Port of Moses Lake finds replacement for executive director

MOSES LAKE-- Port of Moses Lake commissioners have found a successor

for outgoing port executive director Patrick Jones.

They announced the selection of Jeffrey Bishop, current city manager

of Miami, Okla., during a meeting earlier this week.

Commissioners have been searching for Jones' replacement since May,

when he first announced he would be leaving the port.

Bishop was one of three finalists for the position.

He has been in his current role as city manager for just over two

years. Prior to that, he served as director of the port in Coos Bay,

Ore. for nearly seven years; manager of industrial development at the

Port of Tacoma for three and half years and director of properties and

development for the Port of Pasco for almost five years.

Jones said commissioners would negotiate an employment agreement with

Bishop over the next couple of weeks and make a formal appointment at

their next business meeting in August.

For more on this story, pick up Friday's Columbia Basin Herald.

— Staff report