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Hi Don, I hope your vity council decides that you also may receive tax relief. As far as myself here in Maine, I think you are asking me if I tried to get in touch with the City Council. I did. You wrote, in part, " IVAN WILL HAVE "TO ASK FOR A TALK AT THE CONAL MEETING." The City Council was instructed by the City Attorney, Gary Wood, not to respond to my calls for help. My district Councillor told me he recalls a memo about this. So for reasons unknown, I could not ask the Council for help. That is one reason why I had complained to the Human Rights Commission. It may be because I am not from Maine, never married here, no "roots" here except struggling along in the same house for 15 years, eventually paying off the entire mortagage. I therefore may be somewhat less acceptable to some of the long-time Mainers who are more powerful. But I started the Greater Portland PD support group, volunteered for the police department hate crimes community task force, was co-Chairman of the Martin Luther King Holiday Committee, volunteer now through Ingraham Volunteers for ANY caller who is depressed or in an emergency due to Parkinson's Disease. Also help callers with their medications, try to explain how they work, try to help people find physicians and neurolgists and massage therapists, or whomever they feel would help them. Also I have appeared on seven TV programs locally to educate the public. Many list members have my videotapes. So I guess there is a bigger picture that I don't understand. Too many other low-income homeowners who would ask for tas breaks if I got them? Perhaps it's about tax breaks, city finances and loans and bonds the city needs for investing. Ivan