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Now that may change in the future too, so keep an eye on the Supreme Court and Congress and make sure that if you listen to this far in the future, that's still the the way things are.

But basically for tribal nations and enterprises, it's double-edged sword, right? You've got federal agencies like BAA or Army Corps Engineers.

They can't invent their own kind of rules that might be ambiguous and shortchange tribal rights in whatever ways.

If that was a concern of tribes, because the courts are going to be independently reviewing the statutory language.

Thank you, Ms. Funiti.

So the Army Corps of Engineers feasibility study puts the proposed harbor expansion project or harbor expansion at about $492 million.

The council endorsed alternative two in April.

Any local contribution would need separate council approval after the Corps' final report.

So my question is, what role should the city of Homer play in paying for the harbor expansion, and where should that money come from? And we'll start with Mr.

Bullard with a minute and a half.

And these people are looking at the CIP list, and they talk to us continually.

How can we better present this? We send members of our council to Washington, D.C., and to Juneau, to speak to the politicians that would be leading the committees that would be in charge of the funding for this, and we support our lobbyists.

Our national parks getting busier and busier.

And for me, there's a really clear line between there used to be a time when we would decide 24 hours in advance, where do we want to go next? And we would just get on, you know, rec.gov and we would look at the nearest, maybe Army Corps of Engineers campground.

And the abundance of availability would be, you know, it might not be the exact site we wanted, but we would still be able to make something work 24 hours in advance.

And whether or not that's returning, and it could be, I still think we all are afraid or, you know, don't want to plan a whole trip around whether or not we can go somewhere and then 24 hours later go somewhere else.

And unfortunately, I don't know that there's a good answer other than the fact that It's the federal government.

There are parts of me that are pro-government for many things, and I think there are elements of the government that does a really good job at managing some campgrounds.

Army Corps of Engineers, for example, do a fantastic job.

However, it's just such a massive undertaking that I think there are often lots of failures uh that happened with it but we have noticed that too that there have been there have been changes to the to the site lengths that we've seen out there and what's allowed in certain campgrounds and not for the better um and without really any actual changes happening to that specific campground

I'm sure they had a reason.

I know the suspension bridge was originally built by the Army Corps of Engineers.

Don't ask me the date.

But one night I was walking from the mess hall, or well, from the health lodge where we had taken showers because there was a problem with the shower at the campsite.

In 1900-1901, Colonel Samuel H.

Young, a U.S. Army engineer and a keen student of Jamestown history, uncovered and capped these foundations after building the original seawall a strange discovery was made here in nineteen fifty five while the foundations were being examined by archaeologists for measured drawings tests showed that no less than seventy human burials lay beneath the state-house walls and an estimated two hundred more remain undisturbed beneath the remaining structures or have been lost in the james river Here may be the earliest cemetery yet revealed at Jamestown, one so old that it was forgotten by the 1660s, when the third State House was erected.

It is indeed quite possible that these burials, some hastily interred without coffins, could date from the starving time of 1609 to 1610, when the settlers strove to dispose of their dead without disclosing their desperate condition to the Indians.

here is inserted an illustration entitled jamestown exploration trenches of nineteen fifty five from the air landmarks of the old cypress in the river upper left the tercentenary monument and the standing ruin of the eighteenth century ambler house The highlight of archaeological discoveries at Jamestown is undoubtedly the long-forgotten buildings themselves, ranging from mansions to simple cottages.

We're doing 1224.

I'm going to go to Canal Park, Brad, Army Corps of Engineers, 43 current temp, light wind out of the east.

And like we've been saying, there's going to be some rain moving in late tonight.

And then after midnight, we're going to see the bulk of the rain into tomorrow morning.

Is there like a longer takeover time period or how do you actually get into the business of the business once closing has actually occurred?

yeah well i'd actually say we have to back up even a step before the closing because all the marinas are there's some sort of regulatory body that governs them whether it's the army corps of engineers or the coast guard and so in those cases we do have some lead time as far as getting that transaction actually approved could be three months on the low end could be you know six to nine months on the high end um so whatever we can do to prepare for expansion and transition ahead of time we're doing that while we wait to close and then when we close our team will go on we keep the employees on staff.

And so then we're going to go in and transition over to different software systems, which because there's, you know, six, seven, eight revenue streams and different silos of the business, it does require more of a full technology stack.

And so we'll go in and get the employees up to speed and get everything shifted over to our software systems.

So her neighbor is this elderly guy and she said that he is a retired park ranger.

He worked for the Army Corps of Engineers forever and spent the majority of his career patrolling federal land in campgrounds.

He described him as basically being a straight shooter, like he would roll his eyes anytime someone talked about Bigfoot or ghost stories or anything like that, which is why what he told her sort of stuck with her.

But a few years ago, she was out in her backyard and she said they live on a small lake in Kentucky she had some friends over they had a little fire going and her neighbor came over and she was on like a casual acquaintance basis with him and he pulled up a chair and he was sitting with them for a little while and the topic got on to like ghost stories and things that go bump in the night and so she asked him like hey have you ever seen anything that genuinely scared you when you were working as a park ranger and he was like yeah of course I have He was fully expecting him to tell her a story that was based in reality, like about a creepy person he's maybe encountered in the woods.