In a press release, the municipality of Damp voiced its displeasure that the tenant was slowing down a quick reopening by reacting slowly. The plan was to separate the harbour, which is part of the lease agreement between the clinic and the municipality, from this and then put it out to tender again. To this end, the municipality had specifically scheduled this item for the next municipal council meeting in order to pass a resolution and then quickly start the reconstruction work on its own initiative, which otherwise only the leaseholder can tackle, but who had not yet made any efforts in this direction.
And now this: "The municipal council of the municipality of Damp has removed the agenda item "Removal of the Damper marina from the contract package with Vamed" from the agenda. The reason for this is that Vamed has not managed to process the draft contract submitted on 12 March and submit proposals for amendments, despite repeated promises and preliminary discussions of all key points. However, as Vamed informed us that there were requests for changes, this point could not be discussed and decided. The discussion will therefore be postponed to the next meeting, which is expected to take place in June."
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The municipality is "annoyed by the delaying tactics and the way in which it is being dealt with here, as the planning for the renovation of the harbour has once again been postponed by several months."
As reported in YACHT and online, the Municipality takes big steps forward for an emergency operation with just over 100 berths, which would have made it possible for at least some of the owners to start the season, albeit late. To this end, the Damp Yacht Centre had commissioned a report from a harbour construction expert at its own expense and had the harbour basin surveyed in detail in order to recover possible debris and wreckage from the bottom of the harbour. As the latter was not the case, the expert opinion concluded that the rear, less damaged parts of the basin were safe to use, even though the stone breakwater in front of the harbour was badly damaged in the storm and only protrudes about 70 centimetres above the waterline in places. Damper's managing director Martin Janssen and his team depend on the use of the crane and the spaces in front of it to get customers' boats into the water and secure their operations.
The local authority is now hoping to obtain at least early approval from Vamed for partial operation so that the season in Damp is not completely lost and the local yacht service can give the many owners in winter storage a perspective as quickly as possible.
