Exhibit        "A59    '
PonCommission    WC}.\
Meeting ofAug'RL': 300?

Hello Commissioners and thank you for your work, concern and
attention on behalf of the citizens of this region. My name is
Karen Morris of 15788 N.E. 4th St. Bellevue. I come today to
plead with you to apply that concern and attention equally to
affected parties on an issue. That issue is the presence of the
tent encampment which set up without permission on property
the port holds for the public. You are presently being heavily
pressured to make a quick decision to allow it to stay, and that
pressure is being applied by those who I realize try to make it
hard to deny them. But there are many very good reasons to do
so. I wish I had more than 3 minutes to go into them, because
there is so much more here than meets the eye, and you are
really only hearing one biased and anecdotal side of it. I am one
of a number of citizens who had reason to start looking into the
overarching issue this comes out of years ago. We saw
decisions being made on trust and faith with an almost total lack
of data to support the claims being made. We started
researching and collecting data on our own. We unfortunately
found that the trust was misplaced and the anecdotes and
examples misleading and sometimes flat out false. We did this
not for the reasons that others who are pushing you will
undoubtedly attribute to us, but because we saw conicting
information and wanted to know the truth. And we wanted the
decisions that affected us all to be made based on truth and
data. That data has been very hard to come by, and it has taken
us years and a lot of volunteer work to gather as much as we
have. Whenever we have brought that data forward at public
forums, we are usually subjected to a somewhat brutal round of
"kill the messenger". So I totally understand the reluctance I
have been told about that the residents of this area have about
voicing their quite legitimate concerns in public, and being
attacked and called names for doing do.

What our research and data says is that many of the things this

group and their supporters tell you happen don't happen in any
reliable and regular manner.
Dangerous things have slipped through those loopholes, and will
continue to. And many of the things they insist don't happen do.

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There is also plenty of evidence in the record of this groupy
their supporters saying things that they know not to be true, if
that is what they think it takes to get what they want. They have
sometimes voiced their real agenda and methods of operations in
articles which we have and in other comments. The port has had
dealings with them in the past, not only over the SHARE shelter
which was on port property, but also over the illegal break in and
attempted hostile takeover of the Lora Lake Apartments which
produced a police report we have featuring prominently both of
the main leaders in this current effort. This is only one of stacks
of police and court records we have and could provide. I don't
ask you like they do, to be trusted and taken at my word. What I
do ask is that you give us a chance to bring to your meetings on
this issue our evidence that this is not a good idea, and that the
safety and liability issues are far greater than you are being led
to believe.  If you do listen, I think you will stick to your original
decision that it is not appropriate to let this particular group use
port land or for that matter, any public land. I am willing to put
my time in to participate in this process, as I suspect are others
if they knew, and ask that you quit holding meetings with only
the supporters of this effort and port commissioners, and start
having representatives of the other perspective at those
meetings. It is only fair and prudent.