Expansion of Airport Industrial Park
The Port of Port Angeles commissioners have approved $4 million in bonds to pay for expanding the Airport Industrial Park for Angeles Composites Technology Inc. (ACTI). This money is available because of the federal stimulus package. $2 million will come from Clallam County and $2 million will come from Clark County through a state reallocation project.
No taxes will be raised.
John Calhoun, one of the port commissioners, said:
"This will bring 100 more jobs to our area. That is what we are about."
No taxes will be raised.
John Calhoun, one of the port commissioners, said:
"This will bring 100 more jobs to our area. That is what we are about."
posted by Tom Harper at 8:28 PM
16 Comments:
Sorry, I lost track of all those millions of taxpayer dollars being spent to help a local businessman.
Can I get some of those millions, as an unemployed worker who has contributed to my community and family for the last couple of decades?
From what I hear on TV, the newly elected politicians don't want to extend unemployment "benefits".
Guess the business guy is more important than me.
Anon 10:29
"Guess the business guy is more important than me."
You got that right! ha
Great job ACTI and Port of Port Angeles. Finally we do something to help a local business grow, instead of trying to get one to relocate here.
John Calhoun, one of the port commissioners, said:
"This will bring 100 more jobs to our area. That is what we are about. Well, that and lining our own pockets as much as possible. Oh yes, and hiring our friends and cronies whenever possible. We also dabble in excluding the public as much as possible, but really, that's sort of just a side-effect of the other things we are about."
This is a great sign, rumors has it Rauch was/is considering moving his company to another state because of huge incentives.
Great job PA!
Good to hear. More jobs created!
I believe the whole idea about a composite campus at the airport was spawned from the community Strategic Planning session held last summer.
Very nice to see some good coming from that.
Well to go community leaders and ACTI too.
Yeah, I believe EVERYTHING I read in the PDN.
Given the rich history of proposal hype and "false starts" in Port Angeles, and the lousy track record of anything turning out as proposed, color me skeptical.
To all you haters: You must lead miserable lives, always negative!
Why bother? There are smokestacks downtown.
if you don't believe the paper call ACTI, maybe Mr. Rauch will confirm for you
I think the smokestacks should all be moved to the industrial park. Locating heavy industry atop rich archaeolgical sites, and along a waterfront where the emissions from the stacks fall upon densely populated residential areas is insensitive and greedy.
I don't know much about the ACTI project, but at least it is an industry that is located inland, where most folks will be less likely to have to hear, see, or smell it.
Visioner said "I don't know much about the ACTI project, but at least it is an industry that is located inland, where most folks will be less likely to have to hear, see, or smell it."
For your information ACTI produces advanced composite structures for the commercial and defense aircraft. Their parts are processed in cleanrooms in a manner that produces no VOC's, no hazardous materials and little nose.
We all should be applauding the fact that Mr. Rauch came to Port Angeles and started his business. He could have gone anywhere.
Hopefully he sticks around!
ACTI is the best company i ever worked for. Great pay, great medical insurance for free, Dental for $15 a month, matching 401K up to 4%, a family environment and Mr. & Mrs. Rauch are fantastic owners/operators always giving to the workers and the community.
"Mr. & Mrs. Rauch are fantastic owners/operators always giving to the workers and the community."
I don't doubt that they are all those things, and more. But I have been around Port Angeles far too long to have much faith in the viability of the area. Even during the boom years, the "powers that be" managed to screw up or scare away pretty much any good thing that was proposed.
Unless you see that $14 million bus stop as a "success".
Anonymous said...
This is a great sign, rumors has it Rauch was/is considering moving his company to another state because of huge incentives.
Great job PA!
8:38 AM, November 24, 2010
So, this is the way the Republicans are going to "cut the fat out of Government", and "Get out of the way of business", and "leave business to do what it does best", etc??
Shrinking the size of "government" is all well and good when it means reducing the budgets of libraries, but don't cut the taxpayer millions to private enterprise!
considering that we have the highest tax in the world. (property tax, IRS, utilities, cable, telephone, sales, gas, etc.) We pay over 50% of our income in taxes (hidden ones...the little ones that add up, the extra fee's on this or that, passed onto us by restaurants, and hotels, and airline's airport "fees".)
What do we get for it? A lot of military over-priced junk, a lot of payments to "dark ops" oversees (not our military, the "consultants"), a lot of backroom deals, and buying foreign governments, subsidies to mega corporations, and foreign governments, tax cuts to the extremely wealthy, etc.
Our local governments (port, city, county) are only emulating what the big guys do. We're just the peons. You know we don't matter, and to punish us for speaking up -- we'll get fewer services.
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