Minutes

Guemes Island Ferry Committee

Working Meeting of 27 February 2003

Meeting Commenced:  7:00 PM

Committee Members Present:

1. Carl Cady

2. Glen Veal

3. Dixon Elder

Additional Attendees:

1. None

Agenda Items:

1. GIFC working meeting minutes of 2-24-03

2. Response to Skagit Public Works-Task Force membership

3. Frequent user ticket –Enforcement of Non-Transferability

4. Planning for next PW meeting on 3/7/03

Agenda Discussions:

1. The minutes for 2/24/03 were approved as amended and posted to our web site.

2. General discussion about Task Force membership. We felt that a single commercial ferry user would have difficulty keeping other commercial users informed of the process and it would be better received to invite several commercial users to a single meeting to get their recommendations. The Guemes Community Center declined to be involved and it was thought that the Guemes Island Growth Management Sub-Area Planning Committee should be represented in their place.  A copy of the attached letter drafted for Public Works has more detail.

3. General discussion about frequent user ferry ticket starting with its origin as working resident’s commuter Ticket. The focus was on what could be done as an interim measure to enforce the non-transferability of the frequent user tickets. We need to involve the ferry pursers and Public Works in the process.

4. We briefly discussed the possible agenda topics for the next meeting with Public Works. It will likely include: 1) discussion of Ferry Committee and public comments on the Management Analysis Report, 2) Development of Task Force meeting ground rules, 3) Development of specific problem statements to bring focus to the Task force work effort.

Meeting Adjourned: 10:30 PM

Attachment: GIFC Letter to Steve Flude dated 2/27/03