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An Independent Review of the 
Port of Seattle Ethics Policies 


Presented to the Port Commission of the Port of Seattle 
October 23, 2012 
LeeAnn Pelham, Independent Reviewer

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Recommendations in Brief 
Clarify set of ethics policies 
Recs. I.A, I.B and I.C 
Strengthen processes to support ethics 
policies in practice 
Recs. II.A, II.B and II.C 
Reinforce organizational structure to 
institutionalize Port-wide ethics perspective 
Recs. III.A, III.B and III.C 
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Policy Recommendation I.A 


Avoiding 
Apparent Conflicts of Interests 
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Policy Recommendation I.B 


Travel Payments 
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Policy Recommendation I.C 


Negotiating Future Employment 
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Process Recommendations II.A and II.B 



Disclosure 
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Process Recommendation II.C 

Orientation 
for New Port
Commissioners 
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Structure Recommendation III.A 

A re-constituted, 
semi-independent
Port Ethics Panel 

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Structure Recommendations III.B and III.C 



Ethics & Governance Committee 
WRO Reporting Authority 
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"inside every solution 
are the seeds 
of new problems.  
No leader enjoys that 
reality, but 
every leader knows it." 
John W. Gardner, Living, Leading and the American Dream 
(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003), p 141 

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