Date: Tuesday, September 20, 2011, 1:32pm EDT

Mark Holan

Staff Writer – Tampa Bay Business Journal

The Tampa Port Authority    Tampa Port Authority Latest from The Business Journals CSX, Kinder Morgan team up for ethanol hub at Port of TampaCSX, Kinder Morgan team up for ethanol hub at Port of TampaTampa Port Authority to discuss director’s contract Follow this company board has extended the tenure of port director Richard Wainio until March 2014, despite criticism from some port tenants and concerns the agency lacks an adequate executive evaluation process.

Hillsborough County Commissioner Sandra Murman and new board member Patrick H. Allman, general manager of Odyssey Manufacturing Co., voted against the extension. They favored a one-year deal.

Wainio was hired in 2005 and is paid $251,000 annually. Compensation for the extension remains to be negotiated.

Allman pointed to the change of leadership at Tampa International Airport    Tampa International Airport Latest from The Business Journals VSPC begins ‘Dolphin Tale’ marketing blitzZink to head communications at Tampa International AirportAirfares slated to rise this fall Follow this company as an example of what he would like to see at the port. He called Wainio “an able leader and a good steward” of the port, but said there should more vision and better communication with port tenants.

Murman called for a more detailed and substantial evaluation form to measure the director’s performance, which the board agreed it would update by the end of the year.

Still unclear is whether the board will hire an outside firm to create the new form, or use human resource officials at the county and city of Tampa to do the work at no expense to the port.

Wainio’s contract was set to expire in March and would have renewed automatically for one year without board action.

Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn and commissioners Lawrence Shipp, Stephen W. Swindal and William A. Brown supported the two-year extension. Commissioner Carl Lindell, who gave Wainio a strong written evaluation, was absent from the meeting.