Commissioners                                             Tay Yoshitani 
Chief Executive Officer 
Tom Albro 
Commission President 
Bill Bryant                                P.O. Box 1209 
John Creighton                    Seattle, Washington 98111 
Courtney Gregoire                    www.portseattle.org 
206.787.3000 
APPROVED MINUTES 
COMMISSION SPECIAL MEETING APRIL 2, 2013 
The Port of Seattle Commission met in a special meeting Tuesday, April 2, 2013, at Port of Seattle
Headquarters, Commission Chambers, 2711 Alaskan Way, Seattle, Washington, for the purpose of
holding a town-hall-style public forum related to selection of an appointee to fill a vacancy in the
elected office of Port Commission Position No. 3. Commissioners Albro, Bryant, Creighton, and
Gregoire were present. 
CALL TO ORDER 
The forum began at 6:03 p.m. with introductory remarks by Tom Albro, Commission President, who
introduced the Commissioners present, the moderator for the evening, Bruce Ramsey, editorial
writer with the Seattle Times, and the following six finalists participating in the forum: 
Stephanie Bowman 
Darrell Bryan; 
Claudia Kauffman; 
Randy Loomans; 
Vicki Orrico; and 
Keith Scully. 
Finalist Nancy Wyatt was unable to attend due to prior business commitments.  Commissioner
Albro read an introductory statement prepared by Ms. Wyatt for the occasion. 
The finalists were allowed one minute each for opening statements, one minute to respond to
questions, and one minute for closing remarks.  Following self-introductions, the questions,
directed to all finalists by Mr. Ramsey, included the following: 
What in your previous associations will influence the way in which you look at a Port
issue? 
Have you ever run for office; do you know about running for office; are you prepared to
defend your seat if you are appointed to it? 
Port CEO Tay Yoshitani plans to retire next year and one of the key jobs of a Port
Commissioner will be selecting his successor. Imagine you are going into your first
meeting with the Port of Seattle Commissioners to talk about how to do this. What's
important; what's on your mind? 
You are on the Port Commission and a proposal comes to you from a developer who
says he's heard that Fishermen's Terminal doesn't really make any money for the Port;
keeping it for fishing is probably going to be a money loser; and he has a proposal for

Digital recordings of the meeting proceedings and meeting materials are available online  www.portseattle.org.

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redeveloping that for condos and yachts that will guarantee the Port an eight-percent
return every year for the next 20 years. How do you respond to that? 
Has the Port made the right decision in being somewhat skeptical about this proposed
arena? Do you agree with that or do you come with a more pro-arena point of view? 
Should the Port Commission require tenants and concessionaires at Sea-Tac Airport to
pay a wage or benefit package above the legal minimum, and if so why or if not why not
and if so how would you decide what that would be? 
Imagine you're a Port Commissioner and your neighbor finds out that a Port
Commissioner has taken several trips to Alaska on the Port's dime. He asks what
business would an officer of the Seattle Port, which trades with Asia, have going to
Alaska.  Is there some reason to go there?  Is there a reason to go to Eastern
Washington? 
As a Port Commissioner, what would you do to advance the Port of Seattle's interests or
the interests of the people of King County regarding (the Port of) Tacoma? 
One of the Port's environmental roles is to pay part of the cost of cleaning up the
Duwamish waterway. Suppose you're a Port Commissioner and an environmental group
comes to you and says, We want the waterway cleaned up to a pre-industrial standard.
What's a reasonable standard of cleanliness for the Duwamish waterway or Elliott Bay or
any of the waters around here? 
You're a Port Commissioner and you're talking to your neighbor over the fence and your
neighbor says, Gee, I just paid my property tax  and I'm still paying this chunk to the
Port. Why am I paying a property tax to the Port? What do you say to the taxpayer of
King County about this? 
Should the Port Commissioners have more of their own staff than they have now? 
Thinking about all you remember about the Port Commission and its decisions, can you
give me one decision that you thought was a bad one and one decision you thought was
an especially good one any time in the last 102 years? 
Fill in the blank: I'm the only one on the Port Commission with the perspective of  
When the Airport announces its concessions program this summer, workers stand to
lose their jobs if their employer loses its lease. Do you support worker retention for
Airport retail and food service workers? 
ADJOURNMENT 
Following closing statements by each finalist, the public forum concluded at 7:50 p.m. 

Bill Bryant 
Assistant Secretary 
Minutes approved: May 14, 2013.