Category: Harbor
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The Crescent City Harbor: A sad legacy of broken promises, bad faith practices and public indifference
By Roger Gitlin – August 23, 2022 For the past 16 months, I’ve observed operations at the Crescent City-Del Norte County Harbor. My one word description of the Harbor District is: DISAPPOINTMENT. My original interest in Harbor operations involved the factual lack of any appreciable progress on inner harbor basin dredging in and around the Fashion Blacksmith pier.…
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HARBOR MEETING
EXPENDITURES OUT OF CONTROL By Linda Sutter – August 18, 2022 The Crescent City Harbor District is in grave reprehensible repair. In their most recent published audit report conducted by Stephen Denny it was determined there has been no oversight, no transparency, and the financial reports in the meeting materials do not reflect the Harbor…
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HARBOR COMMISSION
By Linda Sutter – August 8, 2022 The Harbor Commission needs to be replaced in its entirety . What have they completed in the last 4 years? I will tell you. Nothing. Not one project has been completed with this substandard running harbor. Why? My observation is the mere fact none of the commissioners conduct…
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Latest Harbor Commission Meeting
Commentary By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – June 22,2022 I have not attended any recent Harbor Commission meetings but I did observe this last one, June 21 meeting. I wish I hadn’t attended. On the Agenda, three discussion items were prominent. 3a… Discuss and vote to approve Resolution 22-10 to commit to…
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HARBOR COMMISSIONERS VOTE 5/0 TO WASTE TAXPAYERS FUNDS ON OTHER PEOPLE’S DEBT
Opinion Piece By Linda Sutter – June 21, 2022 Stupidity runs rampant between 5 commissioners who do not understand their subject matter nor due their due diligence to protect taxpayer precious funds. Nothing like going to a meeting, getting paid, completely unprepared. Want to know why the Harbor is so messed up? No one conducts…
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Harbor Residents Are Moving Where?
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – May 20, 2022 It appears that things are not going exactly according to plan with AlexLemus’s assurances that each tenant would have a tailor made plan forrelocation prior to work commencing on Redwood Harbor Village. Hislatest plan calls for some tenants, those in lucky spaces 1-31,will beshuffled…
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The Harbor, Really?
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – April 26, 2022 One often wonders who is running the shop in the Harbor, the Commissionor everyone who has a fantasy to peddle. Its not as though the Harbordoesn’t have plenty of balls in the air already, they now take time outto get “involved” with stream restoration…
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“I’m From The Government, And I’m Here To Help”
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – April 20, 2022 It was August of 1986 that then President Ronald Reagan uttered thosefamous words as the most feared of all words spoken in the Englishlanguage. Never more true today than it has been for hundreds of years,Reagan had clearly understood the problems that a growing…
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Lemus Gets The Harbor To Bite, Now He Just Has To Reel Them In
Commentary and Opinion by Samuel Strait The recent Harbor Commission Special Meeting was pretty much theexpected 5-0 vote to approve both leases to Alex Lemus and RenewableEnergy for the harbor’s two RV parks. The future ensuing train wreckwill no doubt be painful, but it could not happen to a more useful collection of supercilious idiots who…
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Harbor Back In The News For A Change
By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – April 8, 2022 The Crescent City Harbor District voted to approve two ground leases allowing Renewable Energy Capital to develop Bayside RV Park and Redwood Harbor Village, respectively. Both votes were 5-0. These two projects are not just about the 90 tenants who may face eviction…