Anyone interested in getting together before this meeting, to unify our concerns, compliments and/or questions, please contact me, Tammy DiGiorgio @ 609-705-1122. I attended the City Council Mtg. on 6/14/12 where Mr. Scarborough gave an informal presentation to Council. I will be attending this information session with specific prepared questions. At the time of the Council Mtg. last week, nothing was known. Mr. Scarborough was not even on the adgenda so it should be interesting to see how much info. they gather by the 25th. Lets get together so we can work together!

In addition, notice the TIME of this information session? What about those who work? If you have concerns but cannot make the City's Mtg. on the 25th, by getting together with others, to express your feelings, you can be sure that you are heard without being there! BTW, getting together with your neighbors isn't necessarily "for" or "against" the proposed Marina........we won't know what "page we are on" until we all get together. If each of us go with our own adgenda (to the City's Mtg. on the 25th) we may not have enough time to get down to the "nitty gritty". Maybe you are concerned about liability issues and someone else is concerned about fire engine access.....we may all have valid concerns....let's find out.....call me, Tammy, 609-705-1122. I am just a property owner, nothing more, nothing less.

Will the homeowners on Bay Ave. across the street get the boat slips that were supposed to come with the purchase of their homes? Anyone remember that fiasco???

Wow! Duffer, we NEED to hear all of this! I have only lived in this part of OC sine 2008. Before that, we were in the South End. I am sure there is so much history and promises made and broken regarding many City issues. Let's get this moving in the right direction! I am available pretty much any time. My daughter is out of school for the summer so whenever others are available, I'm there! The key is to get this done BEFORE the 25th.

OK here it is. There will be a vote on the marina deal on Thursday night at the City Council meeting. It's on the consent agenda so there will be no first or second reading and no opportunity for public comment (unless the item is pulled). As of today a lease agreement between the City and Scarborough was distributed to council members. The terms of that agreement have not been publically disclosed.

The incorporation for the LLC was issued on October 17, 2011, so this project has been in the works for some time. Comments from the council members attending indicate that they're prepared to vote for the deal (although several of them admitted that they haven't read the terms of the lease as yet). According to what was disclosed at the public "information session" tonight, under private management the slips will rent from between $5,000 and $7,000 per year. Currently (according to coucilman Hartzell) they rent for $1700. After a 5 year period (I haven't seen the lease agreement but this is what I heard) the City will receive a percentage of the revenue. There is no ratable because the property is publically owned.

Clearly this is a sweet deal for Scarborough, and Council and the Adminsitration are already on board. Much must have happened between October 17 of last year and the present (of which the public was not informed).

I should say "support the deal" since some of the council members I refered to haven't been seated as yet. Is this a slam dunk or what?

Ok a great new attraction for the city helping tourism plus amenties for the locals. Does everybody realize there would be no accss to the bay at all if left to the private sector?. The City has already lost all the rest except for the bayside center which is underutilized. Here it comes. Watch the negative minority get the attention and kill something good for the town. It happens over and over here because the elected leaders have no vision beyond the next the election.