From:            Paulina Lopez
To:                Commission-Public-Records; Calkins, Ryan; Fred Felleman; Steinbrueck, Peter; Cho, Sam
Subject:           [EXTERNAL] Public Comment COVID Motion 2020- 06
Date:              Wednesday, April 1, 2020 11:07:07 AM
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Dear Port Commissioners,
Thank you for the opportunity to provide Public comment.

I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for the development of Motion 2020- 06 to
provide guidance for the Port leadership in prioritizing Port Investments to assist local,
statewide recovery for COVID 19 Pandemic centering EQUITY and most VULNERABLE
populations and prioritizing community investments like the DUWAMISH VALLEY
EQUITY PROGRAM
We know the brunt of the economic impact of these public health measures are being
borne by those with the least capacity and by those who already vulnerable and
impacted in so many ways. Our Duwamish Valley community beside the historical
environmental injusticefor years, currently is already facing layoffs, business
closures, food insecurity, loss of homes, and childcare. Our community has been
surviving in an economy rigged against them, long before COVID-19 arrived  Black,
Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC), immigrant and refugee communities,
workers and low-income people, LGBTQ communities and people with disabilities.
Prioritizationof investment should be given to those mostly impacted and is critical in
the upcoming months and years in alignmentwith equity centered values. We look
forward to working with you for upstream legal and policy interventions to protect our
overburdened communities to build resilience and eventually help break the
pandemic inequality. We need to re-inforce systems where government, funders
with with our communities to invest and to emerge with a more regenerative, people.
centered economy where our communities can thrive. Investment in the most
impacted, will be a way to create a transformation that benefits everyone.

Thank you and be safe.

Paulina Lpez, LLM
Executive Director
Duwamish River CleanUp Coalition/ TAG
7400 3rd Ave South. Seattle WA 98108
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