Granite Shoals council rejects resident boat launch fees

By Lew K. Cohn
Managing Editor

A majority of Granite Shoals City Council members balked Tuesday night at the idea of charging residents a fee to launch their boats from city-owned boat ramps.

The council instead directed City Manager Jeff Looney to redraft a proposed ordinance to remove any reference to charging residents boat launch fees and to make several “technical corrections” before bringing the ordinance back to the council in a “simpler” form for passage at their Aug. 27 meeting.

The Parks Committee had forwarded the ordinance to the council after reviewing it at their meeting earlier this month. The proposed ordinance had called for charging anyone a $10 fee per day to launch boats or watercraft from a city-owned ramp, but also contained provisions for an annual pass which would cost residents $20 per year and nonresidents $200 per year . . . .

Read the rest of this story in the Friday, Aug. 16 issue of The Highlander, the newspaper of record for the Highland Lakes. To offer a comment or news tip, email connie@highlandernews.com.