AND PAUL GOTTLIEB

PORT ANGELES — Three weeks after new Port of Port Angeles Executive Director Clyde Boddy’s controversial one-year contract was approved, Port Commissioner Leonard Beil wants to shrink it.

Beil wants to make the contract for nine months full-time instead of a year part-time, pay Boddy $90,000 instead of $94,800 — and reopen the search for a new permanent executive director.

Boddy, the Port’s interim director until Tuesday, when the new contract took effect, said Monday he hadn’t yet seen a copy of Beil’s letter.

Boddy also said he is done talking publicly about his much-debated agreement.

“I’m not going to get into public discussion anymore about the whole thing at this point,” Boddy said.

Asked if he was capable of working with a commissioner who so sharply criticized his contract, Boddy said, “That’s for me to discuss with the commissioner.”

The part-time arrangement, for a 28-hour workweek, was done to protect the $47,841 annual state pension Boddy now receives as a retiree who worked as a Port employee from 1969 to 1998.

Working full time would cancel the pension.

Any change in the contract — since it’s now in force — would have to come with Boddy’s approval.

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