WPPA 2025 Spring Meeting Sponsors
Our event would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors. Their commitment and continued participation year after year help make this gathering a success. We are truly grateful for their partnership and encourage you to take a moment to thank them when you see them at the meeting!
Interested in becoming a sponsor? We still have sponsorship opportunities available for the 2025 Spring Meeting, starting at just $500! Your logo will be proudly displayed on this page, featured in various publications, and recognized throughout the event.
Please email Mandy Lill or call 360.943.0760 for more information!
Welcome & Registration
Providing a full range of legal services for Washington’s public ports, including construction, public records and open meetings, employment and labor relations, environmental, land use, real estate, municipal government and public finance law, insurance coverage and litigation.
Wednesday Keynote Speaker
Services include environmental, geotechnical, contaminated site management, seismic, natural resources, and hydrogeology for port and harbor planning, permitting, terminal design and waterfront development. Specialize in remediation of contaminated sediments/dredged material and development on sites with complex geological and environmental issues. Includes support for deep water projects, capped aquatic disposal sites, piers, wharfs, marinas, dry docks, upland facilities, and retaining structures. Also specialize in wetlands, freshwater and marine fish biology, endangered species, habitat restoration, and stormwater management.
Wednesday Lunch
Schwabe provides comprehensive legal services for Washington ports of all sizes. We assist ports in addressing environmental concerns, property acquisition, leasing and development, rail and maritime agreements, public meeting law compliance, general counsel services, and regional navigation issues. Drawing on Schwabe’s vast collective experience and contacts, we help our clients stay apprised of and prepared for industry developments and trends.
Thursday “Ports Executive” Breakfast
The lawyers in the firm’s Port Practice Group assist port districts – large and small – achieve successful outcomes for their communities by utilizing our specialized expertise and years of experience in the law unique to ports, including governance, leasing, land use permitting, labor and employment, environmental, litigation, construction and insurance defense. From Bellingham, with state-of-the-art video conferencing and computer technology, we provide very cost effective general counsel and special counsel representation to port districts all over Washington.
Thursday Luncheon
Law and policy firm specializing in energy, environment, land use, real estate, and government relations matters.
Civil and structural engineering, planning and permitting, and surveying services for various port facilities, including waterfront, airport, building, and transportation facilities.
Thursday Keynote Speaker
Is an integrated consulting firm offering award-winning services in environmental and civil engineering, site planning and development, communications and outreach, environmental assessment and cleanup, strategic planning, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), health and safety services, and air quality. MFA has decades of experience assisting Washington ports with their unique commercial, environmental, statutory, and community priorities.
Spring Fling Cocktail Reception
Provides environmental consulting, including permitting and engineering design, compliance and site management, air quality, noise and vibration, and water resources services. For more than 40 years we have assisted ports and their tenants with meeting regulatory compliance challenges and development goals at seaport, airport, industrial, and commercial properties; offices in Seattle, Kingston, Tacoma, Olympia, Quincy and Spokane, Washington, Portland, Oregon, Boise, Idaho and Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Attorneys, bond counsel, environmental counseling, permitting and litigation; complex facility siting, construction and permitting; toxic tort exposure defense; insurance coverage counseling and litigation on behalf of policy holders; eminent domain; real estate; federal policy and Indian law.
Is an integrated consulting firm offering award-winning services in environmental and civil engineering, site planning and development, communications and outreach, environmental assessment and cleanup, strategic planning, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), health and safety services, and air quality. MFA has decades of experience assisting Washington ports with their unique commercial, environmental, statutory, and community priorities.
Program Printing
At J-U-B Engineers, we help each other create better communities. We are transportation, traffic and airport engineers, water and wastewater engineers, construction, land-development and structural engineers, surveyors, planners, funding consultants, landscape architects, and GIS and public involvement specialists. We guide our clients through all phases of their projects: planning, funding, design, and construction. We offer the expertise of the national firms, but with the service and attention of a hometown firm. To learn more, visit jub.com.
Spouse Participation
Three spots available!
Media & Technology
There is still time to sponsor our media and technology! Email Mandy for more information!
General Session Refreshments
Our multidisciplinary team offers comprehensive engineering, environmental, planning, and landscape architecture services. We are driven to provide our clients with functional, efficient, and creative solutions to meet their needs. We pride ourselves on quality work and unmatched client service.
Enduris is a member-owned, local government risk-sharing pool that has provided affordable property and liability coverage since 1987. We provide coverage and loss control solutions to over 500 Washington State special purpose districts, including many of Washington’s port districts.
Moffatt & Nichol, a family-owned firm for over seven decades, is a multidisciplinary professional services firm, providing a wide range of planning, preliminary through final design, above-water and underwater inspection and repair design for marine and bridge infrastructure, freight and economic studies, coastal resiliency, landscape architecture, land use/urban planning, environmental, construction support, and grant funding services to support your water-dependent maintenance, repair, and development project needs.
Specializing in civil and structural engineering for marine and upland environments. Providing engineering planning, permitting, design, and construction administration services for public ports since 1979. Designing floats, docks, piers, dolphins, bulkheads, fendering systems and wave barriers at marinas, marine terminals, and cruise ship facilities. Upland facilities include boatyards, pedestrian esplanades, access roads and waterfront parks.
Associate Member Reception Eats & Drinks
Enviro Tech Diving, Inc. combines underwater experience with technology to provide a safe and smart solution. For more than 30 years we have continued to serve commercial, government, and private marine facilities from the Pacific Northwest to the gulf of Alaska and down the Aleutian Chain. Our vision is to be the reliable provider and innovator for seafloor surveys and underwater construction. Enviro Tech Diving provides superior results in the most challenging conditions.
The AWC is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization based in Olympia that represents Washington cities before the legislature, executive branch, and regulatory agencies. Besides advocacy, AWC provides access to relevant training, high-quality events, valuable data, and member pooling programs such as the Employee Benefits Trust, Workers’ Comp Retro, and the Drug & Alcohol Consortium. All Port Districts are eligible to join AWC and its Member Pooling Programs.
Enduris is a member-owned, local government risk-sharing pool that has provided affordable property and liability coverage since 1987. We provide coverage and loss control solutions to over 500 Washington State special purpose districts, including many of Washington’s port districts.
Ardurra has roots that date to 1950, furnishing multi-discipline engineering and construction management services to municipal and government agency clients. Ardurra’s 1,750+ employees in 80+ offices nationwide includes civil, environmental, structural, aviation, transportation, mechanical, I&C, and electrical engineers; licensed water and wastewater plant operators; environmental scientists; geologists; ecologists; surveyors; GIS professionals; and certified construction managers.
Explore Sponsorship Opportunities at the 2025 Spring Meeting!
Sponsorships start at just $500 and include placing your logo on this page, on signage at the event, and receiving verbal recognition throughout the event.
Interested? Contact Mandy Lill at 360.943.0760 or email her today!
