“Queuing Alternatives Analysis” Before County Council 2/28

County Council will be asked to vote next Tuesday, 2/28,  on a $22,460 contract for a “Queuing Alternatives Analysis” at the Gooseberry Point dock area. The matter is on the Council’s Consent Agenda, which means the Council expects to agree unanimously to approve the expenditure.* Here is the exact wording on the Council’s agenda, along [...]

No More Porta-potties at Gooseberry Pt Dock

At least for now, there will be no more ‘facilities’ at the Gooseberry Pt  Dock, due to vandalism.  Here’s Public Works’ announcement and an email with details of the problem. >From:  Ferry Lummi_Island_Ferry <Lummi_Island_Ferry@co.whatcom.wa.us> >Sent: Nov 28, 2011 11:55 AM >Subject: Portable Toilets at Gooseberry Point Ferry Dock > >Greetings from Public Works, > >Attached [...]

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 [...]

Dry Dock Photos, Movies and Stories

OK,i t’s time to start taking pictures and movies of dry dock experiences. Cell phones photos are fine. Email them to the Ferry Forum, to the County Council, Exec AND all candidates for Council and Executive offices, news outlets (including Jared Paben at the B’ham Herald and KGMI), facebook (lummi island friends), etc. Maybe even [...]

Dry Dock Confusion

Latest from Brenner and Kremen on the dry dock parking situation. —–Forwarded Message—– >From: thetome@lummiislandcable.com >Sent: Sep 7, 2011 8:32 AM >To: thetome@lummiislandcable.com >Subject: c   Brown Betty:  Parking at Gooseberry Point > > >The out-of-control dry dock parking situation at Gooseberry has been extremely stressful to many Lummi Islanders whose lives depend upon reliable parking. The [...]

Dry Dock Info from Public Works 9-1-2011

Frank Abart sent out details about what will happen on Day 1 of this year’s dry dock (Wednesday, Sept. 7), as well as  other information.  This notice includes  links to the Whatcom County ferry website, which has crucial information like the van schedule, passenger ferry schedule and the parking map for 2011 (just what the [...]

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