Avalon City Council approved reimbursing the city with the grant money from California’s Surrendered and Abandoned Vessel Exchange (SAVE) program at their Sept. 19 meeting just prior to the grant expiring on Sept. 30.
The city applied and was awarded a $32,400 SAVE grant in October 2015. Funding from the grant is used to reimburse the city for any costs of removing relinquished or derelict boats from its harbor within a two year period.
Avalon City Council agreed in June to redistribute $10,613 of the grant to the city of Santa Barbara Waterfront Department through the funds assist program, since Avalon was not in need of using all the money.
The remaining grant money ($21,787) was set to expire at the end of September.
City of Avalon provided Richardson Bay Marina’s abandoned vessel program with $6,787 when the marina asked for assistance.
The remaining funds were used to remove a vessel from Avalon’s own harbor.
“Last hour, we were able to get the owner of Duet to sign off his boat for disposal,” JJ Poindexter, interim harbormaster for Avalon, said. “He and his wife were on the boat in 2014 when we had that bad storm. They survived.”
Duet had made it through a couple bad storms...
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