Members elected to sit on Port Authority Board

MARATHON – Creating a board of directors is the first step for newly formed Peninsula Harbour Port Authority.

During Marathon’s town council meeting on Monday, Marathon councillors listened to a report from CAO Daryl Skworchinski.

Skworchinski said in an interview with CFNO creating a Board of Directors is the first step.

“One of the next items that must be completed for the ongoing development of the Port Authority is to establish a board of directors as per the corporation's bylaws,” Skworchinski said.

Two representatives will be elected from both the Town of Marathon and Biigtigong Nishnaabeg.

“Town council discussed this matter on camera at its meeting on Aug. 22, 2022 under personal matters about an identifiable individual including municipal or local board employees as business arising from the meeting council agreed and recommended that Mayor Rick Dumas and Daryl Skworchinski CAO would be the first elected members to represent the town of Marathon the port Authority Board,” he said.

Council agreed Monday to recommend that Mayor Rick Dumas and CAO Daryl Skworchinski sit on the Port Authority Board.

The Town of Marathon and nearby Pic River First Nation signed the agreement last April.

The proposed port would be built on the site of Marathon's former pulp mill, which closed in 2009.

-With files from Al Cresswell