Planning

Strategic Plan Update: 2025-2030

The Port of Port Townsend is initiating a process to update its Strategic Plan.  The plan is intended to provide a roadmap to guide the Port’s decision-making over the next five years, outlining goals in key subject areas, together with strategies to help us achieve those goals.  It addresses key issues, including how to:

    • Promote a healthy local economy;
    • Maintain and develop Port infrastructure that supports community prosperity;
    • Preserve and enhance our environment for present and future generations;
    • Implement operating and capital budgets that are fiscally sound and transparent;
    • Provide facilities that are both physically and financially accessible to the public;
    • Partner with other local governments and stakeholders to efficiently serve Jefferson County residents;
    • Inform and involve the public and respond to community needs; and
    • Safeguard the cherished community assets entrusted to our care.

The Port wants to hear from you and encourages your participation.  How can the Port best direct its resources to maintain, improve and grow our operations in a fiscally, environmentally, and socially responsible manner?  What should be our strategic focus as we seek to drive prosperity for the whole of Jefferson County?  Please share your ideas with us!  Your input will be relayed to Port Staff, and the Port’s Strategic Plan Review Committee (SPRC) (all meetings are open to the public).  If you sign up for email updates from the Port, meeting notices will also arrive in your inbox.  We look forward to hearing from you!

Background
The Port’s present Strategic Plan was adopted in March of 2010 following a year-long citizen engagement process.  The Port initiated the original planning effort because it wanted to develop a clear vision and objectives to direct Port activities in a manner responsive to the community’s needs.  The process facilitated vigorous public discussions about the Port’s mission and vision and resulted in a document that has successfully steered the organization for the past fifteen years.  Central to the plan is “triple bottom line” decision-making, an approach that factors the environmental, social and economic consequences of the choices we make.

Following discussions at its annual Retreat in March of 2025, the Port Commission directed staff to prepare a streamlined, simplified and user-friendly draft of the Strategic Plan that retains the core direction of the 2010 plan.  Importantly, the Commission also directed that “triple bottom line” principles be reviewed and affirmed, while incorporating new goal and policy guidance to help steer the Port in an era of increasing climate and environmental insecurity.  On April 9, 2025, the Commission adopted Resolution No. 840-25 to guide the Strategic Plan Update Process.  The resolution outlines four clear objectives of the effort, a schedule for the planning process, and empowers the Port’s Executive Director to establish a committee of up to thirteen citizen stakeholders (i.e., the Strategic Plan Review Committee (SPRC)) to collaborate with staff to develop an updated plan document to be transmitted to the Port Commission for its consideration.

Because the Commission believes that the core direction of the original Strategic Plan remains sound, the update effort will be focused and efficient, involving four or five SPRC meetings and a Community Open House meeting, prior to transmittal to the Commission in June or July of this year.  All SPRC meetings will be open to the public.  However, public comments will not be taken during SPRC meetings and should be provided in writing to this email link.

  • SPRC Mtg. #1 (Introductory):  5/8/25, 5:30 pm – Point Hudson Pavilion Building
  • SPRC Mtg. #2 (Review of Draft):  5/15/25, 5:30 pm – Point Hudson Pavilion Building
  • SPRC Mtg. #3 (Community Open House):  5/29/25 – Point Hudson Pavilion Building
  • SPRC Mtg. #4 (Revisions to Draft):  6/5/25, 5:30 pm – Point Hudson Pavilion Building
  • SPRC Mtg. #5 (Final Revisions – if needed):  6/12/25, 5:30 pm – Point Hudson Pavilion Building
  • Commission Workshop Meeting (Transmittal of Draft Strategic Plan): 6/11/25 or 7/9/25, 9:30 am – Pavilion Building (Point Hudson)

Resources/Project Documents (note this will be updated throughout the process):

Port of Port Townsend Strategic Plan: 2010-2015, adopted per Resolution Number 535-10 on 3/24/10 by the Port of Port Townsend Commission
PowerPoint Presentation – Strategic Plan Update Process (from 2025 Commission Retreat)
Staff Informational Memo – Port Commission Resolution No. 840-25
Strategic Plan Review Committee (SPRC) Membership
Port Commission Resolution No. 840-25 Adopting Objectives & Process for Plan Update
DRAFT Strategic Plan:  2025 – 2030 (3/26/25)
Proposed Mission and 2025 Vision

Capital Repair & Replacement Plan, 2016-2021 – Draft

Comprehensive Scheme of Harbor Improvements (CSHI) 

Older Versions of the Comp. Scheme:

Intergovernmental Plans

Jefferson County International Airport (JCIA)

Point Hudson Planning

Port Townsend Ferry:

 

Miscellaneous Plans