(BLP) BOATER LIAISON PROGRAM

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DPBA Boater Liaison Program offers boaters and other Dana Point Harbor community members a forum to ask questions, express their views, share ideas, and make suggestions to the various agencies that manage our harbor and oversee its operations. Your Boaters Association leadership collects information submitted via our boater liaison submission form, then routinely presents your questions, ideas, concerns, and suggestions to the appropriate harbor agency for their consideration and response. Our routine “boater liaison” will include DPBA leadership, Supervisor Katrina Foley, Dana Point Harbor Advisory Committee, Dana  Point Harbor Partners (DPHP), Orange County Parks (OC Parks), the Marina Operator (The Marina at Dana Point, Embarcadero), and Dana  Point Harbor Patrol (OC Sheriff’s Dept.), and may include additional stakeholders as appropriate based on the issues submitted to our website. We will press these agencies to provide specific and meaningful responses to the issues presented at our boater liaison meetings; these responses will be communicated by DPBA directly back to the users who submit the issues. In some cases, when multiple boaters raise a specific issue or have value and relevance to the broader Dana Point boating community, we will post the issues and responses to our website and in our “boater blast” newsletters.

How does it work? Using our  Boater Liaison Submission Form,  provide us with your contact information and which agency you want us to raise your issue, and then describe your issue. You may choose to  “remain anonymous,” so we will not include your identifying information when presenting boater issues to the harbor agencies; DPBA  will contact you directly with their response. Allowing us to include your contact information will permit the appropriate agency to work directly with you to respond to your issue; please know that DPBA will never disclose your identifying information beyond these private advocacy meetings. DPBA leadership will collect, organize, and review the submissions, then present them in our report to the harbor agencies for their response. DPBA will then contact each submitter directly with the response or, in some cases, present the issues and responses in our boater blasts and website.

What can I ask? Anything you want, so long as it pertains to Dana Point Harbor. You can report issues specific to your slip, for example. Ask questions about the Harbor Revitalization  Project. Make suggestions to the marina operators or harbor patrol. We only ask that all submissions remain courteous and respectful; this program is about improving communications among Harbor stakeholders –  it’s not a forum to inflame or attack. Inappropriate submissions will be disregarded.

Of course, we can’t guarantee a satisfactory resolution to every issue. But your Dana Point Boaters Association is committed to advocating for our boating community. It will work diligently with the harbor agencies to get thoughtful and meaningful responses to your issues. Orange County Dana Point Harbor and the marina operators have expressed their cooperation and commitment to making this a successful program.

 If you have any questions or comments about the new Boaters  Liaison Program, please do not hesitate to email the Board of  Directors at Boater Liaison Program.

Our Thanks,
     Your DPBA Board of Directors