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Why can’t the Port of Bremerton pay back their constituents?
September 4th, 2009 at Fri, 4th, 2009 at 2:46 pm by justinefrederiksenI had a crazy thought today when the Port of Bremerton’s Chief Executive Officer Cary Bozeman met with most of the Port Orchard Independent’s editorial staff to share his vision for the port’s next three years.
One priority high on Bozeman’s list is regaining the public’s trust after the port quietly raised taxes for its district’s residents to build the new Bremerton Marina. Another high priority is to have that marina start making some money.
I suggested that if and when the marina does become profitable, perhaps the port could win back the public’s trust by giving them back some of that money. (As you can guess, that floated like a lead balloon).
Everyone was too polite to laugh at me, which was nice, but afterward columnist Robert Meadows explained that not only was my idea crazy, as far as he could tell it would be completely illegal.
Phooey. Made perfect sense to me. What never makes sense, however, is how governments — national, state or local — are run.
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