Betsy Peabody Sent - City of Bainbridge Island

From: Bob Selzler
Sent: Mon 10/4/2010 4:51 PM
To: Council; Brenda Bauer
Cc: Ross West; Mark Leese; Tom Kane; Sandra Davis; John Peters; David Lynch; Dave Ullin; Tami Allen
Subject: Please accept the WSDOT offer of $2,100,000
To: BI Harbor Commssion, Council, Administration
I encourage the HC and Council to accept and utilize the offered WSF funds ($2,000,000) for other projects in
the harbor instead of burdening the City with an expensive, long term lease commitment on a portion of the
ferry maintenance yard.
The greater community would be better served by performing a rehab on the city dock and adding a small marina
for visiting boaters. I took the following picture last Saturday which shows better than any words
that Bainbridge is not a great venue for visitors arriving by water. These folks are doing their best to enjoy our
city but their use of our old dock is greatly hampering access for our trailer boaters. Things get crowded down
there and it isn’t even summer anymore. If we had a small marina like those recently presented by Barry Peters
there would be multiple beneficiaries including our non-motorized groups having better access, less crowding
on the main dock, more visitors to the island, etc.
BTW, what you don’t see in this picture are the trailer boats (parked behind me) waiting to launch and other
boats in the water waiting to haul out. It was pretty much gridlock down there with no room at the
bottom of the ramp for locals to get in or out with their trailered vessels.