Quote:
Originally Posted by BroadHopper
The Marine Patrol will be eliminating the inspections at town docks. The MP staff is reduced by 20% due to budget cuts.
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...but the Marine Patrol
Auxiliary consists of volunteers:
members get a free hat! 
They were putting more eyes
and ears on the water and assisting—where Director Barrett
permitted them to assist.
Why cut them back,
even more? The
MP Auxiliary did inspections without
agenda. 
Tuesday, I watched as a
regular NHMP patrol boat took about one hour to arrange his towing of a log from a beach at Storytelling Rock. He disappeared with the log, out of sight—one example for the
MP Auxiliary to gladly handle such a task—
instead 