WPPA 2026 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!

*You must be a current associate member in good standing to be a sponsor at any of our events

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.

Tuesday Keynote Speaker

Rail Shipping

Tuesday Lunch

Reid Middleton provides civil and structural engineering, planning and permitting, and surveying services to public and private sector clients. We work on projects as large as international airports and regional federal procurements and as small as a neighborhood park structure.

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.

Wednesday “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.

Wednesday Luncheon

Law and policy firm specializing in energy, environment, land use, real estate, and government relations matters.

Wednesday Keynote Speaker

MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions makes buildings work better. We are a full-service mechanical construction company serving the Pacific Northwest since 1965. As the largest Washington and Oregon approved ESCO by workforce in the region, we provide high-quality Performance Contracting services to public institutions, government agencies, and local jurisdictions throughout the region. Our services include HVAC & mechanical, plumbing, electrical, alternative energy solutions, new construction, Smart Building technologies, and Clean Buildings Act compliance. With the largest service fleet in Washington, we self-perform most work, offering significant quality, value, and on-time execution to our customers.

Hawaiian Luau 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.

McKinstry is committed to making the built environment—and every building we touch—more energy efficient, safer, and more comfortable through engineering expertise, construction excellence, and an innovative approach to facility operations. We solve energy challenges and deliver affordable, energy-saving solutions tailored to our clients’ needs. At the core of our work is building trusted partnerships by acting with fiscal responsibility, listening to understand, and standing by the quality of everything we do.

Thursday Awards Breakfast

Serving Northwest public and private clients, including public ports. U.S. News and World Report and Best Lawyers list Pacifica as a Tier 1 law firm in the Seattle region for public finance law, appellate law, education law, municipal law, and real estate law. Many of our attorneys are recognized as “Best Lawyers in America” and as “Super Lawyers.” We also have deeply held professional and personal commitments to civic responsibility, community volunteerism and industry participation, reflected in our leadership and/or pro bono service to numerous organizations, associations, boards and committees.

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

Civil, structural and marine engineering; landscape architecture, planning, natural resource delineations.

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.

Media & Technology

As the Media & Technology sponsor, not only will you see your logo here on our website, you will also recognized verbally during the event, listed on our sponsor handout, and your logo will be displayed on a large sign near the registration desk for the entire meeting (not to mention my never ending praise!). Email Mandy for more information!

General Session Refreshments

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.

Environmental consultants specializing in sediment, soil and groundwater remediation, dredging, coastal and shoreline engineering, construction management, environmental monitoring and stormwater management.

Waterfront civil and structural engineering specialists since 1979. We provide planning, permitting, design, and construction management for Washington State port facilities. Our projects include piers, docks, floats, dolphins, bulkheads, gangways, wave barriers, fendering systems, boatyards, access roads, esplanades, and waterfront parks.

Associate Member Reception Eats & Drinks

Civil, structural and marine engineering; landscape architecture, planning, natural resource delineations.

For over 75 years, clients have trusted Gibbs & Olson for their civil engineering and surveying needs. As you work to make your community a better place, we can partner with you to help plan, fund, design, and implement your site design, stormwater, wastewater, water, and road projects.

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.

Since 1996, ELS has provided environmental consulting and permitting services throughout the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. We specialize in land, water, and shoreline projects involving resources such as wetlands, streams, rivers, wildlife habitat, and sensitive, threatened, and endangered wildlife and plant species. Having worked with several Washington ports, we understand the environmental resources, impacts, and permitting processes that are essential for their economic development success. We have offices in Longview, Bremerton, Washougal, Sunnyside, and Bellingham.

Security Solutions is a leading electronic security integrator specializing in video surveillance, access control, intrusion detection, fire alarm systems, monitoring, and other low voltage security solutions. With offices in Bellingham, Everett, and Spokane – we provide statewide coverage and deliver projects of any size. Our team has extensive experience partnering with state, local, and educational organizations to deliver innovative solutions hat protect people and property.

Aetta Architects is a Pacific Northwest architecture and planning firm specializing in efficient, high‑performing industrial and commercial facilities. Our work blends practical design, honest materials, and optimized workflows to create environments that enhance functionality, safety, and workforce well‑being. From modernizing existing structures to delivering new, purpose‑built spaces, we focus on solutions that support operational excellence and long‑term value.

Verdantas is a national engineering and environmental firm. Local firms, Civil West Engineering Services and Pace Engineers recently joined our team. These firms along with established Verdantas offices in Seattle and Portland deepen our expertise in civil, water/wastewater, structural engineering, land surveying, master planning, landscape architecture, regulatory compliance, funding support, and environmental consulting services for Ports and other clients in Washington. Collectively we form an amazing, comprehensive environmental and engineering resource. We are a nimble, seasoned, professional firm who serve clients on a personal basis. Including the broader Verdantas Port services for upland needs (site investigations, EHS, stormwater, environmental due diligence), our group offers a host of marine and sediment related services. This includes environmental investigations in aquatic environments (water quality, sediment, biological), in-water permitting, permit compliance, and construction monitoring. We specialize in management of both contaminated and clean sediments. We can effectively navigate and manage all federal and local regulatory requirements for contaminated sediments, dredge design, dredge permitting, and construction management. We navigate our clients through the Superfund CERCLA program (as wellas state remediation programs) with services that include liability, allocation, cost recovery, investigations, source identification, remedial design, and advocacy with regulators.

BollardScan^TM provides Vibration Testing – (dynamic modal analysis) for the inspection of all types of Mooring Bollards, Cleats and Quick Release Hooks (QRH).

BollardScan^TM establishes:

“System” frequency
Anchoring hardware integrity – detection and location of loose / broken anchoring
Displacement (movement) measurements
Determines material stiffness values
Safe Working Load confirmation, “system” capacity
Asset management: create full catalogue/registry of port bollards
Approval by Lloyd’s Register
Provide insurance on all “qualified” bollards
> 20,000 bollards inspected

Through this testing we verify the integrity of the bollard, its foundation and whether it still meets the design requirements of the structure.

All ports are aging, and a current safe working load assessment of the mooring bollard is critical to protect people / assets and to confirm mooring berthing plans.

Explore Sponsorship Opportunities at the 2026 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!