Exhibit C
Port Commission Regular Meeting
of February 26, 2019

THE BRIEFING PROJECT
EPISODE 18  When Words Matter

Thank you. My name is Steve Edmiston, I'm with The Briefing Project, here to continue
the briefing on the community impacts from overflight noise and emissions. I'll start with
an announcement, which is the good news that | intend to conclude this public comment
phase of the project at the next Commission meeting.

Today my comments are inspired by the pending House and Senate bills to site the new
primary commercial airport. In their original form, the secret formula for these bills is
this: we need anotherairport; and it's time to get afterit. Both bills reference "concerns
regarding the environmental, health, social, and economic impacts ofairtraffic."
Concerns over the environment and health were also recently cited to you as a basis to
support a new airport by the 15 SCATBd cities; separately by the cities of Burien; Des
Moines; and Federal Way; and in November in The Briefing Project's 6" POSANC
Accord.

By way of comparison, the Port's written statement today does not reference
environmental or health concerns. Instead, the Port asserts there "should be alignment
with the PSRC Baseline Study"  which is strange, given that the PSRC refused to
include siting a new airport as part of the study landscape. Equally strange is the Port's
request for alignment with a 10-year-old Long-Term Air Transport study that concludes
we should protect  and I'm quoting  "the airport system we have... before we
consider... new airports." All of which we might have dismissed as imprecision in
today's Port statement  except the Port's words now precisely match with the new
words added to the Senate Bill just one week ago - thatfinal "recommendations must be
consistent" with that same 10-year-old study. So,it is unfortunately easy to worry that
the Port's words reflect an intent that is the polar opposite of the original formula of
these bills.

| implore you today to take step towards improving trust and transparency with our
neighbor communities  with an endorsement of the original language. You can be
heroes.

And now, in lieu of my usualsign off, it is my great pleasure on behalf of The Briefing
Projectto be the first to share the news of the formation of the League of Quiet Skies
Voters, an initiative designed to help our communities take a much greaterrole in the
decisions that do affect our health and environment. I'm sure you'll hear more about it
soon. Thank you.




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