Notes, Guemes Island
Ferry Committee
Public
Meeting of 5 December 2004, 3:00 PM
Guemes Island Community
Center
GIFC Quarterly Meeting
Glen Veal thanked
Joseph Miller @linetime.org and Win Anderson Anderson’s Store
for their help in communication to the Guemes Island Ferry ridership.
He also introduced
Jack Harmon and John Richards from Arrow Launch and thanked them for
attending. The agenda for the meeting was displayed using an overhead
projector
GIFC has represented
Guemes ridership since 1980 and will continue to do so
Schedule has been
modified to better serve students attending school in Anacortes
Student ID’s are in place the county is considering procedures
to handle lost ID cards
Holiday Eve schedule
has been implement starting with thanksgiving 11/24/04.
Roundtable Resolution
was signed by the Commissioners 11/08/04 which defined the public comment
period of these meeting to be the first 15 minutes of each meeting
Anacortes parking
lot may be usable the end of December 2004 but the project will possibly
be completed until spring 2005
Discussion
1. Parallel
parking; an attendee requested that angle parking be extended east
down the north side of 6th street to the new parking lot.
2. Loss of parking spaces -- If the RR grade lot were paved and
striped according to city standards 60% of the spaces would be lost
(24 spaces).
3. Completion of project is scheduled for the spring of 2005
4. The oil catch basin for the Guemes lot should be covered
Guemes
parking lot project--- possible completion Spring 2005
No reader board
installation on either side since county planning would not permit
it.
Passenger shelter
designs still unknown
The GIFC was told
that a bus type shelter was purchased by county
Goal is west side access to the ferry on both Anacortes and Guemes
PERC decision
(originated from crew grievance on shift schedule) 10/04/04 - County
lost. 2-3 year time frame for appeal process.
Return to 3-person
ferry operation has been requested by the GIFC. The county is considering
the request.
Offsite ticket
sales - Negotiation with union are required to sell tickets in another
location
Ticket book transferability
within families questioned
Ferry crews are unable to police transfers of ticket books
Discussion about
an annual pass for walk on passengers
Frequent user
books date extended through first quarter 2005 due to piling work.
Union negotiations
are ongoing with the next meeting end of12/04
No
1:00PM car ferry beginning 12/09/04
Jack
Harmon voiced his concerns about changes in schedule
Different
passenger shelter in place aboard Warrior
Graphs presented
by Carl Cady
Discussion
County
deficit reimbursement
Concern of county operations
Crew cost {breakdown}
Cost of 4th crewmember {breakdown}
Return to three-person crew
Inefficiency = fare increases
Return
to three-person crew
Communication plan in place
Upcoming ferry Outage
Changing both engines from Detroit to Caterpillar
Apron repair during annual haul-out
Phase 2 of piling replacement will likely be in the fall of 2005
Annual haul-out
may be 3 weeks long. A date in spring or summer has yet to be set.
Glen Veal stressed the importance of GIFC time @ table with Public Works
Treasurers Report:
Balance $150.70
Upcoming election
cost estimated to be $350
Donations accepted
@ Anderson’s store address: GIFC, 7885 Guemes Is. Rd #6, Anacortes,
WA 98221
Additional comments
from audience about frequent user book transferability
Nominations for
Ferry Committee Position vacated by Dixon Elder
Jim
O’Neil
Vic Garcia
Allen Bush {declined}
Next Meeting January
16
Additional nominations
will be accepted at that time
Meeting adjourned
@4:45
Respectfully submitted
MJ Andrak, GIFC
public meeting secretary
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