Minutes ExhibitA
Port Commission Special Meeting
of February 27. 2018

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2/27/2018

Port of Seattle Commissioners:


The house and senate are right now considering a 2018 operating budget proviso to
conduct a study of community and economic impacts of the Sea-Tac International
Airport. This will be the first impact study performed in over 20 years. That's 20 years of
growth, of additional noise and emissions over our airport communities. Then add in
the aggressive new Century Plan outlined in your own SAMP.

The 1997 study found that "costs associated with these [airport] improvements are
disproportionately borne by those communities immediately surrounding the airport."
Nothing has changed as far as who has, who is, and who will, shoulder these burdens.
Each of you  as commissioners or during your campaigns  are on record repeatedly
acknowledging that our communities are unfairly burdened with the entire regions costs
of the airport operations, that something must be done, and that there are significant
trust issues on this subject between the communities and the Port.

The City of SeaTac has promised to commit $250,000. The City of Des Moines has
written the State of Washington in support of the proviso. We expect the other
neighbor cities to follow.

No one is asking the Port of Seattle for funding. Why?

Because it is so critical  absolutely imperative  that this impact study, when complete,
is perceived as an independent study. The airport communities must be able to believe
that this study does not bear the fingerprints of the Port of Seattle in terms of defining
its scope, or in terms of limiting the areas to be investigated.

To achieve your own stated desires to enhance trust, there must be absolute
transparency around this process, so that it is clear to all that the Port did not try to
shape, or steer, or skew the results, or interfere with the passage of the proviso in the
first place. If you want trust, there cannot be even an appearance of behind the scenes
activity.

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We all saw  or at least we saw the appearance  of how the Port jumped into last
year's ultrafine particle study legislation  Port lobbyists ramped up and testifying in
support, but then mysteriously the contaminants to be studied were restricted, the
essential phase 2 eliminated, the Port and the FAA both have a seat on the oversight
panel. This puts the Port's fingerprints all over the study, calls into question the
independence, and creates issues of mistrust. Frankly, you blew it.

We want you to publicly support this proviso and impact study. There is literally no valid
reason not to, if you believe what you say  that the airport communities are so unfairly
burdened. You should want this as bad as we do.

But how you show that support needs to be unique this time. We need you to commit
to us  the airport neighbor communities  publicly  that you will not use lobbyists or
otherwise seek to influence the creation or outcomes of this study. We need to have
you, the commissioners, tell your staff and your lobbyists to stand down. And we need
you to commit publicly that no effort by anyone related to the Port has been made, or
will be made, to stop or shape this study. If such effort has already been made, we need
you to publicly detail what has happened and how you will stop from further interfering
with this vital work.

Thank you,
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Sheila Brush
Quiet Skies Puget Sound

quietskiespugetsound@gmail.com