Harbormaster

CA Maritime Infrastructure Bank/Authority

May 16, 2012

Travel Authorization for GM to attend CMIB/A So-Cal Seminar

Meeting Minutes,  Item 13  

Peter Grenell, Harbor District General Manager told the board of Harbor Commissioners that he is an "active member of the association, and part of the presentation at the seminar."  

Note: President and Chair of the CMIB/A would have been a more accurate description.

CMIB/A So-Cal Seminar travel arrangements made by Harbor District staff

CMIB/A Seminar reimbursements to Peter Grenell

May 24, 2012

Peter Grenell's memo to Commissioners

Note: This memo was not included in a board packet. It was obtained via a Aug. 26, 2014 Public Records Act request by Commissioner Brennan.

Peter-Grenell-Harbor-District-Memo-CMIB/A-Commissioner

Aug. 15, 2012

Harbor District $25 Million Bond Resolution No. 17-12

Harbor Commissioners approved issuing $25,000,000. in tax-exempt Bond obligations at the Aug. 15, 2012 board meeting held in South San Francisco. 

Aug. 15, 2012 SMCHD Board Packet Memo, Item 7

Aug. 15, 2012 SMCHD Meeting Minutes, Item 7

Public Comment by Sabrina Brennan, Aug. 15, 2012—before Brennan was elected:

Aug. 26, 2014

Commissioner Brennan's PRA Request

  1. By Laws of the CA Maritime Infrastructure Authority
  2. PRA Request Documents
  3. Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement Creating the CMIA
  4. PRA Request Documents
  5. PRA Request Documents
  6. PRA Request Documents
  7. PRA Request Documents
  8. PRA Request Documents * website & graphic design request
  9. PRA Request Documents
  10. PRA Request Documents
  11. PRA Request Documents
  12. PRA Request Documents
  13. PRA Request Documents
  14. PRA Request Documents *
  15. PRA Request Documents
  16. PRA Request Documents
  17. PRA Request Documents * Harbormaster interview committee email
  18. PRA Request Documents * Grenell's memo to Timi Vann, NOAA West Coordinator about PPH development plans
  19. Harbor and Navigations Code
  20. Weist Law Firm Inquiry Analysis and Proposal
  21. CMIA and Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District
  22. PRA Request Documents * Meeting Minutes: Jan. 11, 2012 & email from Genevieve Frederick
  23. Financing Port and Marina Infrastructure Powerpoint 2012
  24. PRA Request Documents
  25. PRA Request Documents
  26. PRA Request Documents * Meeting Minutes: June 27, 2012 & Dec. 14, 2011
  27. PRA Request Documents * David Hull's Consultant Agreement Dec. 19, 2012
  28. PRA Request Documents
  29. PRA Request Documents
  30. PRA Request Documents * CMIB/A San Francisco Seminar & Grenell's May 24, 2012 memo to Harbor Commissioners about the CMIB/A SF Seminar
  31. PRA Request Documents * Grenell's email to Charchenko about PPH building planned for Parking Lot B and Perched Beach project & Audit email: Sept. 21, 2012
  32. PRA Request Documents * Meeting Minutes: May 23, 2013, Oct. 3, 2013, Dec. 5, 2013, Jan. 9, 2014
  33. PRA Request Documents * Meeting Minutes: Nov. 17, 2011, March 9, 2009, Aug. 18, 2006, June, 19, 2000, April 28, 1999, May, 14, 1998, Aug. 21, 1997, Feb. 20, 1996, Dec. 18, 1996, Nov. 28, 1995
  34. PRA Request Documents
  35. PRA Request Documents
  36. PRA Request Documents
  37. PRA Request Documents * Meeting Minutes: Dec. 19, 2012
  38. PRA Request Documents
  39. PRA Request Documents * CA Gov Code Section 6500-6536 & emails
  40. PRA Request Documents
  41. PRA Request Documents
  42. PRA Request Documents

Harbor signs new contract with divisive manager

Half Moon Bay Review  .  Mark Noack  .  June 18, 2014

Harbor District scraps security system

The Harbor Commission unanimously scrapped a $16,000 surveillance system purchased in 2004 at the Aug. 1, 2012 meeting.

The Half Moon Bay Review reported the following:

Pillar Point Harbor has experienced a rash of property crimes in recent months, but officials decided last week the area’s network of security cameras should be taken down and sold.

The $16,000 surveillance system was purchased in 2004 specifically to make the harbor a safer place, but San Mateo County Harbor District officials say the cameras failed years ago. A lack of maintenance and other problems left the four cameras inoperable, but the harbor manager left them mounted throughout the harbor based on the logic that criminals might think twice if they believed someone was watching them.

The purpose of the cameras was thrown into question last year after the crab boat “Tonita” sank in what some believed an act of sabotage. No one was arrested for the crime.

If the security cameras were working they could have caught the person responsible for the loss of his boat, said Tonita owner Chris Eatinger. He said the harbor district is drawing the wrong lesson from the incident and should fix the cameras.

“It would have been an open-and-shut case,” he said. “I’m discouraged to hear that they’re taking the cameras down. I think they ought to go the other way and fix them.”

The staff report also blames Santa Cruz-based Stagecoach Wireless, the vendor of the security system, for letting the cameras deteriorate and break down.

Still others say that blame is misplaced. Former San Mateo County Harbormaster Dan Temko, who originally recommended installing the cameras, said the security system worked perfectly until the harbor district severed its maintenance contract with Stagecoach Wireless. Harbor District General Manager Peter Grenell instead gave that job to the contract technician who handled its other information-technology work, and the cameras soon began malfunctioning, Temko said.

“I don’t know what Peter had against Stagecoach; the guy did a good job,” Temko said. “It was downhill ever since they left. The cameras would work, then they’d go down, and the service was not as good.”

Grenell was on vacation and could not be reached for comment.

Stagecoach owner Beat Naef said he began to suspect while working at Pillar Point Harbor that district officials were playing favorites with their own contract technicians. He believes he was ousted after the other, unnamed, IT firm began “playing dirty tricks” by not sharing their remote access logins and badmouthing him behind his back.

“Their consultant was only interested in pushing me out of the business,” Naef said. “They felt like I was stepping on their toes and there was animosity on top of that.”

After his service contract ended, Naef said he received occasional calls from the harbor district’s IT contractor asking for support on how his camera system worked. He refused to help.

The cameras began to fail about two years after they were first installed. The harbor district now plans to sell the cameras to recoup as much as possible.

Naef estimated the cameras would fetch no more than $100 each.

By Mark Noack | Thursday, August 16, 2012