03084cam a2200217 4500 759758650 TxAuBib 20210525120000.0 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u MS 86-0013 TxAuBib 17.5 inches. 17.5. "Under the homeporting plan, the United States Navy sought to disperse its surface warships among a larger number of American ports. The goal was to obviate the surface fleet's vulnerability to enemy attacks and mining. Seventeen cities, including Houston-Galveston, competed for the Gulf Coast homeport site. The cities of Houston and Galveston cooperated by forming a Texas Homeport Proposal Team. Team members were appointed by Kathy Whitmire, mayor of Houston, and Jan Coggeshall, mayor of Galveston. The team included 75 volunteers from 32 major firms involved in planning, engineering, architecture, construction, and the like. Overseeing their work was project director John Focke, executive vice-president with CRS-Sirrine, a Houston design and construction firm." "The proposal team, in conjunction with congressional representatives and the governor's office, drafted and submitted a proposal to the U.S. Navy's homeport site selection team. According to its recommendations, a Surface Action Group consisting of the battleship Wisconsin and five escorts, would have been stationed at Fort Point on Galveston Island. Owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the site lies near the mouth of Galveston Bay. Its cost of development was estimated at under. .7 million for dredging. Implementing the proposal would have provided an estimates additional 2,400 construction jobs and 1,738 new civilian jobs in the Houston/Galveston area. Some 3,700 naval personnel were projected to be stationed at the site." "Other sites including in the Houston-Galveston proposal, but not as favorably situated, were at Bayport, just off the Houston Ship Channel in Pasadena, and Baytown." "The Houston-Galveston team submitted its proposal to the U.S. Navy site selection team in Norfolk, Virginia, on January 5, 1985. The site selection team reported to Assistant Navy Secretary Charles G. "Chase" Untermeyer, who forwarded his recommendations to Navy Secretary John F. Lehman, Jr. The Navy eliminated Houston-Galveston, narrowing its choices to Corpus Christi, Pascagoula, Mississippi, and Pensacola, Florida. Corpus Christi was the winner, although Houston-Galveston received a ship group comprised of two guided missile frigates and three minesweepers. This group was expected to bring some 500 military personnel to the area with a payroll of 20210525. English. Texas Homeport Proposal Project, U.S. Navy, United States. Navy. Texas Homeport Proposal Project. http://7028.sydneyplus.com/archive/final/Portal/RosenbergLibrary.aspx?component=AABC&record=5aef108a-7700-425a-814b-94b2462a5760 RV8