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Willin'
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Our friend Bill Phillips (RIP) somehow got permission to strip the teak deck planks off a Navy ship mothballed in Long Beach in the 1960s. He used those planks to do a backyard build of this William Atkin design he named Endurance...
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He made an awesome job of it. My wife remembers playing dolls with Bill's daughter in the bow as it was being built growing up.
He never told how he got permission to strip those planks.
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Gotta licke that.............
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Marty Gingras
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Michael Nesmith was a local and died recently. More accomplished/talented than I knew and a bit of a rich kid.
Wikipedia: When Nesmith was 13, his mother invented the typewriter correction fluid known commercially as Liquid Paper. Over the next 25 years, she built the Liquid Paper Corporation into an international company, which she sold to Gillette in 1979 for $48 million. She died a few months later at 56.
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Many prominent folks have homes in Carmel and the Carmel Valley area.
My wife and I looked at Carmel/Pacific Grove a few years back, but Monterey County didn't recognize Prop 60/90 and the property taxes would have been a big ouch...
Marty Gingras
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Gentrifying at a rapid clip for sure. Growing up in PG there were five elementary schools and now there are two. Monterey public school buildings are falling down because the tax payers are stingy and property taxes are not keeping up because of Prop 13.
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Wait... wasn't Prop 98 supposed to solve the Prop 13 problem?
Not turning this into a PA discussion, and it may be a little different where you are, but there has been a windfall in property tax; with all the properties changing hands and the tax rolls increasing with each transfer, some districts are sitting flush.
In some cases - in many of the metro areas, the windfall is so significant the state is not kicking in its share and holding onto the money. Also, in your area, Uncle Sam was kicking in some bucks to the MPUSD too because of Fort Ord... that cash cow is not there anymore, nor is the student population.
I know with some districts, the decline in student population is hurting their funding from the state, if they even get any.
