POG Manager Report 1/5-11
+ Attended Human Resource Management course at PSU.
+ Attended Garibaldi Tourism Commission (GTC) meeting at city
hall.
+ Phone conference with OPPA Exec. Committee for developing
agenda for month’s OPPA meeting.
+ Prepared and delivered statement to Tillamook County
Commissioners to consider the repair of the South Tillamook Bay jetty as the
county’s #1 federal priority. Though it will be difficult to get the $600k in
funding for the engineering and survey work completed soon, the Commissioners
did make the project the #1 focus for federal funds. This is the tenth year out
of 12 that it has been the county’s top priority for federal funds. Thank you
Tillamook County!
+ Attended Port Meeting at Rockaway Beach City Hall. Had the
best turnout from RB citizens since we started making an annual visit north
three years ago.
+ Met and gave tour of Port facilities to a gentleman
interested in producing oyster seed/larvae here on Tillamook Bay.
+ Met with newly appointed Commissioner, Paul Daniels, to
discuss issues affecting the port. I think Paul’s background in engineering
with be a great asset to the Port. I also wrote letters to candidates Sause and
Breazile thanking them for their interest. I’ll follow up with Rodney next week
to check his interest in serving on the budget committee.
+ Received State Lands Fill/Removal Permit for wharf project.
+ Spent most of the week pulling together several components
requested by US Commerce to complete the EDA grant application. We’ll be
modifying the $6.0MM project to bring it to $4.7MM which will require updating
several parts of the original application.
+ Reviewed PERS, Health Insurance and Social Security Impacts
on next year’s budget (FY1213). All are going up which will have serious
impacts on next year’s budget. PERS is +22%, Health Insurance is +10% and
employee’s SS tax went up +2% on Jan. 1. The Port no longer provides insurance
for spouse and family members which will provide some relief to the budget, but
it buys the Port only a few years of wiggle room at the current rate increases.
+ Worked on the Enterprise Fund budget this week and have it
about 95% completed.
+ Reviewed completed materials from Wednesday’s board
meeting. Web site now has draft minutes from this month’s meeting, updated
draft by laws ordinance, updated rate resolution, updated marina page with
rates and resolution links, updated commissioner page. Hopefully it’ll continue
to be an easy way to get info out to people.
+ Requested jetty support letter from MC Saindon.
+ Met with Glen Kearns/Cory Starrett, our auditors. Spent
time reviewing year end journal entries and discussed various accounting
strategies primarily dealing with insurance reimbursements that go directly from
the insurance company to the vendor without entering our bookkeeping system.
Normally, if we have an insurance claim on a building or big expense item, we
receive the reimbursement (minus deductible) and then pay the vendor which is
an easy way for the auditor to track the value of the port’s capital assets
(big ticket items).
CALENDAR
UPDATE NEXT WEEK
12/15 Tabitha back to work!
12/15 Staff Meeting
12/15 EDCTC Meeting
12/15 Meeting with Mary McArthur/Dennie Houle re:
wharf
12/17 FACT Meeting
12/18 Jessi Off
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