Viewpoints
S881 Sealaska Lands Bill:
Port Protection & Point Baker
By Judy Magnuson
March 12, 2010
Friday
Port Protection and Point Baker residents deserved the common
courtesy of notification that their meeting was canceled. Residents
of both communities kept calling to ask - has it been canceled?
And the answer was always the same- no word yet. Finally, with
no notification to the contrary and needing a half hour to travel
from Point Baker across the open Bay to Port Protection, and
not wanting to miss the only opportunity to be heard we have
had , people came. We were never notified by Mr. Kleeshulte
that he was not coming until 5 minutes AFTER the time the meeting
was to start. Even though he must have known in advance of that
he would not make it.
We were never given a means
of contacting him to reschedule a new meeting. These are not
the unbiased hearings that we as concerned Southeast residents
have asked for. These meetings are nothing more than just Sealaska
PR meetings with a Bill S881 supporter from the minority side
of the resource committee thrown in to legitimize them. They
are still pushing the Sealaska agenda and all communities should
complain. We deserve real dialogue with the Senate Natural Resource
Committee. We the people of Southeast Alaska deserve more and
at the least common courtesy from these representatives.
Judy Magnuson
Port Protection Community Association
Port Protection , AK
About: "Secretary Port
Protection Community Association"
Received March 12, 2009 - Published
March 12, 2010
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