As a Brunswick Town Councilor, Jacqueline Sartoris voted for the town to buy the derelict Times Record building in 2004 for well over $1,o00,000. The town then had to spend hundreds of thousands more on maintenance — before giving up and demolishing it. That was a costly mistake for the taxpayers.
And in 2007, she led the council motion in a vote to give away the town’s Maine Street Station property to a developer for free, along with the promise of a future tax break. Later councilors had to finalize the details of the deal — about $1,000,000 in tax breaks for a new hotel — leading to a costly lawsuit the town had to defend.
These major decisions by then-Councilor Sartoris are a pattern of poor planning and financial mismanagement that have to led to steady and cumulative increases in our property taxes.
Louise Ansari,
former Brunswick town councilor
Brunswick
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