible. The system of lying and deception cannot
continue. Justice has to prevail at some point; maybe it is time for justice to
prevail now. Making accusations and being able to prove them are two different
things. I have taken the liberty to record certain conversations at city hall between
myself and other people namely, Chris Paszyc, Lynn Paul, Jeff Kobrock. I have
informed them of this fact, some of them were not to happy about it, some of
them refuse to talk to me at all, some of them try to throw everything they can
at me, and are very, very annoyed that I have contacted officials in connection
with HUD to complain about their behavior and misconduct. There is simply no
justice at the city hall, your complaint is simply thrown in the trash or is
ignored or you are told they do not want to talk about it, there is no one to
complain to, it is a type of a red neck system that Gardiner has had problems
with for years and has been publicized in the KJ. It is my hope that there is
some type of investigation that changes are made, so that the next person that
comes behind me can be spared the grief that I have to go through to get equal
justice.
I complained to Jeff Kobrock
about Chris Paszyc lying in reference to the housing program.
The response is “I don’t
want to talk about it” “lets not point
fingers at people” “fill out a complaint
form” “that is not your problem” “we
have no form”
“file a written complaint”
I have even filed a written
complaint in combination with my written appeal, this complaint is against Mr.
Paszyc in connection with his responsibilities as OCD manger, Mr. Kobrock will
not hand over the official complaint forms, will not mention the complaint in
any of his dealings with me, he simply ignores the complaint “That is not
enough information” “you need to file a written complaint” is his response, however
when confronted with the specifics of the complaint; he (Mr. Kobrock) does not
want to talk about it and will not acknowledge the written complaint that I
have filed. I am tired of going around in circles. The city of Gardiner has a
complaint policy and complaint forms for this purpose, He refuses to hand over
these forms when I asked for them, and ignores the written complaint that I
have filed as some how being unofficial, it is like the complaint never existed
in the first place and is not an issue.
It is not possible to file a complaint
against Chris Paszyc in the city of
It appears to me that Mr. Paszyc is lying and
trying to cover it up.
1.Chris Paszyc audio clip 1 11/24/03 9:11 AM “Everybody
that we looked at to date, there have only been 2, and your one of them, that
don’t have property taxes up to” (full version
11/24/03 9:11 AM also included on cd)
2.Chris Paszyc audio clip 2
12/05/03 9:47 AM “There were no other applicants, period that did not have back taxes paid” (full version
These are recorded statements with time and date stamps. It
certainly looks like they are trying to hide something. You will notice the word period, he (Chris Paszyc) is saying, There were no other
applicants, period There is no
question about the meaning of the word period. He then makes matters worst as he
tries to hide the fact that he made the
Sincerely,
Peter
M. Wlodylo