Members of The Dalles Community Action team recently made the group’s bi-annual trip to Washington, D.C. to pitch local projects to the state’s congressional delegation and federal staffers.  Port of The Dalles Executive Director Andrea Klaas, Port Commissioner Greg Weast, and The Dalles City Councilor Dan Spatz made this trip.  Klaas says the long-discussed effort to expand the City’s urban growth boundary was a primary focus, noting talks have begun to move in that direction.  City leaders have expressed concern for a decade that The Dalles could eventually fall out of compliance with state requirements for buildable lands inventories without expanding the UGB.