_{Thumbnail photo: Harbor commissioners met the firms hoping to provide project management during the reconstruction of Citizens Dock and replacement of its adjacent seawall. | Photo by Jessica Cejnar Andrews}

Harbor commissioners met two of the three firms that have offered to fill the project manager role in the rebuild of Citizens Dock and its adjacent seawall.

It’s another step toward construction for the U.S. Maritime Administration-funded project. But, while the project management services fee will be paid for with grant dollars, the firms’ proposals exceed the $250,000 to $350,000 that was originally budgeted for the position. 

However, that budgeted amount wasn’t included in the original request for proposals, Community System Solutions CEO Mike Bahr told commissioners Wednesday.

“We wanted to see what the proposers would propose for what they believed the scope of work for the project manager would be and what those costs would be,” he said.

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Crescent City Harbor commissioners were lukewarm about their CEO’s offer to travel to Washington D.C. on his own dime to advocate for the district’s role in the Trump administration’s Maritime Action Plan.

Harbormaster Mike Rademaker said he planned to speak with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, whose father, Michael Greer, is a Del Norte Unified School District trustee. 

Rademaker said he wanted to talk about the role the Crescent City Harbor District could play in President Trump’s initiative to expand shipbuilding capacity in the United States with the former Fashion Blacksmith boatyard being a particular concern.