Port of Whitman discusses agency transparency

Port of Whitman County Commissioners and staff discussed at Thursday's meeting ways, as an agency, they can better improve their transparency.

Discussions on this subject have been brought up briefly in previous port meetings on whether or not the port is doing everything they can do have public involvement with decisions being made.

Joe Poire, port executive director, said as an agency they've been mainly focused on the resolutions as the instrument, when that shouldn't be the case.

A majority of this topic circled around passed resolutions, most recently the surplus of port land in Pullman,...