Dock Rates Then and Now

Digging into my audio archive I stumbled upon the Dock Rate Discussion from last year.  Which you can listen to below.  Depending on ones perspective, you might either agree or disagree with Mr. Simpson.  I have my views on what the rates should be.  But some quietly believe that only downtown business owners should have a say in the rates.  Of course when they are confronted with that, they would say certainly NOT!



Just like last year, a Dock Rate Committee of about a 1/2 dozen people was formed.  The 2011 committee voted to keep the rates the same as last year.  The mayor wanted to ignore the committee's recommendation and  change the rates to go along with a letter that he read at the 5.10.11 VB meeting.  The audio can be heard below:





What is the sense of creating a committee if you are going to ignore their recommendations.  This last audio clip is a discussion of the dock rates from the last VB meeting.  The Board voted to adopt the committee's recommendations.  Even though the vote went unopposed, if you listen to the tail end of the audio it will become pretty clear that the vote was actually 4 votes for and 1 against the committees recommendations......




I hope that, what ever plan is adopted, is fair to all our guests and yields enough revenue to sustain our dock in the years to come....

Success or Failure?

Sometimes when someone wishes you good luck they mean it, while other times they hope you fail miserably.  Why?  Because that person did not get their way and the majority ruled, which is the way it is supposed to be.  Check out this short audio clip and see how you would rate the sincerity of the Good Luck. 1 being no sincerity and 10 being very sincere.

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Too Nice Out!

The Village Board meeting was last night.  Some interesting agenda items.... including Dock Fees and the infamous Riverwalk Project.  I will be posting audio of those items and maybe more.  But not today or tomorrow..... because it is just to damn nice out so I spent the whole day with my wife mulching the gardens.  Oh... forgot to mention.... it seems the Village is desperate for people to help out with the Zoning Board.  Extremely Desperate to even lower their standards and ask me if I was interested.  Reminded me of being picked last for teams at grade school gym class.  Bullies and Jocks were always the captains......

A-Bay is ALIVE! [video]

A couple of merchants weathered the winter.  But most have just reopened recently.  Alex Bay has come back to life for the 2011 season!  Like the old slogan said:

Meet Me In the Bay!

King of the Road

 A 1964 hit by Roger Miller.....

a "man of means by no means"...... I remember listening to this "45" on my sisters "HI FI" record player. The top to the player was detachable and housed the speaker. I know it is nothing like a MP3 player, but back then it was all we had.

This song was played last night by the Dawg Brothers featuring Pat Fitzsimmons [lead vocals] at the Dancing Dog in Alexandria Bay