July 11 Draft Ferry Task Force Recommendations

                Please use the July 20 updated recommendations instead of the July 11th ones below. Here are the Ferry Task Force’s draft recommendations as of their July 11, 2011 meeting, in pdf format.  Items still remaining to be agreed upon should be determined at the July 18th meeting [...]

Public Comments: Revenue-Enhancing Recommendations

Notes from public comments on June 20th recommendations, continued…  Please feel free to add other comments heard at either the June 20 or LICA June 22 meetings.  I had to leave for most of the June 20th discussion of fares, so have very few notes from that part of the meeting. Ideas for increasing ferry [...]

More Docs & Information from the Task Force

In an effort to be certain that you don’t miss anything that the Ferry Task Force (or individual members) put out, the following includes a power point presentation that Diane Harper presented to LICA on June 22nd, as well as her own personal comments on the Draft Fare Recommendations.  Also included is Jim Dickinson’s comprehensive [...]

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 [...]

Ferry Task Force: Working on Final Recommedations

What an interesting, but painful, exercise it was at last Monday’s task force meeting (June 6th) to come up with a fare schedule that was workable for our community.  Every decision to reduce a fare here, required an increase in a fare there, in order for us to cover our portion of expenses.  For example, [...]

Ferry Task Force Meeting & Update Report to Council

Barbara Ryan, Chair of the Lummi Island Ferry Task Force, forwarded this email regarding the agenda for the Monday, June 6, 2011,  task force meeting and the pressing need to develop recommendations regarding ferry fares and cost saving measures.  This is a meeting you may not want to miss! From: Barbara Ryan <barbararyan88@hotmail.com>   (Date: Sun, [...]

Ferry Task Force May 9, 2011 Worksession

This is an extra work session that the Task Force decided to hold. ******************************** PUBLIC NOTICE The Citizen’s Task Force for the Lummi Island Ferry will meet on Monday, May 9, 2011 at 6pm in the Lummi Island Grange Hall in a work session. While this meeting is open to the public and the public is welcome [...]

Video of the May 2, 2011 Task Force Meeting.

Shane Roth just posted video recordings of last Monday’s meeting on Latte Republic.  Looks to me like pretty much the entire meeting, in 3 segments. He includes quite legible shots of the slides as well as oral presentations, questions and comments. Thanks very much, Shane.

What if? Considering fare & expense options

If you missed last Monday’s Ferry Task Force meeting (May 2, 2011), you will soon have the chance to learn more about what happened. Over the next week, more information will be distributed here and via other island communication sources about the May 2 meeting. Last Monday’s Monday’s meeting  was important because it was the [...]

May 2 Task Force Open House: Complete Agenda

Ferry Task Force “Open House” Meeting Monday, May 2, 2011, 6 pm The Grange, Lummi Island AGENDA Roll Call Approval of Minutes OPEN HOUSE Introductions                                                                           Barbara Ryan Review of Task Force Work to Date                                 Diane Harper Presentations to include history of ridership,            Patricia Dunn fares, comparisons with other ferry systems,             Diane Harper [...]