TROY KIRBY
FOR PORT COMMISSIONER, DISTRICT 5
Voter Statement
The Port is an economic engine for our community which has several living wage jobs. Beyond the marine terminal and airport, there are several properties that the Port controls in our community. What the Port requires is a continual update of its strategic plan, services and business model that reflects its growing community. Board service is about our neighbors feeling heard on dynamic issues that affect them and t heir community. While on the Lacey Parks Board, my goal was to ensure that everyone felt heard.
Not always listened to. But heard. Diplomacy is about no one feeling that they got 100% of what they wanted, but no one feels that they lost out completely. The Port's issues over the past few decades have been overall a bad operations culture along with personnel changes, lack of warehouse space for larger cargo, and concerns by taxpayers over the financial burden that the Port puts on their households.
If elected, I plan to examine solutions to these challenges with effective benchmarks.
Endorsements
Port Commissioner Joe Downing
Port Commissioner Amy Evans Harding
Fmr. Port Commissioner Bill McGregor
Lacey City Councilman Mike Steadman
Fmr. Port Marine Terminal Director Len Faucher
Lacey Business League
Teamsters 28
WSFE Local 872 - Dept. of Ecology Staff Union
ILWU Local 47
Thurston County Realtors Association
The Affordable Housing Council of Olympia Master Builders
Puget Sound Energy
KIRBY ON THE ISSUES
WHY THE PORT MATTERS
PROTECTING UNION, LIVING WAGE JOBS AT THE PORT
CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE PORT
VISION FOR THE PORT
TYPES OF MARINE TERMINAL CARGO
HELP ME PROTECT THE PORT
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