Port of Port Orford Commissioner Position 1 Choose 1
Special districts in Oregon are formed to provide specific local government needs. They are created by a vote of the people in the local area being served. Examples include people’s utility districts, library districts, water districts, fire protection districts, and more. They are governed by a board of directors, which is responsible for management and financial accountability. Special districts are empowered to levy any necessary taxes and fees to fulfill their mandate. Board members are not paid but may receive a per diem reimbursement.Port District boards manage the infrastructure of local ports and their development for recreational, economic, and environmental purposes.Qualifications: Candidate must be a registered voter in the district. ORS 777.135(1)Term: 4 years
Biographical Information
What skills and experience would you bring to the board?
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What are your priorities for the upcoming term, and how would you address them?
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How would you prioritize the needs of the Port’s various users (e.g., industrial, commercial, recreational)?
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Biographical Information
Town Where You Live
PORT ORFORD
Your Experience/Qualifications
I am currently the senior Port Commissioner, ending my fourth term. Chairman of the board multiple terms within those 16 years. Serving my second term currently as councilor at the City of Port Orford, including two years as councilor president. I’ve served the people of Oregon through multiple board positions at the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Former board member at the Southern Oregon Ocean Resource Coalition,forerunner to BOEM & OWET. OA&H work group NOAA,OSU,ODFW scientists .
County
Curry
What skills and experience would you bring to the board?
Decades of experience in small government service. I know how it works, and doesn’t work. I know that diversity is what is needed for the Port to thrive in the decades and centuries to come. Partnerships with Universities, State wildlife managers , and Federal agencies have been built and must be maintained for all the pieces to fit as we continue to realize and secure our place as the role model for national and global seafood producing communities. We are the future, this is no time for knuckle dragging. Old thinking will not sustain us.
What are your priorities for the upcoming term, and how would you address them?
Continue work on our redevelopment projects to make available the increased revenues required to remain solvent.
How would you prioritize the needs of the Port’s various users (e.g., industrial, commercial, recreational)?
All niches are critical to the port including education. While commercial fishing has keep us afloat, the finite resources harvested are exactly that, finite. Increasing the value of the world’s finest seafood is a priority , as well as building coalitions across any and all disciplines creating fertile soil for every ocean related enterprise. No single user is an island.