Image – Port of Coos Bay
According to the 2013-14 draft budget the Marina will collect $1,369,850 in moorage charges and other fees and will spend $1,819,475 on operating costs which includes $818,441 for personnel with $104,894 for the harbormaster. The shipyard and the RV park have much more modest payroll expenses at $151,608 and $50,712 respectively and the RV park appears to be the one operation that consistently survives on its own earned revenue.
The port administration survives off $1.56 million in tax revenue, $187,505 from leases, a $50,000 transfer from the rail fund, small grants and $5,000 from urban renewal for a projected total of $2,019,649. Across all departments the port spends $1,888,669 on salaries and benefits. Administration personnel salaries including automobiles/allowances and benefits are listed below.
CEO – David Koch – $193,167 (reflects a 5% salary furlough)
CFO – Donna Nichols – $151,424
CCO – Martin Callery – $151,545
COO – Kathy Wall – $100,826
Richardson – $53,344
Elise Hamner – $98,124
Lewis – $43,109
Lanelle Comstock – $43,160 (reflects 40% of total salary 60% billed to the Marina)
With an allowance of $4,210 for overtime the total administrative personnel costs are projected at $867,909 for 2013-14
Read the budget proposals here
For a detail of the payroll summary follow this link and scroll down to page 17.
Remembering that the administrations prime purpose for existing is to improve economic conditions and foster new businesses that provide jobs is the taxpayer seeing a good return on this investment?
Do they still have Messerle on the payroll as a lobbyist? Those are the best paying jobs on the coast. Too bad they’re results don’t match the pay they give themselves. Since we keep paying people to produce bad results for the tax payers, they have earned the top prize for dead weight.
They do list $70K in professional services over and above the $50K for legal services
When I was a boy, back in “Normal” Illinois (1950’s), foreign missionaries frequently visited my church. They told of how superstitious illiterate people were suffering in poverty and disease because they were illiterate. I gave my pennies, nickels, and dimes to the missionaries so they could take those heathen children the gift of literacy, and freedom from superstition
(Fast forward 60years) In Coos Bay, Oregon, literate people are closing schools because of the economic superstition of local, State, and US Government greed.
Literacy does not cure superstation or greed.
What an insult to the people those salaries are. What benefit do the majority of taxpaying citizens receive? And although this is a state operated port, the taxpayers are few and local. These are our employees! Why do we need a $100K mouthpiece? What does a $151K COO COO do to earn that salary? What has he done for the part many years receiving a million or more in salary? There are local overqualified people who would gladly do those jobs for half the salary. For those of us who live near Charleston, watching all of those employees is a joke. One to hold the nail, another to hold the hammer, at least one supervisor, and always one or more standing there bullshitting. Any private company would fire these people. Any other business would be bankrupt.
” Why do we need a $100K mouthpiece?” Well, I wouldn’t lie to the public for a penny less.