[CPEO-IRF] Port of Corpus Christi hires consultant for Ingleside (TX)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Rights to Naval Station Ingleside: Officials tap adviser

Commissioners OK $17.5K/month deal with consulting firm

By Alison Beshur
Corpus Christi Caller-Times (TX)
October 12, 2005


To protect the port's reversionary rights to Naval Station Ingleside and 
get the best deal out of base closures, Port of Corpus Christi 
commissioners approved a yearlong, $17,500-a-month consultant agreement 
with The Rhoads Group.

In 1987, the port deeded the property to the U.S. Department of Defense 
to build the naval station and the port has first reversionary rights 
should the federal agency no longer need the land for maritime purposes.

"This process, as I've learned in the past 30 to 60 days, is going to be 
slow, difficult and complicated," said port executive director John 
LaRue. "Both the House and the Senate are considering language that 
would modify that reversion and we need to stay vigilant that those 
modifications stay in place."

The Rhoads Group is a government relation firm headed by Barry Rhoads, a 
former deputy general counsel to the 1991 BRAC Commission.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.caller.com/ccct/local_news/article/0,1641,CCCT_811_4151776,00.html

--
Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
_______________________________________________
Installation_Reuse_Forum mailing list
Installation_Reuse_Forum@list.cpeo.org
http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/installation_reuse_forum