Chairperson Lorraine Kelly called the meeting to order at 7 pm. Commissioner LeRoy Burgess and Port Manager Christine Phalen were in attendance. Guests present: Bob and DeAnna Gossett, Barbara Burgess, Marilynn Dove, Bob Miller and Jim Taylor.

Minutes of April 4, 2002 Regular Meeting were approved by motion and accepted. Vouchers were approved and accepted.

New Commissioner Discussion: A motion was made to appoint Robert "Doug" Stevens as Commissioner for District 2. Motion carried. Mr. Stevens will sit as Commissioner until next General Election.

Anniversary Party: Port Manager, Chris Phalen gave a report on the 75th Anniversary Party to be held May 11th. She presented the Commissioners a list of items that had been purchased. She discussed the food, which will be purchased with an accounting of funds spent to this point of $200.00.

Arrangement has been made with the Old Time Fiddlers to provide music for the celebration.

Port Manager supplied a list of former Commissioners with addresses to send invitations for the celebration. Commissioner Kelly has designed the Invitation and will do the envelopes.

Insurance: Commissioner Burgess discussed the purchasing of a new insurance policy from the Washington Governmental Entity Pool. It was decided to fill out both of the forms, one from WGEP and one from G.A. Getchman, our current insurer for a comparison on cost.

Campground: Commissioner Burgess attended a meeting in Centralia on grants hosted by the interagency group. He felt he gained good information from this meeting. Commissioner Burgess stated that we would need more land to qualify for grants and that we should pursue leasing more acreage from Manke Lumber with a long-term lease. Commissioners decided to contact Gordon Walgren, Attorney, to write a letter to explore the possibility of leasing more land. There was a discussion on trying to lease the Oyster House land to use as a boat launch and parking with portable restrooms. The liability of the building was discussed.

New fire pits and the fireplace in the building at the park were discussed. Commissioner Kelly gave the catalog of equipment to Commissioner Burgess to review, which will be discussed at the next regular Port meeting.

Port Manager, Chris Phalen, is to price culvert parts for a comparison on the fire pits for the campground. Chris will also check in Bremerton to get a price on building the fire pits.

Advertisement for consulting firm: Commissioner Burgess said there was no activity on the advertisement. The ad was to run for 4 weeks.

Telephone: Commissioner Kelly requested Commissioner Burgess explain what had been done with the phone system. The extension had been removed from the Port Manager's home. They installed call forwarding to the Manager's home. It was discussed to remove long distance block from the phone in the main room of the Port and run a line to hook up the fax and computer on that line. Commissioner Burgess will handle this project.

WPPA Spring Meeting: Commissioner Burgess discussed the WPPA Spring meeting being held at the Skamania Lodge. As the Trustee, he would like to attend that portion of the meeting. Commissioner Burgess offered to drive down and back on the same day to attend. It was decided that Commissioner Burgess will attend the Trustee portion of the meeting and will stay over. A motion was made for Commissioner Burgess to attend the Trustee meeting. Motion carried.

Dewatto Daze: Last year's Chairperson for Dewatto Daze, Sally Lambert, has resigned. She signed off of the checking account and turned over the material to Deanna Saylor. Deanna Saylor will hold the funds and has offered to help with Dewatto Daze. She will not accept the Chairmanship.

It appears there will be no Dewatto Daze without volunteers. It did show the Dewatto Daze as a Port of Dewatto sponsored activity but the community preferred to keep it separate from the Port.

Commissioner Kelly suggested that the group at the regular monthly CRT meeting discuss this.

Marilynn Dove suggested that people who volunteered their time and wished to donate the time, could request the Port use their time as an offset for the CRT training session held monthly at the Port building. The Port charges the Fire Department for the use of the building.

Commissioner Kelly suggested that his be discussed with the Auditor's office to see if we can in fact do this kind of a trade. Commissioner Burgess concurred. It was also suggested that if Dewatto Daze was held the money generated could be earmarked to pay for the CRT rental.

Marilynn Dove also suggested that the Port should start supplying the kitchen with dishes and other amenities for the rental service. She presented the Commissioners with catalogs from different companies for review by the Commission.

Suggestion was made that an Ad be placed in the yellow pages for the Port of Dewatto Campground. Commissioner Kelly was to check on cost of placing an ad.

Jim Taylor asked about the young girl who was burned at the Campground. He questioned why the Dewatto CRT wasn't paged for this. Port Manager Phalen said the radio was in the Port building and she understood it was to be kept there. She does not go up everyday to get the radio. Mr. Taylor questioned why the radio was not kept in her home.

Commissioner Burgess stated that Mike Greene, Fire District 2 Chief, had told him that the radio was to stay in the Port building. Mr. Taylor asked the commissioners if he could contact Chief Greene about the radio

The next meeting will be May 3, 2002, 7:00 p.m. Meeting adjourned at 8:20 pm.