Minutes Exhibit 0
Port Commission Special Meeting of October 25. 2016

Commission-Public-Records
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From:                Gregoire, Courtney
Sent:                   Tuesday. October 25, 2016 2:33 PM
To:                    Kent Palosaari
Cc:                     Dressler, Amy; Creighton, John
Subject:                 Re: A father's request

Categories:              Public Comment

Kenn

Sincere thank you for the note and for taking the time to bring your daughter to our previous Commission
meeting to provide comments on the flight corridor safety program. I pledge a more complete response to
your thoughts, but wanted first and foremost to ensure that your email below was entered in the record as
part of today's Commission meeting [October 25th] in absentia.

We recognize the hardship that travel to Pier 69 during the middle of a work day can present, and wanted you
to know your comments will be part of the official record.

Best,
Courtney Gregoire

From: Kent Palosaari 
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2016 10:51 PM
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Subject: A father's request

October 24, 2016

To the Port of Seattle

Dear Friends,

I visited you with my five year old daughter, Mira, a couple of weeks ago, at your downtown office. I really
wanted to come to your meeting tomorrow at the airport, but I guess you have decided to move it back to
Seattle. Unfortunately, it costs me about $400 to take off the time to go downtown, whereas, I probably
would have lost about $125 to go to the airport, since i live only a couple of blocks away. Instead, I am writing
to you about a topic that is important to both of us, the Port's relationship with the surrounding communities
around the airport. Because of my over 25 years of experience as a marriage and family therapist, I guess you

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could call me a relationship expert at some level. From this perspective, let me give you some impressions
around the issue of the tree cutting at Seatac International Airport.

i brought my beloved daughter with me to the last meeting with the Port in order to put a face to the many
children whose health should be paramount on whatever decision you make. I realize that you are between a
rock and a hard place. You have the duty to have your airport be as safe as possible and to save the taxpayers
as much as possible by making the airport as profitable as possible. To that end, that is your reasoning for
cutting down the trees and replacing them with shorter, less intrusive trees. I don't want planes crashing into
trees either, but I also know that more than twice as many deaths per year are due to Aviation gas related
toxins than to deaths related to crashes.

Consequently, you need to be twice as concerned for my daughter's life as you are for the chances of crashes.
Furthermore, I have learned from a couple of seasoned pilots who have landed airplanes at Seatac who have
said that your proposed number of trees is a bit draconian. There is along history of health problems
associated with the emissions Seatac airport, which you all should know. Although, I know you believe that
you can mitigate the problem with 4 saplings per downed mature tree, I think we both know that it will take
years, if not decades before they will replace the mitigating effects of the trees you are planning to cut
down. I have difculties in trusting "your people" because they will be inherently biased, especially when the
last Environmental Impact study would have cost you billions of dollars had you adhered to it's
recommendations. That is human nature. What is also human nature is to come up with a plan that best
serves you and then to defend it. In my world of marriage counseling, this is a common pattern of
relationships in distress. I find this pattern in the Ports' dealing with the communities effected by the third
runway. Although, I was encouraged by your desire to have an open discussion with residents on November
lst, I was equally discouraged by the fact that you will do this after you have made a decision. When I see this
in marriage counseling, making a unilateral decision without collaboration, this usually results in resistance
and escalation ofthe differing views and solutions. I would hope you wouldn't want that, especially if you truly
care for your relationship with the communities most effected. Our lives are at stake, so anything less than
collaboration is unacceptable. To that end, I have the following suggestions.

Please, Please, delay your ultimate decision until you have had many discussions with the populous. I would
recommend that you should take more of a round table discussion that isn't so much arguing differing views,
but using the collective wisdom to come up with collaborative solutions. This will create a more robust
solution and create more community support. You see this approach in more functional businesses and in
healthy marriages and families, as well as being the heart of a democracy. I think that having unbiased
professional facilitators would be necessary for this. I would not be one of those people because I am way too
close to this issue, but lam sure you could find trained professionals to do 50, Because of the serious nature
of this situation, I think an EIS is essential, and morally imperative. I realize that this will delay your plans and
potentially cost you a great deal of money, but it will do wonders in creating public trust and support for
whatever is decided. If we need to bring in other players, such as the FAA and the EPA, 50 be it. The last EIS
had a great number of public meetings, which I feel helped create very good recommendations. I believe you
should follow these recommendations this time and do what is your moral duty and not just your legal duty.

You did not reply to the last letter I sent you, and I do understand that you are very busy people, but it would
mean a lot to me, if you could considerately reply to this one.

Sincerely,

Kent Palosaari, M.A.

Cedar River Counseling, PLLC
Kent Palosaari, LMHC
15 S Grady Way Ste. 631
Renton, WA 98057
1611 116th Ave NE, Ste. 102
Bellevue, WA 98004