Jim Hallett to Speak at PABA meeting
Jim Hallett, president of the Port of Port Angeles Board of Commissioners, will be the guest at Tuesday's meeting of the Port Angeles Business Association.
posted by Tom Harper at 1:25 PM
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Who cares? He's just another Port Angeles idiot. Anything he has to say is meaningless.
Yesterday, I did notice three groups of people, three or four in each group, checking out the deterioration at the Max Mania and Dale Holiday Get the Fuck out of Town Memorial Sidewalk, checking out the ooze and cracks. But that's not enjoying the area, people! Countless more were out on Ediz Hook, walking their dogs, or just taking in the scenery - I GUESS. Despite the rain, wind, human poop on the beach, the dioxins, the PCBs, the frowny faces you have to pass at Nippon, the Coast Guard dudes driving 100mph. Depressing. People, you just don't know good, convenient, safe concrete when you see it! Look past the cracks and ooze!
Out on the spit the other day two cats were fighting, really going at each other, the fur was really flying, pretty much ignored me when I pulled up. I don’t know if it was two males or a mating thing. “Give me some of that pussy.” “Fuck you, get away from me.” “Hey, don’t go away, come back and try to fuck me again.”
That is all, carry on
LOL! Good point. Why put money where people actually go, when you can spend millions on crap?
Is that you, husband of Grenier, Toomer or whatever that imposter's real name is? It's hard to know how to chisle a monument when you can't identify the departed fly-by-nights.
Jim Hallett thinks he's a big fish in a little pond. In reality, he's a tiny, pea-brained bottom-feeder in a oil-slicked puddle.
Anyone else remember when he got tossed into a trash can by a homeless would-be burglar outside his own office? That was classic!
Why does the City keep lying to people? I can understand a private individual who has something to gain personally from lying, but the City?
Is it really just about egos?
In other news...I hate to burst anyone's bubble, but...The only reason Betsy Reed Schultz decided to transform her former B&B into a rehab center is because she was about to lose the building. She got in over her head financially, and this was a way for her to stay in her home.
Yeah, yeah, I know...She did lose her son. But she didn't want to end up homeless on top of that, so hello veteran's rehab center.
Even the seemingly good things in Port Angeles have a self-serving angle to them.
Not that there are many good things in Port Angeles.
So here I sit,having moved away from Port Angeles over a year ago...I'm living in one of those places you've probably seen on the news, with REALLY cold weather and tons of snow. But you know what? Even with the heat on high for days at a time, our utility bill is still only about a third of what it was in Port Angeles. One third to heat a house that's essentially the same size as the one we lived in there.
Why is that? Could it have something to do with living in a town that never had Glenn Cutler in charge of utilities? Could it have something to do with living in a town where someone like Cutler never would be put in charge of utilities - or anything else - because the elected leaders here aren't that foolish?
Sure, there are a couple of elected dim bulbs here - like there are everywhere. But we only have a couple; Port Angeles has nothing but dim bulbs. And the same ones get elected over and over again.
So every so often, I "tune in" to what's going on in Port Angeles, so we can have a good laugh at how terminally screwed up it is, and to be glad all over again that we got out. We love the stories about the brand new but crumbling water front. We love the stories about how the county commissioners can't get along. We love seeing the three uncontested races for city council. Wer love it all because we're not there anymore. We're loving in the 21st century and really loving it.
But Port Angeles will probably never even make it into the late 20th century. Anyway, have fun with your new-old mayor and everything else. I'm off to a lecture at the university. You know, a place with young people, a place with a future.
@ 3:45 PM....
But we get to go out on the spit and watch cat fights.
On any given day you will find a total of more people messing around on the spit than you will find on those messing around on the concrete in town.
Please don't tell the city leaders that they go out there to be closer to nature or said leaders will start building concrete structures out there.
As soon as they can figure out how to get you to fund them.
Agreed, 3:45 PM, that Cutler and his enablers and co-conspirators, such as former city managers and mayors share much blame for making Port Angeles so unaffordable and unappealing.
Good for you for finding a way out of PA and into a better life. Those of us who have lived elsewhere and can see how screwed-up PA is by comparison, salute you!
I DON'T SEE THE NEED.
As a member of the club I don't see the need for a food vendor working under those conditions and we all take plenty of food and have pot lucks and such.
Port Angeles is the most leave-worthy place I've ever been. It makes Aberdeen look like a paradise. It's corrupt and stupid and ugly, and I totally understand why people would flee from it.
I live in the County, and hadn't seen a Port Angeles City "Utility" bill in close to 10 years now, until yesterday. I moved out of Port Angeles back then, but I see it has gotten WAY out of hand, since!
Was visiting a friend, and they showed me their bill from the city. They broke out a calculator, and added up $100 worth of charges for things that had nothing to do with how much electricity or water they used, or garbage pick up.
$100 a month!
Assuming their bill is fairly average, we broke out the calculator again. According to the City, they have 7,500 service connections. So, each month, the City is getting around $750,000 from these extra charges!
Each year? Around $9 million! From around 18,000 residents.
Wow!
Someone should do some kind of investigation.
9:31 AM -
Interesting information about the PA utility bills and the high fixed charges and fees that have nothing to do with consumption. Not only do such charges gouge customers and discourage conservation (why conserve if doing so will not appreciably reduce the utility bill?), they enable the City to go further into debt through selling bonds. They point to that guaranteed monthly income from fixed fees to assure potential investors of a revenue stream sufficient to repay the bond-holders.
Double and triple whammies to the unfortunate utility customers.
That's the ironic thing about Port Angeles: It sucks to live there, but the city charges residents through the roof for the "pleasure" of doing so.
Really, the deep and weird and seemingly eternal backwardness of Port Angeles is amazing. Anything that is headquartered there - the city, the port, the county - is totally corrupt and awful. This creates odd situations like the entire county being screwed up, but Sequim is actually kind of doing alright, and has some good elected leaders. Yes, Sequim is in Clallam County, but not in Port Angeles, so it escapes the total caveman meltdown.
In all the places I've ever lived, visited or read about, Port Angeles stands out for being the most consistently behind the times, corrupt and unpleasant place outside of the deep south decades ago. Is it a curse? The distance from other, more civilized cities? Do the crooks that land there send out invitations to their crooked pals in other places to join them here?
Whatever it is, it's made Port Angeles a vile, sad and depressing little flyspeck of a town. A town, not a community. There's no sense of community in Port Angeles - just warring factions. Fighting to see who gets to be king of the turd hill, and the keeper of the turd tank.
keeper of the turd tank.
Har har har har....
And don't forget, you cannot unbundle your city utilities. In other words, if you go out of town for a couple of weeks, and want to stop your trash pick up, you'll have to cancel your water and electricity too. Or if you own a vacant rental, and say, want to have the water and/or garbage service cancelled until it's rented, again, you have to have ALL your utilities shut off. You cannot shut just one off.
This is a great source of funds for the city. Sure, it screws their citizens/customers. Sure, it's out of step with every other utility in the country. But it makes money! So shut up, citizens, and pay those utility bills!
Finally, remember: The city council and the city manager have both made it clear that they see utilities as a way to grow their cash flow. Not as a public service, not as a necessity of life. They're just cash cows. And they will milk them until the town is dry and dead.
BBC - Regarding the call out from the Mountain Men and the need for food vendors. I make a great possum pie! Are you sure there is no demand?
Funny about the turd tank. With all the rain we've had in the last couple days, and the forecast for days more, it made me think about that tank, and how the taxpayers got hosed by the City on that deal.
Think about it. How much rain can ya put in a tank, until it fills up. Then what?
Because the City decided trying capture and store all the rainwater was a better way to try to solve the overflow problem, they bought a 5 million gallon tank to put the rain in. 5 million gallons may sound like a lot, but around one inch of rainfall, city-wide, will fill it up, making that tank useless until it stops raining for awhile, and the city can run it through the sewage treatment system. And doing that isn't free, either.
But, as it seems to be right now, days of rain mean that $50 million system is now doing nothing until it stops raining. Great.
Of course, if they had decided keep the rain OUT of the system in the first place, it wouldn't make much difference how much it would rain for, or how much.
Those City folks really got this one right.
Now, go look at your utility bill and see how many of those charges are turd tank related.
Val... I don't think food vendors would do very good there, if commercial they have to go by a lot of regulations so only something like a maggot wagon would work.
Like I said, lots of food already there for the group so the only customers would be visitors and they just hang around for an hour or two.
The first one I went to I just started talking to the folks and they invited me to share meals with them, really nice group of people.
But, if you took jerky meat of the era and set up a booth you might do okay. Dog, horse, bear, possum, beaver, deer & elk, etc.
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