+ Attended
first half of Tourism Symposium. Commissioners Folkema and Daniels also
attended.
+ Attended
Garibaldi City Council Meeting and gave an update on port activities including
a preview of the Commission’s desire to have a Vision Plan up soon in the next
fiscal year and hoped that the city would be involved.
+ Monthly
staff meeting.
+ Took
a couple hours of personal time off on Tuesday.
+ Met
with Rob Trost to discuss Old Mill’s plans. They’ve been exploring permitting for
dredging their eastern marina, but they’ve been encountering some agency push
back. Shared a conversation that I had with Chris Knudsen about mitigation
banking and looking at renewing the Public Private Partnership opportunities on
the SW corner.
+ Attended
a tenants meeting at Irish’s Mooring café. I sent a short survey asking all
then businesses to submit a short write up and a couple of photos to be
included in brochure that could be distributed around the port. Also, shared
some brief steps for getting businesses to add their stuff to TripAdvisor.
Commissioner Daniels also attended.
+ Began
looking into getting interim financing for the wharf project. Emailed Carol
Brown at TLC and talked to Dave Harlan at OBDD. The state will first ask if the
Port has contacted private banks. The costs are so tight (pared down from the
$6MM) that we’ll need to be careful of any interest costs related to the
interim loan. Dave also suggested contacting SDAO for their flex lease program.
+ Pending
sale of Linda Sue III Charter building to Kelly Barnett. I wrote a letter to
Kelly explaining what the Port will need. (Similar to what we asked of Darus
late last year.) Also discussed process for Kelly to recuse himself during the
discussion and vote to avoid an actual conflict of interest. Will be on April
agenda.
+ Left
messages to get a building inspection of the Garibaldi Charters building.
+ Had
coffee at Irish’s Mooring. They are looking for a 20 year lease and they have
some requests for time limits on parking spaces out in front of their business.
She also felt that any new building for the restrooms/showers should be behind
their building and not to the side. I would agree with her on that as well.
Their modification will be on the April agenda.
+ Began
looking into getting grants for the Port’s vision process. Sent a request to
Pat Wingard, DLCD, and to Dave Harlan, OBDD, for grant information. Both need
to get a Scope of Work which I need to make a priority next week.
+ Attended
Nature Conservancy Committee Meeting in Rockaway Beach to talk about the
progress on the motor flush/boat wash (Lake Lytle impacts).
+ Met
with a group of students from Reed College and Allyson Gardner, Food Roots,
about port issues related to seafood and infrastructure. Afterwards, Virgil
gave a tour to the group of port infrastructure. They finished off by visiting
the North Jetty.
+ Did
a little research on the HB 3441. Looks like most of the Port are going along
with this and it allows for more hatchery fish to be worked into the inventory
(as I understand it). Gillnetters should be at the table.
+ Mill
is interested in expanding their log yard (received call from operations
manager) and put them in touch with the Harborview Motel owners. A result could
be Harborview building a new hotel at the location of our office/crab pots.
Very early in the process but the mill does have needs.
+ Filing
for the Spring Election is completed and all four incumbents have filed without
opposition.
+ Conducted
annual performance evaluations for Dave and Jessi. They’re doing a great job
and they’ve established some goals for themselves for the next year. They will
be conducting evaluations of their direct reports next week. All six employees
are now Q-Care certified. Q-Care is an Oregon Tourism certification training
program for customer service representatives.
+ Asked
for a proposal to remove the Susie Q. The port is now in possession of the boat
and will begin the disposal in 30 days. Grants are available from OSMB to
assist.
+ Conversation
with Maggie Rivers, Port of Alsea, about their SBP. Shared our process with
her. Only 8 ports have their plans completed.
+ Coast
Guard will be moving boats out of our marina by April 1. It’s been great having
them in the boat basin; we’ve had no reports of crime during their stay here!
+ We
may be compiling comp time incorrectly. Have some reference materials to review
and coordinate with staff. Nothing major but could affect our earned liability
balances (cash).
+ DLCD
rep. Matt Spangler asked me to review from a Port’s perspective preliminary
review/changes to the state planning Goal 16 (Estuaries). Part of the
discussion was trying to coordinate permitting issues between local governments
and the federal government and also trying to find uses for unusual
circumstances like the Pier’s End Boathouse located in an Estuary Conservation
zone. My response was about three pages.
+ Talked
to City Councilor Terry Kandle about City Beautification Day scheduled for
April 19th. The city has a group of kids that will be helping clean
the RR ROW and wanted to see if the kids could work on our harborview trail.
Yes!
CALENDAR UPDATE NEXT WEEK
3/25-29 Spring Break for schools
3/25-27 Working Waterfronts Symposium in Astoria/Tacoma
3/25 Garibaldi
Days Committee Meeting
3/27 TIDE
Meeting
3/27 Rep.
Schrader Town Hall at County Courthouse (6pm)
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