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<br /> no cheap deal — a high-use, according to Doris Tyler, who ing would be unnecessary," er.There's no one monitoring Di
<br /> county-owned ramp just off has been selling boats and said Heyers. "There are some the ramp and no fine for power merr`
<br /> Minnesota 96 on White Bear is trailers at Hallberg Marine in people who need to take a loading— Sather hopes folks erati
<br /> costing" close to $20,000 to Wyoming for more than course on loading their boat." will just abide by the "No two
<br /> replace. 30 years. Heyers said he launches his Power Loading"signs. hilrL
<br /> "We recognize it would be a Instead of being outfitted own 28-foot powerboat every "We're not doing it because
<br /> big battle to ban power load- with rows of rollers that made weekend at Hub's Landing in we like to regulate," Sather
<br /> ing,"said Nancy Stewart,coor- it easy to crank on a boat— Hastings — a no power-load- said.`But if they keep doing it, Co
<br /> dinator for the DNR's public but sometimes difficult to align Ing ramp on the Mississippi the few people who can get
<br /> water access. `But it's that correctly — bunk trailers River. their boats on now might not Vli
<br /> really heavy-on-the-throttle make it easy to align but, for "On many a Sunday night, be able to later." D*,
<br /> i action that churns a lot of inexperienced boaters, more you'll see me down there clip- �"'
<br /> material and does a lot of dam- difficult to trailer. ping and cranking,"said Moni- John Brewer can be reached
<br /> age m no time." The problem comes when ca Frazer, who owns Hub's 651228 2093, d�
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<br /> 5 BY THE NUMBERS ��) � � significant transit goals. � P o"
<br /> v "I'm not anti-transit, I just
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<br /> Transit `1 .. � want to be sure wehaveaclear
<br /> $85M $85M understanding of what it's
<br /> *.;-going to take to pay for it,"he
<br /> t
<br /> receipts from the transit receipts expected from the `Baid.,3
<br /> i Instead of getting 1 percent of r now,he has no plans to
<br /> sales tax,2009 transit sales tax 2010
<br /> t the funds as they are getting call for the county to back out
<br /> thisear, the will get 3 per- of the transit tax ment. .
<br /> cent each year through 2013. He said he'll wait too see what
<br /> The first six months' pro- $950K $25m ` happens in 2011.
<br /> seeds from the tax, which has "The big thing with me is the
<br /> been collected since July 2008, Washington County's share Washington County's share `''financial capacity of the quar-
<br /> went to the Metropolitan Coun- ter-cent(tax),"Kriesel said."If
<br /> cil and metro-wide projects. that's not going to be sufficient,
<br /> Commissioner Lisa Weik County staff members are metro transportation system. are they going to expand the
<br /> said when running for the working on proposals for "(The regional system) revenue base by bringing
<br /> county board last fall that she spending the 2010 money. serves not only our county but more counties in? Because if
<br /> opl,:sed the transit tax and Nothing is certain, but there the people who are coming they have to raise the sales tax,
<br /> would work to get Washington are hopes to expand transit into or through our county," I'm not going to be supportive
<br /> County out of it options in the Interstate 94 cor- Peterson said. "We need to of that."
<br /> The 3 percent return, she ridor, extend Central Corridor address the fact that we're a
<br /> said this week,"keeps us at the light rail to Woodbury, and transition county and give eiti- Elizabeth Mohr can be reached at
<br /> table"but isn't a guarantee the pursue high-speed rail from zens the opportunity to use 651-228-5162.
<br /> county will stay in the game. the Twin Cities to Chicago via mass transit instead of build-
<br /> "Everything is so fluid," the Red Rock Corridor, which ing highways."
<br /> Weik said."Every time you go would parallel parts of U.S.61. Commissioner Gary Kriesel, ;
<br /> to a (CTIB)meeting,the wish Dennis Hegberg and Myra who voted against the tax,said
<br /> list of projects (from other Peterson are the two commis- he did so because he wanted
<br /> counties)is growing....Where sioners who have supported more information. He's
<br /> does this leave Washington the transit tax from the start. pleased the county will get
<br /> County? The return on our Peterson said proceeds from more back this year than orig-
<br /> investment appears to be the transit tax allow the coup- inally anticipated but isn't con- {
<br /> improving,but I still have a lot ty to plan for its own-growing vinced the tax will bring in
<br /> of the same questions I had a population and its role in the enough money to meet f
<br /> year ago."
<br /> Commissioner Bill
<br /> Pulkrabek, who voted,against
<br /> the tax in April 2008, says the
<br /> county's pull improved only
<br /> I CONCRETE
<br /> slightly,"from a worse deal to
<br /> a bad deal." Save 50% or More of Replacement Costs
<br /> "Washington are
<br /> putting
<br /> county resi-
<br /> dents
<br /> ore Commercial • Residential • Industrial
<br /> dents are putting in more
<br /> t
<br /> money than we're getting Apartment Complex * Sidewalk * Patio
<br /> back,"Pulkrabek said"It's bet-
<br /> ter,but I'm still opposed to it" o Driveway Garage Floor Etc.
<br /> The county's initial is being
<br /> Call for Free Estimates Insured BBB Natiattat
<br /> from the transit fund is being „� -
<br /> used to subsidize commuter �. Recyctfng I
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<br /> buses from Forest Lake to
<br /> St. Paul and Minneapolis and ., *. 1: . ,9�,7raeetemu,Hu9p 175
<br /> to study the Interstate 94 , t # i
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<br /> corridor. Servingthe Metro for over ,
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