Harbor-Works: "Serious Meetings" Coming Up
The Harbor-Works Board had a 2-hour executive session yesterday. Executive Director Jeff Lincoln said he plans to have "serious meetings" over the next few weeks:
"I'll be spending a lot of time with the Department of Ecology to try and determine what we can do. I'll make sure to keep the board and public apprised as we move forward."
Port Angeles attorney Shirley Nixon told the Board: "If the public knew what you knew, you might have a lot of help trying to convince Rayonier that they would be fortunate to palm off the property into public hands. Public knowledge of the deliberations would only help the price."
"I'll be spending a lot of time with the Department of Ecology to try and determine what we can do. I'll make sure to keep the board and public apprised as we move forward."
Port Angeles attorney Shirley Nixon told the Board: "If the public knew what you knew, you might have a lot of help trying to convince Rayonier that they would be fortunate to palm off the property into public hands. Public knowledge of the deliberations would only help the price."
Labels: Harbor-Works, Jeff Lincoln, Shirley Nixon
posted by Tom Harper at 1:43 AM
8 Comments:
Yessirree -
The same HarborWorks Board that awards the executive director a 13% raise plus a $525/month car allowance plus five weeks of paid vacation, is the same group we should trust to secretly negotiate and wisely decide how much public money to spend on buying polluted property.
"Trust us, you ordinary folks who are footing all the bills. We're the government and we're here to help you."
Rayonier is going to do what's best for Rayonier.
Obviously.
I will use my mystic powers of telepathy to listen in on the meeting and report back to you, the good citizens of Ports Angeles, on the nefarious and underhanded plots which will undoubtedly be laid out by certain disreputable and unsavory characters (*wink* the Harbour-Works board *wink*).
These knaves, these poltroons, these charlatans can not stop me, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, from revealing their no good plans and exposing them all for the cads and bounders that they are!
Plotting behind closed doors again, eh? Well, ya gotta know it isn't in the best interest of the public.
Rayonier holds all the aces in this game.
"Norma Turner questioned whether the board would be seeking more funding from the city and port if the property is acquired.
Lincoln responded that the city and port are just two of a variety of agencies, both private and public, which might eventually provide funding."
They want to put us on the hook for liability with the hope that they will find public and private funding to clean up the place.
Why or why doesn't Harbor-Works use its time to make sure Rayonier is held accountable and pays for its own mess.
I for one do not want to assume liability and give Rayonier a gift of millions with tax money - especially in this economy.
What is wrong with these people??
If the public knew what you knew, you might have a lot of help trying to convince Rayonier that they would be fortunate to palm off the property into public hands.
If it was to be public domain for a park or something like that I might be for it. But if it's just for the capitalists to get their hands on it I'm against it.
There has already been a couple of big shots that came town with grand ideas for that property but they couldn't make it happen.
Truth of the matter is, before much of anything commercial could be put on it millions will have to be spent.
I don't care if a capitalist buys it, but not with our money.
And the city, port and county hasn't got any business being in business, other than looking out for public lands and providing basic utilities.
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