Exhibit          "A"
Port Commission
Meeting of

TESTIMONY OF ROGER McCRACKEN, PRINCIPAL, MASTERPARK

PORT OF SEATTLE COMMISIONAUGUST 4, 2009

Good afternoon, my name is Roger McCracken and I am a Managing
Partner of Masterpark. Our partners also own and operate hotels in Sea Tac
as well as other west coast markets.

Masterpark operates about 5400 of the 15,000 off-airport parking stalls in
and around Sea-Tac. We have been in business for 11 years now and
recognize that our success is directly related to success at Sea-Tac
Airport. We also recognize that without the parking stalls offered by
Masterpark and the other off-airport parking facilities, the airport would
have no place for citizens of King, Pierce and Snohomish counties to park
their vehicles. We at Masterpark believe that working together -- we will
build a sustainable future for both of our businesses.

It is important to note  that everything I will mention today, I have also
,
spoken with staff about and I want to publicly thank the Airport staff for
being willing to listen to my issues and consider them as they plan for the
future of Sea-Tac.

I want to applaud the Commission and staff at the Airport for creating
an
aggressive and yet achievable framework for improving environmental
efciency at Sea-Tac. I'd like to specically speak to three of the goals
listed in the environmental Strategic Plan that relate specically to
businesses like ours:

Goal 1b, Air Quality -- Working with business partners to consolidate trips,
reduce vehicle miles and promote clean vehicles from taxis, shuttles,
buses, etc.. --

-- We are working with the airport staff to address the issue of reduced or
consolidated trips and have had several productive meetings.

-- Trip reduction and consolidation can be good, but it is important that it
not diminish customer service

-- There are places where a consolidated van system has been deployed
and both staff and hotel guests have complained about its lack of
convenience and the length of time it takes for passengers to get to and
from the airport;

I It is also important to keep track of the true fuel savings and
emissions reduction from a potentially consolidated van system in

which the vans are running continuously as opposed to a system
where vans are being deployed on an "on-call" basis, and tend to be
turned off most of the day or night;

On the issue of fuel, it is clear that for the moment, Sea-Tac is advocating
CNG. Masterpark has purchased two CNG vans and will continue to
support an environmental plan that works. It is important to note that the
CNG vehicles cost more to purchase, more to maintain and instead of
refueling them once a day, like with diesel, they have to refueled about 3
times a day;

-- The constant refueling costs signicantly more, especially because the
only CNG fueling facility near the airport is at the far southern end. The
Port should advocate for another fueling station at the north end of the
airport, which could be used by shuttle bus operators, taxis and the Port's
own CNG powered vehicles;

-- In this goal there is also talk about reducing vehicle miles. Unfortunately,
the Port went against that goal when it redesigned the roadways at Sea-Tac
to accommodate light rail. The vehicle miles driven and the cost of fuel for
our vehicles has increased dramatically because there is no exit or
entrance to the airport at the northend, we wait at the few available
entrances longer and our vehicles have to travel much further to enter and
exit Sea-Tac;

l I'd like to go on record supporting more access to the airport to
reduce fuel consumed, lessen emissions and address congestion. I
also want you to know that we have some ideas for commercial
vehicle-only routes that might be viable;

Masterpark is also supportive of Goal #3 -- Increase the average occupancy
of passenger vehicles using the airport from 2.6 in 2009 to 3.6 by 2015. We
are already leaders in that area and our average occupancy today is 4.2
persons per vehicle;

In Goal 20, Airport staff discusses extending sustainability to business
partners. I want both the Airport staff and the Commission to know that we
welcome that conversation

-- Masterpark supports the sort of partnership we believe is being fostered
by the Commission and the staff at the Airport -- we want to be a part of
helping the Commission achieve its goals;

-- I want to endorse the environmental initiatives the Airport staff has put
in place that might impact us, but want to be a proactive and a serious
contributor to rening those initiatives;

Thank you for your time and I am happy to answer questions and do want
to be an active participant in the future plans at Sea-Tac.


Roger A. McCracken

2003 Western Ave Ste. 500

Seattle, WA 98121

ofce  206/870-7050

fax    206/8704782

rm@mccrackenproperties.net