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The Port of Hoodsport’s budget hearing last week saw its port commissioners unanimously approve all three budget-related measures, which included a $40,000 transfer of money to the port’s parks and a $5,000-per-year increase in the annual contracted fee for Port of Allyn Executive Director Kathleen Wyatt.

Wyatt outlined the specifics of next year’s port budget.

Wyatt said the port’s ending balance for 2022 had originally been projected at $95,956, but its true ending balance for 2022, and therefore the beginning balance for 2023, is set to be $101,737, “nearly $6,000 over and abov...