RE: Harbor Plan

<BODY BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" LINK="#FFFFFF" ALINK="#000400" VLINK="#FFFFFF"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#CC3300" FACE="Arial" ><B>WELCOME TO A CONCORDIAN WORLD</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFCC99" FACE="Arial" >   </FONT> |   <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="WELCOME TO A CONCORDIAN WORLD"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id38.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gathering Signatures at Sidewalk Bazaar"><U>Gathering Signatures at Sidewalk Bazaar</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SCSS Conference"><U>SCSS Conference</U></A>   |   <B>RE: Harbor Plan</B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="04558020.png" border=0 width="600" height="2" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> RE: Harbor Plan</div> <div> RE: Harbor Plan Workshop, Gloucester City Hall, March 25, 2008</div> <bR> <div> The Honorable Mayor Carolyn Kirk</div> <div> The Honorable City Council President Bruce Tobey</div> <div> Mr. <A HREF="mailto:gcademartori@ci.gloucester.ma.us" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:gcademartori@ci.gloucester.ma.us"><U>Gregg M. Cademartori</U></A><B>,</B> Planning Director, and Members of the Planning Board</div> <bR> <div> Thank you for organizing this important workshop on “The Future of the Harbor.” I am especially pleased because you have shifted the attention from a narrow focus on zoning to planning-and, as you know, I believe you still have to include the whole of downtown to succeed in your intent to make our community fiscally, socially, and esthetically vibrant. It is with this aim that I would like to bring to your attention the outline of a Plan for Fisheries Renewal that, with the help of many people-notably the Board of Directors of the Gloucester Community Development Corporation (Gloucester CDC)-over the years, in a variety of forms, I have gradually developed and individually discussed with many of you present at this workshop tonight and with many other civic leaders. I have presented parts of this plan to the City Community Development Department, Judge Gladys Kessler of the U.S. District Court in Washington, DC, the New England Fisheries Management Council. I have also presented it to the general public via interviews with the local and regional press as well as many articles in the <I>Gloucester Daily Times</I>. Here is the supporting documentation:</div> <bR> <div> A paper entitled  <A NAME="fisheries_renewal"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>“<IMG SRC="0b901010.png" border=0 width="1" height="1" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Fisheries Renewal: A Renewal of the Soul of Business”, which I wrote for the <I>Catholic Social Science Review</I> of 1997, is available at <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.carmine-gorga.us/id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.carmine-gorga.us/id34.htm"><U><U>http://www.carmine-gorga.us/id34.htm</U></U></A></FONT>.</div> <bR> <div> The Final Report for the “Pelagic Fish Economic Development Project”<B> </B>presented to the City Department of Community Development and to EDA in 2001 is available at <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.gloucestercdc.org/id59.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.gloucestercdc.org/id59.htm"><U><U>http://www.gloucestercdc.org/id59.htm</U></U></A></FONT>.</div> <bR> <div> The financial and natural resources aspects of this study were carried forward by members of the System Dynamics Analysis graduate program at MIT. Dr. Peter Otto and Jeroen Struben published part of this study in the prestigious <I>System Dynamics Review</I> (Winter 2004); the rest of the plan is available from Dr. Otto. </div> <bR> <div> Enclosed is a copy of a letter to Judge Kessler and a letter to Thomas Hill.</div> <bR> <div> Many of the interviews and media articles are reprinted at http://www.gloucestercdc.org/id89.htm" <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><U>http://www.gloucestercdc.org/id89.htm</U></FONT>. The latest articles that I have published in the GDT are available at <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.gloucestertimes.com/archivesearch" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.gloucestertimes.com/archivese"><U><U>http://www.gloucestertimes.com/archivesearch</U></U></A></FONT>.</div> <bR> <div> A survey organized with David S. Wise and signed by 425 people in three days during the last summer is posted at <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.polis-tics.com/id38.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.polis-tics.com/id38.htm"><U><U>http://www.polis-tics.com/id38.htm</U></U></A></FONT> and is currently being analyzed by our City Clerk to see whether it qualifies as an official petition to the Mayor and the City.  </div> <bR> <div> Where is the money to implement any aspect of the proposed plan? you may ask. The money can be found right here in Gloucester, as outlined at <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.polis-tics.com/id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.polis-tics.com/id23.htm"><U><U>http://www.polis-tics.com/id23.htm</U></U></A></FONT>, if ever we get organized. The money can be found at the Federal Reserve System in Boston, as outlined at <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.carmine-gorga.us/id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.carmine-gorga.us/id34.htm"><U><U>http://www.carmine-gorga.us/id34.htm</U></U></A></FONT> and http://www.polis-tics.com/id19.htm" <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><U>http://www.polis-tics.com/id19.htm</U></FONT>, if we ever transform Gloucester into a unified community. (As can be seen at <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/minnesota-bank-proposal.php" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/minnes"><U><U>http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/minnesota-bank-proposal.php</U></U></A></FONT>, other communities are much ahead of us in this endeavor.) Scattered in a multitude of programs, the most important of which currently is the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.cdfifund.gov/what_we_do/programs_id.asp?programID=5" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.cdfifund.gov/what_we_do/progr"><U><U>New Markets Tax Credit</U></U></A></FONT> (NMTC) program, the money can also be found in Washington, DC, if you go there as elected and appointed officials with a single-minded purpose and with the community strongly supporting you. </div> <bR> <div> It has been a great honor to be here with you tonight. Thank you for allowing me this opportunity to talk with you. I trust that in the days ahead you will give your full attention to the many facets of the plan for fisheries renewal which I have been privileged to outline for you tonight.</div> <bR> <div> Sincerely yours</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Carmine Gorga</div> <div> President</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0c064180.png" border=0 width="612" height="792" ALT="Adobe Acrobat Document" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> </BODY>