Five volunteers initially stepped forward to serve on the new board of directors for the Fort Worden Public Development Authority.
New members for the board will eventually be seated by the Port Townsend City Council.
According to the city, 10 people filed applications to serve on the board.
The city earlier released applications from five of those seeking appointment to the Fort Worden PDA.
The applicants are John Begley, Kelly Benton, Mark Blatter, David King, and Celeste Tell.
New board members are needed due to the mass resignation of the entire PDA board.
The board, following a promise made months earlier, quit at the last meeting of the PDA in June. The changeover came as what officials said was a necessary step in the transition of the PDA as it emerged from “financial improprieties” last year that nearly bankrupted the agency.
Benton, 35, is a longtime Port Townsend resident and a 2004 graduate of Port Townsend High School.
She works as a property manager and is owner of Streamline Accommodations.
Blatter is currently the project manager for OlyCAP’s 43-unit Seventh and Hendricks project.
Blatter, 65, previously was the executive director of Housing Resources Bainbridge and was director of real estate development for the Historic Seattle Preservation & Development Authority from 2001 through 2011.
He has studied urban development at the University of Washington and has a bachelor’s degree in urban studies from Dartmouth College. He lives in Port Townsend.
Begley is a Port Ludlow resident. He has been president and CEO of Columbia Pulp since 2013 and previously was president and CEO of Harbor Paper.
Earlier in his career, from 1997 to 2008, he was president and CEO of Port Townsend Paper Corporation. Begley was also director of strategic planning for Weyerhaeuser from 1973 through 1997.
He is an Army veteran and served a tour of duty in Vietnam.
Begley, 74, attended Dickinson College and earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from PMS College (Widener University). He also attended Widener University for postgraduate studies in business.
King has lived in Port Townsend since 1978 and was formerly a general manager at Admiral Marine Works. He was also founder and chief financial officer for Townsend Bay Marina, a boatbuilding and repair partnership.
King, 72, served on the Port Townsend City Council from 2008 through 2015 and was mayor from 2012 through 2015.
He has a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College.
Tell, 64, is a Port Townsend resident. She is a workplace strategy consultant for Advanced Workplace Associates, a London, United Kingdom-based company.
She is also the co-founder of Epicycled, a Seattle consulting firm, according to her resume submitted to the city.
Tell holds a bachelor of arts in interior design from Michigan State University and a master’s degree in design from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
The Port Townsend City Council is expected to make appointments to the Fort Worden PDA board of directors in the coming weeks.
Appointments were originally planned to take place in June but were pushed back.
The Fort Worden PDA has hovered on the brink of financial ruin since last year due to declining revenues amid the COVID-19 pandemic and debt brought on by the shifting of money meant for construction projects to the costs day-to-day operations.
The PDA is currently under audit by the State Auditor’s Office, and results of a fraud investigation have yet to be released publicly.
The audit is expected to come out in August, according to David Timmons, the PDA’s executive director.
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