Port of Vancouver

3103 NW Lower River Road

Vancouver, WA 98660 360-693-3611

www.portvanusa.com

General Information

Incorporation: Vancouver Port District, created by local taxpayers in 1912.

Voting District: District encompasses the Greater Vancouver area, and includes approximately 130,000 residents.

Current tax rate: $0.327 per $1,000 of assessed value – roughly 3.2 percent of all property taxes collected in the Vancouver Port District.

Mission: “To provide economic benefit to our community through leadership, stewardship and partnership in marine and industrial development.”

Annual Revenue: $127 million in 2008 (including $9 million from property tax receipts).

Form of Government

Elected commission

Elected Officials

Three port commissioners – elected from three distinct districts with in the Vancouver Port District. Commissioners serve six year terms. Port commissioner positions are non-partisan. No term limits.

District 1

Brian Wolfe

Term expires 12/31/2011

District 2

Nancy Baker

Term expires 12/31/2015

District 3

Jerry Oliver

Term expires 12/31/2013

Engagement Opportunities

Port Commission meets the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at 9:30 a.m. in the Commission Room at the Port of Vancouver Administrative Building.

Meetings are covered live and tape-delayed on CVTV (Comcast channels 21 & 23).
Residents of the Vancouver Port District may run for port commissioner.

Staff Structure

Larry Paulson, executive director

Todd Coleman, deputy executive director
Maggie Smith, director of finance & accounting (also port auditor)
Alastair Smith, senior director of marketing & operations
Addison Jacobs, director of public affairs
Curtis Shuck, director of facilities
Patty Boyden, director of environmental services
Michelle Allan, executive assistant
Julianna Marler, senior contracts manager
Katy Brooks, community planning & outreach manager
Leonard York, IT manager
Theresa Wagner, communications manager
Scott Goodrich, accounting manager
Mike Schiller, operations manager
Kathy Holtby, property manager
Dawn Egbert, contracts manager
Rick Cline, contracts/procurement manager
Todd Krout, facilities manager
Kim Shafer, project manager
Monty Edberg, engineering manager
Alan Hargrave, project manager
Jonathan Eder, human resources manager
Ken Mishler, terminal manager
Ron Holstrom, security chief
Mike Kesler, security supervisor

Notes of Special Interest

Ports, per the Revised Code of Washington (RCW), have the authority to collect tax monies from an allocation of property tax funds collected from the port district.

The uses of property tax proceeds by ports, per the RCW, are limited to fund capital improvements, environmental remediation and repayment of debt.
The economic benefit of the Port of Vancouver is a return of $82 million in tax revenue to the community ($9 for every $1 of tax receipts), which is in-turn invested in public services.
Approximately 2,500 people work at companies located on Port of Vancouver properties.