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Board schedules multiple adjudicatory hearings and offers consent agreements with fines
Summary
The Board scheduled numerous adjudicatory hearings and offered consent agreements, many citing failure to perform required final checks under Board Rule Chapter 21 and proposing $500 civil penalties; Complaint Officer Eric Norberg abstained on multiple votes.
Board members spent a substantial portion of the April 2 meeting on complaint case dispositions, moving a mix of dismissals, consent agreements and scheduling of adjudicatory hearings.
Several cases were dismissed for no evidence of a violation (for example, 2025‑PHA‑20811 and 2025‑PHA‑21011) with Complaint Officer Eric Norberg recorded as abstaining on those votes. For other matters the board voted to schedule adjudicatory hearings and offer consent agreements that typically included: (1) admission to violation of Board Rule Chapter 21, Section 5, subsection 2 (failing to perform a final check); (2) a warning; and (3) a $500 civil penalty. The minutes record many case numbers handled this way (for example, 2025‑PHA‑21143 through 2025‑PHA‑21161 and 2025‑PHA‑21168 through 2025‑PHA‑21170). One matter (2025‑PHA‑21108) included a proposed consent agreement with admission to violation of 10 M.R.S. § 8003(5‑A)(A)(5) and Board Rule Chapter 30 §1(15), plus a $250 civil penalty.
The minutes show repeated procedural patterns: motions to schedule hearings were typically made by Timothy McCormack and seconded by Samantha Emmons or Nicholas Haar; the Complaint Officer frequently abstained from votes on enforcement outcomes. Where recusal occurred the minutes record it (for example, Samantha Emmons recused on 2025‑PHA‑21108).
