Remarks by Eric Marshall
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
I will be talking about Oak Harbor Main Street.
Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem. As the chair of the LTAC committee, may I also make a recommendation that when reviewing this, we look at moving items from year to year as well because that has come up in the past that we had a request for funding for one year and then that event didn't take place and so we were asked to move that to the next year and that too was also kind of a squishy situation as you described it.
Yeah. So in this particular matter, however, I fully support this reallocation of the funds. I know that the director is new, was not the one that made this request last year, kind of inherited what it was. I personally am more in favor of building on an existing event as opposed to trying to create a new one. All the numbers... were just hypothetical when it comes to the Oktoberfest event. Those were hypothetical numbers based upon past performances. But I think that growing this type of event is gonna pay off having a tree that you can use year over year. I think the Warm Beach, for…
Thank you, mayor. Um, I don't know what time all the advisory committees meet, but do they all meet after school as well? I mean, I understand that we are not requiring them to be here at workshops because they can't because they have school. But I know like the parks and rec commission, for example, they meet at 10 AM and we have a student advisory and that's, that's something that's been kind of a point of contention for me is that we, we're not, we're not, um, accommodating to that person, you know, that could be a student representative. And so is that something that we look at for our…
Okay, so I know that we have a mechanism for trying to find this student position coming from the school board or from the school administration. Is there any way that they could help also to advise for people to fill these other vacancies that we have?
Okay. Yeah. And then my last thought was I agree with Council Member Stuckey. I would like to see the wording to say to council members just to have that. Just so we have a little bit more of a say in who's going to be sitting up here with us. And I think that's reasonable. Typically, when we do the advisory commission interviews, we have three or four people that sit on those advisory board commission interviews. So that's it. Thank you.
Thank you. For me personally, it's not that big a deal. I mean, I think that, you know, Hillary kind of talks about it is if somebody is not showing up, then then we can have a conversation with that person and say, you know, are you going to resign? Is there a reason why you're not showing up? And then if we see that this becomes a problem, then we can in a year we can reevaluate this. But. But for me, I think that the caliber of students that we're looking to get to do something like this, they're going to make a commitment to show up. And if they don't, then that's a conversation that we…
I move to adopt ordinance number 2047 with the amendment of two council members sitting on the approval committee adopting a new Okraburn Municipal Code section 1.04.050 relating to student representatives providing for severability and establishing an effective date.
Amending the ordinance, as it's written. Oh, the ordinance. Yes.
Thank you. And at least I appreciate you bringing this up and looking out for the city's liability. I am fully in support of having the agreement in place. I am not in support of the fee as it's currently at. I, I agree with 163 a month as opposed to a year. You said that they, they use it approximately a hundred times.
So even if we were to do the $163.50 per month, you're talking $19 per haul out, $19.62. I don't think that's an unreasonable fee for the usage. And so I personally fully support having the agreement, not the price as it's presented. So thank you.
So just to be clear, this is the agreement. And so you will negotiate the fee with them then at this point?
But if we enter into this agreement now, they're getting that $163.50 for an entire year.
Not if they're under contract for a year.
I'm certainly not going to approve the motion personally at 163.50 for the entire year. I think this is... This is the whole Yacht Club thing all over again, in my opinion. And we need to generate revenue for the marina. This money goes into the marina fund, correct? Yes, it does. Yeah, we cannot continue to keep doing. If we want to make the improvements that the MAC committee is looking at doing and that you're looking at doing, we have to have a funding mechanism. And continuing to offer really low rates for things is not going to get us to where we need to be. And so I love the idea that…
So to that point, have they already then paid for 2026? They've paid the 16, so they've not paid for 2026.
They would still have to pay the annual fee either for one full year or for the remainder of this year.
So I'm moved to authorize the mayor to sign a facility use agreement with Mariners Haven LLC through the end of 2026 with a prorated annual fee.