Exhibit  A
Port Commission Regular Meeting of
June 14, 2011
Port:
of Seattle

July 1, 2011

The Honorable Brian Sonntag
Washington State Auditor
P.O. Box 40021
Olympia, Washington 98504-0021

Dear Auditor Sonntag,

Attached please find the Port of Seattle's first and final
status report for the 2009 performance audit of
real estate management and selected
program performance. We appreciate the opportunity to
provide
this update.


recommendations in the audit report. The port is in the
midst ofa multi-year strategic planning
process
called the Century Agenda. Designed to be finalized during this,
our centennial year, the final Century
Agenda report will contain strategic objectives for the
next 25 years. We will submit
a copy of that
report to your office.

We hope that you or a member of
your staff will join us at two of the upcoming Century
Agenda panels:
Putting Our Real Estate Assets to Work, tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, October 11; and Funding
Strategic Goals, tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, November
8.  Both panels will be held at the port's
administrative offices at Pier 69. We will follow
up with you closer to the date of these two panels with
the details.

' In addition, Resolution No. 3605, which
governs how commission authority is delegated throughout the
organization, is undergoing a regular periodic review. When that review is complete,
we will send the
revised resolution for your records.

As we have noted to you previously, the audit
process was collaborative and positive and the
organization will benefit from many of the auditors'
suggestions. Thank you.


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