Oct. 16, 2017
In this issue:
Commissioners
will consider at their Oct. 19 meeting the Upper Clear Creek Mitigation Bank interlocal
agreement with multiple stakeholders. They also will look at funding the
ongoing cleanup of the head of the Hylebos with another $241,000 and extending
the collective bargaining agreement with ILWU Local 28 Terminal Security
Officers through April 30, 2018.
In
addition, commissioners will hear annual updates from the World Trade Center
Tacoma, the Economic Development Board of Tacoma-Pierce County and the Trade
Development Alliance of Greater Seattle. The meeting starts at noon. See the full
agenda.
Commission meetings are held in Room
104 of the Fabulich Center, 3600 Port of Tacoma Rd. Meetings
are streamed live.
Port of
Tacoma commissioners have scheduled two public meetings to consider the port’s
2018 budget and tax levy.
The first
budget meeting on Nov. 2 will include an in-depth look at the 2018 operating
budget and tax levy, 2018-2022 Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) and 2019-2022
financial forecast. Commissioners will invite public comment at this meeting.
The Northwest
Seaport Alliance’s 2018 operating budget and CIP are an integral parts of the
Port of Tacoma’s budget. The alliance’s Managing Members will consider those
proposals at their Oct. 24 and Nov. 7 meetings.
Community
members are encouraged to attend the Nov. 2 Port of Tacoma meeting to hear how
the port’s budget is formed and provide input before the budget vote happens at
the Nov. 14 meeting.
More
information about the draft budget is available on the port’s website at www.portoftacoma.com/budget. Hard copies
of the presentation will be available at the port administration building and
at both meetings.
The Nov. 14
meeting will include a public hearing to formally adopt the 2018 statutory
budget, tax levy and authorization to bank excess tax levy capacity.
Both meetings
begin at noon in Room 104 of the Fabulich Center at 3600 Port of Tacoma Rd. in
Tacoma. The public is encouraged to attend. Meetings also are streamed live
from the port’s website and archived
for viewing on demand.
The Port of Tacoma, the Port of Seattle and The
Northwest Seaport Alliance are pleased to partner with U.S. Customs and Border
Protection to offer veterans expedited and preferential hiring, as well as
locational preference to ensure a job right here in Puget Sound.
Jobs at our
seaports and airport offer numerous opportunities for veterans and transitional
military personnel, from police teams such as K-9, dive team, bomb disposal and
marine patrol to container terminal security officers.
The Guardians of
the Gateway Veterans Career Workshop will be held on Nov. 15 from 1 to 3 p.m.
in the Beijing Room at the Conference Center at Sea-Tac International Airport
at 17801 International Blvd. in SeaTac.
The free workshop
will include employer representatives who will brief veterans and transitioning
military personnel on application processes, salaries and benefits, open
positions and career growth opportunities.
Click here to register
for the Guardians of the Gateway career workshop.
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SSA Marine
has taken over stevedoring and terminal services for Matson at The Northwest
Seaport Alliance’s Tacoma terminal.
The 10-year
lease for the West Sitcum Terminal authorized by the NWSA Managing Members became
effective immediately.
The Tacoma
terminal, operated by APM Terminals since 1985, was the only Matson terminal on
the West Coast not already managed by SSA Marine.
Matson
announced in April that it would transition to SSA Marine’s services when APM
Terminals’ lease ended Dec. 31. APM Terminals gave notice that it would end its
lease early, on Sept. 30.
Matson
provides two weekly services to Alaska. Operations at the West Sitcum Terminal
support 200 jobs.
Read Matson’s
news
release
announcing the partnership.
We showed off the Port of Tacoma’s
award-winning biofiltration stormwater treatment system recently at the West
Hylebos Log Yard to a group of public officials and civil engineers from across
the country. The tour was part of StormCon,
the world's largest conference for surface water quality professionals.
The
bioretention system in the South Harbor was installed in 2013 and helps remove
toxic pollutants from stormwater at the log yard. The infrastructures are
filled with compost and gravely sand and are home to two types of bamboo and 30
different kinds of grass and sedges.
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