PORT ANGELES — The three Port of Port Angeles commissioners and their staff are set to gather Saturday for a six-hour visioning workshop on the strategic plan that will guide their decisions as far into the future as 30 years.
Commissioners Jim Hallett, John Calhoun and Colleen McAleer will meet from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Peninsula College Foundation boardroom (Room A-12) of the Cornaby Center at the college, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
Because at least two of the commissioners will attend, forming a quorum of members, the meeting will be open to the public, but port officials said visitors must provide their own lunches.
Jeannie Beckett, whose Beckett Group of Gig Harbor was hired to draft the $39,600 plan, will lead the program that will start with participants drafting a headline describing the port’s success in the year 2030.
It will continue with their developing a draft vision for the port, reviewing the current mission statement, redrafting it as needed and refining a list of “port values.”
Privatization concern
Among the considerations commissioners mentioned when they initiated the planning process in December are whether public or private agencies should assume some of the port’s operations.
Those operations include rental properties, marine terminals that include topside repair of oceangoing ships and log exports, marine trades, marinas in Port Angeles and Sequim, and airports in Port Angeles, Sekiu and near LaPush.