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Crescent City Boat Owners’ Association, LLC
“A voice for the MYH slip tenants”
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING
Date: Thursday, March 29, 2007
Time: 6:30 PM
Place: NOYC
Membership and Dues
• $20 annual membership – payable at the event by cash or check.
• Only members with their dues paid will be eligible to vote.
Election of Managers
The Operating Agreement of the organization provides:
“At an annual meeting of the Members, the Members, by plurality
vote of those present at the meeting, shall elect a board of
managers (to consist of no fewer than three, nor more than 13
individuals, with 9 as the optimum target number) all of whom are
Members of the company.”
Under the Operating Agreement, the managers then meet to elect, from among them, the
officers.
The annual election of managers will take place at this meeting.
Discussion and Adoption of “Harbor Restoration & Management Priorities”
CCBOA represents slip tenants in the City-owned harbor, managed by the Board of the
Municipal Yacht Harbor Management Corporation. It is in the interests of the slip tenants for the
CCBOA managers to work with the MYHMC Board toward goals and timetables the slip tenants
believe to be important and appropriate. For that to be done in a businesslike fashion – thus most
likely to achieve meaningful results – it will help for CCBOA to talk through those priorities,
adopt a slate of objectives and thereby arm the CCBOA managers with information that will help
them get their jobs done. Attached is a draft document titled “Harbor Restoration &
Management Priorities”. It will be discussed during the meeting. Should the Members approve,
that document, as amended during the meeting, will help guide the managers in their dealings
with the MYHMC Board and will be presented to the MYHMC Board.
Crescent City Boat Owners’ Association, LLC
HARBOR RESTORATION & MANAGEMENT PRIORITIES
March 29, 2007 Discussion Draft
1. Clear Storm Debris
We understand the LDEQ has let a contract to remove storm debris, including sunken and
destroyed boats, from the harbor. This item is included here for the sake of completeness.
2. Life Safety
It is clear that a substantial amount of rebuilding will be required with respect to the
docks and associated facilities. However, the harbor is presently in partial use and may
remain so during the course of such reconstruction and the planning time that elapses
before reconstruction commences. Accordingly, it is important to address life safety
issues promptly. They include:
a. Temporary fire protection water system available to firefighters near enough to
the docks.
b. Organized coordination with responsible fire stations.
c. Fire extinguishers in place.
d. Dock safety ladders checked and confirmed in place.
e. Fire boat back in service, with firefighters appropriately trained in its use and
available to man the boat within a reasonable time.
3. Restore Basic Services
a. Explore and pursue available funding sources, including funds that should be in
harbor accounts – see Section 5 below – and additional sources, that will be
necessary in order to fund reconstruction. Do so in an open public fashion and
seek public comment in a meaningful way.
b. Replace missing finger piers, pilings and other damaged and/or deteriorated
structures.
c. Power.
d. Water.
e. Guard services.
f. Lighting.
4. Slip Leases
a. Attempt to contact lessees to see whether they wish to continue with their lease
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b. Publish a clear decision as to the circumstances that must prevail before the
payment of rents will commence. Base it on completion of all items in Sections
1,2 & 3 above.
c. Publish a clear decision that slip leases in place at the time of Katrina will remain
in force, unless lessees affirmatively give them up, until 90 days after the rent
payment obligation recommences – lease renewal mechanics after that to be the
same as they were pre-Katrina.
d. Set in place a process for people to lease (i) “vacated” slips (see Section 4(a)
above; i.e., ones where lessees affirmatively advise that they want to give up their
leases) or (ii) slips that were vacant before Katrina. Such new leases would be
subject to the commencement of rent payments specified in Section 4(b) above,
linked to the payment of an appropriate rent deposit at the time the slip lease is
executed.
5. Finances
a. As already required, the City Council should conduct the annual independent
audit. As required, it should be done by an outside auditor that does not have a
conflict (i.e., does not perform or routinely seek work from the City).
b. A clear public accounting should be made promptly with respect to the $1.4
million that was in the Revolving Fund pre-Katrina.
c. As already required, there should be, as part of the required independent audit by
the City Council, a clear public accounting as to where the earnings on the
accounts have gone over the years since 1984.
d. Insure that:
(1) the money, in the future, actually goes into the separate bank
accounts that are required and is not intermixed with City funds and accounts,
(2) there be reliable financial reports to the MYHMC Board and the public on a monthly basis and
(3) a truly independent audit is done on an annual basis by the
City Council and made public.
6. Harbor Master
a. Hire one who has the qualifications needed.
b. Do so through a careful and transparent process.
c. Find an appropriate mechanism to obtain tenant input in the selection process.
7. Dredging
a. Evaluate options as to harbor dredging, including funding options, in a transparent
fashion that includes meaningful stakeholder input. This includes a full
exploration of the status of the pre-Katrina City bond issue that included funding
for such dredging.
b. After doing so, move forward expeditiously with getting the harbor dredged.
8. Strategic Plan
a. Develop a written Strategic Plan with input (in an orderly and meaningful way)
from the key stakeholders.
b. Get professional help in doing this properly – a professional facilitator.
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