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Current
January Newsletter
JANUARY 17, 2012
ACTION ALERT!!
PLEASE OPPOSE HOUSE BILL 2444
House Bill 2444, sponsored by Rep. Jeff Morris
(D-Anacortes) takes $150,000 of your Recreation
Resource Account funding – capital dollars from
throughout the state that go into the underlying
infrastructure to support recreational boating –
and uses it “to convene and staff a work group
to develop a public private entity to be known
as the Washington Center for Marine Innovation.”
Tell your lawmakers that:
·
Recreational boaters were never consulted on
this bill – Rep. Morris simply targeted your
money, drafted it, and introduced it – without
ever saying a word to boaters;
· This
legislation would raid a dedicated capital
account for infrastructure that drives jobs, and
utilize it toward a work group and a study in
one part of NW Washington;
· The
Recreation Resource Account, created through a
voter-passed initiative, was put in place to
take unclaimed non-highway gas tax purchases
that are technically eligible for a refund, and
contribute them toward the infrastructure for
recreational boating. The voters of this
state created it for capital purposes – not an
operating budget study;
· The Center
for Marine Innovation would be housed at an
institute of higher education (Skagit Valley
College) – if this is a worthy idea, the
Legislature should take the funding to study it
from their higher education budget, or seek
grants – not raid a capital account for boaters;
· The
boating industry does not see this as a priority
and is steadfast that it opposes HB 2444;
· If this
precedent is allowed to stand, what stops the
next legislators from taking dedicated account
funds for their pet purposes?
· Boaters
already pay $35 million a biennium into the
state general fund in the form of a “Watercraft
Excise Tax” – no other recreational group has
paid this excise tax since the passage of
Initiative 695 over a decade ago.
Legislators have general fund money, paid into
them by boaters, if they consider the Center for
Marine Innovation to be a priority;
· If we want
to improve recreational boating, let’s take
steps to make it more accessible and to invest
in boating infrastructure – instead of spending
boaters’ money on a study for a facility in
Skagit County.
A first public hearing on this bill is at 10 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 19.
Please act right away!
Please Call the Legislative Hotline at
1-800-562-6000 to let your legislator know you
are adamantly opposed to this bill, or e-mail
your legislator by using this format:
Firstname.Lastname@leg.wa.gov –
Example:
Marcie.Maxwell@leg.wa.gov
Please give particular priority to contacting
all the members of the House Community &
Economic Development & Housing Committee:
Click here for Legislative Members and
Contacts Info:
Click here for a review of House Bill 2444:
Christmas Lane Decorated Boat Display/Contest
~ Dec. 2, 3 & 4 at
Port Orchard Marina ~ Photos to come
THE
SIYC
DINGHY
The Newsletter of the SINCLAIR INLET YACHT CLUB
The best of yachting ~ In the heart of the Puget
Sound
Sinclair
Inlet Yacht Club is composed of yacht owners,
and persons
interested in boating and amateur yachting. Many
of our members have
boats located at the Port Orchard Marina. Some
of our members come from
Vashon Island and Seattle while others come from
as far away as Mount
Rainier and Everett. With low membership fees,
many reciprocals and a
great group of people enjoying good times
we encourage anyone
interested in boating to consider joining our
Yacht Club!
We hope you enjoy our newsletter and become
interested in the Sinclair
Inlet Yacht Club.
See you on the water!
SIYC Bridge:
Commodore Scott Jungquist
radnroo@gmail.com
Vice Commodore Rhonda Jungquist
radnroo@gmail.com
Rear Commodore Nathan Merry
Secretary Sarah Merry
Treasurer Jan Anderson
Annieb26@centurytel.net
SINCLAIR INLET YACHT CLUB
NEWS
Join SIYC on Facebook, if you have info or
additions please feel free to post on our page!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001556486027
CANDY CANE LANE
EVENT PAGE SLIDESHOW 2011
pics to come
Christmas Lane
Hope you had your Christmas decorations ready
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~ SIYC had 10 slips on and closest to the
party dock
~ Each participating member brought a pot
of their favorite soup and/or cookies as we
hosted a "Soup Bar" for all boats that joined us
for the contest.
~ SIYC Decorated boats were announced at
our Sunday Brunch and Quarterly Meeting held at
the Lighthouse on Bay Street.
Judy Griffiths
Rear Commodore
206-465-0585
CANDY CANE LANE SLIDESHOW
DECORATED BOAT WEEKEND
Go
Here for more Info from last year.
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