Bloggers,
Port of Bremerton commissioners will meet tonight at 6 p.m. at the Norm Dicks Government Center to mull turning back a $2.58 million federal grant.
The port received the grant back in the days of the proposed Sustainable Energy and Economic Development program. The SEED proposal faded away, and port chief Cary Bozeman and others tried to find a use for the grant the port still had. Stipulations that came with the grant stated it had to be used for something green.
But each proposal that came up was met with fierce objection from the public. Since the grant required a one-to-one match of port funds, they said the port was in no position to spend more of the taxpayers’ money now, in this recession.
So I wouldn’t be surprised if they turn back the grant tonight.
Commissioner Bill Mahan, the chief grant-getter for the port, has warned in the past that this will make the port look bad in the eyes of grant givers. I expect he’ll say the same tonight.
See you there.
Rachel Pritchett, 475-3783
A little kernel here…
“Commissioner Bill Mahan, the chief grant-getter for the port, has warned in the past that this will make the port look bad in the eyes of grant givers.”
I wonder if Bill worries, at all, about how the Port looks “in the eyes” of its taxpayers. Hopefully, Bill is a dying breed: politicians as pimps; those who will sell their constituents for grant money.