Thanks for this important article on the Port of Olympia lease with Panattoni Corporation, bottling the "Coke product", contractor Swire.
This is a Panattoni Corporation contract; a world wide corporation that has tremendous power and money.
Port Commissioner Amy Evans works for Panattoni Corporation. She has worked for them for years!
This is a conflict of interest.
She should not be allowed to vote on this, by law. She must recluse herself from this vote on DEC. 12. Public comment
is needed. We must not allow this to go forward.
This lease of Port land to Panattoni (Coke/Cola ) is a give away of public lands for 75 years.
This is similar to Thurston County tax-payers, subsidizing with their tax money, to have our forests shipped to Asia
by the Weyerhaeuser Corporation. Our WA. forests are being clear cut. The logs are not made into lumber in the USA. The logs are all shipped through the Port of OLympia to Asia. Weyerhaeuser (WEYCO) does not make a profit for the Port, tax payers pay for the marine terminal that WEYCO uses to make a profit for themselves. The Port of Olympia is giving away public property (rental lands) to corporations. The Port Commissioners know that the marine terminal loses money each year. They do not care. They just want to borrow more and more money in bonds, and have the tax payer holding the bag in a few years to pay it all off. We must use public comment on the Port zoom meetings Mondays at 5:30pm to educate people here in Thurston County.
The Port of Olympia does not care about the public good, they care about corporations supporting them (the jobs are low wage, this helps no one).
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