October 2, 2019 | $1.50 inside TIBURON • BELVEDERE • STRAWBERRY RESIDENTS TAKE RESIDENT’S UNAPPROVED Named the nation’s best TO THE STREETS IN WORKSHOP MUST EITHER small community weekly 2018 & 2019 winner, 2014-2017 fi nalist ANNUAL TIBURON HALF MOVE OR COME DOWN, General Excellence, National Newspaper Association MARATHON, 10K, 5K BELVEDERE BOARD SAYS Volume 47, Issue 40 | thearknewspaper.com Page 12 Page 12 Library OKs ‘Complete chaos’ after derelict boats $12.6 mil contract for drift across bay toward West Shore expansion At least six break free of anchorage construction as resident uses jet Offi cials seek to break ski to aid mariners, ground before winter protect homes By DEIRDRE McCROHAN By HANNAH WEIKEL
[email protected] [email protected] ——— ——— The Belvedere-Tiburon Library At least a half-dozen boats broke Agency board of trustees has free of their Sausalito anchorage awarded the construction contract amid gusting winds Sept. 26 and for the Belvedere-Tiburon Library drifted across Richardson Bay expansion project to Richmond- toward West Shore Road in Belve- based Alten Construction, marking dere, prompting a local resident to a milestone in the years-long ef ort hop on his jet ski to try to tow the to add on to the current facility. boats away from the shoreline and The six-member board at its Sept. his neighbors’ homes. 25 meeting voted unanimously to ROY WICKLAND Jaime Burnes, who lives on West award the contract to Alten, which In this image taken from video, West Shore Road resident Jamie Burnes uses his personal watercraft during gusting Shore Road, said he saw the boats had submitted the lowest of four winds to tow a boat clear of a home on Sept.