Updated Research & Different Conclusion on Plattsburgh Ferry

<my apologies – I meant to post this 10 day ago but forgot to hit ‘publish’.  wynne> Jim Dickinson has responded to Frank Abart’s 2008 report to Pete Kremen (included in full here, from a B’ham Herald blog post by John Stark). That report, after some more investigation by PW, was sent recently to Jack [...]

PLIC Board Call to Action on Lease

This email and document from the PLIC Board was sent out to all PLIC members today, calling for islanders to contact the County Council and support the lease — and attend Tuesday night’s hearing. ______ Greetings, Friends, on this gorgeous 9-10-11. We have reached the end game. You are needed. Tuesday night, Sept. 13 — [...]

Concerns with Legality of Lease

Bill Fox cc’d the Ferry Forum an mail that he sent to the County Council this week,  expressing his understanding and thoughts about the lease agreements and road right-of-way issues.

Detailed Comparison of 2 Lease Agreement Versions

Betsy Schneider, intrepid sleuth aided by equally intrepid Michael Schneider, reveal the major differences between the July 5, 2011 and the revision that was introduced by the Council on August 9, 2011 (AB2011-238). The complete text of AB2011-238 that was introduced can be found under here. (Note: The cover sheet of this document  AB2011-238 incorrectly [...]

Newest version (Aug. 8, 2011) of draft legal agreement

Update:  2011-08-09.  According to Dan Gibson (via Michael Schneider) this is the introduced version AB2011-238. Nadeen Hanson, County Council clerk, sent the latest (August 8, 2011) version of the draft legal agreement between the County and Lummi Nation re: Gooseberry lease.  Section 5 (“free rides” issue) is now specific, at least, though I’m not sure [...]

County-Lummi Agreement & Lease, 2011-08-03 Version

Yesterday I received the most current (Aug 3, 2011) draft of the Gooseberry Pt agreement/lease from Marina Engels, County Council clerk (emails here).  Other revisions may be forthcoming before next Tuesday, August 9, when the Council plans on introducing whatever version of the document they happen to have then, which the public and press may [...]

Have your say NOW on draft Task Force recommendations

Friday, June 24 is the deadline for comments. Do you have questions, thoughts, concerns and ideas (pros, cons, other ideas) for recommended changes to ferry operations, fares etc that you would like the Ferry Task Force to consider at their next meeting (and before they write their next pretty-much-final report)? Send in your comments (in [...]

Updated Information on Ferry Taxing Districts

Betsy Schneider has been involved in researching state law governing county-owned ferries, and the use of taxing districts to help pay for them, since the beginning of the year.  She recently provided the Whatcom County Ferry Task Force with the attached updated article, which discusses the complicated laws governing special purpose districts. Ferry Taxing Dist-updated [...]

Amazing Searchable All-Ferry Document Database is live!

Really great news! Nancy Ging’s new simple, easy to use and very searchable database for all ferry documents is now online. You can try it by going to http://lummiislanders.com/ferrydocs/ Please read the instructions on the main page, then try out a search. Right now only a few documents are on the database (inputting everything will [...]

Notes on Task Force Meeting with Ferry Crew

Members of the PLIC Board combined notes, and Rhayma Blake compiled a report of ideas and thoughts presented to the Task Force by ferry captain Mark Richardson and deckhand/purser John Mulhern. Task Force and Ferry Crew Report 2-21-11.  See the report below.  (For all the PLIC updates, go to: http://plicferry.org) PLIC: Task-Force-and-Ferry-Crew-Report-2-21-11