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- ~ I Beach Shoreline Marina and Rainbow Harbor Marina, together offering more than 3000 slips. The Long Beach parks and recreation department that oversees the marinas is counseled and advised by a very active eleven-member commission that meets at least once each month and is a hands-on group that makes operating decisions. The City staffs the commission and pays its operating expenses. It should be noted that the City of Long Beach takes in a great deal of money from the oil wells that are drilled on City property, and this money is available for the marina operation. There appears to be no common pattern in foreign countries, except those with acknowledged socialist governments all maintained and operated their facilities totally by the central government, even when administrators were located on site. The free market countries appeared to have a mix of local government and local government-audited private operations. Of the three modes of management and operation used: central government operated, county or municipally operated and all private with government oversight, the all private with government oversight was viewed by most of the user-representatives as the most successful and satisfactory (with exceptions such as the Long Beach marinas). Where government was the sole operator, whether central or local, most user~representatives seemed somewhat dissatisfied, as the user fees were kept low, but were inadequate for long-term maintenance and capital outlay, and the government was generally loath to add general fund monies. (Again, cities like Long Beach were exceptions.) In cases where the local government leased out some facilities with operating agreements and kept some operations under local government control, but with strong advisory commissions, everyone seemed satisfied with all aspects of the operation. Conclusions: 1) State level maintenance and operation is not a desirable mode. The state tends to be too remote and interested in other priorities; 2) Either municipal maintenance and operation where funding is adequate, with a strong advisory commission, or a privately maintained operation pursuant to a lease(s) and an operation agreement(s), coupled with an advisory committee, are modes that users/stakeholder almost universally state are best suited to meet the needs of both the recreational boater and the commercial operator. We would be pleased to respond to any questions that you may have. Cc: Noelani Whittington Jane Bockus 2