Port Angeles Pursuing Grants for Stadium and Waterfront Development
The Port Angeles City Council has given the OK for the City to request $3.6 million worth of grants that would be used for improving Civic Field and the Waterfront. The City is hoping state officials will approve these grants by this fall.
posted by Tom Harper at 11:01 AM
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As if these were the only increases in the debt we're expected to pay for!
This is on top of all the other grants they are also applying for (remember the Turd Tank?), and have already gotten.
I don't think it is ever going to stop. It's just getting worse. City staff just keeps coming up with more ways to spend money we don't have.
What?! Grants aren't free money. How much of that $3.6 million are us taxpayers on the hook for? Can we afford it?
Even if the grant money is totally "free" (meaning no required matching funds from city coffers, grant-funded projects require tons of oversight and coordination by paid staff. I think most observers of city government would agree that staff time would be better spent on other projects and priorities.
Heard Port o Crap has left town.
Taking their ad clients $.
I guess Port O' Call has quit?
No big deal, it was a joke.
Just another Port Angeles business failure.
@ Anon 3:06
Did the City staff ASK us, before they wrote up their glowing staff report to the City Council??
You don't think the council members came up with this, by themselves, do you?
Port O Call is doing better than ever, getting more subscriptions every day, and is doing quite well. That is what I heard from Dale the other day.
It is understandable that the few morons that like the way things are, and the "Good Ole Boys" club that have gotten us into the troubles we see in Port Angeles these days, will take every opportunity to try to discredit what Port O Call is doing. Exposing what is going on.
By the writing style, it is easy to see it is one person, making the rounds, trying to make people think Port O Call is bad, somehow.
Like the Max fetished troll that frequents this blog.
But, the reality is, many people are VERY happy to have someone look into the issues the PDN overlooks and turns the other eye on. People are VERY happy to finally see something like "investigative reporting", which the PDN never does.
Is Dale perfect? No. But he goes to all the meetings himself, interviews all the people himself, and is more personally involved in these issues than the troll who is sitting at their computer, and putting everyone down.
He encourages people from all political persuasions to write articles, to get this community dialoging. Unlike those that are criticizing him, he is devoting his time and energy to help make Port Angeles a better place.
If you like Port Angeles the way it is, and how it has been run over the past number of years, then you won't like the Port O Call. If you want to see Port Angeles solve it's problems, and become a better place, then we should do what we can to help Dale in his efforts.
It's that simple.
I looked at the web site, here:
http://www.portocallpublishing.com/
I don't see any talk about it going out of business.
Big deal, every city in the country is always going after grants as if it somehow free money.
"I don't think it is ever going to stop. It's just getting worse. City staff just keeps coming up with more ways to spend money we don't have."
Bingo!!! And your mommy, daddy government isn't going to come up with all of it either.
what the hell is going on with this blog? Have the morons taken over? Any alternative press is GOOD news in this short sighted town.
On one hand we are all upset over these unbelievable expenditures, and on the other people find ways to bash another venue for information? How ELSE are we going to stop the city from spending our money?
All the naysayers must be working for city hall, and trying to undermine the exchange of information...too bad tar and feathers and running people out of town on a rail isn't still in fashion.
You noticed the $13 million for the landfill that the council will undoubtedly approved tomorrow night.
Let's remember this is the SECOND time we have had to pay millions for THAT same issue. The last project failed within a few years, and they are back again for millions more.
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