From:            Alexa Fay
To:                Commission-Public-Records
Subject:           [EXTERNAL] Public Comment - Port Commission Meeting
Date:              Sunday, July 25, 2021 4:08:42 PM

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Greetings,
My name is Alexa Fay and I am writing in regards to cruise restarting.
I am hoping to sign up to give public comment at this Tuesday's
meeting, but would also like to submit a written comment in the chance
I am not able to make it to the meeting.
I am a registered nurse working in Seattle. Re-opening the Port to
cruise ships is a public health disaster. We are still in a pandemic,
and cruise ships have the capacity to spread COVID-19 throughout the
ports they stop at. Though passengers on ships may be vaccinated, many
in port communities may not be vaccinated and it increases their risk
to COVID-19. Furthermore, particulate matter, while also being
incredibly harmful to the environment and human health, have been
shown to spread COVID-19.
Many scientists, organizations, and news sources have brought
awareness to the fact that we are in a climate emergency. Cruise ships
create noise pollution that harms orcas and whales, emit carcinogens
that harm our respiratory systems, and release huge amounts of
greenhouse gases. It is not logical for us to continue to operate as
business as usual, when the health of our planet and our people depend
on our communities to stop burning fossil fuels. The economic cost of
the climate crisis is huge: from increased hospitalization rates, the
cost of mitigating our shorelines and infrastructure, and funding jobs
and technology that will stop further acceleration of the crisis. It's
estimated that Washington alone will need to fund $24B to mitigate
climate risks. Why waste more money now accelerating our crisis, when
we can use our energy to begin changing the tide. I am curious why the
Port of Seattle, who is the "greenest port in North America", would
consider re-starting cruise ships as well as expanding our airport and
cruise terminals, when it would be deadly to Seattle citizens and to
the planet.
Thank you and kind regards,
Alexa Fay

Commission-Public-Records
From:                       Payne, Aubree
Sent:                           Tuesday, July 27, 2021 12:15 PM
To:                            Commission-Public-Records
Subject:                         Port Commission Notes - The Edgewater

From: Tracee Cahill 
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2021 10:31 AM
To: Courtney, Rosie 
Cc: Steven Marais 
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Port Commission Notes - The Edgewater
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Per Steven Marais, Noble House Corporate Director of Rooms and Acting General Manager, The Edgewater Hotel:
We are one of the preferred hotels with a prime location to the terminal compared to other hotels and are the preferred when guests are trying to stay
before cruising. 
Additionally, we do benefit from foot traffic when guests want to dine after/before their cruise at the Six Seven Restaurant & Lounge. Our guests love
seeing the cruise ships embark on a journey from their room or during their dinner. 
The visual of cruise ships entering our harbor create euphoria of how popular the travel industry is in the Pacific North West not only for our guests, but
also our associates. It truly is remarkable and makes us put our hospitality hats on to prepare to welcome the influx of guests. 
More than ever, the reintroduction of cruise ships in the harbor this year has created a sense of normality for the summer. 

Tracee Cahill 
Regional Director of Marketing 

600 6th Street S, Kirkland, WA 98033 
(c) 858-395-5440
tcahill@noblehousehotels.com 

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From:            Patrick McKee
To:                Commission-Public-Records
Subject:           [EXTERNAL] PUBLIC COMMENT for July 27, 2021
Date:              Tuesday, July 27, 2021 7:51:35 AM

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Commissioners -
Energy and Sustainability Committee Co-Chairs Steinbrueck and Bowman have informed us "our weather is
changing"; their recommendation is to plant trees.
Commissioners, please. If hot weather is, as you tell us, "a wake up call", why isn't the Port waking up? It's been
calculated that the carbon emissions from cruise ships and the jet travel that brings passengers to and from Seattle
produce an annual GHG output equal to 1/3 that of the entire City of Seattle.
Global heating is an emergency we have to face right now. Non-essential business as usual is one place to start.
Before cruises resume we need you to show us the plan to convert to clean cruising practices that won't cook our
climate, won't imperil marine life in the Salish Sea, won't dump sewage and plastic into our oceans, won't impact
coastal communities with particulate pollution.
One small immediate step? Require ships that sail from the State of Washington to the State of Alaska to be flagged
in the United States, subject to U.S. labor practices, environmental regulations, taxation. Remember taxes? That's
where we'll have to look for the money to mitigate the damage this industry is causing.
Then, sure - let's plant some trees. Trees are good.
Thank you for your time,
Patrick McKee
Mercer Island, WA
323.336.3651



From:            Georgetown OpenSpace
To:                Commission-Public-Records
Subject:           [EXTERNAL] Gateway Park North
Date:              Tuesday, July 27, 2021 11:55:00 AM

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Dear Port of Seattle,
I wish to make a public written comment supporting Gateway Park North and advocate for the Port's continued
efforts towards park construction.

We as a small community have several asks, including regular workgroup meetings with all agencies once again,
written memos to accompany any agency presentations to community groups, community representation at each
meeting moving forward, and coordinated monthly updates on the project.
SDOT has confirmed that the Port must complete the in-water work for SDOT to move forward with the 2nd phase
of conveyance swales on 8th ave. We hope the Commissioner's can support this project going into the next phase.

The Georgetown community has advocate d for over 40 years to have river access. We appreciate all the work the
Port of Seattle has done so far and we look forward to finishing this project in the very near future.
Thank you,
The Georgetown Open Space Committee Chair,
Rosario-Maria Medina




From:            Bonnie Miller
To:                Commission-Public-Records
Subject:           [EXTERNAL] Cruise Restarting
Date:              Saturday, July 24, 2021 8:18:21 AM

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Dear Port Commission:
I have watched and read about the Port's expansion and the so-called environmental sensitivity
supposedly included. Building a huge parking lot in a natural area to encourage more commuters to
come to work at the Port is twisted thinking. Hold the Line!
Cruise ships create all kinds of harmful pollution--noise pollution impacting our orca and
whale populations, toxic emissions of carcinogens and particulate matter that impact
human health or even cause early death, and large quantities of greenhouse gas emissions
worsening the climate crisis.
The global pandemic continues
Even if all on board are vaccinated, the communities where cruise ships dock may not be.
Particulate matter, like that emitted by ship smokestacks, was found to spread the virus.
Communities near air pollution sources were found to be hit harder, experience worse
symptoms, hospitalizations, and deaths.
The economic impact to communities from cruise ships have been found to be highly
inflated by numerous studies. With shopping malls and discounted meals on the ships, very
little is spent in local stores and restaurants. The money brought in by traditional tourists
who stay in hotels and do all their activities in town is much higher.
Workers on board cruise ships often make very low wages, work long hours, and lack labor
law protections. Last year when outbreaks of COVID-19 happened, 10's of thousands of
workers were stranded on the ships for months after guests were evacuated, often while
not receiving any pay, some even taking their own lives. While workers were not being
paid, cruise company CEO's made millions, more even in 2020 than in 2019.
Cruise ships choose not to register their business in the US to avoid paying taxes, avoid
labor laws and avoid environmental regulations--how does supporting the cruise ship
industry fit into the Port of Seattle's equity goals?
The Port of Seattle claims it wants to be "the greenest port in North America'', yet it still
wants to build an additional cruise ship terminal (and expand the airport and
expand/deepen our harbor to accommodate the world's biggest cargo ships). The port
always brings up shore power in response to the argument that we shouldn't be expanding
fossil fuel intensive industry while the climate crisis continues, and scientists give us less
than 10 years to kick our fossil fuel addiction shore power only reduces the total
greenhouse gas impact from a roundtrip voyage by less than 1%!  Expansion = Extinction
Sincerely,


Bonnie Miller
900 University Street Apt 15BC
Seattle, WA 98101-1730
206-922-2780