MOTION 
OF THE PORT OF SEATTLE COMMISSION 
CONCERNING THE CONCESSIONS PROGRAM 
AT SEATTLE-TACOMA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 
STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF THE MOTION 
The Port of Seattle Commission (the "Commission") has been working with all stakeholders to
develop a concessions program at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (the "Airport") that
addresses the interests of the Airport, including revenue generation; the concessions employees; 
the concessionaires; and the traveling public. The Commission seeks to balance diverse values
in the concessions program. The Airport concessions program should reflect the Port's
commitment to the shared values of equal opportunity and non-discrimination, economic security
and entrepreneurial initiative.
The Commission believes that any Port program should include a strong commitment to
workers' rights, a value strongly supported by our local community, and that the the Port and the
public benefit from good labor relations and the prevention of disruption caused by labor
disputes. We therefore believe that any Port program, including the Airport concessions
program, should also include policies that protect the exercise by workers of full freedom of
association and self-organization. 
The Commission has identified the following preliminary Concessions Program Goals as the
basis for the Airport concessions program. 
1.  The Port will encourage participation in the concessions program by a mixture of large
concessions companies and local small businesses. The Commission would like the
airport concessions program to be equally attractive to national concession companies,
Airport Concession Disadvantaged Business Enterprises ("ACDBE"), small businesses
and locally-themed businesses. 
2.  The Port will utilize two methods to recruit concession operators: (a) competitive
Requests for Proposals to recruit larger companies to operate "packages" of multiple
concession units, and (b) direct solicitations for the operation of one or more units
including but not limited to operators such as ACDBEs, small businesses and locallythemed
businesses. 
3.  All concessionaires must: 
Comply with all applicable wage and hour laws, health and safety laws and all other
laws and regulations protecting the rights and interests of employees. 
Make a commitment not to discriminate against any former employee based on union
membership or membership in a prior bargaining unit.

Make a commitment not to interfere with, restrain or coerce employees in their
exercise of their rights guaranteed by law. 
4.  The Port will endeavor to maximize continued employment opportunities and job
security for those qualified workers wishing to continue working in the concessions
program in the event their employer does not remain an airport lessee. To this end, the
Port will encourage, as part of its Request for Proposal process, but not require, all
concessionaires to: 
Give priority consideration to those workers possessing the requisite skills and
abilities who were employed by a former employer and, whenever appropriate, to
those with greater seniority or longevity of employment or demonstrated 
performance by the former employer. 
5.  The Port seeks to expand future ACDBE participation levels by creating more
opportunities for ACDBE lessees throughout the duration of the concessions leases. 
6.  The Port will develop a program that encourages very small businesses, for example
those with average annual receipts of $750,000 or less, to open concession units with
kiosks or carts that require lower initial investment costs. 
7.  The concessions program will create more opportunities for locally themed businesses
that reflect the Pacific Northwest's character and sense of place.
8.  The concessions program will continue its policy of street pricing. 
9.  The Port will take several other steps to make it easier for concessionaires to build out
their concessions and be open for business more quickly and inexpensively. These steps
include providing all necessary utility infrastructure to the lease line of all concessions
units, streamlining the architectural review process to minimize the time and expense
associated with concessions facility development, and varying the lease terms of new
tenants to minimize disruption in the concessions program and to better balance the
demand for and supply of construction companies available to perform concessions
development work at the airport. 
10. The Port Commission will discuss retaining independent counsel to advise it on revisiting
the CityIce permanent injunction, which the Commission believes is overly broad in
restricting the breadth of appropriate public policy options available to the Commission
in carrying out its responsibilities as a duly elected body. 
MOTION 
The Commission adopts this statement as its policy direction to the Chief Executive Officer as
the staff creates a "Concessions Master Plan" to guide the successful re-development of the
airport concessions program in 2015 through 2017.