[CPEO-MEF] Whidbey Island (WA) buffer - funds at risk

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy partly funds Boyer buy


By Paul Boring
Whidbey News-Times
March 28, 2007

A pall of uncertainty accompanied Island County Commissioner Mac 
McDowell and Oak Harbor Mayor Patty Cohen on their recent trip to 
Washington, D.C. for their annual meeting with military brass.

In a further effort to prevent encroachment on Whidbey Island Naval Air 
Station, the city and county have partnered with the Navy and the state 
to acquire an approximately 18-acre piece of property located north of 
Oak Harbor in the “accident potential zone” beyond the runway. The 
county has already signed the purchase agreement, contingent on 
financing. The two elected officials wanted to make sure the deal was 
still going through.

Days before departure, McDowell received an ominous e-mail from his Navy 
contact saying that the money budgeted to help U.S. bases stave off 
encroachment was in danger of disappearing.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.whidbeynewstimes.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=84&cat=23&id=862470&more=

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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