Port of Port Angeles Commissioner Candidates to speak at Chamber of Commerce Luncheon
Tomorrow's Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce Luncheon will feature the three primary candidates for Port of Port Angeles commissioner for District 1: Del DelaBarre, Colleen McAleer and incumbent Paul McHugh.
The two candidates who get the most votes in the August 6th. primary will proceed to the November general election.
The two candidates who get the most votes in the August 6th. primary will proceed to the November general election.
posted by Tom Harper at 10:22 AM
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I've seen plenty of McAleer signs and none for DelaBarre. Poor guy can't even quoted in the PDN about the fiasco at the port.
Required reading for all candidates for Port Commission: The documents posted today on the PDN web site containing copies of the investigation findings of the whistle-blower reports. Pretty shocking stuff, revealing years and years of corruption at the Port.
Definitely not a flattering picture of Jeff Robb's leadership abilities, or of the Commissioners who let him get away with (or are in cahoots with) such shenanigans. He should clearly have been fired, not lateralized into a cushy do-nothing job at a cost to the public of $200,000/year.
Too bad Commissioner Calhoun isn't up for re-election. Is there time to mount a recall campaign against him and get that on the November ballot? I trust the voters will have enough smarts to knock McHugh out in the primary election.
Time to clean house at the Port!
"I trust the voters will have enough smarts to knock McHugh out in the primary election."
Given the history of Port Angeles, I trust you aren't holding your breath on this.
Hallet is no saint either, just because he voted against Robb's new position. Hallet voted for Robb's previous 3-year contract with big raise that no doubt caused a lot of the friction he had with Port staff.
Good point about Hallett being no saint and part of the problem. Maybe he had a come to geesus revelation more recently and is more inclined to repent his previous sins? At this point he appears to be our only hope for any semblance of responsible Port Commissioner behavior going forward through the morass they've all created.
Jim Hallet knows the value of good, attractive landscaping. he is a wise man to be sure.
Knock out McHugh; yet another real estate broker likely to screw the citizens for his own gain
@5:46 July 14, 2013 -
Jeff Robb.....when he was Exe. Dir. of the airport, he forced a job applicant to produce all of that individual's personal financial records including bank-verified account balances and escrow-verified selling price of previous home; Robb called it 'Homeland Security requirements for employment'. When the applicant balked about it, Jeff Robb said the person couldn't have the job unless the documents were produced by 5p.m. that day. Then for months he harassed the employee until that person quit under stress.....eventually Robb transferred his illegal tactics with him to the POPA where it has been documented his baseless harassment of employees continued. A fitting adjective for Jeff Robb is unprintable; clearly he should be FIRED, not rewarded.
Investigator's report on the whistleblower complaint:
"The whistleblower contends there are several issues and concerns related to utilities that have not been charged to tenants... There has been a discrepancy with respect to the Executive Director's version of whether or not the utility an meter issues were 'handled'... It has been confirmed that deficiencies in the leases resulted in tenants receiving free utilities and/or the Port was paying for utilities that were not longer its responsibility."
Free utility bills at public expense. What a deal!
Thank you, whistleblower, for bringing this to light.
Isn't it wonderful how the released document is only available on the crappy Issuu site, without a PDF download, and it's just scanned in so anyone who wants to quote it has to retype the damn thing rather than a quick copy/paste.
Typical of the PDN that chose the horrible Facebook commenting solution that "loses" comments every time they update or post a new version of a story.
Ditto the disappointment that the links to the whistleblower complaint and investigation reports are impossible to print or download from the PDN web site. This, when combined with the PDN's lack of additional reporting on the Port scandal makes me think that somebody got to the newspaper higher-ups and had further reporting squelched. Maybe Robb threatened to "go Kamikaze" on them as the WB investigator found he had threatened to do with port staff?
Its time to engage a forensic accounting firm and launch a criminal investigation into whether past and present Port officials - including elected officials - may have been on the take and personally profiting from sweetheart deals with favored port tenants.
So, how many tenants of the Port of Port Angeles have not had to pay for their utilities? For how long? Any names we might recognize?
According to the WB, the list of tenants having their utility bills paid by the public (the port) includes: Nippon Paper Industries for its truck scale, lighting and machine shop; Straits Marine; the PA Yacht Club; North Olympic Timber Action group; Castaways Restaurant; Olympic R/C Modelers; Owners Association of High Flyers, and Federal Express.
It is hard to read the spreadsheets on the computer screen, because the images appear sideways. Most items also include information about other deficiencies in the leases, such as rates not renegotiated for many years, bonding or insurance missing, etc.
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