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MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING March 13, 2023 6:00 o’clock p.m. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Page 16 of 21 Jay Nygard, 1386 Rest Point Road, stated and wow, a whole nother group has pointed out Mayor Walsh is a little disingenuous. And it's not just us few malcontents from Orono. Crazy. Hey, quick point of clarification. Mr. Edwards. The new Public Works building being built. Are there any renewable options involved in it? Edwards asked if he meant renewable energy? No. Mr. Nygard asked if the building been planned with any kind of net zero considerations? No? So we have Mayor Walsh up here telling everybody we're planning for the next 100 years with our Public Works building, but they can't be bothered to include modern renewable technologies. Great plan there, buddy. Chelsea Wetrick stated you've got my address memorized. And with that, you should probably be careful about taking liberties and people's Fourth Amendment rights, hate to see you sued about that. Now that I've seen you firsthand how truly pompous and arrogant, disrespectful you are, I decided to look into other meetings in smaller groups and see if it was just the public that you treated like crap, or if it was just all- around your personality. And I found that anyone that dares to have their own thought and not follow you blindly gets to see how truly venomous you are. For example, I now know why you decided to shut down the February 13 meeting early, because instead of addressing the new Council Member in a private conversation, you decided to blindside her and call her out for doing her job. She wanted to address that in a proper way at the meeting. You had to shut that down. You found what she was saying to be inappropriate, which is funny coming from you. Let's see here. It seems to me that the only Council Member that's doing what they're supposed to do is the new one. Everybody else just follows you blindly. Really all you do is look after your best benefits and your friends which is pretty obvious when you start looking around. So I'm thinking you should probably answer some questions, address what people are asking of you. And I don't know, maybe Mr. Bean, or Crosby, my bad, could sit in and not run away. How many meetings can you run away from? People are just going to keep digging your background. If this is what's at the surface, imagine what else we'll find. Brad Erickson, 2485 Independence Road, Independence, stated well, we've done it again, Mr. Walsh. We've made the paper -- you know, the one you don't read. “New Orono Council Member it's time to end the chaos”. I couldn't agree more. Couldn't agree more. You finally come out and admitted what you said. But yet there is no apologies forthcoming. What I don't understand, if this is not such a big deal to you, why don't you just apologize? You know what's upsetting people? This is the third article out on this stuff. And it's no big deal to you. Maybe if my issue had more to do with dirt, it would be taken more seriously, is that true? Let me show you what it looks like when a real Mayor from a real city addresses the Holocaust. And then we'll contrast that with what you put out there. Mayor Sam Joshi in Edison, New Jersey. It's a real City. It's unfortunate Mr. Crosby isn’t here being from New Jersey. Six million Jews and countless others were murdered by the Nazis. Murdered. It is our responsibility to put an end to hate and antisemitism everywhere. That's your responsibility. But this is what you pimp out, isn't it? You've admitted it. You say there's nothing wrong with it. What's wrong with you is what I wonder. There is one person on this Council and I want you both Ms. Seals and Mr. Johnson to look at the contrast here. “Orono Mayor Minimizes the Holocaust; Council Member Fundraises for the Proud Boys”. What in the hell is going on? And you talk to me about swearing. You send me a video with the F word, the A word and the S word. And then you talk to me about swearing? Give me a break. Give me a break. So she has