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September 10, 2012

Luis Navarro
Director, Ofce of Social Responsibility
Port of Seattle
2711 Alaskan Way
Seattle, WA 98121

Dear Mr. Luis Navarro,

Thank you for making time to meet with me last Tuesday. I appreciate
your willingness to meet,
however I would like to see more action and positive
response from the Port of Seattle in its
contracting with minority and women-owned businesses represented by NAMC and other
organizations. Many of these businesses are located in King County and contribute to the $70+
million in King County property taxes going to the Port. Many of
us feel our interests are not
being represented in the form of access to contracts and technical assistance to assist
us become
successful working with the Port of Seattle. We understand in
your position you are limited by
certain constraints and I want to be of assistance to
you. It is my hope to see the below
recommendations implemented and requests for information be provided immediately.

.   Small business report - Rental Car Facility (complete listing of all lst and 2nd tier
subcontractors, consultants, etc. . .);
.   Creation of an advisory board or oversight committee to advise the Port (staff and
Commissioners) on how to more effectively engage rms owned by women and people
of color;
.  Provide background and statistical information that supports the 5.44% DBE goal;

.   Commitment of adequate nancial and technical resources to small, minority and
women
business capacity building, business development and technical assistance
programs;
.   Commitment to hire a 3rd party to assist in developing and implementing solutions
(including the creation of the advisory board, department wide training/integration,
development of program & policy recommendations) around maximizing inclusion of
small businesses to complement Port of Seattle staff;
.  Assurance that NAMC and other small business, minority and
women business
organizations will be incorporated in activities supporting the Century Agenda;
0  Commitment to provide advanced notication of potential upcoming opportunities;

.   Small, M/W/DBE contracting goals for the North Satellite project;

.  Details behind the establishment ofPLA and/or CWA and who from the community
represented small, minority and women business interests.

In addition, we discussed the fact that my rm, Ace Metals, has been in the SCS
system with no
other vendor like it, yet we have received
no communications from the Port. I initiated a
conversation with your organization on my own and
am awaiting notication of some
opportunities, of which the Port has many, but have not yet heard back. As
a small business
attempting to work with the Port of Seattle, I would like to know who the port
uses in my NAICS
code category, both in the bidding and non-bidding environment. I would also like to be notied

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when contracts in my NAICS code category will be up for re-bid. This could be
an area in which
the 3rd party could assist you develop a process that is
user friendly for business owners like
myself.

Finally, I do not understand how the Port of Seattle can gauge the participation of women and
minority-owned businesses in its many projects without having some mechanism to determine
whether they are getting work. The Port's small business,
race neutral program generally does
not give the staff nor the Commissioners a sense of how well it is doing in regard to working
with women and minority-owned businesses. Other government agencies do a much better job
of tracking their contract expenditures for women and minority-owned businesses. In fact, the
city of Seattle actually monitors contracts based on the agency in the city issuing the contract, the
dollar value of the work and keeps track of contract awards both provided to
women and various
ethnicities.

As I have already mentioned to you, I intend to provide testimony similar to what I have outlined
in this letter at the Sept. 11 Port Commission meeting. I also want to let you know that I intend
to do my own analysis regarding the participation of rms owned by women and
persons of
color based on the information you provide to
me. I am anxious to determine the participation of
minority rms in the construction of the Rental Car facility, which was one of the largest public
works projects in our region in the last few years.

The signicant amount of money the Port spends
on capital projects and the general hiring of
small businesses to maintain its facilities is of importance to
me. I will be asking for a full
accountng of the rms that do work for the Port in every category to determine whether there is
ample women and minority rm participation. I am happy to provide the results of my analysis
to you once I get the information I need. Minorities make up 35% of King County's population
and rms owned by us should have an adequate opportunity to participate in work conducted
by
the Port whether it is using private, federal, state
or local funding. It is my goal to assist you do
your job more effectively and provide a way to ensure the benets that the Port of Seattle
provides are spread fairly throughout the region.

Thank you for engaging with me and I
am hoping for a very positive outcome for the Port, its
staff and Commissioners and the many women and minority-owned businesses in the
Puget
Sound region.

Sincerely,

James Yoo

CC: Port of Seattle Commissioners



Ace Metal Company        11110 Mukilteo Speedway; Suite 202, Mukilteo, WA 98275       Phone: (425) 493-6802
Email: info@acemetalco.com               Fax: (425) 493-6809