Interim Port of Port Angeles director appointed to Permanent Directorship
Ken O'Hollaren, interim executive director for the Port of Port Angeles, has been named as the port commissioners' choice to be the Port's permanent executive director. His salary will be $145,000 a year.
The contract will still need to be approved at the port commissioners' March 11th meeting.
The contract will still need to be approved at the port commissioners' March 11th meeting.
posted by Tom Harper at 4:47 PM
13 Comments:
Welcome to the new crook in town! Or is it the new scumbag? either way - WELCOME!
excellent choice, way to go commissioners!
It's a discouraging sign that O'Halloren didn't recognize and stop the open government infractions associated with the secret selection of him as the new Port Exec. As soon as the Port Attorney approached him about negotiating a contract, O'Halloran should have stopped the conversation right there, telling the attorney that a public discussion and selection process needed to occur first.
So good to see the Port can actually create a living wage job!
I wish the rest of us could make that kind of money for making stupid decisions.
The "living wage" job created was for Jeff Robb. Yes, he's still working there and pulling in $11,500 per month. And he'll get his pension for 30 years of work with his final salary of $138k/year bumping it up quite a bit.
What do you want to bet they decide that should be a permanent position after he retires? I'm sure there are a few more old white guys around PA that could use the money.
Such a deal with the $145,000 salary and gift of six weeks' vacation time immediately upon hire! If the guy works just one day and then quits, he will be able to cash-out almost $17,000 in "accrued" vacation time!! He might want to wait a few weeks or months before quitting though, because before retiring again he will be collecting travel reimbursements, a housing stipend and other perks in addition to his salary.
Wanna bet that his wife won't warm to the idea of living in Port Angeles and so O'Halloren's stay as Port ED will be short?
anon 9:44?
what's your point?
you need a life
I'm a bit puzzled. How was this NOT done in secret? Because they are going to do the very last part in public? Affirm what they already have decided?
Oh, I remember. That is how pretty much everything is done around here. Staff decides what the project or decision is going to be ahead of time, and then put together skewed information to direct support for their predetermined decisions.
It is being reported by the PDN in their typical negatively veiled or perhaps just lazy way, that the Lincoln Theater downtown is to be closed "for good". No more bad movies! I guess? That small area sucks regardless, one of the five or six negative vortexes in PA that needs to be reforested, so I guess this is good news, that it is closed for good. Never to open again. Ever.
11:12 - My guess is too much Ambien. At least they aren't driving. Be kind. Or maybe they are broke, or underpaid and broke, and it really bothers them that most of us make over $100,000 a year and have so much leisure time to enjoy this nice town and area. Must be so depressing!
Oh, Groan. Clueless Jim Hallett is apparently thinking that holding a special meeting next week to allegedly elicit "public input" will dilute public dissatisfaction over the Port's previously-made decision to hire O'Halloren. Hallett and his fellow elected officials waste our time and money and insult our intelligence once again.
get over it, the public doesn't know shit, and can not add any value to the process
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