Discussions on the Hood Canal Bridge graving yard — whether the partially built one in Port Angeles or the proposed one in Port Townsend — will be held on Monday.
In Port Angeles, state Transportation Secretary Doug MacDonald will be accompanied by Transportation’s Olympic Region administrator, Randy Hain, and agency spokesman Lloyd Brown at public and private meetings.
The trio are scheduled to attend the Port Angeles Chamber of Commerce’s noon luncheon at the Port Angeles CrabHouse Restaurant, 221 N. Lincoln St., where Hain and Brown are featured speakers.
They will meet privately at 2 p.m. with Mayor Richard Headrick, City Councilmen Grant Munro and Jack Pittis, and City Manager Michael Quinn at Port Angeles City Hall.
After meeting with Peninsula Daily News editors at the newspaper’s Port Angeles office at 4 p.m., the three are scheduled to attend a 6 p.m. session with union members from the project at the Carpenters & Pile Drivers Local 1303 meeting hall, 416 E. First St., Port Angeles.
MacDonald’s secretary Thursday confirmed that neither MacDonald nor any of the other Transportation officials is scheduled to meet with Lower Elwha Klallam tribal officials.
Also on Monday, Jefferson County commissioners meet at Jefferson County Courthouse, 1820 Jefferson St., Port Townsend, to discuss a letter of support for the Port of Port Townsend and Port Townsend Paper Corp. to bring the Hood Canal Bridge graving yard to Port Townsend.
Discussion of the matter is scheduled to begin at 10:45 a.m.
Newly sworn-in Democratic Commissioners David Sullivan and Phil Johnson will join carryover Commissioner Pat Rodgers, R-Brinnon, for their first meeting in office.
Port Executive Director Larry Crockett is expected to discuss the possibility of locating the graving yard on Port or paper mill property — or both.
The Port has until Jan. 10 to make a formal proposal to the Department of Transportation.
The state shut down construction of the graving yard in Port Angeles after Native American remains and artifacts were discovered on the waterfront property about 18 months ago.
Transportation is now entertaining new proposals from port districts statewide to relocate the graving yard, an onshore dry dock to build and float components for the Hood Canal Bridge’s east-half replacement, scheduled in 2007.
