Cape Charles Mirror Report
by Wayne Creed
The Cape Charles Town Council met on August 20th for a regular meeting, and to hold an Executive Session. The agenda for the meeting covered topics from the Cape Charles by the Bay website to the new breakwater that is planned to go in south of the existing structures.
Cape Charles by the Bay Website
Councilwoman Natali informed other members of Council that stakeholders had met earlier that week, and had batted around several options regarding what do about maintaining the current web site. With summer almost over, and the web site containing stale information that dates back to the spring, there does not appear to be too much urgency in finding a working solution. The main stakeholders involved in the process are the Cape Charles Business Association, Bed and Breakfast Association, Arts Enter, Citizens for Central Park, Cape Charles Yacht Center, and the Town of Cape Charles.
“We had a large open discussion and we discussed a lot of issues. We agreed time was of the essence and we need to move forward as quickly as possible because social media and the website are getting stale. We have a short term and long term solution we are working towards. We have a budget and we have money set aside for social media and we are in the process of putting together a memorandum of agreement. Once this is completed we will review it with all the stakeholders. They will either concur and we will move forward or we will make any adjustments that are necessary,” Natali said.
It should be noted that this ‘stakeholder’ meeting was not announced or publicized, and essentially took place privately, behind closed doors. There was no information provided as to where the money for the so-called ‘budget’ for this project was going to come from.