Backman Community Development Network
OUR GOALS

OUR GOALS

OUR GOALS

Our immediate goals address the need to further repair and develop our existing infrastructural assets.

  1. We have no idea how much money is going to be needed but the first goal is to build two dolphins (several pilings right next to each other bound together with steel cable) to tie the shrimp boat back up and keep it in one place.
  2. The next step would be to clear debris and preserve the shrimp house at the end of the dock while rebuilding the large section of face dock that was ripped off during the storm. If this structure gives way it’s gone for good because it cannot be re-permitted.
  3. Environmental Cleanup: there are four wrecks around the dock and we would like to raise enough money to hire a company to bring in a barge for their removal and disposal. And, of course, now there is new damage that will need to be taken care of, and we will work on that as well.
    1. Raising 4 trawlers from the bottom of the creek.
    2. Rebuild and repair dock and other existing structures associated with the original business footprint.
    3. Clean up other structures that were destroyed and/or damaged during d. hurricane in the Atlantic region.