Safe Harbors Maine DEP response to FOAA for info Nov 1 to Nov 10th - 182 pages (inc attachments.

 https://penbay.org/rockland/shm/foaa/pbw_foaa_dep_2021_safe_harbors_110121_110921.pdf

Jami MacNeil  Maine DEP 

MacNeil's complete 813 page  FOAA response as one pdf (see note below)

 Pages 1 - 68  DEP and  Community  letters and emails  69pages 

Page 69 - 662 Ron Huber attachments  594 pages  (NOTE DEP took all Penobscot Bay Watch attachments, and mushed them into a single huge pdf.  Can send the attachments seperately) individually )

663 Activist  Becca Glaser _DEP Jami MacNeil interaction   11 pages 

Pge 680 - end  Multiple commenters 129 pages

Sabatini letter to Army Corps about tribes responses

Response from Penobscots

Response from Mikmaqs

Response from Maliseets

Rockland Harbor Commission 9/28/21 met with rep of Safe Harbors Maine, Listen on audio MP3s

The Rockland Harbor Management Commission met  September 28, 2021 and  had a 38 minute  presentation  and Q&A session with Mike Sabatini, formerly of Yachting Solutions, now representing  Safe Harbors Marinas a marina holding company that has bought the former Yachting Solutions LLC property and its dock and proposes to extensively dredge  and add new features.  First comes  introductions of Rockland Harbor Mgmt Commission members and guests. 

This is followed by a 38 minute Safe Harbor presentation and discussion led by Mike Sabatini   See map of project coordinates   and map of  proposed dredge plan,                supplied by Sabatini for the meeting

Christos Calivas spoke 9/4/19 on Rockland Harbor & Yachting Solutions. AUDIO

Christos Calivas, of  citizens group SHIP (Sensible Harbor Infrastructure Plan)  spoke for 24 minutes  before the Rockland City Council on Sept 4, 2019 on Yachting Solutions LLC's plan and the future of Rockland Harbor.  See YS plan map, below

Topics included: municipal channel, what a megayacht basin means, absentee investors driving the process; minuscule tax revenue for taking public land and secenic degradation. Full recording below map
AUDIO

Part 1. 7min 50sec YS plan's challenge to the city channel
Part 2.  4min  YS plan: Rockland as a Mega-yacht basin
Part 3. 3min 41sec YS project absentee investors take public land
Part 4.  3min 12 sec No real tax revenue from this facility
Part 5. 4min30sec Scenic degradation via mega-yachts to end 

Full Calivas recording 24min

Rockland Planning Board considers, approves Yachting Solutions temporary buildings

0 Meeting  pre-start chatter  5min

1 Meeting start_public QA_responses_11min 30sec

2  Part 2 9min 25sec

3 Part 3  7min 8sec

4 Part 4  7min 21sec

5 Part 5  12min 5sec

Rockland Harbor Mgmt Commission meeting 3/20/18 AUDIO

Audio recordings of the March 20, 2018 meeting of the Rockland Harbor Management Commission, held in City Council chambers..  

Part 1 Intro, Public Comments, 2min 58sec

Part 2 Intro Part 2 1 min 10 sec

Part 3 Yachting solutions pier expansion and the South Channel 7min 2 sec

Part 4 discuss Yachting Solutions scenic impacts. 7min 

Part 5 Cruise ship moratorium 10min 38sec

Part 6  Federal anchorage discussion 4min 33sec

Part 7 HMC Recommendations 5min 38sec

Part 8. HMC Recommendations Pt 2  10min 16sec

Part 9 HMC Recommendations Pt 3  5min23sec

Part 10 HMC Recommendations Pt 4 9min57sec

Part 11 HMC Recommendations Pt 5. 10min 41sec

Part 12  New Business Part 1. 6min 12sec

Part 13   New Business Part 2 to end 6min 34sec

Full 93 minute meeting

Rockland harbor users spoke out March 1st on Yachting Sollutions marina expansion plan AUDIO

Grassroots group Sensible Harbor Infrastructure Plan (SHIP) held a community meeting March 1, 2018  on the plan by Yachting Solutions to enlarge its marina  to support more transient mega-yachts.  Listen below.
Concerns were raised about loss of public scenic vistas, loss of a channel used by small boats, dinghies and kayakers, absentee interests behind the plan - from from Rockland to Portland  to Florida - and more.

1 Intro part 1 6min

2 Intro part 2  4 min 54sec

3 Intro part 3 5min30sec

4. Intro part 4. 8min 28sec

5 Prock Marine Representative  & QA 13min 15sec

6 Ron Huber 7min

Captain Neal Parker

7 Shlomit Auciell0 4min

8  Joe Auciello 80sec

9 George Chappell 2min32sec

10 Neal Parker 11min

11 Steve Hale 5min

12  Becca Glaser 5min21sec

13 John Grondin 2min 8sec

14 David Myslabodski 2min22sec

15 Lynne Johnson Taylor 1min24sec

16 Connie Hayes 2min45sec
17 Mike Grondin Q re Florida connection 3min

18 Kim 1min 30sec

19 Lynne Barnard 54sec

20 Shlomit and Joe Auciello  2min46sec

21 Question to Neal Parker 2min 21sec

22  Debby Atwell 1 min 10sec 

23   Comprehensive plan comm member 2min 46sec

24 Several Q&As  10 min

25 QA Neal Parker 3min

26  QAs final 5min 45sec

27 Calivas: Next Steps 7min 22sec

Public pans Yachting Solutions plan for Rockland Harbor.

 Majority favors extreme cutback of plan. 

As promised Rockland City Hall  resounded wednesday night to the sound of discontented harbor  users responding to  Yachting Solutions LLC marine expansion plan  as it was laid out  Listen to the voices of the people and the presenters  as mp3s below

SECTION 1
Part 1 Intro & public comments 25minutes

Individual Public Comments

Lynne Barnard  1 min 40sec

Ron Huber, Friends of Penobscot Bay 1min 30sec

Steve Hale "Captain Jack" 1min41sec

Joe Steinberger. 1min 13sec

Nancy Fitzgerald 3min 50sec

Debby Atwell 4min 31sec

Vallie Geiger - end of public comments 2min 51sec

PRESENTERS

Part 2 Bill Morong 11min

Part 3 Matt Ripley Rockland Harbormaster 6min 58sec

Part 4 Mike Sabatini Landmark Inc 10min 20sec

Part 5 Bill Morong 3min 50sec

Part 6 Tom Luttrell 5min 50sec

Part 7 Attorney  Mary Costigan on pertinent laws 4min 16sec  (starts late)

SECTION 2 
20 attendees ask questions to mtg  end 40min

Rockland Harbor Commission reviewed plan to reorganize inner harbor.11/20/17 AUDIO mp3s

On November 20, 2017 the Rockland Harbor Management Commission heard from Mike Sabatini of Landmark Corp and Bill Morong of Yachting Solutions on remaking Rockland's inner harbor  Listen below  to the presentations

Pt 0 Introduction. 1min 27sec

Part 1 Mike Sabatini. Landmark Corp 1. 5min 13sec

Part 2 Mike Sabatini 7min 2 sec

Part 3 Mike Sabatini  7min 40sec

Part 4 Yachting Solutions  6min 36 sec

Part 5  Yachting  Solutions  8min 8sec

Part 6  Landmark and Yacht Solutions 6min 33sec

Part 7 Yachting Solutions &Landmark Corp 7min 46sec

Part 8.Yachting Solutions   6min 51sec

Full Harbor Management commission meeting 57 min

Mating attendees Harbor Commission members David Leon, Peter Smith, Melissa Maker, Louise McLellan Ruf;  Harbormaster Matt Riley;  Rockland development director Julie Nash; Mike Sabatini, engineer Landmark Corp;  Bill Morong & father (Bill) Yachting Solutions LLC;  Stuart Smith, landowner   Ron Huber Friends of Penobscot Bay/WRFR,  Lynne Barnard, Rockland public, Andy O'Brienm Free Press.