PORT ANGELES — An organizational meeting of the Port Angeles Harbor Works Development Authority is set today.
The meeting will be at 2:30 p.m. in the City Council chambers at Port Angeles City Hall, 321 East Fifth St., said Becky Upton, city clerk, on Tuesday.
Formation of the development authority was approved by both the Port Angeles City Council and the Port of Port Angeles in May.
It is an independent entity formed to help clean up Port Angeles Harbor and redevelop the former Rayonier mill site.
The port’s representatives are former Port of Port Angeles Executive Director Jerry Hendricks and Bart Irwin, an attorney with Platt Irwin Taylor, the port’s law firm.
The city’s representatives are Karen McCormick, president and CEO of First Federal; former Port Angeles Deputy Mayor Orville Campbell; and Howard Ruddell, owner of Ruddell Auto Mall.
The five-member board of directors will elect officers; receive a report of the legal entity formation process; establish meeting dates and times; discuss draft by-laws; and conduct a preliminary budget discussion that involves staffing, office setup, the 2008/2009 work plan, a letter to both the city and the port requesting funding, an executive officer search, and an interim manager.
The Rayonier property, which covers 75 acres at the end of Ennis Street, is in the eighth year of a toxic-waste cleanup project supervised by Rayonier, the state Department of Ecology and the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe.
The Port Angeles Harbor-Works Development Authority’s tasks will include:
Steve Oliver, one of the port attorneys, said the authority would coordinate with the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe, Ecology and others.
