PORT ANGELES — Port commissioners unanimously agreed Monday to downsize newly hired Executive Director Clyde Boddy’s contract to nine months totaling $67,500.

The commission’s executive director search committee also officially was disbanded.

Boddy now will receive $7,500 a month for nine months with an option for an additional three months, possibly under the same kind of personal services contract he held last year as interim executive director.

But those details haven’t been discussed.

Boddy also will receive 18 days of vacation — three-fourths of the 25 days that former Executive Director Christine Anderson received — and no severance pay. Either side can terminate the contract with 60 days notice.

And he retains the $47,000 annual pension he received from a previous retirement from the Port.

The Port Commission revisited the Boddy salary issue Monday after several business groups complained that his part-time contract — approved in December by a 2-0 vote of the commission with Commissioner Leonard Beil abstaining — was excessive.

The commissioners also voted to officially disband the executive director search committee that last year narrowed a 57-candidate field to three.

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