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From:                        Anne Kroeker 
Sent:                            Tuesday, May 14, 2019 9:15 AM
To:                             Bowman, Stephanie; Calkins, Ryan; Felleman, Fred; Steinbrueck, Peter; Gregoire,
Courtney
Cc:                                Metruck, Steve; Lyttle, Lance; Commission-Public-Records; Merritt, Mike
Subject:                         [EXTERNAL] Aviation Special Committee 2019 Charter

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Dear Commissioners Bowman, Calkins, Felleman, Steinbrueck and Gregoire,

Today you will be approving the 2019 Charter for the Aviation Special Committee at your Commission meeting
in Seattle. As| had expected to be able to comment on the contents prior to this stage, | will still hope to
enter my remarks into the public record at the same time as your vote. | hope you will still consider their
value, despite the late submission. In any case, | appreciate and thank you for your attention to them.

Amongst the scope of work of the Aviation Special Committee, is to provide advice and recommendations to
the Port regarding the Century Agenda's Strategy 1, Objective 3. What is not explicitly written into this goal,
as presented in part A, is what | would like to address. This objective to "triple air cargo volume" has been,
and remains, single-bottom line, with the 20" century view that basing goals in a fossil-fuel based economy,
borrowing against the future, is acceptable. The double bottom line, adding in the measure of social impact,
while considered elsewhere in the Century Agenda for other objectives, is not brought forth in conjunction
with any of Strategy 1 points.  In addition, the now accepted triple bottom line, adding in the consideration of
environmental impacts, which | would argue are part of social impacts, is also nowhere to be seen. While the
Committee may be considering some of these impacts, especially through the Century Agenda's Strategy 4,
the fact that they are not written out and specific for any of Strategy 1 objectives, is of great concern to me.

Not only our South King County communities are vastly affected by the Port of Seattle's activities, but also
Seattle neighborhoods, such as Beacon Hill, well defined in this most recent
article: .Clearly,
the nature of the work of the Commissioners within this Committee is critical to all the Port's surrounding
urban and natural areas.

Even if mitigation to the sacrificial and most grossly impacted communities is also being considered
separately, there is no way to take back the effects of pollution, whether it be immediate in the ability for
individuals, human or non-human, to breathe clean air, touch non-contaminated ground and function in
quieter surroundings, or longer term for them to deal with associated diseases brought on by the constant
short term pollution, or in global terms of our ever-increasing carbon input, resulting in major environmental
degradation for all living beings.

Tripling the air cargo volume directly over any of our heads is not acceptable for these reasons. It is not
necessary for Seatac to be the sole answer to international trade and indeed, it should be their moral
prerogative to ask how we can bring a better solution to the economic and environmental intertwined choices
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going forward, for the state, the region and the world. We are proven leaders here in our forward-thinking
policies and actions  I'm asking you to be so for this goal, too.

Thank you again for your consideration of these comments.

Sincerely,

Anne Kroeker

Des Moines WA

PORT OF SEATTLE COMMISSION MEETING 
ORDER OF ADJOURNMENT 
in accordance with RCW 42.30.090 

The Port of Seattle Commission special meeting scheduled to
convene at 1:30 p.m. in the Seoul Conference Room, Conference
Center at Sea-Tac Airport, Seattle, Washington, was adjourned at
1:30 p.m. to reconvene in the same location at 2:30 p.m.



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