Port of Allyn preps 2023 budget for hearing

Coppola plans to retire as port director in 2023

November 17, 2022

Port of Allyn commissioners’ discussion of its 2023 draft budget on Nov. 7 concluded with commissioners scheduling a public hearing later this month to finalize and approve the budget.Port Executive Director Lary Coppola said the budget’s only staff increases were for cost of living, at the same 8.7% rate as Social Security’s increase. The lack of revenue figures from Mason County as of Nov. 7 would mean refining those figures before the port’s budget is to be voted on on Nov. 21.

“We used last year’s property tax revenue, and added the allowed 1%,” said Coppola, who expected...

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