January 28, 2003

Citizens Concerned About The Port of Galveston
by Jim Guidry

Citizens Concerned about the Port of Galveston met this week at Rosenberg Library to begin a "grass roots effort" to improve the port.

"It is this committee's desire to solicit the various island neighborhood associations in a coordinated effort to nominate and support qualified candidates for appointment to the Galveston Wharves Board of Trustees," said George Black, noting that two positions come up for appointment this year. 

"Nearly a year ago the voters defeated a move to give our assets to the Port of Houston," Black recalled.  "We are now saying that we want to know the possibilities for its next use."

Black says only he or Greg Roof are spokesmen for the group.

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