b"C H A P T E R F I VEgoal of the study, which is keeping Stage Harbor a multi-use harbor, which is quite unique.Few negative voices greeted the plan when it was presented to the public meeting that August afternoon, as the Chatham Current reported. Were off and running, Waterways Committee Chairman Dick Miller told the 40 people on hand. He wanted to be sure they understood that about $60,000 had been spent on the plan-drafting, but not a nickel of it came from local taxes. Rather, FCW had put up $27,000, and the balance had come from Commonwealth excise taxes on boats (half of the amount comes back to the town for improving waterways). The real challenge, said consultant Scott Horsley, was yet to come. As he explained, it involved balancing commercial, recreational and environmental issues in order to manage a multi-use system.The task was not yet over, and work on the draft went on mosdy under the sweep of radar. During the weeks of late summer and early fall, revisions were woven into the document by FCW board member Debby Ecker. On September 3, 1991, the selectmen approved the plan in concept, but were worried about the cost of implementing it, said The Chronicle. In November, Kurt Hellfach and Dave Ryders subcommittee gave the draft a resounding Yes! vote, and one month later, the Waterways Committee did the same. By February '92, both the Planning Board and Board of Health had signed on, too.Before FCWs summer-1992 annual meeting, the Friends had made two more dollar investments in further revisions of the plan. That January, the organization sent $750 to consultants Horsley Witten Hegemann to cover updating and clarifying nitrogen-loading limits. Further, a loan of $5,000 to the Town was approved by FCWs executive committee on July 30, to pay for the engineering needed to prepare a Stage Harbor mooring grid.In his letter to Waterways Committees Miller, FCW President Lew Kimball underscored hisFriends of Waterways to boost harbor planby Edward F. Maroneyseveral years. Town Planner Margaret Swanson saidThe harbormasterrevealed some interestingCHATHAM -The Friends of Chatham Water-the plan has been received by the state for review.facts about the local waterways. Last year, he said,ways will live up to its name once again today.Chatham isoneofjust three towns that had theirsix moorings owned by the town were available. HeThe groups executive committee is expected toharbor management plans under way when the statecalled 34 boat owners on the waiting list to ask ifapprove a gift or loan of $5,000 to the town to payadopted its regulations, according to guest speakertheyd like to rent one, and found nary a taker,for studies that will lay the foundation fora mooringJack Wiggin, chairman of the Coastal ResourcesIcan give you a mooring in Stage Harborgrid plan for Stage Harbor.Advisory Board. Boston had completed its i1', n andtomorrow, ho told the audience.In late July 1992, FCWs executive committee decided to lend the Town $5,000 to get on with engineering necessary to plot a mooring grid for Stage Harbor.Earlier that year, the Friends laid out $750 to pay a consultant for another phase of the harbor management plans development.69"