Gooseberry Pt Lease Signed

Word is that the Gooseberry Pt lease (tidelands and uplands) and agreements now have all the needed signatures.   For those interested, all three final contractual agreements are on the Whatcom County Ferry site.  Thanks to Public Works for posting the documents and Mike McKenzie and Paul Davis for sending out notices about this completion of [...]

Lease is Moving Forward

I spoke on the phone with Dan Gibson this morning. He said that legal description of the uplands portion of the lease has now been resolved (2 surveys by tribe; 2 by county) and that the lease is very apt to move forward to the signature stage by the end of next week. If I [...]

Final “Reconciliation’ of Lease Language in Progress

The PLIC Board reported at last night’s party that Dan Gibson and Diana Bob, respectively Whatcom County and Lummi Nation lawyers, are working on the ‘reconciliation’ of some lease language that needs completion before all parties sign off on the lease Mike McKenzie, PLIC Board member, reported (via Paul Davis & Brown Betty email) that, [...]

Another Take on Gooseberry Pt Negotiations

The Cascadia Weekly just published their take on the negotiation process, in Tim Johnson’s weekly The Gristle column. It offers a useful ’30,000 ft view’ on the situation, even if a few facts were a bit off: negotiations have been going on since at least 2000 even though they’ll only been well publicized (the fact, [...]

Signatures Needed to Finalize Lease

For those who don’t use Facebook, a thread (conversation) started up this weekend with Pam Miller asking what LIBC, County and BIA signatures are needed to truly finalize the lease. As with all such legal agreements, the deal isn’t completely done until those signatures are obtained.  The County Council passed the lease less than a [...]

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 [...]

County Council Introduces Proposed Lease Agreement with Lummi Nation (AB2011-238)

From “County Action Taken” for last Tuesday night’s Council meeting (2011-08-09), our council representatives voted 7-0 to introduce AB2011-238: Intergovernmental framework agreement, Uplands lease agreement, and Tidelands lease agreement for Lummi Island Ferry usage at Gooseberry Point (AB2011-238) (hearing to be scheduled) Introduced 7-0 NOTE:  The cover sheet to AB2011-238 in “Action Taken” incorrectly shows [...]

Incomplete County-Lummi Contract To be Introduced August 9?

(Information and opinion) I emailed Marina Engels, County Council clerk, to see if there’s any new update on the draft contract wording of the County-Lummi Nation legal agreement and leases. (last one, Aug. 3, was incomplete). The legal contract remains scheduled to be introduced at tomorrow night’s (Aug. 9, 7 PM) evening County Council meeting, [...]

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 [...]

Brenner and Crawford on LIBC Lease Approval

Here are emails from Barbara Brenner and Sam Crawford in response to a query sent earlier this week about the status of the negotiations (the query email follows Sam’s response), which the LIBC indicated they’ve approved. Note that Sam encourages people