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Depoe Bay council schedules harbor workshop after heated public comments on fuel dock and revenue
Summary
Residents and harbor users urged the council to restore harbor commission input and address fuel dock operations; council set a joint workshop with the Harbor Commission and staff announced temporary fuel-dock hours while dredging remains dependent on the Army Corps of Engineers.
Residents, harbor workers and council members pressed the Depoe Bay City Council on Tuesday to resolve disputes over operations and revenues at the city’s fuel dock and to restore a stronger role for the Harbor Commission.
Shulei Wisniewski, a Depoe Bay resident, told the council the harbor “is being undermined by the very people elected to protect it,” and said the council has “stripped the commission of any meaningful input” and excluded stakeholders from decisions. “We must begin to seriously consider a recall of this council’s leadership,” she said, adding that the dock is a “lifeline, not a convenience.”
The council and staff described the fuel-dock controversy as part of a broader fiscal shortfall at the harbor and agreed to a sequence of meetings to gather input. The council set a joint workshop with the Harbor Commission for June 11 at 5 p.m. to review fueling operations, revenue options and stakeholder feedback; council members said…
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