Boat Owners Protest Moorage Rates at Port of Port Angeles Meeting
Boat Haven tenants packed a Port of Port Angeles preliminary budget meeting earlier today. More than a dozen speakers blasted John Calhoun and Paul McHugh for increasing moorage rates while Boat Haven occupancy is decreasing. The leader of People for the Responsible Operation of the Port said the Port is using a “grossly unfair, unrepresentative moorage rate study” to establish their rates. He added:
“Your insistence on raising moorage rates repeatedly in the face of an alarming decline in Boat Haven occupancy defies reason and good sense.”
“Your insistence on raising moorage rates repeatedly in the face of an alarming decline in Boat Haven occupancy defies reason and good sense.”
posted by Tom Harper at 6:58 PM
9 Comments:
It makes no since to raise rates here because someone out there is charging more than is being charged in our area... It is just the PORT mis managing revenue once again because they can.
Very sad.
What a joke the Port is, they compare our Marina to others around the area but forget the others provide services:
1. real security
2. restrooms on the docks
3. drinkable water
4. adequate quantity of carts
5. others don't allow construction in the marina
6. others don't have dirty log yards next door
7. most offer covered moorage
8. decent fish cleaning stations
9. year around launch facilities
and so on
Oh come now! How hard is this to understand? If you have less people paying for moorage, then you need to raise the rates to make the same money you did when you had more people paying for moorage.
Will higher moorage rates mean more people will stop mooring their boats at the facility? Don't bother us with thinking ahead. We don't do that here in Port Angeles.
Hey Tom.
You probably already know this, but obviously there are enough people that don't. You posted about the labeling of foods for GMOs, and we saw how stupidly the voters fell for the corporate advertising campaign recently.
What puzzles me is why so many want to limit the ability of US products to be sold to markets outside the US.
Here is a list of 64 countries that REQUIRE GMOs to be identified in food products.
http://justlabelit.org/right-to-know/labeling-around-the-world/
You will note countries like CHINA and RUSSIA, and the European Union require labeling.
So, by NOT labeling, we cannot sell our food products to these huge markets.
How smart is THAT?
Ha ha, "Because they can..."
Sort of like why the water tastes like SHIT today, because they can.
Sucks SO bad that our water supply got "sucked up" into the whole evil restore the fucking river thing. The teabaggers will NEVER let us have good tasting water. Best water in the world (you have to be "liberal" to even understand that, or admit that) and they fuck it up. Why? Too easy. BECAUSE THEY CAN.
anon 7:36am
amen
Perhaps you might be wondering about when the economy is going to get any better. Perhaps you have heard about the "economic stimulus" the US government has been engaged in since the meltdown in 2008?
Here is what is going on.
The FED is enabling the U.S. government to keep spending money it doesn’t have by getting the FED to purchase $45 Billion per month in U.S. Treasuries (debt issued by the U.S. government) (Source: Reuters).
(2) Next, the FED is also spending another $40 Billion per month on buying mortgages – presumably from the U.S. government (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac). The U.S. government took over the failed mortgage companies in September 2008 (Source: Reuters). So what we have is the FED financing U.S. government debt, and U.S. mortgage debt.
So, the US government is pumping $85 billion each month into the economy to keep it afloat.
Will the government ever stop pumping in all this money, and what will happen when they do?
2 days ago - From Yahoo News: New York City (AFP) - US stocks closed mostly lower Tuesday ... the Federal Reserve's intentions to reduce its massive monetary stimulus.
and:
2 days ago - U.S. stocks fell, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average retreating from a ... speculation the Federal Reserve will reduce stimulus next month.
The "jobless recovery" is really only a recovery of the financial whiz kids getting the taxpayers to refill their coffers. The rest of us? We just pay for it all.
Kinda like the Port Angeles City Council continuing to raise "utility fees" to fund its' various projects.
the Port is raising moorage rates to pay for new underground fuel tanks. Why charge only the tenants of the marina for this, why not charge everyone that uses the fuel dock?
How about a fuel surcharge?
anon 10:52am
brilliant, hopefully McAleer and Hallet are reading this blog
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