Commissioners at the Port of Coos Bay continue to demonstrate their undying faith in the judgment of CEO Jeff Bishop by authorizing him to work deals without first taking them before the board. The commission, of course, never do any due diligence of their own anyway, so it probably doesn’t matter.
Commission approval of Resolution No. FY11/12 – 2 authorizing the Port’s Chief Executive Officer, or designee, to negotiate exclusively with a particular selected party (or parties) for the lease or sale of Port property for a period not to exceed six (6) months without prior Commission approval.
In addition to increasing Bishop’s check signing authority the commission has regularly resolved to allow Bishop to sign contracts and agreements with private companies and the State of Oregon. The consequence of this action is that the executed agreement is never brought before the public for evaluation and is never presented to the commissioners. To view these contracts the public must make a public records request and then only see them after the fact. Examples would be many executed terms for receiving state lottery funds, Connect Oregon and TIGER II grants.
The commissioners may trust Bishop’s word and judgment but now that we know the Port exaggerated its claims of an emergency and that we were misled regarding confidentiality agreements with Roseburg Forest Products, we the public do not share this faith. In fact, we don’t trust the judgment of the commissioners or the CEO.
Bishop will now entertain coal export terminal operators in a desperate bid to meet the requirements of the $5 million lottery fund grant distribution from the Channel Deepening and Widening project before it converts to a loan that must be repaid. In my opinion, this is the real emergency.
Come.on.now.lady, why don’t you come out of the closet and tell me who you are, if you have the courage. Idiotic statements about thousands of years of gas by fracking are very telling about your character. You are the type of person who would STEAL your neighbors land to stuff your pocket. Your willingness to abuse your fellow citizens hard earned tax dollars to attract an obsolete industry is disgusting. You must be an SCDC member or perhaps a mouthpiece for the port of thieves.
Gene? Royalties are those things we were promised when we accepted $30 million in debt for Whittys’ and SCDC’s 12″ pipeline.
We were indeed promised royalties.
And we were promised 2,900 jobs to go with it.
We ended up with the bill and multiple blown out creek beds.
And NO F’n royalties of any kind. Arnie Roblan took care of that for SCDC and the BOC, and NWNaturals.
That Gene, is what royalties are/were not.
Also come on, do you think we should stop offering corporate welfare in the form of Enterprise Zones? I’m all for the free market system, so why do we give corporate welfare to corporations that CHOOSE to come here? It’s not like ORC can go anywhere else along the West Coast and find another seaside community who would be ignorant , desperate enough to allow them to strip mine their coast lands.
Let’s just level the playing field here. You do business in Coos County? You’re going to pay for the pleasure. Even the girls at the Gentlemens’ Club don’t give lap dances to them for free after all.
Got another one come on???
you do realize that LNG is now a 3 billion capital investment. If the county spent 100 million of our tax dollars just to attract them here, the payback would be almost instantaneous through various channels (including local businesses). Gene, do you even understand how royalties work? How about LNG? Or do you just blindly oppose such ideas with short sighted opposition? New techniques for harvesting natural gas means we have a surplus in the UNited States. We have enough gas to last us thousands of years now, and all we need to do is start going after it. You want a long term economic, environmental, and political plan? Here it is!
No surprises any more, nothing they do makes them accountable to the tax payers their robbing. Kitzhaber lets them take the heat locally, while they continue to move large chunks of money towards the goal of public funding to dredge the bay for LNG tankers, public funding for the RR repairs, to haul propane and butane out and possibly coal in. EVERYTHING they do at the Port, has one goal, sell the resources this area has to offer, and make the public pay for it all.