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Proposal for win-win at Crescent Bar
Being a Crescent Bar resident myself, I am concerned why no one has touched on a few very important facts before now: 100 percent of the 200 individual year-round residents of Crescent Bar are senior citizens! Every single one! Senior citizens who have previously and in most cases, long ago, retired and sold their primary residences and are living on a fixed income and if any, the appreciation they have realized from their primary sale of that previous residence/property.
These folks came to Crescent Bar to live out their remaining years and do so as comfortably as the island of Crescent Bar has allowed them/us to do.
Who would have ever thought our very own residences would ever be in peril? Granted, one can’t live any less expensively than right here at Crescent Bar and providing it is all about only the money, most certainly we are very pleased with those rates, but would also be quite content paying market value to prevent being evicted from our current long-term Crescent Bar residences in the year 2012!
Quite honestly, I don’t believe this issue is about money at all! It’s about town things.
Number one: A few misinformed citizens of Grant County who have in their lifetime visited Crescent Bar only a few times at best and if everything changed today would not visit Crescent Bar any more frequently in the future.
Number two: It’s about the Grant County PUD wanting to cozy up to FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) to ensure they have their complete approval on any future plans for the island! Any interest in “public opinion” the PUD has is to ensure any decision made on their behalf, is in line with that “public opinion” of the taxpayers of Grant County, which in turn will cause them to be held accountable in the future! I personally believe the Grant County PUD is guilty of participating in a “dog and pony show” in an attempt to impress and flaunt FERC!
The Grant County PUD spokespeople have openly and publicly stated they admired the hydroparks Chelan County has developed in both Wenatchee and East Wenatchee. Being a previous resident of Wenatchee, I enjoyed those parks also. However, the big difference is location, location, location! No matter how you slice it or how you dice it, you can not sustain the Crescent Bar Island financially without being heavily tax supported! Granted, to turn Crescent Bar into a Wenatchee Hydro Park would be beautiful, however would financed only to draw additional of those seasonal fair weather “elite West Siders, (as one of your readers/contributers have termed them) primarily during those three holiday weekends. But what then?
I’ll explain the then what, you/we (we, only providing we remain residents in Grant County after an eviction) Grant County taxpayers/residents will be the ones paying 100 percent total of the cost to maintain Crescent Bar for just that so-named elite West-side group of visitors and you/we Grant County taxpayers will be required to pay that price tag 365 days a year, to provide that amenity for primarily just that group alone! Is that what you taxpayers really want?
Could it be no more than the Grant County PUD’s attempt to have a Crescent Bar Hydro Park at a “dog and pony show” price tag? Most any political agenda works in very mysterious ways. Use caution taxpayers on what you wish for as you very well may get your wish granted!
Currently we have one beautiful privately-owned new public hotel right off island and yet another in the planning! The public solution should be a very simple one: First — Build walking trails to keep pedestrians safe and off the public roadways (already in the works), enhance the public boat launch and expand the present campground (already in the works). Second — Aggressively encourage the current island residents to remain on the island and provide the high-quality of maintenance and security they currently provide here, at no cost to the taxpayers of Grant County!
It’s a very simple solution and it’s a win-win for all parties concerned. How could it get any better?
5 Comments
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Quincy Citizen commented, on July 16, 2009 at 8:38 p.m.:
I like how it was stated in the article "Long-Term Resident" How can you be long term if you KNOW the lease is only for a certain amount of time. All the residents are acting like all the rate payers are out to get them. They knew the time would come and they think they can buy the rate payers out, and i hope the rate payers are strong enough not to let this happen. Its a publicly owned island now lets give it back to the public.
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citizen2 commented, on July 19, 2009 at 4:35 p.m.:
I like it how they toot their own horn time after time. Its geting old. Yawn. Everytime any of you toot, it goes against you. "Who would have ever thought our very own residences would ever be in peril?" What planet have you been on? Didn't you read the lease before you signed? With the various letters, commentaries and articles, you all are coming off as spoiled people who paid extremely low rent and rented out the condos and the trailers for major profits, at the Port of Quincy taxpayers and the Grant PUD ratepayers expense. Come to terms with your situation, ethnically, morally and legally and accept that you are renters and the lease is up in 2012. Next time, back up your information with your books and figures.
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researcher commented, on July 19, 2009 at 9:48 p.m.:
after some research on the internet, the owner of the cresent bar united website resides in issaquah.
citizen commented, on July 16, 2009 at 12:42 p.m.:
You would be surprised how well informed the owners of the Cresent Bar, Grant PUD ratepayers are about the island.
Get it through your thick heads. You are renters -period. How many times do you have to be told? You may own your trailers and condos but the land and development belongs to the PUD ratepayers.
I am yet to hear anyone "representing" Cresent Bar referring to the electric ratepayers. It is the ratepayers who own Cresent Bar NOT the taxpayers.
You are the ones who are misinformed about Cresent Bar and are spreading untruths not those of us who want more public land and proper leases. No more 50 year lease, bring up the rent amount to modern economic rate and pro-rate the rent every year. First month, last month and security deposit, like any run of the mill renter as you are.
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