||| FROM ALEX MACLEOD |||
OPEN LETTER TO SAN JUAN COUNTY COUNCIL
I trust you all saw this week’s WSF newsletter from Patty Rubstello. Along with making no mention of WSF’s mounting service failures, it touted the fact that Rubstello spent the past week in Santander, Spain, at an international ferry conference. Leaving the country when all hands should be on deck, and when, in fact, WSF doesn’t have an operations director, should tell you that it’s time to stop sitting on your hands and speak up.
Oh, but I see your Tuesday agenda has a discussion of “legislative advocacy for Washington State Ferries,” which is about as tone deaf as Rubstello’s trip to Spain. What about the here and now? What about the impacts to the county, its businesses and your constituents caused by this mess right now? Your own FAC chair says bad as this is getting, it’s only going to get worse? What can you do or say right now to try to make a difference? There will be a time for legislative advocacy, I’m sure, but that’s no solution for what your constituents are facing right now.
