Last night, the Eureka City Council unanimously voted to adopt a harbor revitalization resolution presented by a community group, but only after it was determined that the document doesn’t legally bind them to do anything.
Councilmember Linda Atkins said she was concerned about some of the big-ticket projects listed as goals in the resolution, including container shipping and the east-west rail proposal. She said studies have shown those goals to be unrealistic and expressed doubt about achieving public approval for them. But the rest of the council voiced support for the document, saying it showed vision and served to reaffirm their commitment to creating jobs.
After public comments and some discussion among the council, Atkins asked City Attorney Cyndy Day-Wilson whether the resolution would create any legal obligations for the city. The language of the document asks the council to resolve, among other things, to develop “within one year a cohesive and coordinated marketing plan” and to work with other agencies “to obtain funding/financing for infrastructure projects such as dock repairs and improvements; dredging [and] East-West rail … .”
Day-Wilson said the resolution does not carry any legal weight. Atkins said that “in the spirit of cooperation” she would support the document. Thus was the council resolved.
This article appears in Humboldt’s Mayberry.
Why does Security National want the Council to develop this marketing plan? Couldn’t the “Humboldt Bay Harbor Working Group” create and pay for this marketing? Arkley has a long history of producing flashy political mailers
A lone vice of reason on the Eureka City Council.
Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
If anyone mentions economic development or job creation tiny-town minds claim Rob Arkley is involved. Why are people so fixated on him? Because they know that using his name is a buzz-kill.
It’s not going to work anymore, because people are tired of the polarization. Our community needs legitimate jobs that pay wages so families can buy a home, enroll their kids in our great schools, and have time to make our community even better.
There’s no boogie-man here, just regular people working together through the political quagmire to support great projects that are a good fit for our Harbor. Whether it is an Aquaculture incubator, an artificial reef, boating building or marine highway shipping the working group is exploring what’s possible. What really excites me is that we have an opportunity to re-invent our Harbor as a world class green port and bay.
Linda Atkins has been at our meetings and has been very helpful. We appreciate her comments, as well as all the council members, but most of all, we appreciate their vote of solidarity. A small but important step.
Tell us how that Agenda 21 thing is going Karen.
There isn’t anything “polarizing” about Karen Brooks’s Tea Party politics
Mike I have always been fond of you and believe it isn’t your nature to be cyber-bully. I would gladly have coffee with you to answer all your questions.
Thanks but I know enough. I can accept diversity in thinking but some stuff like this rail and port thing are just plain goofy and a waste of time, energy and resources.
The agenda 21 issue has nothing to do with this issue Mike…but to answer your question, it can’t be going any worse than your Arkley-hate induced adventure calling yourself Robpushedme. Classy behavior, cyber bully.
diversity as long as it agrees with my beliefs, love it!
I where that as a badge of honor Lawrence.
Look Mike, this is the first time looking, and commenting on this thread. It is common knowledge of your troll like behavior, IE many nasty names you have used. It is your nasty behavior that caused a thread to be deleted. I do not have time to deal with trolls like you. I do not have time post as much as paranoid Mike says I do. Yet, with no proof that i am doing such, he assigns me 100% the blame. I would think one of your age would act better.
Tourists and businesses are afraid to come to Eureka because of all the meth and heroin tweekers downtown. Try addressing the real issue.
Do tell us Mike Buettner, what’s your idea for Humboldt County???????????
Brian, he doesn’t have one. He just likes to bitch and moan on the internet because he gets a captive audience of people that would otherwise ignore him.
Karen, Arkley may not be the face of this project, but make no mistake, it it HIS personal project
Listen to this interview where he boasts about the progress of the development plans
http://www.kins1063.com/talk-shop-032612-rob-arkley/
Looks like Mike Buettner pegged Capdiamont (Lawrence LaBranche).
Karen Brooks might want to listen to Rob “fracking is wonderful” Arkley talkin’ ’bout the rail.
You give our working group way too much credit to think RA would be the slightest bit interested. Come see for yourself what we are about. We’re meeting the last Monday of the month at 7 pm at the Labor Temple on E Street. For August we’re meeting on the 27th.
You are welcomed to come and meet us! We are inclusive, we want the larger community involved and we welcome your ideas.
Sigh.
Nice to see the NCJ giving such even handed coverage to this issue. NOT.
Shit, they can’t even acknowledge that most spoke in favor of the resolution, and that the most vocal opponent last night, Pat Higgens, made a complete ass of himself.
If Mike Newman, Marian Brady or another of the NCJ’s political opponents, (and make no mistake, the NCJ is playing politics) made such a jackass of themselves, it would be front page news and discussed ad nauseum by their intrepid unbiased (LOL) writers.
I almost fell out of my chair watching it on tv last night – if anyone doubts me, go to access humboldt when it is available, (or maybe its the city that streams it now) and you will see that I am not exaggerating in the least.
(btw, ask Judy why she’s against container ships, and why she isnt being upfront about that)
Using Mike Buettner’s logic, I could claim Bingo is Mike Buettner. However I cannot prove that, just like Mike Buettner cannot prove that I did so.
Instead, those who can point out I did not do so, IE NCJ, will allow these slanderous accusations to remain, or at least unchallenged.
However as adults one must understand Mike Buettner was caught due to an error. I happened to catch this error, and expose him in my blog. He is still bitter to this day for this. Now with the information public, in his sick, twisted way, I am the very one repeatably exposing him on the local blogs, and forums.
This is the internet folks, many people have access to this information. Anyone can bring it up. Again I did not bring it up, before Mike Buettner bitterly assigned me the blame for. Pathetic.
For your sake, lets hope they are successful. For a paper to survive, it needs a thriving business community. I am always amazed to see papers cheering on the job killers, and dissing those who create and provide jobs, incomes, and yes, ad dollars.
You can paraphrase Kennedy – “Ask not….” You ought to be asking, “What can we do to help?”
i am surprised fat piggins making his ass even bigger wasn’t national news. I mean its already huge!
Karen, I think you should give Arkley more credit for his contributions thus far to this project. Let’s be honest now, without Rob, you have no project. Let him show you the way, not the other way around.
Meanwhile, Lawrence seems to have a problem with the LGBT community
Seems MB has a problem with Cap. Psychotic little bastard isn’t he?
Capdiamont may be nutty, but psychotic?
Ah we have the person who uses crayons to draw his version of reality, with his own version of reality. MB is the the one most likely to go postal, not Cappy.
At least I’m not using scarce municipal resources to create my version of reality.
Jessie, if by project you mean the Harbor Revitalization Working Group and the actions we’re working on, RA has no connection. If you have facts otherwise I’d like to know. I’ve only missed maybe two meetings and I can honestly say the group represents many areas of our community. We share a common vision for job creation and believe our underutilized harbor is a tremendous asset.
FYI, our focus is the Harbor which spans from the Samoa Bridge to Fields Landing so we aren’t focused on the entire bay. Like I said earlier, come see for yourself.
“At least I’m not using scarce municipal resources to create my version of reality.”
Oh brother. They might not be so scare if there were more large revenue generating companies and projects around here. Money doesn’t print itself, Joel, it has to have a source. What would you suggest as a remedy to encourage spending by those WITH the money? You won’t be able to tax it out of them, if they’re not even in the area to collect it from. Everyone else is broke.
Joel seems to be the mythical person who does not need any government resources.
I could care less whether private enterprises entertain these port & rail fantasies, but under no circumstances should they ever receive any public funding. If you really believe you can create something here, then waste your own dough. Enough with the lobbying efforts, which is exactly why they are engaging the politicians.
Actually is is drumming up for support, not money.
Just wait, they’ll be grasping for grants in no time
It appears that “the fairy joel” and “pay it forward” are engaged in a drinking contest.
From what I hear Joel, I hear you never stop drinking and doing drugs.
Wow, the development community comes guns ‘a blazing when someone challenges their general interests. Amazingly enough, Karen Brooks is the only one capable of a coherent response. Who would have thought!
“From what I hear Joel, I hear you never stop drinking and doing drugs”
Something tells me the author of this brillant post was enjoying a few tasty adult beverages himself
This “Working Group” has as its front a woman who just moved here after retiring from a Bay Area “continuation” high school. She claims to want to end polarization by pushing for the most controversial proposal for Humboldt Bay. It’s absurd on its face. It’s meant to piss people off and divert their energy to arguing about something completely intangible, just like Measure N.
OK, back to the real world now.
This debate is interesting in light of the conservative uproar that arose after President Obama made the following remark:
“You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something—there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
There, it was conservatives questioning the role of government (e.g., teachers, infrastructure, etc.) in advancing private businesses.
Here, it seems to be conservatives advocating for that very same thing.
Why is it the conservatives are the bad people for this in your thinking? Are you aware many walk of life want this, not just conservatives? It is because you wish to diminish their work, or you require problems to be broken down in simple ways for your brain to process?
Conservatives should be skeptical of the City’s promotions of this scheme, Anony. And there are plenty of right-wingers who “require problems to be broken down in simple ways for [their] brain to process.”
When Chris K. was a councilperson in Eureka,
I gave him an article from a financial magazine.
A town in Germany, broke as Eureka, went to
their local college. A partnership was formed.
They then went out to every corporation in the
world that would fit into their environment and
presented a package of what the city could do for them. The bottom line was: Come to our
city, we will educate and train the personnel
you need in our college. We will give you tax
breaks. This city is now very successful.