Author: Jan Power

August 15, 2024 Minutes

Port of Alsea Regular Board of Commissioners Meeting

365 Port Street, Waldport OR 97394

I. CALL TO ORDER

Board President Jan Power called the meeting to order at 2:00 p.m.

Commissioners Present: Board President Jan Power, Vice-President Joe Rohleder, Secretary / Treasurer Commissioner Buster Pankey, and Commissioner George Gray. Commissioner Chuck Pavlik was absent.

Management and Staff: Roxie Cuellar, Port Manager

Members of Public and Media: No members of the public or media attended the meeting.

II. APPROVAL CONSENT CALENDER

Rohleder moved to approve consent calendar of July 18, 2024, Regular Meeting Minutes, and the July, 2024 financials. Rohleder moved to approved the minutes and financials and Gray seconded the motion. The motion passed 4-0.

III. MANAGER’S REPORT

Cuellar explained that to the board that a boater had severed the sheaf covering the electrical line at the gangway. She had called All Electric to have them see if it needed to be repaired. In the meantime, she had Port staff throw the breaker. Staff is also fixing the water line at the northwest corner of the docks, which has been damaged for the second time. Central Coast Fire has removed their vessel from their slip. Eric Knutson told Cuellar that they plan to sell the boat and acquire two jet skies instead for rescue work. The Port received a check frowith the City of Waldport for the overcharge payments the Port had paid in water bills since last October when the city’s new billing software was installed.

IV. PUBLIC COMMENT

There was no public comment.

Cuellar informed the board that she planned to write a letter to Rep. Gomberg and the Coastal Caucus to explain why the discontinuation of the prepaid shellfish license would be very disadvantageous to the Port and the Dock of the Bay.

VIII. COMMISSIONERS’ COMMENTS

Pankey told the board that it would be better to sand and paint the rental boats during the summer instead of the winter. He and his son Ryan would do that at his house but they would need to be paid because of the work involved. Chair Power told him that constitutes an ethical conflict of interest.

IX. MEETING WAS ADJOURNED AT 2:45 p.m.

ATTESTED TO:

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Jan Power, President Buster Pankey, Secretary/ Treasurer

V. OLD BUSINESS

A. Port Manager Job Posting

Cuellar told the commissioners that the job listing had produced eleven applicants, five of which has applied on Zip Recruiter, but had not received a recommendation from Zip Recruiter. The commissioners agreed to interview six of the applicants at a special board meeting on Tuesday, August 27, 2027, starting at noon.

B. Intuit / Quick Books Payroll

Cuellar informed the board that she had asked the Port’s previous accountant, Amy Greer, to please work with Intuit to get the Port’s 1st Quarter payroll taxes filed. Intuit had taken the Port’s money for the payroll taxes, but had not filed them.

C. Rep. Dave Gomberg, president of the Coastal Caucus, was pursuing the problem of discontinuing the presale of shellfish licenses by Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Gomberg is hoping to get ODF&W before the Coastal Caucus to have that discussion.

VII. NEW BUSINESS

Disposal of Crab Carcasses on the Beach

Cuellar told the commissioners that she had told one of Mike Gaten’s crew that he could not dispose of a wheelbarrow of crab carcasses into the Port garbage bins, that it was up to the Shrimp Daddy commercial business to dispose of the crab somewhere else. Cuellar later received a complaint from a local resident that she saw the crew member disposing of the crab carcasses on the Port’s beach at Robinson Park. Cuellar then called Mike Gatens, who owns the Shrimp Daddy, that he needed to provide garbage cans for disposing of his business waster, that he could not do it on our beach or our garbage bins. Gatens told her that she was harassing him, that she was angry because the Shrimp Daddy competes with the Dock of the Bay for cooking crab.

Letter to Gomberg and Coastal Caucus