Minutes ExhibitA
Port Commission Regular.
Meeting
of March 27, 2018

THE BRIEFING
EPISODE 4  WHAT WENT WRONG, PART I - TRANSCRIPT

I'm Steve Edmiston. I'm here to continue the briefing you should have
received last year on NextGen and the impact of increased overflights 
two minutes at a time. Today l'll begin to discuss what went wrong with last
year's briefing. I won't reach topics inexplicably omitted  like the impact of
airport noise on the human species  until later comments. Today is about
what went wrong with the topics your staff chose to include.

For the very first topic, Mr. Shepherd, your Manager of Airport Noise
Services, chose to update you on the noise complaint hot line. He showed
increases. He never
you a slide with three years of substantial complaint
claimed any noise call was false or fraudulent. The problem was that Mr.
Shepherd used the data to deliver a tactical punch: that a large number of
the calls are made by a small number of people. In other words, the noise
complaint data was used to question the citizen credibility. The current
popular term is to weaponize. And consider this: just one month before
an article
your briefing was requested, the thinktank Mercatus published
asserting activists must never be allowed to impede aviation growth, and so
airports should discredit citizens by showing that a large number of airport
complaints come from a small group of people. I don't know if this is where
your staff got the idea. But I do know that discrediting citizens that complain
about airport burdens is incompatible with what you say  that our
communities are unfairly burdened with the regional cost of noise and
pollution and that our quality of life matters to you.

The second thing that went wrong happened when your Director of
Aviation Environmental Services, Ms. Purcell, showed you 260 additional
flights are coming over our homes every day  but then used the data only
to circle back and state that this frequency growth was the cause of the
increased hotline complaints. The problem is this: by choosing to plant the
"it's only frequency" seed, Ms. Purcell appeared to promote a disquieting
narrative  right out of the Mercatus and Big Tobacco playbooks  of
shifting focus away from discussing the burdens to communities, and back
to citizens as complainers, who had the poorjudgment to become addicted
to smoking, or to move next to an airport.

Thank you for giving a citizen twominutes to comment.

THE BRIEFING
THE BRIEFING YOU ASKED FOR BUT DID NOT RECEIVE 
IN TWO MINUTE PUBLIC COMMENTS

PORT OF SEATTLE COMMISSION MEETING
MARCH 27, 2018
STEVE EDMISTON

Episode 4  What Went Wrong, Part |
1. What went wrong with what you were to d at the Apri
25, 2017, POS staf" noise briefing
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Wi  anyone brief on the 'rrpact of noise on the numan
soeoies?
\iCDO'I-DOO. Cold water on a hot comp'aint line. The 260 (more flig'its over homes past 3 years). Weaoonizing the data. Planting the bad "it's orly frequency" seed
. What each
of you say about the unfair erdens and
quality of ife

Why using the number of hotline calls is
statistically invalid as a measurement of
community dissatisfaction
- We didn't study or poll our community to determine level of actual
dissatisfaction in relation to aircraft operations from 2014-201 6.
- We have not shown that in response to a noise hotline complaint,
actua remedy or change is consistently provided to callers.
Accordingly, we cannot possibly know  ow this lack of response
suppresses use of hotlines.
- We have never studied or polled to determine how
fight, and subsequent controversial increased -~
Runway, has contributed to suppression of co
noise hotline will be effective tool for change.
- Because we don't know how upset the communis  is, .
comment on the impact of NextGen or more igh . fre -
upon this factor.

Why we didn't research and present
the pro's and con's of NextGen
- You asked for briefing, here are the reasons we didn't
understand that you wanted the negatives, too
- We didn't mean to imply that economic benefits are a
consideration when thinking about the human hea th a .

Item No. 3c supp
Meeting Date: April 25, 2017
Noise Programs Er NextGen Briefing
Arlyn Purcell, Director Aviation Environmental Services
Stan Shepherd, Manager Airport Noise Programs
David Suomi, FAA Deputy Regional Administrator
Steve Karnes, FAA Senior Technical Advisor


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Presentation Overview
- Noise Information Hotline


- Increased Operations


- Economiclmpacts


- Noise Contours


- Noise Mitigation Programs


- Fight Procedures
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Noise Information Hotline
Noise Office Inquiries  Noise Hotline Er online comment forms
2016: 2,959


10 people = 55% of comments

' 2015: 2,632


4 people = 59% of comments

' 2014: 2,172


4 people = 63% of comments

Aircraft Operations
- 2016: 412,170 operations  8%increase


- 2015: 381,408 operations - 12%increase


- 2014: 340,478 operations  7%increase


- 2013: 317,186 operations

The difference between 2013 and 2016 was 94,984 operations.
That's 260 more aircraft going over homes per day.

Sea-Tac Airport Economic Impacts
- Economic Impact = $16.3 bil-ion annua--y in business revenue


0    Generates 171,769 jobs / 19,000 directly related to he airport


- Approximately 4,000 airport employees live in the loca- cities


- Each international flight generates $75 million annually to the
economy
- Tourism creates $365 million annually in state Er local taxes and
approximately 140,000 jobs.

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Accomplishments to Date
9400 Single-family homes sound insulated






8 Schools sound insulated





14 College buildings sound insulated





246 Condo units sound insulated






359 Mobile home units acquired and residents
relocated

Part 150 Approved Sound Mitigation Programs
' Single-Fami-y Residential Insulation  Continuation of
1985 program
- Condominium Insulation


- Apartment Insulation - Pilot Project


- Places of Worship Insulation - Pilot Project


- South Approach Transition Zone Voluntary Residential
Acquisition
- School Insulation MOA with FAA Er School District

Noise Abatement
- Flight Procedure Monitoring

Jet Noise Abatement Procedures
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