POG Manager Report 11/9-15
+ Attended Don Bacon’s memorial. Tim Josi, Betty Thomas,
Sherry Newman and Carol Brown did a great job remembering my predecessor.
+ Veteran’s Day (office was closed but came in to get caught
up on a few things)
+ Staff met with SDAO risk management representative. We’ll
be working on getting our safety manuals and training updated to reflect new
standards from our insurance carrier.
+ Attended Bay City City Council meeting to give an update to
the city on the wharf/grant projects. They unanimously agreed to sign a letter
of support for the continued lobbying effort of the south jetty repair as well.
+ Attended and helped the commission through their monthly
meeting. This month included a hearing on the commission’s vision plan (update
of their Strategic Business Plan), approval of a new Classification Plan (job
descriptions), and award of the final three wharf contracts (general
construction, construction management and grant administration).
+ Meeting with Delton Moore and Jeff Stoddard, NW Hardwoods,
regarding renewal of their lease. We had an interesting discussion of the
port’s vision planning process and both were very interested in looking at ways
to provide interpretative opportunities for tourists while also increasing safety
around the access points into the mill. I invited both of them to attend the
Port’s workshop on December 10th and they indicated that they will
attend.
+ Phone conference with Scott Keillor and Dave Sacamano about
the Town Hall meeting on December 10th. They’re going to prepare an
agenda and process for the public to engage the architects. This will be
distributed to the media next week to encourage the public to attend.
+ Tuesday morning I arrived to my computer with a frozen hard
drive. Luckily 85% of my stuff is backed up on our file server, but I did lose
archived email. I was told that I would have to send the computer to be
repaired and would most likely be without it for ten days. Unacceptable! I
ended up having to drive in to Washington Square and ended up receiving an
entirely new computer. It blew an entire day and it took a good chunk of the
rest of the week re-installing software and getting things back on track. Clyde
Wagner was a big help getting things set up.
+ Spent time coordinating three sets of attorneys (Port, EDA
and HatchMott) to get the contract finalized in time for the commission
meeting.
+ Completed reimbursement request reports and submitted to
ConnectOregon and EDA. Includes original approved invoices, signed checks,
report totaling invoices and percentage paid by each funder. Once approved the
grant funds are deposited directly into our bank accounts in about two weeks.
+ Office staff completed the SDAO Best Management surveys for
the office, manager and board. This is an annual review that provides a
reduction in the port’s insurance premiums.
+ Received Notices to Proceed from EDA and forwarded to
Bergerson, NOEA and HatchMottMacDonald. Our wharf project team is in place!
+ Wharf building permit review has been completed by the County
and is ready for Bergerson to pick up.
+ Designing carbonless weekly time slips to be printed by
Coast Printing. Trying to make the weekly time accounting as easy as possible.
+ Scheduled quarterly county managers get together for early
December. This is an opportunity for public administrators here in Tillamook
County to socialize and exchange best practices and solutions for various
things that come up.
CALENDAR UPDATE NEXT WEEK
11/18 Meeting with
Mill, City re: water treatment
11/19 Wharf
Preconstruction Meeting
11/19 Staff Meeting
11/19 EDCTC Meeting
11/21 FACT Meeting
_port_stern_2007.jpg&imgrefurl=http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Kitty_Hawk_(CV-63)&h=183&w=275&sz=1&tbnid=HRnepFaLLD-4CM:&tbnh=133&tbnw=200&zoom=1&usg=__WxAemN453_bnOqIV1EqnMJu-ccs=&docid=slfppr2GowlEfM&itg=1&sa=X&ei=hNtmUrPTD4fu2AXSloHIAQ&sqi=2&ved=0CI4BEPwdMAo){kind=link}