PORT ANGELES — A resolution supporting the relocation of a restored Kalakala ferry to the city’s waterfront without financial obligation to the city will be presented to the City Council at its April 20 meeting.
The council’s community and economic development committee drafted the resolution April 9 after Kalakala owner Steve Rodrigues and his supporters asked for the council’s endorsement three days earlier.
The committee includes Mayor Richard Headrick, Councilwoman Karen Rogers and Councilman Larry Williams.
Rogers said the recommendation was made because the restored vessel could help the city’s tourism economy.
But the resolution is based on the city incurring no liability and contributing no money, she said.
The committee’s action was simply a recommendation, Rogers stressed, and the full council still must decide what to do with the offer to return to Port Angeles Harbor the 1935 art deco ferry that made the Port Angeles-Victoria run in the 1950s.
Before that incarnation, Kalakala was a Great Depression and World War II-era symbol in Seattle of progress and ingenuity.
