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The Study Session meeting scheduled for 2020-09-22 at Remote

  • COMMISSION PRESIDENT IF I COULD JUST POP IN REAL QUICK
  • THIS IS MICHELLE HART, COMMISSION CLERK
  • I WANT TO GO AHEAD AND JUST DO A FORMAL ROLE FOR US IF WE COULD? PLEASE DO THAT, MICHELLE
  • I'M SORRY
  • I SKIPPED PAST
  • YOU ARE FINE
  • WE DID GET PEOPLE WHEN THEY WERE COMING ON
  • I JUST WANT TO NOTE IT FOR THE RECORD
  • BEGINNING WITH COMMISSIONER BOWMAN
  • COMMISSIONER BOWMAN
  • I'M SORRY? OKAY COMMISSIONER CALKINS? HERE
  • COMMISSION CHO? PRESENT.
  • THANK YOU
  • COMMISSIONER FELLEMAN
  • PRESENT
  • THANK YOU
  • COMMISSIONER STEINBREUCK
  • PRESENT
  • AND COMMISSIONER BOWMAN? PRESENT AGAIN
  • THANK YOU
  • CLERK HART, WILL YOU PLEASE GO OVER THE GROUND RULES FOR THIS MEETING
  • WE WILL UNMUTE ALL COMMISSIONERS ON THE LINE
  • STAFF WILL PRESENT TO YOU IN VIDEO FORMAT AND WE'LL BREAK FOR COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS
  • LAUREN AND I WILL ALSO BE MONITORING THE CHAT BOX AND ENCOURAGE COMMISSIONERS TO USE IT TO LET US KNOW WHEN YOU DO WANT TO HAVE A QUESTION SO THAT WE CAN QUEUE YOU UP IN THE ORDER YOU'VE REQUESTED TO SPEAK
  • TODAY'S STUDY SESSION IS BEING RECORDED AS NOTED BY THE COMMISSION PRESIDENT AND BROADCAST TO THE VIEWING PUBLIC AND WILL BE ON DEMAND SHORTLY AFTER THE MEETING CONCLUDES
  • IT IS A WORKING SESSION FOR THE COMMISSION TODAY
  • AND THEREFORE WE DO NOT HAVE A PUBLIC COMMENT AT THIS MORNING SESSION
  • THANK YOU
  • AND I THINK I SHOULD ADD THAT THE CHAT BOX IS REALLY INTENDED JUST FOR MECHANICS AND TECHNICAL ISSUES AND NOT FOR POLICY DISCUSSION PURPOSES, WHICH SHOULD GO BEFORE THE ENTIRE AUDIENCE HERE
  • THANK YOU
  • OKAY WITH THAT, LET'S GET STARTED
  • DIRECTOR METRUCK, GOOD MORNING
  • GOOD MORNING PRESIDENT STEINBREUCK AND THANK YOU COMMISSIONERS FOR MAKING TIME TODAY FOR THIS IMPORTANT ISSUE
  • I KNOW WE HAVE A FULL DAY SO I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU TAKING TIME ON THIS IMPORTANT SUBJECT
  • BY FAR THE PORT OF SEATTLE'S LARGEST INVESTMENTS IN CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE ARE AT OUR AIRPORT
  • OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS WE'RE PLANNING TO SPEND ABOUT 3.3 BILLION ON A HUNDRED AND FORTY-ONE PROJECTS TO ENSURE SEA CONTINUES TO OPERATE SAFELY AND EFFICIENTLY MEETING OUR REGULATORY, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND COMMUNITY RESPONSIBILITIES
  • IN THE COVID-19 ERA, PROTECTING THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF EVERYONE AT THE AIRPORT IS OUR TOP PRIORITY
  • NOW MORE THAN EVER, WE NEED TO TAKE THE LONG VIEW ABOUT A NEEDS FOR THE AIRPORT'S IMPROVEMENTS AND THE AIRPORT'S TREMENDOUS VALUE TO THE ECONOMY OF THE REGION AND THE STATE
  • IN THESE TOUGH TIMES, OUR AIRLINE PARTNERS ARE ADVOCATING FOR INVESTMENTS TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE FUTURE AS WELL
  • SEATTLE-TACOMA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IS VITAL TO OUR RECOVERY AND THE RECOVERY FOR THE REGION
  • WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THERE'S GREAT UNCERTAINTY ABOUT HOW QUICKLY THE INDUSTRY WILL RECOVE.R OUR FORCASTS ARE BASED ON THE BEST INFORMATION AVAILABLE, BUT THOSE ARE ONLY FORECASTS SO WE MUST PROCEED RESPONSIBLY AND BE PREPARED TO ADJUST DEPENDING ON THE FACTS AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT LANCE LITTLE AND HIS TEAM ARE DOING
  • WE LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION WITH COMMISSION ABOUT THESE VITAL INVESTMENTS FOR OUR COMMUNITY
  • I'LL NOW TURN THE PRESENTATION OVER TO LANCE LITTLE, MANAGING DIRECTOR AVIATION
  • LANCE
  • GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE
  • THANK YOU STEVE
  • GOOD MORNING COMMISSIONERS
  • CAN EVERYONE HEAR ME? GOOD MORNING LANCE
  • COMMISSIONERS, THANK YOU AND STEVE THANKS FOR GIVING US THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT THE CIP THIS MORNING
  • I HAVE CARRIE STEVENS, BORGEN ANDERSON, AND JENNIFER BROWN WHO WILL BE PRESENTING WITH ME TODAY
  • AS COMMISSIONER STEINBREUCK SAID, WE'RE GLAD FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF THE CIP, TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE CIP PROCESS, HOW WE PRIORITIZE OUR PROJECTS IN THE CIP, ALSO HOW THE CIP IS FUNDED AND HOW WE TRIGGER PROJECTS MEANING HOW WE DETERMINE WHETHER A PROJECT IS ACCELERATED DELAYED CANCELED ETC
  • WE'RE ALSO GOING TO SPEAK TO SEVERAL WHAT WE CALL [INAUDIBLE] PROJECTS
  • THESE PROJECTS ARE VERY IMPORTANT THEY MAKE UP ABOUT 75% OF THE ENTIRE CIP
  • AND SO WE'RE GOING TO SPEAK ABOUT THOSE AND SOME PROJECTS THAT ARE OF INTEREST TO COMMISSIONERS AND TO THE AIRLINES AS WELL
  • AND FINALLY, WE'RE GOING TO SPEAK ABOUT THE PEER REVIEW RECOMMENDATION THAT WAS MADE LAST YEAR
  • OUR INTENTION WAS TO HAVE THE PEER-REVIEW RECOMMENDATION IMPLEMENTED BY THE FIRST QUARTER OF THIS YEAR
  • HOWEVER, COVID HAPPEN AND THAT DELAYED EVERYTHING
  • BUT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE ALSO SPEAK ABOUT THE PEER REVIEW RECOMMENDATION AND HOW THAT IS ALIGNED WITH OUR SUPPORT CIP AS WELL
  • BUT BEFORE WE GET STARTED COMMISSION , I REALLY WANTED TO TALK ABOUT THE VISION
  • THE CIP IS REALLY A MEANS TO AN END
  • THE PROJECTS IN THE CIP ARE A MEANS TO AN END
  • AND THE END, IT IS THE VISION THAT WE HAVE FOR THE AIRPORT
  • AND WE REALLY WANT TO PROVIDE OR SHOW YOU WHAT WE HAVE IN VISION AND TO GET YOUR FEEDBACK, TO GET COMMISSION GUIDANCE ON WHAT THIS AIRPORT SHOULD LOOK AND FEEL LIKE OVER THE NEXT 10 TO 20 YEARS
  • AND THEY SAY A PICTURE SAYS A THOUSAND WORDS, VIDEO PROBABLY SAYS ABOUT TEN THOUSAND WORDS
  • SO WE HAVE A VIDEO THAT WE WANT TO SHOW, AT LEAST THREE VIDEOS, THAT WE'RE GOING TO SHOW
  • SHORT VIDEOS
  • THEY ARE STILL IN DRAFT AND NOT COMPLETED THOUGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO AT LEAST SHOW WHAT THEY DRAFTED SO WE CAN GET EARLY FEEDBACK FROM YOU GUYS
  • ONCE WE'RE FINISHED, WE'LL HAVE A LONG VERSION OF THE VIDEO [INAUDIBLE] THEN WE HAVE A SHORTER VERSION THAT WOULD BE CONSOLIDATED FOR PUBLIC CONSUMPTION
  • WAITING FOR THE VIDEO TO GET ON THIS SCREEN HERE
  • YES, AND I WILL WARN YOU THAT IT'LL MUTE
  • EVERYBODY WANTS THE POWERPOINT GETS UP WITH THE VIDEOS
  • SO JUST BE PATIENT
  • RIGHT AND THE PURPOSE OF SHOWING THE BIGGER
  • COMMISSION, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT WHEN WE COME TO YOU WITH VARIOUS DIFFERENT PROJECTS FROM THE CIP OR FROM THE NEAR TERM PROJECTS THAT ARE IN THE MASTER PLAN I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT THESE ARE NOT JUST AD HOC PROJECTS
  • THEY ARE REALLY PART OF A WELL THOUGHT OUT STRATEGY AND VISION THAT WE HAVE
  • AND I THINK THE ANALOGY I WOULD SAY IS IF YOU GO TO PURCHASE A PUZZLE YOU LOOK AT THE BOX AND YOU SEE WHAT THE PUZZLE LOOKS LIKE AT THE END AND THEN YOU START PUTTING THE PIECES OF THE PUZZLE TOGETHER
  • SO WHAT WE WANT TO SHOW IN THIS VIDEO IS ACTUALLY WHAT THE PICTURE ON THAT BOX LOOKS LIKE AND THEN THE CIP ARE THE PIECES AND THE PROJECTS IN THE NEAR TERM [INAUDIBLE] IN THE MASTER PLAN ARE THE PIECES THAT WORK TOGETHER TO REALIZE THIS VISION
  • AND THE OBJECTIVE IS TO GET TO A FACILITY OR OTHER FACILITY IN THE AIRPORT THAT WILL LEAVE WE CALL A LEVEL OF SERVICE OPTIMAL
  • YOU GUYS HAVE HEARD ME SPEAK ABOUT THAT ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS
  • WE HAVE LOOKED AT THE AIRPORT IN ITS ENTIRETY FROM THE NORTH END OF THE AIRPORT ALL THE WAY THROUGH TO THE SOUTH END AND DETERMINE WHAT IS IT THAT WE NEED TO DO TO MAKE THIS ENTIRE AIRPORT A WORK FAST FACILITY
  • AND IT'S TAKEN LONG TO GET THERE
  • IS IT STILL LOADING? IT IS
  • IT'S SLOW BUT I PROMISE THE QUALITY WILL BE GOOD
  • THIS WAY TAKES A LITTLE LONGER TO GET UP GOING THIS ROUTE, BUT IT'LL BE A MUCH MORE PLEASANT EXPERIENCE
  • OKAY
  • AND COMMISSIONER AS I SAID, WE'RE GOING TO DO A WALK-THROUGH OF THREE DIFFERENT APPROACHES COMING IN FROM THE NORTH END OF THE AIRPORT GOING THROUGH FROM THE CHECK POINT FIVE END, ALASKA END, GOING THROUGH CHECKPOINT THREE, GOING ALL THE WAY OVER TO THE NORTH SATELLITE
  • YOU'RE GOING TO SEE WHAT THE AIRPORT LOOKS LIKE COMING IN FROM THE SOUTH END GOING INTO THE NEW CHECKPOINT ONE, AND GOING TO THE NEW SOUTH SATELLITE AS WE ENVISION IT
  • YOU'RE ALSO GOING TO SEE WHAT THE AIRPORT LOOKS LIKE COMING IN ON AN INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT THROUGH THE NEW INTERNATIONAL ARRIVALS FACILITY, GOING OVER TO THE PARKING GARAGE, GOING THROUGH OUR NEW GROUND TRANSPORTATION CENTER, AND DRIVING ON THE NEW BUS GUIDE, ALL THE WAY OVER TO THE NEW PROPOSED WHAT WE CAN CALL IT T2, OR THE NEW NORTH TERMINAL THAT WILL BE BUILT AS PART OF THE THE EVENTUAL MASTER PLAN
  • DO WE HAVE THE VIDEO NOW? YES, CAN YOU SEE IT? YES
  • LANCE, UNMUTE YOURSELF
  • OKAY, CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? YES
  • OKAY
  • SO THIS IS AS I SAID, WE'VE LOOKED AT THE AIRPORT IN ITS ENTIRETY FROM THE NORTH END OF THE AIRPORT ALL THE WAY TO THE SOUTH END INCLUDING LANDSCAPING, THE NEW TERMINAL, THE NORTH SATELLITE, SOUTH SATELLITE, THE NEW GROUND TRANSPORTATION CENTER, ALL THE ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE GOING TO BE NEEDED, THE C1 THAT WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT A LITTLE BIT, THE NEW INTERNATIONAL ARRIVALS FACILITY, AND THE SOME SATELLITE FACILITY
  • SO WE HAVE LOOKED AT WHAT IS IT THAT WE NEED TO DO IN THIS ENTIRE AIRPORT FACILITY THAT WE HAVE, OUTSIDE AND INSIDE THE FACILITY, TO GET US TO THAT LEVEL OF SERVICE OPTIMAL THAT WE STRIVE FOR
  • AND NO NEED TO PAUSE
  • WE'LL JUST GO AHEAD
  • SO ONE OF THE FIRST THING YOU'LL NOTICE IS A MONUMENT SIGN
  • RIGHT, THE SIGNS THAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW ARE REALLY OUTDATED AND THE MONUMENT SIGN WILL ACTUALLY REFLECT THE NEW LOGO THAT WE HAVE FOR A NEW BRAND, OUR SEA BRAND
  • YOU'LL NOTICE ALSO THE LANDSCAPE AND WE'LL TELL YOU MORE ABOUT THAT
  • ALSO THE NEW ROADWAY SIGNS COMING INTO THE AIRPORT AND WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT HERE IS WHERE THE NEW GROUND TRANSPORTATION CENTER WILL BE
  • SO COMING ON THE LIGHT RAIL, RATHER THAN GOING THROUGH THE GARAGE, YOU'LL BE IN THIS REALLY NICE GROUND TRANSPORTATION FACILITY
  • SO THIS WILL BE A TOTALLY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE FOR PEOPLE COMING INTO THE AIRPORT COMING FROM GROUND TRANSPORTATION
  • AND THE GROUND TRANSPORTATION CENTER WILL HAVE CONCESSIONS IN IT WILL HAVE ALSO HAVE THE OFFICE SPACES
  • WE PLAN TO CONSOLIDATE A LOT OF THE DECENTRALIZED OFFICE LOCATIONS
  • FROM THE PASSENGER PERSPECTIVE, THEY WILL FID, OR FLIGHT INFORMATION DISPLAY, AND IF YOU'RE COMING FROM THE THIRD FLOOR FROM A TAXI OR LIMOUSINE, YOU CAN COME UP INTO THIS NEW GROUND TRANSPORTATION CENTER
  • AS I SAID BEFORE, WE'LL HAVE AIRPORT DINING AND RETAIL
  • YOU'LL ALSO HAVE KIOSKS IN THIS FACILITY
  • SO YOU'LL BE ABLE TO DO CHECK IN
  • SO THIS IS A PATH THAT YOU ARE GOING TO TAKE FROM LIGHT RAIL COMING OVER TO THE GARAGE WHICH IS CURRENTLY UNCONDITIONED
  • SO THIS IS GOING TO BE CONDITIONED SPACE
  • WE'RE ALSO GOING TO BE CREATING A GARAGE PLAZA WHERE THE GARAGE [INAUDIBLE[ THE TERMINAL ITSELF WITH MOVING SIDEWALKS [INAUDIBLE] OVER AND OVER AGAIN
  • [INAUDIBLE] IMPORTANT THAT IS SO THERE'LL BE MOVING SIDEWALKS THAT TAKE YOU OVER SO THAT PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE IT TO WALK
  • THE GARAGE, LANCE? I'M SORRY
  • I'M SO SORRY TO INTERRUPT
  • I'M NOT SEEING ANYTHING
  • I'M SEEING MICHELLE'S WRITING ME
  • I'M NOT SEEING ANY VIDEO OR ANY SLIDES
  • MICHELLE, IS THERE SOMETHING I SHOULD BE DOING? I APOLOGIZE
  • YOU CAN KEEP TALKING
  • I JUST CAN'T SEE ANYTHING
  • SO IS EVERYBODY HAS NOT SEING ANYTHING? I CAN SEE IT VERY WELL, YES
  • I'M GETTING VIDEO
  • I'LL LEAVE THE MEETING AND COME BACK
  • ALRIGHT
  • WHILE WE'RE STOPPED, IS THERE ANY WAY TO LOWER THE MUSIC AND INCREASE LANCE'S VOLUME? AS LONG AS WE STOPPED, JUST WANTED TO MENTION THAT
  • I CAN TURN THE VOLUME OFF OF THE VIDEO IF THAT'S PREFERRED
  • AND THEN STEPHANIE, ARE YOU STILL ON WITH US OR DID YOU HOP OFF ALREADY? OKAY
  • LANCE CAN YOU REMIND ME WHERE WE WERE AT IN THE VIDEO? WE JUST ENTERED THE PARKING GARAGE
  • RIGHT HERE WHERE I'M GOING TO SHOW WHERE WE HAVE PARKING
  • YEAH, WE CAN START BACK HERE AND I'LL CATCH UP
  • LIKE I SAID, WE'LL HAVE MOVING SIDEWALKS IN THIS FACILITY TO REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF TIME PEOPLE HAVE TO WALK
  • PARKING GARAGES WILL HAVE ELECTRIC CHARGING STATIONS ON EVERY FLOOR EXCEPT THE THIRD FLOOR, AND OF COURSE WITHOUT PARKING LOCATION SYSTEM WHERE OUR PASSENGERS WILL BE ABLE TO EASILY FIND AND LOCATE A PARKING SPACE WITHOUT HAVING TO SEARCH
  • THE GARAGE PLAZA AREA WILL LOOK AND FEEL VERY SIMILAR TO THE TERMINAL VERSUS THE POURED CONCRETE [INAUDIBLE] CHECK-IN KIOSK EVEN BEFORE YOU GET INTO THE TERMINAL BUILDING ITSELF
  • PROBABLY LET'S PAUSE RIGHT HERE
  • I WANT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE ACCESSIBILITY IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE ON THE LOWER DRIVES COMING IN
  • IN THE ENTIRE LOWER DRIVE IS BASICALLY GOING TO BE WHAT WE CALL ZERO CURB MEANING THERE IS NO LEDGE
  • SO THE ENTIRE LOWER CURVE IS GOING TO BE ADA ACCESSIBLE AND ON THE UPPER DRIVE WILL HAVE ADA-ACCESSIBLE POINTS EVERY 50 FEET
  • ACCESSIBILITY IS A MAJOR COMPONTENT OF THE VISION THAT WE HAVE HERE AS WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE DIRECTION TO BE THE MOST ACCESSIBLE AIRPORT IN WORLD AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO
  • WE CAN CONTINUE
  • GO AHEAD, CONTINUE
  • OKAY
  • SO THIS IS A DEPICTION OF WHAT WE EXPECT THE ZONE 617 OCCUPIED BY ALASKA SHOULD LOOK
  • LIKE WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THAT PROJECT AS WELL
  • AND AS YOU MOVE FROM ZONE 617 DOWN TO THE CHECKPOINT THREE, WE'RE GOING TO EXPAND CHECKPOINT 3 SO WE CAN HAVE MORE THROUGHPUT, MORE EFFICIENCY WE'LL USE THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY THAT'S APPROVED BY THE TSA AT NOT ONLY THIS CHECKPOINT, BUT PRETTY MUCH ALL THE CHECKPOINTS THAT WE HAVE AT THE AIRPORT
  • BUT FOR THIS PATH, WE'RE GOING THROUGH CHECKPOINT THREE, ONCE YOU GET TO THE CHECKPOINT 3, BY THIS TIME THE CENTRAL TERMINAL NORTH END OF THE AIRPORT DINING AND RETAIL PROGRAM SHOULD BE COMPLETED
  • DID YOU PAUSE IT? I DID NOT
  • APPARENTLY SOME PEOPLE ARE STILL GETTING MUSIC
  • SO, YOU KNOW TECHNOLOGY IS NOT PERFECT
  • I'M NOT SURE
  • I TRY TO SPEAK OVER THE MUSIC
  • I CAN HEAR YOU GREAT, BUT
  • [CROSSTALK] IT IS NOT MOVING
  • IT'S MOVING FOR US
  • I'M NOT SEEING IT MOVE HERE
  • YOU'RE AT RESTROOM IMPROVEMENTS
  • YEAH, I'M NOT
  • I WAS ON THE RESTROOMS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE C1 BUILDING AND YOU'RE GOING TO GET A GLIMPSE OF WHAT THIS WOULD LOOK LIKE AS YOU GO UP THE ESCALATOR IN THE C1 BUILDING
  • WE'RE GOING TO HAVE NEW LOUNGES, WE'RE GONNA HAVE AIRPORT DINING AND RETAIL
  • WE'RE GOING TO HAVE NURSING STATIONS, NEW RESTROOMS, OFFICE SPACES IN THIS FACILITY, AND IT'S GOING TO HAVE THIS NICE OPEN, AIRY FEELING AND FROM THE DIFFERENT LEVELS OF THE C1 BUILDING YOU CAN LOOK DOWN AND SEE THE C CONCOURSE ON HERE
  • SO THIS IS KIND OF A [INAUDIBLE] IS GOING TO BE WHITENED, [INAUDIBLE] HAVE TO REMOVE THE EXISTING ANNEX BEFORE WE DO THAT
  • AND AS WE GO OVER TO THE NORTH SATELLITE, YOU'VE SEEN WHAT THE FIRST PHASE OF THE NORTH SATELLITE LOOKS LIKE
  • RIGHT NOW, WE'RE UNDER CONSTRUCTION FOR THE SOUTH END OF THAT
  • THAT IS GOING TO BE COMPLETED IN 2022
  • WINTER
  • WE WILL BE READY TO MEET [INAUDIBLE[ AND THIS IS PRETTY MUCH WHAT THE FIRST PHASE OF NORTH SATELLITE LOOKS LIKE NOW AND GIVES YOU A GOOD IDEA WHAT THE ENTIRE PROJECT
  • LOUNGES IS GOING TO BE NEXT [INAUDIBLE] ON LOCATION AND WE WANT TO ASSURE THAT ALL OUR LOUNGES ARE
  • IF YOU LOOK AT THE ALASKA LOUNGE NOW, THEY HAVE TOP-NOTCH FIRST CLASS LOUNGE
  • LOOK AT THE DELTA LOUNGE, WE HAVE ANOTHER TOP- NOTCH FIRST CLASS LOUNGE
  • WE WANT WANT TO ENSURE THAT ALL THE LOUNGE'S INCLUDING THE UNCOMMON LOUNGES THAT WE MEET THAT SOPHISTICATION
  • OUR LANDSCAPING IS GOING TO BE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO US
  • IT WILL AFFECT THE LOOK OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST EVERGREEN FORESTS, AGRICULTURE, ETC
  • AND OF COURSE WATER CONSERVATION IS GOING TO BE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT AND ART IS ALWAYS A MAJOR COMPONENT OF EVERYTHING THAT WE DO AND YOU'LL SEE THIS IN THE OTHER PRESENTATION
  • LET'S RUN THE NEXT VIDEO AND THIS ONE COMING IN WILL SHOW US COMING IN FROM THE SOUTH AND GOING THROUGH THE NEW CHECKPOINT ONE
  • GOING OVER TO THE WHAT WE ENVISION THE NEW SOUTH SATELLITE TO LOOK LIKE
  • ALL RIGHT, I'M GONNA PRESS PLAY ON THE VIDEO FOR THIS ONE
  • IT'S GOING TO MUTE EVERYBODY AGAIN
  • SO LANCE YOU'LL NEED TO UNMUTE YOURSELF ONCE IT STARTS PLAYING
  • THANK YOU
  • LAUREN, COMMISSIONER BOWMAN IS STILL HAVING ISSUES WITH THE TICKING
  • I DID ADVISE THAT THE NEXT TWO FILES ARE SMALLER IN SIZE
  • SO HOPEFULLY IT WILL HAVE A LITTLE BIT BETTER, YOU KNOW REACTION ON THE OTHER END
  • OKAY, AND I'VE BEEN TOLD BY OUR TECH PERSON OVER ON SCCTV THAT EVERYTHING IS COMING IN FINE ON HIS END AS WELL AND THE VIDEOS OBVIOUSLY, THEY'LL BE MUCH SMOOTHER IF SOMEBODY GOES BACK TO WATCH ON THE LIVESTREAM
  • PERFECT
  • UNMUTE AGAIN
  • OKAY, COMMISSIONERS AND STEVE
  • SO THIS IS ACTUALLY NOW COMING IN FROM THE SOUTH END AND THIS WILL BE THE EXPERIENCE THAT OUR PASSENGERS AND VISITORS WILL HAVE COMING IN FROM THE SOUTH END GOING THROUGH THE NEW CHECKPOINT POINT OF COURSE, AS I [INAUDIBLE] REFLECTS OUR NEW BRAND WILL BE VISIBLE
  • ALSO ANOTHER FEATURE OF THE CURVE WILL BE DYNAMIC SIGNS AND THAT WOULD GIVE US FLEXIBILITY AND ALLOW US TO MANAGE THE CURVES FAR FAR MORE EFFICIENTLY THAN WE DO RIGHT NOW WITH THE STATIC SIGNS THAT WE HAVE AND THE COLUMNS WE HAVE VARIOUS DIFFERENT OPTIONS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT
  • AS TO WHAT WE DO WITH THOSE COLUMNS, MAYBE WE HAVE SPONSORSHIP, MAYBE SOMETHING DIFFERENT BUT WE WANT THE CURB TO ACTUALLY LOOK AND FEEL LIKE YOU'RE IN THE TERMINAL AS WELL
  • SO THIS IS COMING IN THE GINAMARIE LEVEL AND YOU'RE GOING THROUGH THE NEW SECURITY CHECKPOINT ONE RIGHT HERE
  • AND AGAIN, YOU'LL SEE PRETTY MUCH AN ALL OF OUR VIDEOS YOU WILL SEE ART DEPICTED
  • ART IS GOING TO BE A MAJOR COMPONENT OF OUR VISION CURRENT AND OUR VISION GOING FORWARD AS WELL
  • SO THIS IS COMING THROUGH THE NEW SECURITY CHECKPOINT 1
  • YOU'RE GONNA BE COMING OUT BASICALLY MIDWAY OF INTERSTITIAL LEVEL [INAUDIBLE] IF GO LEFT HERE YOU'LL BE GOING UP AT THE CONCOURSE A AND IF YOU GO DOWN THE ESCALATOR YOU'RE GETTING ON THE TRAIN AND THEN YOU'RE GOING TO GO OVER TO THE SOUTH SATELLITE
  • YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A LITTLE BIT WHAT WE ENVISIONED THE SOUTH SATELLITE LOOKS LIKE
  • THE FIRST LEVEL AT THE SCS LEVEL WE'RE GOING TO HAVE DUTY FREE
  • WE'RE STILL [INAUDIBLE] PRODUCTS RIGHT NOW
  • WE'RE GOING TO HAVE MULTIPLE LEVELS WITHIN THE SOUTH SATELLITE WHILE IT IS GOING TO BE DESIGNED AND CONSTRUCTED SO THAT EVEN WHEN YOU HAVE MULTIPLE LEVELS , YOU WILL STILL FEEL AS IF YOU'RE IN ONE SPACE AND YOU'RE GONNA FEEL AS IF YOU'RE ACTUALLY VERY CLOSE TO YOUR GATES
  • [INAUDIBLE] IF YOU GO UP TO THE CONCOURSE [INAUDIBLE] AND ABOVE THAT MEZZANINE LEVEL THAT WILL HAVE ADDITIONAL CLUBS AND AIRPORT DINING AND RETAIL SOUND FACILITY AS WELL
  • JUST IMAGINE YOU EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE AT MULTIPLE LEVELS YOU HAVE THIS FEELING AS IF YOU'RE IN ONE FACILITY
  • RESTROOMS, BASICALLY THE STANDARD RESTROOM IS GOING TO LOOK AT THE ONE THAT WE HAVE IN THE NEW NORTH TERMINAL AND OF COURSE ADA COMPLIANCE IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO US
  • SERVICE AREAS
  • WE ARE GOING TO HAVE SENSORY ROOM FOR TO REDUCE ANXIETY AND FOCUS AND OF COURSE MEDITATION ROOM
  • AND WE HAVE SET A STANDARD AT AIRPORTS WORLDWIDE FOR THE NURSING STATIONS THAT WE HAVE AND THAT WOULD BE THE STANDARD THROUGHOUT THE NEW FACILITIES THAT WE DID HERE
  • I'M NOT SEEING THE NURSING SUITE THAT LOOKS ANY BETTER THAN THE ONE THAT WE HAVE ON THE NORTH SATELLITE RIGHT NOW
  • THAT'S REALLY WHAT WE WANT WITH THE STANDARDS FOR THE FACILITY
  • AND SO THIS IS WHAT IT WILL LOOK LIKE GOING TO THE SOUTH SATELLITE
  • NOW THE NEXT VIDEO WE'RE COMING IN AND THIS IS THE LAST ONE
  • WE'RE GOING TO BE COMING IN ON AN INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT, COMING IN THROUGH THE SOUTH SATELLITE AND GOING THROUGH THE GINAMARIE HALL
  • YOU'RE GONNA GO ALL THE WAY OVER TO THE NEW TERMINAL ON THE NORTH END OF THE AIRPORT
  • WE CAN RUN THE THIRD ONE
  • YEP, I WILL GET IT STARTED NOW
  • SO THIS IS THE EXPERIENCE THAT OUR GUEST OR VISITOR WILL HAVE COMING INTO THE NEW SOUTH SATELLITE FACILITY
  • WE SHOW THE INSIDE
  • THIS IS POTENTIALLY WHAT THE OUTSIDE OF THE FACILITY MAY LOOK LIKE, WHICH IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT THAN IT IS RIGHT NOW
  • I'M ACTUALLY LOOKING AT IT
  • YOU'RE GOING TO GO UP SOME OF THE LONGEST ESCALATORS YOU'LL SEE, YOU GO OVER THE BRIDGE WHICH IS THE LONGEST BRIDGE ACROSS A TAXIWAY ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD AND YOU'LL GO INTO OUR NEW INTERNATIONAL ARRIVALS FACILITY 450,000
  • AGAIN THE ART THAT YOU WILL SEE AND HEAR REFLECTS THE MOUNTAIN RANGES WITHIN THE REGION
  • ART'S VERY IMPORTANT TO US AND THE WOODWORK HERE IN ARCHITECTURE REFLECTS THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
  • GET INTO A BAGGAGE BAY HERE THAT'S FIVE TIMES THE SIZE OF THE ONE THAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW
  • SMOOTH PROCESS ALL THE WAY THROUGH
  • AND YOU WILL EXIT THIS FACILITY INTO THE GINAMARIE HALL
  • RIGHT HERE, EXITING INTO THE GINAMARIE
  • NOW IF YOU'RE GOING TO THE NEW TERMINAL, WE'RE JUST GOING TO TAKE A PATH, YOU'RE GOING TO GO OVER TO THE GARAGE OVER TO THE FOURTH FLOOR
  • AND AGAIN THE FOURTH FLOOR, ESPECIALLY THIS SECTION OF THE FOURTH FLOOR IS GOING TO BE DESIGNED TO LOOK AND FEEL LIKE ALL THE REST OF THE TERMINAL
  • EXPECTATION IS BY THIS TIME, WE HAVE AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES, BUT IF WE DON'T HAVE THIS VEHICLE, MY EXPECTATION IS THESE ARE GOING TO BE ALL ELECTRIC VEHICLES THAT WOULD BE MOVING PEOPLE THROUGH THE PLAZA, THE GARAGE PLAZA AND ALSO THEY WILL BE AROUND FROM THE FOURTH FLOOR DOWN TO THE SECOND FLOOR AND YOU'LL BE ABLE TO GO ALL THE WAY OVER TO THE NEW TERMINAL RT TO OUR NORTH TERMINAL, NOT SURE EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE GOING TO CALL IT YET
  • AND ONCE WE GET OVER THERE YOU SEE WHERE EVEN THOUGH IT'S A TERMINAL ON THE NORTH SIDE, THE ENTIRE THING IS CONNECTED
  • SO THIS IS BUS [INAUDIBLE] IF WE COULD PAUSE REAL QUICK
  • SO THIS IS THE BUS GUIDE THAT LEADS OVER TO THE NEW TERMINAL
  • AS WE SAID LANDSCAPE IS IN PLACE, NEW SIGNAGE, BUT IF YOU LOOK TO THE LEFT, THAT WOULD BE THE NEW CONCOURSE THAT WE'LL HAVE ON THE NORTH END OF THE AIRPORT AND ON THE RIGHT IS THE NEW PROCESSING CENTER THAT WE'LL HAVE
  • THERE WILL BE A BRIDGE THAT CONNECTS THE PROCESSING AREA OVER TO THE CONCOURSE AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE NEW CONCOURSE ON THE NORTH SIDE, THERE'S ALSO A BRIDGE THAT LEADS BACK TO THE NORTH SATELLITE
  • SO THE ENTIRE AIRPORT IS ACTUALLY CONNECTED
  • CONTINUE
  • WE'RE AT THE END
  • LANCE, YOU ARE MUTED
  • YEAH YOU HAVE TO UNMUTE EACH TIME
  • [LAUGHTER] THIS IS GLIMPSE AT WHAT THE NEW TERMINAL WILL LOOK LIKE
  • EXIT SIGN WE'LL GET RID OF THAT DOT MATRIX AND HAVE A REAL MORE MODERN SIGN THAT REFLECTS OUR TECHNOLOGY REGION HERE
  • SO THIS PRETTY MUCH IS WHAT WE ENVISIONED THE AIRPORT SHOULD LOOK LIKE MAYBE THE NEXT 10- 20 YEARS FROM NOW
  • THESE PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE IN THE CIP
  • YOU WILL SEE HOW EACH OF THESE PROJECT FITS INTO REALIZING THIS VISION
  • I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR US TO GET GUIDANCE FROM COMMISSIONERS AND FEEDBACK FROM COMMISSIONERS AS WE GO ALONG
  • SO WHEN WE BRING PROJECTS TO YOU COMMISSIONERS AS PART OF THE CIP, WE'RE BRINGING THESE PROJECTS IN THE CONTEXT OF THIS IS THE VISION
  • WE'RE TRYING TO GET TO A WORLD-CLASS AIRPORT THAT MEETS THE LEVEL OF SERVICE OPTIMAL DOWN THE ROAD
  • SO WITH THAT SAID, I AM GOING TO STOP HERE AND I'M GOING TO HAND OVER TO CARRIE UNLESS COMMISSIONERS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR STEVE? I'LL HAND OVER TO CARRIE TO WALK THROUGH THE CIP PROCESS
  • WILL THESE VIDEOS BE PUT ON THE WEBSITE SO THAT THE PUBLIC CAN HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO VIEW THEM? YES, ONCE WE'RE FINISHED, THIS IS STILL IN DRAFT COMMISSIONERS, ONCE WE'RE FINISHED WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A FULL-BLOWN VIDEO WITH ACTUALLY NARRATION IN IT
  • I WONT DO THE NARRATION, SOMEONE WITH A MUCH BETTER VOICE [LAUGHTER[ AND WE'LL HAVE IT ON, WE'LL HAVE IT FOR THE PUBLIC TO VIEW IT
  • THAT'S GREAT BECAUSE THEY'RE REALLY HELPFUL IN TERMS OF VISUALIZATIONS
  • SO SO THE FIRST TIME I'VE EVER SEEN THE ENTIRE VISION PROJECTED THIS WAY IN A VISUALIZATION SEQUENCE
  • A GOOD PIECE OF WORK
  • WELL, WE HAVE JUST A GREAT TEAM OF EXPERTS THAT HAVE PUT A WHOLE LOT OF WORK INTO LOOKING AT THIS ENTIRE AIRPORT
  • AND WHAT ARE THE FACILITIES THAT WE NEED? WHAT ARE THE PROJECTS THAT WE NEED TO GET US TO THAT END STATE? AND WANT TO SAY KUDOS TO THE TEAM THAT HAVE DONE A TREMENDOUS JOB
  • PIECES OF THE PUZZLE COMING TOGETHER
  • SO WE'RE GOING TO GO TO THE PIECES OF THE PUZZLE SO CARRIE IF YOU COULD
  • YEAH, SO EVERYBODY CAN HEAR ME NOW? ARE WE GOING TO PROJECT THE PRESENTATION? YEP, I'M WORKING ON IT ON MY END
  • GIVE ME A MOMENT
  • OKAY
  • WELL, LET ME JUST START OFF
  • SO GOOD MORNING COMMISSIONERS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR METRUCK, MY NAME IS CARRIE STEVENS
  • I'M A MANAGER IN THE AVIATION CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT
  • WILL TRY TO SPEED THROUGH THIS AS FAST AS I CAN
  • I KNOW IT'S 9:30 RIGHT NOW
  • WE HAVE A HARD STOP I BELIEVE AT 10:50 SO I WANT TO GET THROUGH THIS
  • WE'VE GOT A LOT OF STUFF TO PRESENT AND HOPEFULLY I CAN GET THROUGH ALL YOUR QUESTIONS
  • SO YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT AND SEEN SOME OF MY TEAM MEMBERS PRESENT IN THE PAST AND MAYBE EVEN WONDERED, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE DO
  • SO HOPEFULLY THROUGH THIS PRESENTATION YOU'LL GET A FLAVOR FOR THAT
  • BUT IN A NUTSHELL, OUR FUNCTION IS TO MONITOR AND CONSULT ON THE EXISTING CAPITAL PROGRAM AS WELL AS DEVELOP SCOPE FOR THE FUTURE CAPITAL PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS WE ALSO ACT AS LIAISON AND FACILITATOR BETWEEN DEPARTMENTS TO SET THE PROGRAM OBJECTIVES AND REQUIREMENTS
  • SO BEFORE WE REALLY GET GOING HERE, YOU KNOW, I HAVE MADE SOME CHANGES TO THE PRESENTATION
  • WE HAD SOME SMALL ADJUSTMENTS THAT WE MADE TO THE APPENDIX SLIDE SOME OF THE NUMBERS WE HAD TO MAKE SOME ADJUSTMENTS TO
  • I DID TAKE OUT A SLIDE, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS HAVE THE MOST CURRENT OR IF YOU HAVE THE PAPER COPIES FROM FRIDAY
  • POTENTIALLY, YOU DON'T HAVE THE MOST CURRENT
  • I DID TAKE OUT THE DESIGN CASH FLOW SLIDE BECAUSE AFTER GOING THROUGH IT, I FELT THAT IT REALLY DID NOT PROVIDE MUCH MEANINGFUL INFORMATION
  • SO ANYWAYS FROM THERE, THAT'S WHERE WE'RE AT
  • AND THE ONLY OTHER THING THAT I'M THINKING OF LAUREN IS POTENTIALLY PAUSING AFTER THESE FIRST COUPLE OF SECTIONS JUST BECAUSE THEY KIND OF CORRELATE WELL WITH EACH OTHER AND JUST TO KEEP THIS MOVING AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE
  • I THINK WE'VE GOT SOME, YOU KNOW HIGH-LEVEL INFORMATION AND SOME PROBABLY SOME QUESTIONS FROM SOME DIRECTORS AT THE AT THE END OF IT
  • SO OTHER THAN THAT, LET'S KEEP GOING ON THIS
  • NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE
  • OKAY
  • SO THIS WAS YOU KNOW, THIS IS OUR AGENDA
  • AND I THINK YOU KNOW LANCE HAS ALREADY KIND OF SPOKEN ABOUT ALL OF THESE THINGS, WHAT WE PLAN TO ACTUALLY SHOW YOU GUYS TODAY, AND WE'VE ALREADY GONE THROUGH THE SEATTLE VISION 2040
  • SO LET'S MOVE ON FROM HERE
  • NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE
  • OKAY, SO THE CIP PROCESS
  • SO I THINK I HEARD SOME QUESTIONS ON THE PROCESS A CAPITAL PROJECT GOES THROUGH SO I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT FIRST WHAT WE SEE IS OUR CAPITAL PROJECT DRIVERS HERE, BUT REALLY THESE ARE AVIATION GOALS THAT RELATE TO CAPITAL WORK
  • WE'LL DISCUSS THESE AGAIN WHEN WE TALK ABOUT PRIORITIZATION LATER ON
  • NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE
  • SO, I BELIEVE YOU'VE SEEN THIS SLIDE BEFORE
  • THESE ARE THE GATEWAYS THAT EACH PROJECT GOES THROUGH
  • THIS REPRESENTS REALLY A SIMPLE DESIGN BID BUILD TYPE OF PROJECT WHICH REALLY MOST OF OUR PROJECTS STILL ARE
  • PROJECTS ARE INITIALLY REQUESTED BY A SPONSORING DEPARTMENT AND THEY GAIN APPROVAL AT THE DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR'S DISCRETION
  • AND THEN YOU KNOW IN STATUS ONE, WHICH IS THE NEXT LEG DOWN, CAPITAL PROGRAMS, OUR GROUP, TAKES TO DEVELOP AND LAYOUT SCOPE WITH THE STAKEHOLDERS
  • WE PROVIDED AN ALTERNATIVE REVIEW WITH MULTIPLE CONCEPTS INCLUDING OPERATIONAL ALTERNATIVES
  • OUR GOAL IS TO UNCOVER ALL OF THE REQUIREMENTS PUT ON A PROJECT AND DO OUR BEST TO MAKE SURE THE HIDDEN REQUIREMENTS DON'T COME UP IN DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION
  • WORKING WITH PNG, WE DEVELOP A SCHEDULE AND BUDGET AND PRESENT THAT PACKAGE TO OUR INVESTMENT COMMITTEE FOR DIVISION APPROVAL
  • THIS IS ALSO THE ORIGINAL BUDGET YOU SEE IN THE PROJECT DOCUMENTS AND IT IS ON THE FAR LEFT SIDE OF THE CONE OF CERTAINTY
  • SO OVER USUALLY A SIX-MONTH PERIOD BEGINNING OF THE YEAR, WE GO THROUGH AROUND 80 PROJECT REQUESTS
  • BUT USUALLY A LITTLE LESS THAN 40 MAKE IT TO DIVISION APPROVAL
  • THAT TYPICALLY EQUATES TO AROUND 300 TO 400 MILLION DOLLARS IN CAPITAL PROJECT INCLUSION INTO THE CAPITAL PLAN
  • BUT WITH THIS YEAR, WITH THE ADJUSTMENTS THAT WE MADE FOR COVID, WE WERE ABLE TO PROVIDE A NET ZERO PROGRAM BUDGET INCLUSION
  • PRESIDENT STEINBREUCK, COMMISSIONER BOWMAN HAS A QUESTION
  • OKAY
  • COMMISSIONER BOWMAN
  • THANK YOU
  • I DON'T MEAN TO GO TOO FAR BACKWARDS
  • BUT LOOKING AT THIS SLIDE, CARY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS
  • IS THERE ANOTHER STEP WHERE THE COMMISSION WOULD BE INVOLVED BETWEEN BEFORE STEP 3 WHERE WE'RE JUST BROUGHT A PROJECT FOR DESIGN APPROVAL? THE REASON I ASK IS THAT FREQUENTLY I KNOW THAT IN THE REVIEW OF OUR CURRENT FIVE-YEAR CIP, THE STAFF HAD MADE THE DECISION TO CONTINUE WITH PROJECTS THAT WERE ALREADY IN DESIGN, EVEN THOUGH THE FULL PROJECT HADN'T BEEN AUTHORIZED BY THE COMMISSION
  • SO MY QUESTION IS AT WHAT POINT DOES THE COMMISSION HAVE, IN YOUR OPINION, HAVE THE ABILITY TO STEP IN AND SAY HOLD ON WE'VE DONE SOME DESIGN WORK
  • WE'RE NOT SURE THAT WE WANT TO MOVE FORWARD
  • IT FEELS LIKE WE'RE, THERE'S OBVIOUSLY A GREAT DEAL OF STAFF WORK BEING PUT INTO THESE PROJECTS THINKING THROUGH WHERE THEY FIT INTO THE BIG PICTURE, IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO KNOW WHEN WE COULD SEE MORE OF THAT BIG PICTURE BESIDES JUST THE VIDEO
  • DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? I FEEL LIKE THERE'S A VISION THAT THE STAFF IS PUT FORWARD
  • I'M NOT CERTAIN, AFTER SEVEN YEARS ON THE COMMISSION, I DON'T FEEL LIKE I'VE BEEN PART OF AN APPROVAL PROCESS FOR SEA 2040
  • AND SO I'M JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE THE COMMISSION FITS IN BESIDES JUST AT STATUS NUMBER THREE
  • AND COMMISSIONER BOWMAN IF I COULD ADD, I THINK THAT'S AN EXCELLENT QUESTION
  • IT WAS EXACTLY SORT OF MY THOUGHT AS I WAS LOOKING AT THIS IS WHERE ARE THE COMMISSION CHECKPOINTS IN THIS SCHEDULE OF DEVELOPMENT PROJECT DELIVERY AND I THINK AN IDEAL OPPORTUNITY HERE, IF I COULD INTERJECT, FOR AN INTERIM LEVEL COMMISSION REVIEW AND APPROVAL WOULD BE BETWEEN SCHEMATIC DESIGN AND DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
  • AND FOR THAT I MEAN BETWEEN STATUS NUMBER 3 AND STATUS NUMBER FOUR
  • THE DESIGN DEVELOPMENT IS WHEN THE ACTUAL HEAVY LIFTING GOES INTO THE DETAILED CONSTRUCTION DESIGN INCLUDING ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING, AND ALL OF THE MECHANICAL WORK AND EVERYTHING
  • AND IT BECOMES MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE AT THAT STAGE AND THE SCHEMATIC WOULD ALLOW FOR THE COMMISSION TO HAVE AN INTERIM CHECKPOINT TO REVIEW AND CONSIDER COST UPDATES, THE OVERALL PROJECT DIRECTION AND VISION BEFORE TAKING THE NEXT BIG LEAP
  • SO I THINK THAT'S A REALLY GOOD QUESTION, COMMISSIONER BOWMAN
  • SO COMMISSIONERM I'M GOING TO ASK TO JEFFREY BRAUN TO JUST RESPOND TO THAT
  • COULD SOMEONE UNMUTE JEFFREY, PLEASE? THEN WE'LL TRY TO GET BACK ON TRACK WHEN WE CAN
  • CAN YOU HEAR ME? SO COMMISSION BOWMAN, STEINBREUCK, THANKS FOR THE QUESTION
  • PER THE CURRENT PROCESS WE HAVE IN PLACE, BEFORE WE SPEND 300 THOUSAND OR MORE ON ANY PROJECT, WE HAVE TO COME TO THE COMMISSION FOR AUTHORIZATION
  • SO I MEAN MOST LIKELY ON THIS PROJECT WE WILL BE COMING TO YOU BEFORE WE GET TO SCHEMATIC DESIGN
  • I HOPE THAT ANSWERS THE QUESTION
  • [CROSSTALK] ENVIRONMENTAL GOALS FOR THE PROJECT
  • SO THERE IS AN EARLY PLACE FOR SOME COMMISSION INSIGHT AND IT SHOULD JUST BE REQUIRED THAT THE COMMITTEE REPORT OUT TO THE FULL COMMISSION
  • I'D LIKE STAFF TO TAKE NOTE OF THESE QUESTIONS AND WE'LL GET BACK TO THEM
  • WE'RE ABOUT 15 MINUTES BEHIND HERE
  • I DO WANT TO BE SURE TO COMMISSIONERS GET THEIR QUESTIONS OUT THERE ON THE TABLE AND WE CAN ALWAYS FOLLOW UP
  • THIS IS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR METRUCK
  • I DO KNOW THAT COMMISSION BOWMAN'S QUESTION IS DIFFERENT TO COMMISSIONER STEINBREUCK
  • SO WE'VE GOT BOTH OF THOSE AND WILL GET BACK ON BOTH OF THOSE
  • OKAY, SO I'M JUST GOING TO KEEP GOING ON THROUGH THE THREE R GATEWAYS HERE AND KIND OF DESCRIBE EACH OF THE LEVELS HERE A LITTLE BIT MORE
  • WE DO, I THINK, AS COMMISSIONER STEINBREUCK WAS TALKING ABOUT, WE DO HAVE THAT AUTHORIZATION AT BASICALLY SCHEMATIC DESIGN BEFORE WE GO INTO DETAIL DESIGN
  • THAT AUTHORIZATION IS REQUIRED
  • BUT AT STATUS TWO LEVEL, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT DIVISION APPROVAL AT THIS POINT IN TIME BUT WE STILL NEED TO DO CAPITAL PLANNING
  • WE STILL NEED TO DO A LOT OF THAT SCHEMATIC DESIGN
  • SO THIS IS WHERE PNG TAKES CONTROL
  • THEY WORK ON THE PROCUREMENT, THE PHASING PLAN, RISK ANALYSIS, SCOPE DEFERMENT, EXCUSE ME, SCOPE REFINEMENT, AMONG OTHER THINGS AND A LOT OF TIMES THEY WORK WITH OUR IDIQ DESIGNERS TO PROVIDE A HIGHER LEVEL OF DESIGN FOR SCOPE AND BUDGET REFINEMENT
  • AT THE END, WE HAVE A PRODUCT NOTEBOOK THAT GETS APPROVED BY OUR INVESTMENT COMMITTEE
  • ON LARGER PROJECTS WE ARE STARTING TO GO WITH PROJECT DEFINITION DOCUMENTS, OR PDD'S, TO PROVIDE A HIGHER LEVEL OF SCOPE DEFINITION AND DESIGN AND THEREFORE BUDGET CLARITY SINCE WE TYPICALLY BRING ON A CONSULTANT
  • THE COST FOR PDD'S, IS HIGHER DURING STATUS TWO AND WE TYPICALLY HAVE TO GET MORE AUTHORIZATION FROM COMMISSION
  • SO IN THAT MODE ANYTHING OVER 300 THOUSAND, JEFFREY TALKED ABOUT, WE GO TO COMMISSION AND GET ADDITIONAL AUTHORIZATION AND WE'VE DONE THAT FOR LITERALLY EVERY PDD THAT WE'VE PUT OUT IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, C1 BEING ONE OF THE FIRST
  • SO AT STATUS THREE, WE ARE MOST LIKELY PUTTING THE PROJECT OUT FOR MII APPROVAL AND REQUESTING DESIGN AUTHORIZATION FROM COMMISSION
  • AND SO AND THEN THE REMAINING GATEWAYS YOU GUYS ARE VERY, SHOULD BE FAIRLY AWARE OF, AND AND FAIRLY SELF-EXPLANATORY
  • STATUS FOUR, THAT GATEWAY ACTION IS REALLY
  • WE'RE GOING THROUGH DESIGN, AT THE END OF DESIGN WE REQUEST AUTHORIZATION FOR CONSTRUCTION AND WE GO THROUGH CONSTRUCTION AND THEN WE GO THROUGH CLOSE OUT
  • OBVIOUSLY, THERE'S CHANGES HERE WHEN YOU DO ALTERNATIVE DELIVERY, YOU KNOW, THERE'S CHANGES WHERE WE'VE DONE A SINGLE AUTHORIZATION INSTEAD OF THESE DOUBLE AUTHORIZATIONS FOR DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION
  • WE BUNDLE IT TOGETHER
  • SO THOSE TYPES OF THINGS HAVE HAPPENED ALSO AND WE CAN GO ON TO THE NEXT SLIDE UNLESS THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT
  • OOPS, KEEP GOING
  • OKAY CIP PRIORITIZATION
  • SO LET'S GO ON TO THE NEXT SLIDE
  • SO WE'VE CREATED A PRIORITIZATION TOOL THAT IS ANALYTICAL IN NATURE
  • WE USE WEIGHTED AVIATION GOALS AND THEN DEVELOPED A SYSTEM OF METRICS THAT REGISTER SIGNIFICANCE TO EACH GOAL
  • EACH PROJECT IS REVIEWED FOR EACH PRIORITIZE GOAL AND SCORES ACCUMULATE DOWN THE LINE
  • THIS IS ALL COMPLETED IN THE STATUS ONE TIME FRAME
  • IN THE END, WE'VE CREATED AN OBJECTIVE, PRIORITIZED LIST FOR THE DIRECTIONS TO DISCUSS HOW THEY WANT TO PLACE THESE PROJECTS INTO THE CAPITAL PLAN, IF APPROVED
  • NEXT SLIDE PLEASE
  • SO NOW I WANT TO GO INTO A HIGH-LEVEL OVERVIEW OF OUR CURRENT FIVE-YEAR CIP
  • I THINK YOU GUYS HAVE SEEN A LOT OF THE DETAILS IN THE APPENDIX SLIDES
  • THAT'S WHERE WE CAN DISCUSS SOME OF THOSE THINGS BUT WE'RE GOING TO STAY AT A HIGH LEVEL AT THIS STAGE
  • I THINK BORGAN'S GOING TO DO SOME PRESENTATION THAT'S GOING TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT MORE NUMBERS, BUT WE CAN CALL IT THE APPENDIX SLIDES IF WE NEED TO
  • CARRIE? YA? JUST TO PAUSE IT FOR JUST A SECOND
  • I'D LIKE TO UNDERSTAND BETTER THE ROLE FOR CARRIERS IN THE PRIORITIZATION PROCESS AND WE CAN COME BACK TO THAT
  • I DON'T WANT TO INTERRUPT THE FLOW HERE
  • SO WHAT ARE THE ROLES FOR THE AIRLINES IN THE PRIORITIZATION PROCESS? YES
  • OKAY, SO LET'S GO TO NEXT SLIDE
  • OKAY
  • SO IN THIS VIEW WE'VE DIVIDED THE PROJECTS INTO THE THREE CAPITAL PHASES FOR A PROJECT: PLANNING, DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION
  • WE'VE ALSO PUT THEM IN CATEGORIES BY TYPE OF PROJECT
  • THIS CORRELATES TO OUR GOALS AND DRIVERS THAT I SHOWED EARLIER
  • ONE OF THE FIRST SLIDES
  • RENEWAL AND REPLACEMENT CORRELATES TO ASSET MANAGEMENT BUT THERE'S USUALLY OTHER DRIVERS WRAPPED IN, R&R IS JUST THE DOMINANT ONE
  • THE SAME KIND OF THOUGHT CAN BE SAID FOR SAFETY AND SECURITY
  • REGULATORY IS ACTUALLY OUR COMPLIANCE WORK
  • IT HAS DRIVERS IN SAFETY, SECURITY, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND ASSET MANAGEMENT
  • AND BUSINESS NEED REALLY COVERS A LOT OF OUR REMAINING DRIVERS SUCH AS CUSTOMER SERVICE AND REVENUE GENERATION
  • IT'S MORE DISCRETIONARY IN NATURE
  • ON THE RIGHT, YOU SEE OUR TALLY OF OUR MEGA PROJECTS
  • THESE ARE PROJECTS THAT ARE OVER 300 MILLION
  • WE'VE HAD THREE PROJECTS THAT YOU KNOW A LOT ABOUT
  • WE ARE GOING TO BE ADDING THREE MORE PROJECTS TO THE CAPITAL PLAN AND THEN OUR RECENTLY PROPOSED ARE PROJECTS THAT WE PUT INTO THE CAPITAL PLAN, REALLY IN THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS
  • DIRECTORS FEEL THAT WE WILL BE ACTING ON THESE PROJECTS AND THEY VISIBILITY IN THE CAPITAL PLAN
  • WE STILL HAVE QUITE A BIT OF WORK TO DO TO IRON THESE ONES OUT THOUGH
  • ANY QUESTIONS? I CAN GO ON THE NEXT SLIDE
  • WHEN WILL WE GET DETAILS ABOUT THE RECENTLY PROPOSED PROJECTS? SO I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH THOSE AT THE END
  • WE HAVE A COUPLE OF SLIDES ON THE RECENTLY PROPOSED PROJECTS THAT'LL GIVE YOU SOME, YOU KNOW, HIGH LEVEL DETAILS
  • WE CAN ASK QUESTIONS, WE CAN TALK THROUGH THOSE
  • OKAY, SO NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE
  • OKAY
  • SO THIS IS PROJECT BY LOCATION
  • SO OUR MAIN TERMINAL COMPLEX WAS BUILT 50 YEARS AGO
  • SO WE HAVE QUITE A BIT OF RENEWAL REPLACEMENT
  • MAJORITY OF OUR PROJECTS IN THE MAIN TERMINAL OUR INFRASTRUCTURE IN NATURE AND YOU KNOW FOR LANDSIDE, THAT'S ALSO GOING TO INCLUDE ALL THE WORK THAT WE HAVE IN THE GARAGE
  • SO MAINLY THIS IS MAIN TERMINAL AND YOU'LL SEE RENEWAL REPLACEMENT IS A BIG PORTION OF IT, INFRASTRUCTURE
  • NEXT SLIDE PLEASE
  • ON OUR FIVE YEAR CASH FLOW, AND WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON IS A PERCENTAGE OF COST
  • MOST OF THE CASH FLOW IS GOING TO RENEWAL REPLACEMENT AS YOU CAN SEE HERE
  • YOU'LL SEE A BREAKDOWN LATER, BUT THIS EQUATES TO OVER THREE BILLION IN CASH FLOWS OVER THE FIVE-YEAR PERIOD
  • NEXT SLIDE
  • AND SO HERE YOU CAN SEE PROJECTS THAT ARE CURRENTLY IN CONSTRUCTION IN THE CAPITAL PLAN
  • WE HAVE 51 PROJECTS AND THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF THEM ARE RENEWAL REPLACEMENT
  • AND I SOMEWHAT THINK THAT THIS IS ACTUALLY KIND OF KEY WITH WHAT'S GOING ON RIGHT NOW
  • THIS CREATES A GOOD FOUNDATION FOR HOW WE RECOVER FROM THE PANDEMIC
  • WE GET THROUGH A LOT OF OUR RENEWAL REPLACEMENT
  • ALLOWS US TO CREATE THAT STRUCTURE, THAT FOUNDATION THAT WE CAN THEN EXPAND ON AND OPTIMIZE IN THE FUTURE
  • SO WITH THAT MY COMMENTS ON THIS SECTION ARE COMPLETE
  • ANY QUESTIONS I CAN GO THROUGH THAT
  • SO NOTE THAT THIS PIE CHART IS DIFFERENT FROM THE ONE WE RECEIVED EARLIER
  • THE NUMBERS HAVE CHANGED
  • WELL, YOU KNOW
  • THE ONE YOU'RE LOOKING AT MIGHT BE DESIGN
  • IF YOU SEE THAT UP OFF THE TOP BY YOUR CASH FLOW DESIGN
  • ITS IT LOOKS LIKE EXACTLY THE SAME SLIDE ONLY THE NUMBERS ARE DIFFERENT
  • TOTAL FIVE YEAR CAPITAL CASH FLOW, CATEGORY BREAKDOWNS
  • I'VE GOT 51 PERCENT
  • FOR THE BIG ONE, RENEWAL AND REPLACEMENT 53% AND YOU GOT 80% IN THIS ONE I THINK WE HAVE THE WRONG HEADERS
  • SOMETHING HAS BEEN ALTERED SINCE THE PREVIOUS DIGITAL VERSION WAS DELIVERED TO COMMISSIONERS
  • ARE YOU LOOKING AT SLIDE 14? THIS SAYS SLIDE 12 IN FACT
  • OH, THAT IS THE FULL FIVE-YEAR CASH FLOW
  • THAT'S FOR ALL PROJECTS
  • THE SLIDE 14 WAS FOR JUST PROJECTS IN CONSTRUCTION NOW
  • OKAY, I APOLOGIZE
  • OKAY, THANK YOU
  • SO IF YOU'RE LOOKING JUST AT THAT FIVE-YEAR CASH FLOW, YES, 53% OF OUR PROJECTS OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS ARE GOING TO BE RENEWAL REPLACEMENT
  • OKAY, I WAS MISTAKEN
  • I WAS ON THE WRONG SLIDE
  • THANKS, BUT NO, BUT I THINK THE SLIDES COULD BE TITLED BETTER
  • I HAVE ONE QUICK QUESTION
  • IF YOU WERE TO LOOK AT RENEWAL AND REPLACEMENT, SINCE IT IS SUCH A HUGE CATEGORY, COULD YOU BREAK THAT UP? WHAT IS RENEWAL AND WHAT IS REPLACEMENT? THAT WOULD BE A GOOD THING
  • YES
  • YEAH, WE WOULD HAVE TO GO THROUGH, IT WOULD TAKE US A LITTLE BIT OF TIME TO GO THROUGH AND REALLY BREAK THAT UP, BUT WE COULD DO THAT, [CROSSTALK] CORRECT
  • WE HAVE TO MAKE SOME
  • YEAH, WE'D HAVE TO MAKE SOME ADJUSTMENTS
  • I AGREE
  • IN CERTAIN CASES, THIS IS ASSETS THAT WE ARE REPLACING IN KIND AND THEN THERE ARE, OTHERS THAT WE CAN FORMULATE [CROSSTALK] CAN WE TAKE THAT AS A TAKEAWAY QUESTION TO RESPOND TO LATER ON THE BREAKDOWN FOR RENEWAL REPLACEMENT? ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT
  • GOOD MORNING COMMISSIONERS
  • THIS IS BORGAN ANDERSON, DIRECTOR OF AVIATION FINANCE AND BUDGET
  • LET'S GO ON TO THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE
  • THE MOST IMPORTANT DRIVER IS REALLY OUR PASSENGER LEVELS
  • AND SO I'M GOING TO TALK TO YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR FORECAST AND WHAT'S PARTICULARLY NOTABLE IS THAT OUR FORECAST HASN'T CHANGED SINCE WE FIRST PRESENTED YOU OUR UPDATES BACK IN EARLY JUNE AND I WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE FINE WORK OF MICHAEL DROLLINGER AND HIS TEAM IN THE BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AREA
  • THEY DO A REALLY SOLID JOB
  • SO WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IS OUR 2020 FORECAST WE STILL EXPECT TO BE 61 PERCENT DOWN FOR THE YEAR
  • AND FOR 2021, WE STILL ARE PLANNING TO BE DOWN 30%
  • WHEN WE LOOK OUT BEYOND THAT, WE ARE ANTICIPATING A RECOVERY TO 2019 LEVELS BY 2024 SO THIS WOULD BE A FIVE-YEAR RECOVERY
  • AND THIS IS PRETTY CONSISTENT WITH THE INDUSTRY EXPERT WE BROUGHT IN
  • WE SPOKE TO YOU IN LATE JULY STEVEN BEEBE WHO WAS TALKING ABOUT A TWENTY THREE TWENTY FOUR ISH KIND OF RECOVERY TIME FRAME THAT HE WAS SEEING
  • AND WE'VE SEEN SIMILAR THINGS FROM OUR YOU KNOW INDUSTRY EXPERTS FROM ALASKA AND FROM DELTA
  • AND THERE'S YOU KNOW OUTSIDE EXPERTS ALL OVER THE PLACE, BUT GENERALLY SPEAKING THOSE WHO ARE A LITTLE ON THE MORE ON THE OPTIMISTIC SIDE WOULD LOOK TO A RECOVERY TO 2019 LEVELS BY 2022 OR 23
  • THOSE THAT ARE ON THE MORE PESSIMISTIC SIDE WOULD BE OUT 25, 26
  • SO WE RECOGNIZE THERE'S A LOT OF UNCERTAINTY ABOUT OUR FORECAST BUT WE THINK 2024 IS A PRETTY REASONABLE TIME FRAME TO GET BACK TO 2019 LEVELS
  • BORGEN, I HAVE A QUESTION
  • THIS IS STEPHANIE HAVE YOU, I'M ASSUMING YOU ALL HAVE DIVIDED OUT FOR PASSENGER ENPLANEMENTS ESTIMATES FOR INTERNATIONAL PASSENGERS VERSUS DOMESTIC PASSENGERS? YEAH, AND WHAT'S GOING ON THERE, I MEAN NO SURPRISE, IS THAT THE INTERNATIONAL IS LAGGING DOMESTIC AND SO I CAN GIVE YOU THE ACTUAL NUMBERS IF YOU LIKE, BUT THEY'RE NOT IN THE FORECAST, WHICH I'LL SHOW IN THE NEXT SLIDE
  • THERE'S S A LITTLE MORE DETAIL ABOUT THIS, BUT I ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR QUESTION AND WE'LL GET BACK TO YOU ON THAT BREAK OUT
  • THANK YOU
  • LET'S GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE
  • SO HERE IS THE THE MONTH BY MONTH VIEW OF WHAT'S GOING ON AND YOU CAN SEE THE BIG DROP EARLIER THIS YEAR AND WE'VE BEEN COMING BACK SLOWLY BUT STEADILY
  • THE GRAY MARKER FOR JULY AND AUGUST I CAN REPLACE WITH ACTUAL BUT I LEFT THE FORECAST HERE SO YOU CAN SEE HOW CLOSELY WE'VE BEEN TRACKING
  • SO IN JULY WE WERE ACTUALLY DOWN 72% INSTEAD OF 74%
  • IN AUGUST, WE WERE DOWN 70% INSTEAD OF 69%
  • SO WE WERE SLIGHTLY BETTER IN JULY AND JUST SLIGHTLY WORSE IN AUGUST
  • BUT OVERALL, WE ARE TRACKING VERY CLOSELY TO THIS FORECAST, WHICH IS WHY WE'RE STILL USING THIS AS A BEST ESTIMATE OF OUR YEAR-END PASSENGER LEVELS
  • SO AGAIN, WE'D BE DOWN 61 PERCENT COMPARED TO 2019 BASED ON THIS FORECAST HERE
  • BORGEN, THIS IS RYAN
  • ARE YOU USING AIRLINE BOOKING DATA TO INFORM NOVEMBER DECEMBER? YEAH, MICHAEL DROLLENGER AND HIS TEAM LOOK AT A LOT OF FACTORS AND YOU KNOW, AIRLINE BOOKINGS ARE AN IMPORTANT PART OF THAT
  • I THINK THAT YOU KNOW ONE ACKNOWLEDGES THAT AIRLINE BOOKINGS ARE PROBABLY NOT AS CERTAIN AS THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN IF YOU LOOKED AT THEM A YEAR AGO, BUT IT STILL CONTINUES TO BE ONE OF THE INDICATORS THAT ARE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION
  • OKAY
  • THANK YOU
  • COMMISSIONER BOWMAN HAS A FOLLOW-UP QUESTION
  • THANK YOU
  • BORGEN, I UNDERSTAND FROM THE AIRLINES THAT THEY ARE ALREADY MAKING ADJUSTMENTS TO THEIR SEPTEMBER NUMBERS AND MOVING ON TO THE FALL THAT THEY WERE SEEING FLATTENING DEMANDS
  • HOW CLOSELY, I GUESS TO FOLLOW UP ON COMMISSIONER CALKINS QUESTION, ARE WE IN TOUCH WITH THE CARRIERS TO REALLY UNDERSTAND? OBVIOUSLY THEY HAVE DAY-TO-DAY INFORMATION ABOUT BOOKINGS
  • I AM JUST CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT I'M HEARING FROM THEM ABOUT FLATTENING DEMAND THROUGHOUT THE FALL AND WINTER WHILE YOUR PROJECTIONS WOULD LOOK FOR INCREASED DEMANDS
  • SO HELP ME
  • DO WE HAVE AN ALTERNATIVE SCENARIO THAT YOU'RE CONSIDERING? WE HAVE AN ALTERNATIVE
  • WE HAVE LOOKED
  • BACK IN JUNE WE PRESENTED SOME ALTERNATIVES AND CLEARLY THERE'S UNCERTAINTY SURROUNDING THIS
  • DON'T GET ME WRONG, BUT I'M JUST SAYING THIS IS OUR BEST INDICATOR
  • THIS FORECAST WAS ACTUALLY QUITE CONSERVATIVE AT THE TIME
  • MANY OTHER AIRPORTS WERE SHOWING BETTER FORECAST FOR 2020 THAN WE WERE
  • AND SO BASED ON MY MOST RECENT CONVERSATIONS WITH MICHAEL DROLLINGER, YOU KNOW, HE WOULD SAY THAT SOME OF THE UNCERTAINTY THAT THE AIRLINES ARE NOW FACING AND SOME OF THE PULLBACKS, IF YOU WILL, COMPARED TO WHAT THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE GOING TO DO IS STILL REASONABLY CONSISTENT WITH THIS FORECAST
  • SO IS IT GOING TO BE PERFECT? NO, NO FORECAST IS EVER PERFECTLY ACCURATE, BUT WE STILL THINK THIS IS A REASONABLE ESTIMATE OF WHAT COULD HAPPEN
  • [CROSSTALK] JUST A FOLLOW-UP
  • JUST WANT TO THANK YOU AND THE STAFF FOR AND COMPLIMENT YOU AND THE STAFF ON YOUR EARLY PROJECTIONS AND BEING MORE CONSERVATIVE IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE PANDEMIC
  • SO PLEASE DON'T GET ME WRONG THAT I DON'T APPRECIATE ALL THE WORK
  • I'M JUST CONCERNED ABOUT AGAIN WHAT I'VE HEARD DIRECTLY FROM THE AIRLINES ABOUT THEIR CONCERNS MOVING INTO THE THIRD AND FOURTH QUARTERS OF THIS YEAR
  • AND SO I JUST WANT TO
  • I WOULD PREFER TO BE MORE CONSERVATIVE IN OUR ESTIMATES AS WELL AND THEN BE ABLE TO HAVE MORE CAPITAL OR PLANNING ABILITY TO DIVE INTO PROJECTS AS OPPOSED TO THINKING THAT, YOU KNOW, BY DECEMBER THAT WE WOULD ONLY BE DOWN 50%
  • AND IN FULL DISCLOSURE I'VE SAID THIS IN MANY MANY MEETINGS
  • THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER VARIABLES OUT THERE THAT I'M ENCOURAGING OUR AIRPORT STAFF TO TAKE A LOOK AT
  • YOU KNOW, AGAIN TALKING DIRECTLY TO THE BUSINESSES THAT DEPEND ON BUSINESS TRAVEL, THE AMAZONS, THE GOOGLES, THE MICROSOFTS, THE STARBUCKS, TALKING TO THE HOTEL INDUSTRY ABOUT THEIR PROJECTIONS FOR HOTEL OCCUPANCY
  • IT FEELS LIKE THERE'S OTHER FACTORS THAT I HOPE THAT WE WOULD BE CONSIDERING IN ADDITION TO WHAT WE NORMALLY USE FOR PASSENGER ENPLANEMENTS MODELS
  • ALL GOOD POINTS
  • AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE SEE NATIONWIDE IS THAT THE MAJOR AIRLINES ARE CONSOLIDATING AT THEIR MAJOR HUBS AND SO OBVIOUSLY ALASKA IS CONTINUING TO FOCUS ON SEATTLE AND DELTA IS STILL FOCUSING ON SEATTLE AND THAT MAKES SEA-TAC SLIGHTLY MORE RESILIENT THAN SOME OTHER AIRPORTS
  • AND SO, YOU KNOW, ALL I CAN SAY IS THIS AS I JUST ONE OF MANY THINGS THAT WE LOOK AT ON A MONTHLY BASIS AND AS CONDITIONS CHANGE, WE WILL CHANGE THIS FORECAST
  • ALL I CAN SHARE WITH YOU RIGHT NOW IS THAT BASED ON THE MOST RECENT MEETING WE HAD WHICH WAS NOT TOO LONG AGO, THIS IS STILL OUR BEST INDICATION
  • AND YOU KNOW, WE DO SPEAK WITH ALASKA AND DELTA ON A REGULAR BASIS AND WHEN WE HAD SOME DISCUSSIONS ABOUT 2021 BUDGET, THEY LOOKED AT OUR FORECAST AND SAID, WE'RE FOCUSING ON 2021 AT THE TIME, BUT THAT'S BEING BUILT OFF OF THIS FORECAST AND THEY BASICALLY SAID, YOU KNOW, THAT'S PROBABLY PRETTY REASONABLE
  • SO YOUR CONCERNS ARE RIGHT ON AND WELL-FOUNDED AND WE TRY TO TAKE AS MUCH INFORMATION AS WE CAN INTO BUILDING OUR FORECAST AND WE REGULARLY REASSESS AND WE WOULD ADJUST IF WE SEE THINGS POINTING IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION
  • COMMISSIONER FELLEMAN HAS A QUESTION
  • YES, THANK YOU BORGEN
  • I WAS WONDERING IN TERMS OF FOR AIRPORTS OF COMPARABLE SIZE THE RATIO OF DOMESTIC VERSUS INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS THAT WE HAVE COMPARED TO OTHERS BECAUSE BASED ON THE COMMENTS WE GOT FROM A CONSULTANT WAS THAT THEY THOUGHT THE DOMESTICS WERE GOING TO RECOVER QUICKER THAN THE INTERNATIONAL
  • SO JUST WONDERING ARE WE MORE EXPOSED THAN OTHERS? SO WE GOT TO REMEMBER THAT INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC AT SEA-TAC HAS BEEN IN THIS SORT OF TEN TO ELEVEN PERCENT AS A PERCENTAGE OF OUR TOTAL TRAFFIC
  • SO DEPENDING ON WHICH AIRPORT YOU'RE POINTING TO, YOU KNOW, WE ARE EITHER MORE EXPOSED OR A LOT LESS EXPOSED
  • SO IT ALL DEPENDS
  • BUT I MEAN INTERNATIONAL IS A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF OUR PASSENGER MIX BUT IT'S STILL HISTORICALLY BEEN IN THE 10 TO 11 PERCENT RANGE NOT LIKE SOME OTHER AIRPORTS WHERE IT WOULD BE IN THE 20S TO 30 PERCENT RANGE
  • I'M JUST WONDERING FOR COMPRABLE SIZED AIRPORTS
  • DOES THIS SUGGEST YOU KNOW, HOW CONSISTENT WITH OUR ESTIMATES BE WITH SOME OF THE OTHER AIRPORTS OF OUR DIMENSION? YOU KNOW, I THINK IT EACH AIRPORT IS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT AND IT DEPENDS ON THEIR CARRIER MIX AND IT DEPENDS ON THEIR HUB STATUS
  • YOU KNOW IF YOU GOT SOME SPECIFIC QUESTIONS, WE CAN TRY TO LOOK INTO IT BUT IT'S HARD FOR ME TO GENERALIZE ABOUT HOW WE COMPARE TO OTHER AIRPORTS OUR SIZE BECAUSE YOU KNOW WE'RE THE, BASED ON 2019, THE 8TH LARGEST AIRPORT IN THE U.S
  • AND BUT OUR CHARACTERISTICS ARE TO SOME EXTENT REFLECTIVE OF WHERE WE ARE GEOGRAPHICALLY AND WHO OPERATES, MEANING ALASKA AND DELTA, AT THIS AIRPORT AS WELL AS A SOLID MIX OF FOREIGN FLAG CARRIER
  • SO EVERY AIRPORT IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT AND INDIVIDUAL AIRLINES ARE MAKING THEIR OWN DECISIONS AND IT'S JUST VERY HARD FOR ME TO GENERALIZE
  • YOU SAID 11%
  • I MEAN MEAN, I WAS JUST WONDERING OTHER AIRPORTS OF OUR SIZE AROUND 11% WHEN YOU'RE TRYING TO COMPARE PROJECTIONS, THAT'S ALL
  • OKAY
  • WELL, YOU KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, SAN FRANCISCO, LARGER AIRPORT, HAS A MUCH HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC
  • VANCOUVER, ACTUALLY A MUCH SMALLER AIRPORT HAS A MUCH HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC
  • SO THEY ARE GOING TO BE MUCH MORE VULNERABLE THAN WE ARE
  • ALL RIGHT
  • THANK YOU
  • BORGEN, I COULD REALLY ADD TO THAT JUST TO MAKE THE POINT COMMISSIONER FELLEMAN
  • WE ARE DOWN SEVENTY PERCENT YEAR-TO-DATE AS OF AUGUST FOR INTERNATIONAL PASSENGERS AND WE'RE DONE 58% FOR DOMESTIC PASSENGERS
  • BUT AS BORGEN SAID, INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC PROCESS IS ONLY APPROXIMATELY 10 PERCENT IN TOTAL
  • SO IF YOU LOOK AT AN AIRPORT LIKE VANCOUVER OR MIAMI OR SAN FRANCISCO, WHICH HAVE A FAR FAR HIGHER INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC THIS THEN WE DO, THEY'RE GOING TO BE IMPACTED MORE SIGNIFICANTLY THAN US WITH INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC
  • ALL RIGHT
  • THANK YOU
  • OKAY, GREAT QUESTIONS
  • LET US MOVE ON TO THE NEXT SLIDE IF WE COULD, PLEASE
  • ALL RIGHT
  • THIS IS JUST A LOOK AT THE THE FIVE-YEAR LOOK AHEAD
  • AND YOU KNOW IF WE LOOK AT 2020 AND 2021 COMPARED TO 2019, YOU CAN SEE THE DEPTHS OF THE DROP
  • THE BOX ON THE RIGHT SHOWS THE ANNUAL CHANGES AND ALSO A COMPARISON TO 2019 SO YOU CAN SEE HOW WE'RE MARCHING BACK TOWARDS 2019 LEVELS BY 2024
  • AS WE LOOK FOR 2021, YOU KNOW, THE GREAT NEWS IS WE'LL BE GROWING AT ALMOST 80%
  • THE BAD NEWS IS WE'LL STILL BE DOWN BY 30% WHICH JUST SHOWS WHAT GOES ON WITH BIG NUMBERS AND AN ENORMOUS CHANGES LIKE WE'VE SEEN
  • BUT I THINK YOU KNOW CONSISTENT WITH WHAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT, THERE REMAINS TREMENDOUS UNCERTAINTY ABOUT THIS FORECAST
  • THINGS COULD PLAY OUT VERY DIFFERENTLY AND BECAUSE OF THAT, WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AND REVISITING THIS FORECAST ON A REGULAR BASIS AND TO THE EXTENT WE NEED TO THIS WILL CHANGE THE TRIGGERS, OR THE TIMING OF THE NEED, FOR CERTAIN PROJECTS
  • PARTICULARLY THOSE THAT RELATE TO BRINGING ON NEW CAPACITY
  • I'LL TALK ABOUT A LITTLE BIT LATER, THIS REALLY, FOR THE MOST PART, WON'T CHANGE OUR NEED FOR MAINTAINING OUR EXISTING FACILITIES AND THE RENEWAL AND REPLACEMENT PROGRAMS THAT CARRIE WAS DESCRIBING EARLIER, BUT OBVIOUSLY AS IT RELATES TO ADDING NEW CAPACITY TO BE ABLE TO LOOK AHEAD AND TO HAVE A GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THE FORECAST IS GOING TO BE WILL HELP US IN BRINGING PROJECTS TO YOU AT THE RIGHT TIME
  • NEXT SLIDE PLEASE
  • SO NOW WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE IMPACTS OF COVID-19 ON OUR CAPITAL PROGRAM
  • NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE
  • WELL, WHEN WE FIRST WERE ASSESSING THE IMPACTS, IT WAS ALL ABOUT CASH PRESERVATION
  • THE CARES ACT GRANT HADN'T PASSED YET, BUT WE KNEW WE NEEDED TO MAKE SOME CHANGES
  • AND SO INITIALLY WE WENT THROUGH ALL OF OUR CAPITAL PROJECTS WITH A FOCUS ON THOSE THAT WERE CASH FUNDED OR FUNDED BY THE AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT FUND AND WE CAME UP WITH A PLAN TO DEFER APPROXIMATELY 28 MILLION DOLLARS, AND THIS WAS REALLY AIMED AT CASH PRESERVATION
  • IN APRIL, WE STARTED TO RECOGNIZE THAT THERE COULD BE SOME REAL BENEFITS TO HAVING FEWER PASSENGERS IN THE TERMINAL AND FEWER PLANES ON THE GROUND
  • AND SO THIS GAVE US THE OPPORTUNITY TO ACCELERATE CERTAIN PROJECTS AND I THINK THE NOTABLE PROJECTS THERE WOULD BE THE AIRFIELD PAVEMENT WORK THAT WAS DONE THIS YEAR, OR IS BEING DONE THIS YEAR
  • AND ALSO THE THE NORTH SATELLITE WHERE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF FEWER PASSENGERS HAS ALLOWED ELEMENTS OF THAT PROJECT TO BE ACCELERATED WITH SOME SAVINGS AND SCHEDULE THAT ARE REALLY IMPORTANT
  • THEN IN MAY AND JUNE, WE WENT THROUGH THE REVIEW THAT KERRY TALKED ABOUT EARLIER OF ALL THE NEW PROJECTS AND THERE WAS A LENGTHY REVIEW THAT RESULTED IN AN ELIMINATION OF SOME PROJECTS AND THE ADDITION OF THE NEW ONES WITH THE GOAL OF MAINTAINING A CASH NEUTRAL POSITION OVER THIS FIVE-YEAR PERIOD
  • MORE RECENTLY, WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO ADDRESS SOME KNOWN PROBLEMS THAT WE'VE HAD AND BY THAT I MEAN WE'VE HAD, WE RECOGNIZED WE HAD SOME UNDER FUNDED PROJECTS AS WELL AS SOME PROJECTS THAT WERE JUST NOT FUNDED AT ALL
  • AND SO AS KERRY INDICATED, WE'VE GOT SOME NEWLY PROPOSED PROJECTS AND WE'VE TAKE A GOOD HARD LOOK AT SOME OF THE BUDGETS OF OUR EXISTING PROJECTS AND WE TRIED TO GET THE TOTAL COST FULLY REFLECTED IN OUR CAPITAL PROGRAM AND THIS IS REALLY FOR VISIBILITY AND TRANSPARENCY IN TERMS OF WHAT WE FEEL WE REALLY NEED TO ACCOMPLISH OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS
  • IN ADDITION
  • WE DID GO THROUGH ALL THE PROJECTS THAT WERE UNDER DESIGN AND CONFIRMED THAT WE STILL NEEDED TO DO THOSE
  • NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE
  • SO IN TERMS OF OUR FOCUS IN THIS TIME PERIOD WHERE WE'RE GOING THROUGH, WE KNOW WE HAD A BIG DROP IN PASSENGERS AND WE SEE A RECOVERY COMING AND WHAT'S OUR FOCUS NOW? WELL, OBVIOUSLY WE'RE LOOKING AT ALL THE PROJECTS AND THOSE THAT ARE OF THE HIGHEST PRIORITY ARE THOSE THAT WE THINK WE WOULD NEED UNDER ANY REASONABLE RECOVERY SCENARIO
  • IN OTHER WORDS, WE COULD TAKE THE OPTIMISTIC THE BASE CASE OR THE MORE PESSIMISTIC CASE WE SAY YEP WE STILL NEED TO DO THESE
  • AND THESE ARE REALLY THE BIG RENEWAL AND REPLACEMENT PROJECTS
  • AND YOU SAW THE VISION OF THE SOUTH SATELLITE RENOVATION AND YOU KNOW THAT'S A VERY DIFFERENT FACILITY FROM WHAT WE HAVE TODAY
  • AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE RECOGNIZED IS THAT WE HAVE SOME SEISMIC CONCERNS THERE THAT MUST BE ADDRESSED AND SO RATHER THAN SPENDING MULTIPLE HUNDREDS OF MILLION DOLLARS TO JUST ADDRESS SEISMIC NEEDS, WE ARE LOOKING AT THIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO FUNDAMENTALLY RENOVATE THE FACILITY AND GET SOMETHING THAT'S A VERY DIFFERENT PRODUCT AT THE END
  • ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THIS WOULD BE THE MAIN TERMINAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND YOU'LL GET A BRIEFING ON THAT LATER TODAY
  • BUT THIS IS A PROJECT THAT'S JUST GOING TO BE VERY INVASIVE WITHIN OUR TERMINAL TO ADDRESS SMOKE CONTROL ISSUES AND OTHER KEY ELEMENTS OF THE TERMINAL INFRASTRUCTURE
  • THE OTHER THING WE WANTED TO DO WAS BASED ON YOUR DIRECTION TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR NOISE PROGRAM WAS FULLY REFLECTED IN OUR CIP
  • IN CERTAIN CATEGORIES WE NEED HELD ONTO BASICALLY PILOT PROGRAMS FOR APARTMENTS AND CONDOMINIUMS AND PLACES OF WORSHIP AND WHAT WE'RE NOW PROPOSING IS OUR BEST ESTIMATE OF WHAT THE FULL COST OF THOSE PROGRAMS WOULD BE, AGAIN, SO THAT WE CAN REALLY PLAN THIS OUT AND MAKE SURE THAT WE'VE GOT FULL VISIBILITY AND TRANSPARENCY TO OUR PROGRAM
  • ANOTHER KEY ELEMENT OF OUR CAPITAL PROGRAM DURING THIS PERIOD IS TO STRIVE WHEREVER POSSIBLE TO ACHIEVE EFFICIENCIES IN HOW WE ARE USING OUR CURRENT FACILITIES AND GETTING THE FINAL PHASE OF BAGGAGE OPTIMIZATION IS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF THAT
  • THE AIRLINE REALIGNMENT, JUST BEING ABLE TO USE OUR FACILITIES A LITTLE MORE EFFICIENTLY
  • AND THEN YOU'LL HEAR A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE ZONE 6 ON 7 PROJECT TOWARDS THE END OF THIS PRESENTATION AND THE POSSIBILITY OF REDESIGNING CHECK POINT 5 THAT WOULD BE A PART OF THAT AS A WAY TO EKE OUT A LITTLE BIT OF ADDITIONAL CAPACITY AND EFFICIENCY IN HOW WE'RE USING OUR CURRENT FACILITIES
  • SO WE KNOW WE'RE GOING TO BE USING THESE FACILITIES FOR A LONG TIME
  • WE FULLY EXPECT THE DEMAND TO COME BACK AND SO WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO REALLY FOCUS OUR EFFORTS ON OUR EXISTING FACILITIES
  • NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE
  • SO ONE OF THE OTHER AREAS THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FROM A STRATEGIC STANDPOINT IS TO GENERATE NON-AERONAUTICAL REVENUES
  • WE'VE GOT TO HELP PAY FOR ALL THESE PROGRAMS AND WHEN WE LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES THERE, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WILL BE HAPPENING ON CONCOURSE A UPON THE COMPLETION OF THE INTERNATIONAL ARRIVALS FACILITY IS THERE WILL BE MANY MORE INTERNATIONAL DEPARTURES
  • AND SO EXPANDING OUR DUTY FREE PRESENCE ON CONCOURSE A IS A KEY OPPORTUNITY BOTH TO ENHANCE CUSTOMER SERVICE AND THEIR EXPERIENCE BUT ALSO TO GENERATE REVENUES
  • THE SAME THING WOULD BE TRUE AT THE END OF CONCOURSE A WHERE WE WOULD HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO ENHANCE OUR LOUNGES THERE AND ALSO AT THE SOUTH SATELLITE AND THE SEA LOUNGES ARE A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY BOTH TO SERVE CUSTOMERS AND TO MAKE MONEY
  • AND I TOUCHED UPON THE SOUTH SATELLITE RENOVATION BEFORE
  • WE'VE GOT THE FEDERAL INSPECTION SERVICES FACILITY DOWN IN THE LOWEST LEVELS OF THE SOUTH SATELLITE
  • WELL, THOSE ARE ALL MOVING TO THE INTERNATIONAL ARRIVALS FACILITY
  • WE HAVE THIS TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT SPACE AND YOU SAW SOME PICTURES OF A DUTY-FREE AREA AND ADDITIONAL AIRPORT DINING AND RETAIL SPACE THAT COULD BE CREATED OUT THERE
  • AGAIN CUSTOMER SERVICE AND REVENUE GENERATING OPPORTUNITIES
  • BORGEN, COMMISSIONER BOWMAN HAS A QUESTION
  • YES
  • THANK YOU SO MUCH, BORGEN
  • SORRY
  • JUST GO BACK TO NEXT SLIDE AND YOU DON'T EVEN NEED TO
  • COULD YOU JUST GIVE US AT SOME POINT A LIST OF THE NOISE PROJECTS? I DON'T SEE IT IN THE APPENDIX
  • PERHAPS I MISSED IT
  • WE CAN GIVE YOU A DETAIL OF THOSE NOISE PROJECTS
  • YES
  • WE HAVE THE NOISE PROJECTS GROUPED AS A SINGLE LINE ITEM THAT SAYS JUST CHOICE PROGRAM BUT YES, THERE ARE INDIVIDUAL CIPS AND WE CAN SEND YOU THAT LIST
  • THAT'S GREAT
  • I'M SURE THE REST OF THE COMMISSION WOULD LIKE TO SEE THOSE AS WELL
  • GREAT, OKAY
  • ALL RIGHT
  • SO WHAT ELSE IS A KEY PART OF OUR PROGRAM? WE WANT TO CONTINUE WITH THE EARLY DESIGN ACTIVITIES ON SAMP ENABLING PROJECTS BECAUSE WHAT WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO DO IS UPON COMPLETION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW OF SAMP, WHICH SHOULD BE DONE BY THE END OF NEXT YEAR, WE WANT TO GIVE GIVE YOU THE OPTION TO BE READY TO MOVE AHEAD WITH THOSE PROJECTS IF THE FORECAST AND IF THE ALIGNMENT OF THINGS SUGGEST THAT THAT WOULD BE THE RIGHT TIME
  • SO WE WANT TO BE READY SO WE PLAN TO KEEP THOSE GOING
  • AND THEN FINALLY IS A JEFFREY BROWN WILL TALK ABOUT AT THE END OF THIS PRESENTATION AND WHAT LANCE INDICATED EARLIER, THE IMPORTANCE OF IMPLEMENTING THE PEER REVIEW RECOMMENDATIONS
  • NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE
  • WE HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION FROM COMMISSIONER BOWMAN FOLLOWED BY COMMISSIONER FELLEMAN? THANK YOU
  • I'LL BE REAL BRIEF
  • BORGEN, TALKING ABOUT SAMP
  • SO YOU JUST MENTIONED THE KEYWORD FORECAST
  • SO AT WHAT POINT WHEN YOU GET THROUGH ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW OF SAMP ARE YOU PLANNING TO DO AN UPDATED PASSENGER FORECAST ? THIS I HADN'T HEARD THAT BEFORE
  • WELL IT TERMS OF WHAT I WAS REFERRING TO WAS THE FIVE-YEAR LOOK AHEAD THAT I PREVIOUSLY PRESENTED WHICH IS BASICALLY OUR VIEW OF THE RECOVERY
  • AND THAT'S WHAT I MEAN ABOUT SAYING LIKE WHERE ARE WE ON THAT RECOVERY PATH? AND ARE WE AT A POINT WHERE WE WOULD SAY THAT YOU KNOW, IT'S TIME TO PULL THE TRIGGER AND MOVE TO THE NEXT STEP
  • I THINK JEFFREY BROWN WANTS TO WEIGH IN HERE
  • MAY I ASK THAT YOU ALLOW HIM TO RESPOND? THAT'S GREAT
  • COMMISSIONER BOWMAN, THANKS FOR THE QUESTION
  • I THINK IT'S APPROPRIATE IF WE TAKE THAT QUESTION AND GO BACK AND SPEAK TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW TEAM AND PROVIDE YOU A MORE ACCURATE AND DETAILED RESPONSE
  • OKAY, AND I'M SURE THE REST OF THE COMMISSION WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT AS WELL
  • BUT I THINK IT IS A KEY QUESTION
  • A FEW OF US HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR A WHILE
  • IS GIVEN COVID, AGAIN, COMPLIMENTS TO ALL OF THE WORK FOR THE STAFF OVER MANY YEARS IN PUTTING TOGETHER PROJECTIONS AND YOU'VE DONE A GREAT JOB, BUT COVID HAS THROWN A MAJOR WRENCH INTO THAT AND SO I THINK WE'RE ALL CONCERNED ABOUT HOW THAT'S TRACKING MOVING FORWARD WITH CONCERN ABOUT THE SAMP PROJECTS
  • SO YEAH WOULD LOOK FORWARD TO A DETAILED ANSWER
  • THANK YOU SO MUCH JEFFREY
  • BEFORE WE MOVE ON I'M GOING TO SUGGEST WE SKIP FUNDING AND DEFER THAT TO OCTOBER SO THAT WE CAN GET TO SOME OF THE PROJECTS BEFORE THIS MEETING IS OVER TODAY
  • JUST LIKE TO FOLLOW-UP ON ONE ASPECT OF WHAT COMMISSIONER BOWMAN WAS SAYING
  • I'M JUST WONDERING WHERE ARE WE NOW ON OUR PROJECTIONS AS COMPARED TO WHEN SAMP WAS FIRST BEING PROPOSED? AND ARE WE GOING TO PUT IN LIKE A PRIORITY TRIGGERS FOR WHERE WE ARE ALONG THE PROJECTION LINE FOR PROJECTS THAT WE SEE ARE OF PRIORITY IN SEQUENCE? I'LL TRY TO ANSWER THAT IN A COUPLE STEPS
  • LIKE JEFFREY SAID, I THINK IT'S MORE APPROPRIATE FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL TEAM RESPOND TO YOU, BUT I CAN SAY VERY SIMPLISTICALLY THAT THE CURRENT RECOVERY WOULD BASICALLY PUT US BACK RIGHT ON TRACK WITH THE ORIGINAL SAMP FORECAST
  • WE'VE GROWN SO MUCH FASTER
  • WE WERE SO FAR ABOVE IT FOR A FEW YEARS THAT WITH THIS RETRACTION AND THEN RECOVERY, WE'RE GOING TO BE ABOUT EXACTLY WHERE WE THOUGHT WE WOULD BE WHEN THE 2014 FORECAST WAS DONE
  • THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT WAS THE UNDERSTANDING
  • I JUST THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO TELL THE PUBLIC THAT THAT'S WHAT WE'RE EXPECTING
  • SO THEN IF THAT'S THE ASSUMPTION, THEN ALL THE PROJECTS PROPOSED IN SAMP WOULD THEN BE IF INDEED THAT'S IT, MOVED ALL THE PROJECTS THAT WERE ORIGINALLY PROPOSED WOULD BE RECOMMENDED TO GO FORWARD
  • I'M JUST WONDERING IF INDEED THE RECOVERY IS SLOWER, DO WE HAVE TRIGGERS THAT WOULD PRIORITIZE CERTAIN PROJECTS AS THE NUMBERS INCREASE? YEAH, I MEAN, I THINK THAT A MASTER PLAN IS JUST THAT, IT'S A PLAN AND YOU COME FORWARD WITH RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE SPECIFIC TIMING AND SCOPE THAT'S NEEDED BASED ON WHAT YOU KNOW AT THAT POINT IN TIME
  • SO MY EXPERIENCE WITH MASTER PLANS LOOKING BACK AT WHAT WE'VE DONE HERE OVER OVER MANY MANY YEARS IS THAT IT'S A WONDERFUL PLAN, BUT IT ALWAYS PLAYS OUT A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY AND IT'S UP TO US TO REASSESS THE CHANGES AND ADJUST AS NEEDED GOING FORWARD
  • LET'S SKIP THE FUNDING SECTION
  • WE ONLY HAVE A HALF HOUR LEFT AND I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE FOCUS ON PROJECTS AND COMMISSIONER QUESTIONS
  • VERY GOOD
  • ALL RIGHT
  • I'LL TURN IT OVER TO CARRIE
  • OKAY NEW MEGA PROJECTS
  • AGAIN, WE USE THIS TERM TO REFERENCE PROJECTS THAT ARE OVER 300 MILLION
  • NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE
  • SO C1 BUILDING HAS A BUDGET OF 340 MILLION
  • WE ARE TAKING A DESIGN TO BUDGET APPROACH BUT ALL IN ALL THIS HAS A GOOD BUSINESS CASE
  • IT'S CURRENT SCHEDULE SHOWS THAT IT'S COMPLETING BY 2027
  • SO, YOU KNOW, WELL INTO OUR RECOVERY FOR OUR PROJECTIONS
  • AND WE ARE CURRENTLY IN PROCUREMENT FOR THE DESIGNER AND THE GC
  • NEXT SLIDE PLEASE
  • OKAY
  • SO BORGEN TALKED ABOUT THIS ONE A LITTLE BIT
  • MAIN TERMINAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT
  • THIS IS A VERY LARGE AND VERY COMPLEX INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT IN THE MAIN TERMINAL AND IT ENCOMPASSES MOST OF THE NON-SECURE SPACE
  • COMMISSION IS GOING TO HEAR A BRIEFING OF THIS PROJECT ACTUALLY THIS AFTERNOON
  • IN A NUTSHELL THE MAIN TERMINAL WAS BUILT IN THE 70S AND MOSTLY WITHOUT SPRINKLERS
  • THE PROJECT WILL PLACE SPRINKLERS AND SMOKE CONTROLS THROUGHOUT THE MAIN TERMINAL AND PROVIDE FOR EMERGENCY POWER GENERATION FOR NOT ONLY THESE AREAS BUT CONCOURSE B, C, AND D AS WELL
  • THIS ALSO INCLUDES, OF COURSE, AS YOU CAN KIND OF SEE WHAT THE PICTURES, YOU KNOW, NEW CEILINGS NEW LIGHTING, NEW SIGNAGE, ALL OF THAT IS INCLUDED IN THE PROJECT AND ALSO, YOU KNOW, THERE IS STILL QUITE A BIT OF ABATEMENT
  • WHAT ITS PRICE TAG ON THIS ONE? SO THE PRICE TAG FOR THIS ONE IS SITTING BETWEEN BETWEEN 300 AND 400 MILLION IN OUR RANGE
  • I THINK WE HAVE IT IN THE CAPITAL PLAN RIGHT AT AT 350
  • WE STILL NEED QUITE A BIT OF WORK TO BE DONE TO DO SCHEMATIC DESIGN ON IT TO REALLY GET TO THE POINT WHERE WE HAVE A GOOD HANDLE ON WHAT THIS IS BUT THIS IS A VERY IMPACTFUL PROJECT THAT WE NEED TO WORK AROUND OUR OPERATIONS AS BEST WE CAN
  • SO WE'RE GOING TO COME UP WITH A GOOD PLAN BEFORE WE TOTALLY LOCK IN ON THE ULTIMATE BUDGET FOR THIS ONE
  • SO CARY, HOW WOULD THIS INTEGRATE WITH ALASKA'S PROPOSED ZONE SIX AND SEVEN UPGRADES THAT ARE ALSO IN THE CATEGORY OF MEGA PROJECT AS I UNDERSTAND? IT WOULD SEEM LIKE THE INFRASTRUCTURE WORK THAT'S PART OF THIS WOULD BE CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO INTEGRATE WITH THOSE UPGRADES THAT ARE CONTEMPLATED FOR SIX AND SEVEN
  • YEAH, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE ARE WORKING ON RIGHT NOW WITH ALASKA
  • SO IT IS DEFINITELY TRUE THAT ALASKA RIGHT NOW WOULD BE, THEIR PROJECT WOULD BE BASICALLY COMING FIRST BEFORE THIS MAIN TERMINAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT
  • AND WOULD NEED TO ENCOMPASS SOME OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADES THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT
  • SPECIFICALLY THE SPRINKLERS AND SMOKE CONTROL ARE A BIG ITEM THAT THAT PROJECT WOULD PROBABLY HAVE TO ACCOMMODATE
  • SO WE'RE TRYING TO WORK THROUGH HOW THAT IS ACTUALLY DONE BECAUSE THE EARLY STAGE OF THE PROJECT THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE, WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T GET TOO FAR OUT IN FRONT OF OURSELVES
  • WE DON'T WANT TO FOLLOW THE PATH OF THE CITY WHERE THEY CONSTANTLY TEARING UP CITY STREETS AND REPLACING UTILITIES AND THEN DOING IT AGAIN A COUPLE YEARS LATER
  • [LAUGHTER] I JUST HAD TO BRING THAT UP
  • I ASSUME THAT THAT WAS BEING CONTEMPLATED
  • I REALIZED 6 AND 7 ARE NOT ON THE LIST CURRENTLY BUT HAVE BEEN ASKED TO BE PUT ON THE LIST OF PRIORITY PROJECTS
  • THEY ARE ON OUR
  • WE NOW HAVE THOSE IN THE RECENTLY PROPOSED SECTION
  • SO IT IS IN OUR CAPITAL PLAN, IT SHOWING UP FOR VISIBILITY PURPOSES IN OUR CAPITAL PLAN
  • I MEAN, YOU'RE RIGHT
  • THE IDEA HERE IS TO IF YOU'RE GOING TO, YOU KNOW, MAKE A CHANGE, MAKE IT ONE TIME
  • DON'T CONTINUE TO UPSET THE OPERATION
  • DO AS MUCH AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN AT ONE POINT IN TIME
  • YA
  • THANK YOU
  • NEXT SLIDE
  • SO THE NOISE PROGRAM
  • THIS REALLY ISN'T QUITE A MEGA PROJECT
  • IT'S STILL CONSIDERED, YOU KNOW, IN THE 200 TO 300 MILLION DOLLAR RANGE
  • THEY'RE OUT TO BID ON THEIR FIRST CONDO AND WORKING ON A CONTRACTING PLAN FOR THE WHOLE PROGRAM
  • THEY'RE WORKING WITH ERP ON THIS
  • IT'S STILL CONSIDERED TO BE A 7 PLUS YEAR RANGE TO COMPLETE ALL OF THE NOISE WORK
  • DOES THAT REFLECT THE COMMISSION'S DIRECTION TO PRIORITIZE AND ACCELERATE THE NOISE PROGRAM? BECAUSE I THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO MOVE MORE QUICKLY ON THIS? I THINK THEY'VE DONE A QUITE A BIT OF PEER REVIEWS ON THIS AND WITH THE AMOUNT OF WORK THAT THIS HAS IN FRONT OF US, YOU KNOW, THE SEVEN YEAR TIME FRAME WAS REALLY WHAT WE COULD SAY
  • WE ALSO LOOKED AT WHAT IT WOULD MEAN TO GO TO 10 YEARS
  • IT'S A LITTLE BIT HIGHER COST
  • WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN IN AT LEAST A SEVEN YEAR IF WE CAN
  • WE WILL SPEED THIS UP AS MUCH AS WE POSSIBLY CAN BUT THAT'S WHAT THE PEER-REVIEW BASICALLY CAME BACK WITH
  • COMMISSIONER STEINBREUCK, MAY I HAVE A FOLLOW UP QUESTION? PLEASE
  • CARRIE
  • THANK YOU FOR THAT ANSWER BUT I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE IF THE STAFF COULD COME BACK AND PRESENT US WITH OPTIONS ABOUT WHAT TRUE ACCELERATION MEANS AND GIVE US THE ABILITY TO MAKE THAT DECISION
  • WHETHER IT'S THREE YEARS OR FOUR YEARS SEVEN YEARS 10 YEARS, GIVE US OPTIONS AND SO THAT WE CAN DECIDE IF WE WANT TO BUDGET MONEY TOWARDS DOING IT FASTER
  • AND IT LOOKS LIKE ARLEN IS PREPARED TO RESPOND TO THAT, COMMISSIONER BOWMAN
  • THANK YOU AND COMMISSIONER BOWMAN, WE HAVE JUST RECENTLY BEEN THROUGH A PEER-REVIEW DISCUSSION WITH OTHER AIRPORTS AND PMG AND THE NOISE TEAM WILL BE PUTTING TOGETHER A MASTER SCHEDULE AS WELL AS TALKING TO FAA ABOUT POTENTIAL FUNDING
  • AND YES, WE WOULD LIKE TO COME BACK TO YOU WITH A DISCUSSION OF SCHEDULE
  • THE ENTIRE TEAM IS WORKING TOWARD THE DIRECTION THAT THE COMMISSION GAVE US EARLIER THIS YEAR
  • LET'S HAVE A REPORT BACK ON THAT ONE
  • IF I MIGHT JUST ADD, ARLEN, AS WE'VE SAID A FEW TIMES BEFORE, PLEASE GIVE US OPTIONS NOT JUST BASED ON FUNDING FROM THE AIRPORT, BUT WHAT IT MIGHT LOOK LIKE IF THE COMMISSION MADE THE DECISION TO USE THE GENERAL FUNDS TO FUND SOME OF THESE PROJECTS
  • THANK YOU
  • WE WILL DO THAT
  • THANK YOU
  • OKAY, NEXT SLIDE
  • OKAY, SO SOUTH SATELLITE RENOVATION
  • THIS IS REALLY THE BIGGEST RENEWAL REPLACEMENT PROJECT THAT WE HAVE
  • WE'VE BEEN MOVING THIS WORK ALONG IN A PHASED APPROACH THAT WE'RE GOING TO KIND OF DESCRIBE
  • PLANNING TO DO UPGRADES OF CERTAIN ASPECTS OVER A LENGTHY PERIOD OF TIME AND THAT WAS GOING TO START WITH SEISMIC AND STRUCTURAL BUT THIS WOULD REALLY BE SOMEWHAT RIPPING UP PARTS OF THE FACILITY, PUTTING IT BACK TOGETHER, AND THEN AS WE HAD TO DO OTHER PHASES, WE WOULD DO THE SAME THING
  • THIS WOULD BE VERY COSTLY OVER AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME
  • WITH COVID AND OUR DEMAND FORECASTS, YOU KNOW, SOMEWHAT EXTENDING OUT FOR A LITTLE BIT HERE, WE FEEL THAT IT IS PRUDENT TO PIVOT IN LAUNCH ON OUR FULL RENOVATION
  • SO THIS FACILITY WAS BUILT IN THE 70S
  • IT'S COMING ON 50 YEARS WITH REALLY LIMITED IMPROVEMENTS
  • AND IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO FUTURE WITH INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC
  • SO WE'RE CURRENTLY CARRYING A TARGET BUDGET OF 1 BILLION DOLLARS FOR THIS WORK
  • THAT IS BIGGER THAN THE CURRENT PROJECT, THE IAF
  • AND IT LOOKS TO ME LIKE YOUR PLANS ARE TO MAYBE RETAINED THE SHELL STRUCTURE, SEISMICALLY UPGRADED IT, BASICALLY RETROFIT EVERYTHING AND IT LOOKS LIKE IT INCLUDES SMALL ADDITIONS PROJECTING OUT
  • WHAT EXACTLY IS LEFT OF THE ORIGINAL STRUCTURE HERE? SO WE'RE NOT REALLY INCREASING THE FOOTPRINT TOO MUCH HERE FOR THIS ONE
  • WE ARE CREATING SORT OF SEISMIC BUTTRESSES AROUND THE FACILITY AND WHAT YOU'RE SEEING THERE IS A SORT OF A RENDITION OF SORT OF HOW THOSE BUTTRESSES WORK
  • HOW YOU'RE SORT OF GATE CONNECTIONS WORK
  • CURRENTLY OUR RAMPS DOWN FROM OUR LOADING BRIDGES ARE NOT AT ADA CODE, THERE TOO STEEP ACTUALLY
  • SO THERE'S A LOT OF STUFF THAT WE NEED TO CHANGE
  • IN THE END WE'VE GOT THE CONCOURSE LEVEL AND THEN THE LEVEL ABOVE IS BASICALLY THE ROOF AND WE'VE GOT CLUBS OR LOUNGES UP THERE
  • THE PLAN IS TO USE THAT LEVEL ABOVE CONCOURSE TO NOT ONLY PUT LOUNGES BUT ALSO HAVE OUR MECHANICAL IN-HOUSE SPACE UP THERE
  • WE'RE TRYING TO LIVE WITHIN OUR MEANS HERE ON THIS
  • ONE OF THE BIG ISSUES FOR SOUTH SATELLITE IS IT HAS TO REMAIN OPERATIONAL THROUGH THE CONSTRUCTION PERIOD AND THAT IS GOING TO BE VERY DIFFICULT FOR US TO DO
  • SO, WE'RE DEFINITELY GOING TO HAVE TO SHUT DOWN GATES FOR US TO DO THIS WORK
  • WE'RE ANTICIPATING, YOU KNOW, POTENTIALLY WORKING IN QUADRANTS TO TRY AND GET THIS WORK DONE
  • BUT THAT'S A LOT OF WHERE THE COST IS GOING TO BE SEEN
  • IF YOU KIND OF COMPARE TO NORTH SATELLITE, WE WERE ABLE TO BUILD AN EXTENSION FIRST, PUT EVERYBODY INTO THE EXTENSION, AND THEN REBUILD THE THE EXISTING STRUCTURE
  • AND WE DID THAT BASICALLY WE TOOK IT DOWN TO ITS BONES AND THEN BROUGHT IT BACK
  • SO THIS HAS A LOT OF THE SAME SORT OF SITUATIONS BOTH NORTH SATELLITES AND SOUTH SATELLITE WERE BUILT AROUND THE SAME TIME
  • AS FAR AS RENEWAL REPLACEMENT, THEY HAVE THE SAME SORT OF, YOU KNOW EFFECTS
  • IN THIS ONE, WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO EXPAND THE FACILITY SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO WORK AROUND THE EXISTING OPERATION
  • OKAY, AND WHAT IS THE TIME FRAME FOR THAT? SO RIGHT NOW WE ARE ANTICIPATING THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE PROBABLY A TEN YEAR PROJECT
  • WE ARE LOOKING AT IT TO SEE IF WE CAN BRING THAT BACK DOWN TO POTENTIALLY, YOU KNOW, SEVEN OR EIGHT YEARS THROUGH MAYBE ALTERNATIVE, YOU KNOW DELIVERY METHODS
  • DESIGN-BUILD COULD BE ONE OF THOSE
  • SO WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT RIGHT NOW
  • WE PLAN TO ACTUALLY COME TO YOU GUYS IN YOU KNOW IN THE MIDDLE OF NEXT YEAR TO REALLY SHOW YOU OUR FULL-FLEDGED PLAN ON HOW THIS IS GOING TO WORK, BUT WE'LL HAVE TO DO MORE SCHEMATIC DESIGN
  • WE'VE GOT, AS LANCE KIND OF DISCUSSED IN THE VISION, WE'VE GOT THAT IN THERE FOR HOW WE'RE GOING TO MOVE IT FORWARD BUT WANT TO DO MORE WORK ON IT
  • ALL RIGHT
  • THANKS AND THEN COMMISSIONER CALKINS HAS A QUESTION
  • YEAH, THANKS CARRIE
  • THIS IS THIS IS NEWSWORTHY, CERTAINLY
  • I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS ABOUT KIND OF THE INTENT OF THE REMODEL FOR THE SOUTH SATELLITE
  • I THINK FIRST WOULD BE WOULD THIS ACCOMMODATE EITHER MORE GATES OR MORE WIDE BODIES? SO UNFORTUNATELY, NO, WE DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO EXPAND THE AMOUNT OF AIRCRAFT THAT WE PUT AROUND THAT FACILITY WITHOUT YOU KNOW, HARMING OUR TAXIWAYS OR OUR TAXI LANES THAT ARE AROUND THE FACILITY RIGHT NOW
  • SO REALISTICALLY WE CAN'T ADD MORE WIDE BODIES TO WHAT WE HAVE
  • THIS REALLY BECOMES A RENEWAL REPLACEMENT
  • YOU KNOW, IF WE DON'T DO THIS WORK, THE FACILITIES ALREADY HAVING CERTAIN FAILURES IN IT
  • THOSE FAILURES WORK WILL CONTINUE AND WE WILL POTENTIALLY RISK LOSING GATES BECAUSE OF THOSE SITUATIONS
  • IT'S A 50 YEAR OLD FACILITY AND IT NEEDS A MAJOR RENOVATION
  • SECOND QUESTION IS, AND LOOKS LIKE JEFFREY MAY WANT TO RESPOND TO THAT
  • SECOND QUESTION IS WITH THIS EXPANSION OF POTENTIAL LEASABLE SPACE, 1 BILLION IS AN EYE-POPPING FIGURE, BUT DO WE ANTICIPATE ADDITIONAL REVENUES THAT WOULD HELP TO OFFSET SOME OF THOSE CONSTRUCTION COSTS? DEFINITELY
  • JEFF, IF YOU WANT TO RESPOND FIRST, AND THEN I CAN ADD ANY COMMENTS
  • COMMISSIONER CALKINS, THE PRIMARY REASON FOR DOING THIS PROJECT IS ASSET PRESERVATION
  • FIRST FOR CODE COMPLIANCE, SEISMIC UPGRADE OF THE FACILITY, AND SECOND AS BORGEN SAID BEFORE WAS REVENUE GENERATION
  • TO YOUR POINT, YES, WE GENERATE ADDITIONAL REVENUE BY THIS EXPANSION, BUT I DOUBT IT WOULD PAY FOR THE ENTIRE PROJECT [INAUDIBLE] THAT PERIOD
  • AND FINALLY, I KNOW THAT IN OUR CONVERSATION WITH CARRIERS, THE SOUTH SATELLITE IS BECAUSE IT DOESN'T MEASURE UP TO THE OTHER FACILITIES, PARTICULARLY OUR NEW A GATES, THERE HAS BEEN QUITE A BIT OF JOCKEYING OVER KIND OF WHO IS RELEGATED TO SOUTH SATELLITE
  • WHEN CONVERSATIONS HAVE OCCURRED SO FAR WITH CARRIERS IS THERE INTEREST, ARE THEY ENCOURAGING US TO DO THIS, ARE THEY RESERVING JUDGEMENT SO FAR? WHAT KIND OF INITIAL READ ARE WE GETTING FROM THE CARRIERS? I THINK THE CARRIERS WILL BE VERY INTERESTED IN PURSUING THIS WORK
  • I THINK IF YOU GO BACK TO 2015 ON THIS QUESTION, I THINK COMMISSIONER BOWMAN WAS ON THE COMMISSION BACK THEN
  • THERE WAS SOME COMMITMENT, VERBAL COMMITMENT MADE BY COMMISSION TO UPGRADE THIS FACILITY AS A PART OF THE IAF
  • SO UNLESS THINGS CHANGED, I THINK THEY ARE, THE CARRIERS, STILL INTERESTED IN DOING THIS WORK
  • AND DO WE THINK IT WOULD ENCOURAGE ADDITIONAL INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS? I MEAN IS A FACILITY LIKE THIS ENOUGH TO ENTICE SOMEBODY AWAY FROM YVR OR SFO? I DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT
  • I'LL LEAVE THAT TO PROBABLY SERVICE DEVELOPMENT OR PROBABLY LANCE
  • I'M PROBABLY NOT THE BEST PERSON FOR THAT QUESTION
  • BUT GO BACK TO ONE OF THE FIRST QUESTIONS, SORRY
  • I FORGOT
  • IN TERMS OF GATE CAPACITY, PER CURRENT FAA GUIDELINES THERE'S A LIKELIHOOD THAT WE COULD PROBABLY LOSE A GATE BECAUSE WE ARE CURRENTLY ENCROACHING THE TAXIWAY IN TERMS OF SEPARATION
  • SO, YOU KNOW, WE WORK WITH FAA TO SEE IF WE COULD PRESERVE THAT GATE
  • BUT IF YOU FOLLOW THE FAA, [INAUDIBLE] OKAY, THANK YOU
  • YEAH COMMISSIONER
  • I DON'T KNOW THAT THE JUST UPGRADING THE FACILITY ITSELF WOULD ATTRACT ADDITIONAL CARRIERS
  • THEY'RE GOING TO MAKE DECISIONS, YOU KNOW, BASED ON WHETHER THAT WRITER, THAT WROTE, IS GOING TO BE PROFITABLE WHETHER THEY CAN HAVE THE LOAD FACTORS ON THE YIELDS TO MAKE A FLIGHT PROFITABLE
  • THE FACILITY BEING UPGRADED THOUGH, WILL PROVIDE A LEVEL OF SERVICE THAT THE AIRLINES WOULD LIKE THEIR PASSENGERS TO EXPERIENCE AND AS JEFFREY AND BORGEN POINTED OUT AND CARRIE EARLIER, THIS FACILITY IS OUT OF CODE BASICALLY
  • WE REALLY NEED TO GET IT UPGRADED AS FROM A CODE PERSPECTIVE
  • BUT RATHER THAN THIS DO A CODE UPGRADE, WE ALSO NEED TO DO THE AESTHETICS AND THE LEVEL OF SERVICE UPGRADES AS WELL
  • AND COMMISSIONER BOWMAN AS WELL HAS A QUESTION
  • THANK YOU
  • JUST A QUICK QUESTION AS A FOLLOW-UP
  • IN TERMS OF INTEREST OF THE CARRIERS, I WOULD FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE IF WE HAD SOME CONFIRMATION
  • IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO BE AN MII BUT AT LEAST GOING BACK AND UNDERSTANDING
  • YOU'RE RIGHT JEFFREY, THERE WAS A TACTIC AGREEMENT WHEN WE APPROVE THE IAF INITIALLY THAT SOUTH SATELLITE WAS GOING TO BE THE NEXT BIG PROJECT UNDERTAKEN, BUT IT WOULD MAKE ME FEEL BETTER AND I'M SURE MY COLLEAGUES AS WELL IF WE ACTUALLY HEARD CONFIRMATION FROM THE MAJOR CARRIERS IF THAT WAS STILL THE CASE
  • AS WE KNOW THINGS CHANGE RAPIDLY IN THE INDUSTRY AND WE HEAR FREQUENTLY THAT THEIR INDIVIDUAL PRIORITIES HAVE CHANGED AS WELL
  • SO I'D REALLY APPRECIATE A LITTLE BIT MORE SPECIFIC FEEDBACK ABOUT WHAT THE CARRIERS THINK OF THIS PROJECT
  • GOOD QUESTIONS, AND I WOULD ADD ALSO JUST TO NOTE THAT THE DESIGN-BUILD, I THINK, PROCUREMENT APPROACH, DID NOT IN FACT RESULT IN ACCELERATING THE IAF PROJECT
  • IT CREATED ALL KINDS OF PROBLEMS THAT I THINK MAY IN FACT HAVE DECELERATED THE PROJECT
  • THAT'S JUST MY VIEW
  • SO I WOULD QUESTION THE JUSTIFICATION OF THAT TRACK FOR PROCUREMENT
  • AND THEN SECONDLY, I WOULD EXPECT TO SEE SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS WITH REGARD IN THIS FACILITY WITH THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY TO THROUGHPU,T EFFICIENCY, ACCESSIBILITY, QUALITY OF TRAVELER EXPERIENCE, MECHANICAL SYSTEMS, ENERGY CONSERVATION, AND THE REST
  • IT'S A HUGE AMOUNT OF MONEY
  • IT SOUNDS TO ME LIKE IT'S THE BIGGEST SINGLE PROJECT UNDERTAKING YET OR IT WOULD BE SO
  • I THINK IT NEEDS A VERY SOLID JUSTIFICATION AND A THOROUGH KIND OF EXAMINATION OF WHAT THE OBJECTIVES ARE
  • I RECOGNIZE THE BUILDING IS OBSOLETE AND I THINK I EVEN WORKED ON IT AS AN INTERN IN THE 1970S WHEN I WAS WORKING FOR ONE OF OUR LOCAL ARCHITECTURAL FIRMS ON AIRPORT FACILITIES
  • SO IT IS OLD
  • I GUESS THAT SPEAKS TO ME AS WELL
  • BUT ANYWAY, THOSE ARE SOME OF MY COMMENTS ON THIS
  • AND THEN CALKINS HAS ANOTHER QUICK QUESTION
  • AND FEEL FREE TO RESPOND OR FOLLOW UP LATER
  • I'LL JUMP BACK IN
  • THIS QUESTION ACTUALLY KIND OF POPPED INTO MY HEAD AT THE VERY OUTSET OF THE MEETING AS WE'RE WATCHING THE VIDEO
  • I KNOW THAT ONE CONCERN THAT WE'VE HEARD FROM CARRIERS IS AS WE LOOK AT THE TOTALITY OF PROJECTS THAT WE'RE CONSIDERING FOR THE AIRPORT ONE CONCERN IS THIS METRIC THAT THEY, IT'S MINIMUM CONNECTION TIME, MCT
  • AN EXPERT CAN CORRECT ME ON THAT
  • BUT DO YOU THINK IT IS A CONCERN
  • ESSENTIALLY, FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, YOU KNOW, YOU GET OFF ONE PLANE AND YOU NEED TO MAKE A CONNECTION TO SOMEWHERE
  • AND SO YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THE PROSPECT OF SOMEBODY WHO'S FLYING IN ARRIVING FROM AN INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT AT THE SOUTH SATELLITE AND THEN DEPARTING FROM SAY THE NORTH SATELLITE OR THE NEW NORTH TERMINAL
  • AND THINKING ABOUT WAYS THAT WE CAN MINIMIZE CONFUSION FOR THE PASSENGER, MINIMIZE THAT CONNECTION TIME
  • AND SO I GUESS I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF INSIGHT FROM STAFF ON THAT BOTH WITH REGARD TO THIS PARTICULAR SOUTH SATELLITE RENOVATION
  • ARE THERE WAYS IN WHICH WE CAN DEVELOP THIS PROJECT SO THAT IT DOES REDUCE CONNECTION TIME? BUT THEN ALSO, YOU KNOW IN THE IN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE OF OUR AIRPORT, WHAT ARE WE DOING TO ENSURE THAT PASSENGERS WHO ARE GETTING OFF ONE PLANE AND NEED TO MAKE A CONNECTION OR ABLE TO DO SO QUICKLY AND EFFICIENTLY? WHETHER THAT'S THROUGH THE USE OF PERSONAL TECH WAYFINDING OR WAYFINDING THE AIRPORT OR ENHANCED CUSTOMER SERVICE, RECOGNIZING THE PASSENGERS THAT ARE ARRIVING IN ENSURING THAT THEY HAVE, YOU KNOW, ONE-ON-ONE GUIDANCE FOR THE TRICKY CONNECTIONS
  • I JUST DON'T WANT US TO BE IN A SITUATION WHERE WE BECOME AN AIRPORT THAT PEOPLE JUST NOTORIOUSLY THINK OF AS HARD TO NAVIGATE
  • OKAY, SO WE'VE GOT LESS THAN SEVEN MINUTES LEFT I THINK SO I WANT TO RESPOND IN SOME WAYS TO THAT AND I THINK CAN RESPOND TO SOME OF THAT AND CARRIE THAT CAN DEFINITELY BE A TAKE HOME
  • YEAH
  • I THINK THAT'S A BIG QUESTION SO FEEL FREE TO TAKE THAT AS A TAKE HOME AND WE CAN RETURN TO IT
  • OKAY, NO PROBLEM
  • THANKS
  • I DO WANT TO RESPOND A LITTLE BIT TO COMMISSIONER STEINBREUCK HERE
  • WE ALSO SEE THE ISSUES WITH DESIGN-BUILD
  • WE HAVE THOSE SAME CONCERNS
  • ALL RIGHT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE HAD SUCCESSES WITH A TRADITIONAL DESIGN BUILD AND I DON'T WANT TO LOSE THAT BUT THIS IS AN OPERATING FACILITY AND THAT'S WHERE WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE ISSUES
  • SO THERE'LL BE MORE TO COME ON THAT
  • AND THEN ALL OF THE POINTS THAT COMMISSIONER STEINBREUCK DISCUSSED ABOUT YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING BEING INVOLVED AS FAR AS THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND THE EFFICIENCIES AND THE PASSENGER PROCESSING ALL OF THAT, LEVEL OF SERVICE, ALL OF THAT IS INCLUDED IN THIS
  • I WANT TO MOVE ON TO OUR RECENTLY PROPOSED PROJECTS
  • NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE
  • SO WITHIN THE LAST SEVERAL WEEKS WE'VE HAD SOME PROJECTS THAT HAVE BEEN WORKING ON FOR SOME TIME
  • THESE PROJECTS ARE IMPORTANT AND HAVE STRONG MOMENTUM AND OUR DIRECTORS FEEL THAT THEY NEED TO HAVE VISIBILITY IN THE CAPITAL PLANS SINCE THEY WILL BE PROGRESSING FORWARD
  • STILL WE HAVE QUITE A BIT OF WORK TO DO TO IRON OUT THE DETAILS OF THESE ONES
  • SO THIS IS THE ZONE SIX AND SEVEN RENOVATION
  • THIS IS THE PROJECT THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON ALONG WITH ALASKA TO RENOVATE THE NORTH END OF THE TICKET LOBBY
  • THE CONCEPT FOCUSES ON BETTER PASSENGER EXPERIENCE AND MORE MOBILE TICKETING PROCESS
  • THE SECURITY CHECKPOINT AT THE NORTH END IS ALSO RECONFIGURED FOR A BETTER FLOW
  • WE'RE CURRENTLY WORKING WITH THEM TO ENHANCE THEIR CONCEPT TO MAKE SURE IT PROVIDES THE NEEDED EFFICIENCIES AND BENEFITS FOR THE TICKET LOBBY AS A WHOLE
  • WE CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE IF THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS
  • SO AIRLINE REALIGNMENT
  • SO AIRLINE REALIGNMENT SCENARIOS CAME TO A CONCLUSION LAST YEAR
  • WE ACTUALLY PLACED THIS PROGRAM INTO THE CAPITAL PLAN THIS YEAR
  • BUT WITH COVID AND THE SIGNIFICANT DECREASE IN INTERNATIONAL DEMAND, WE PUT THE PROGRAM ON HOLD
  • UNDERSTANDING OUR PROJECTIONS FOR GROWTH IN THE FACT THAT THIS WORK WILL TAKE UNTIL 2024 TO COMPLETE TO DO THE FULL REALIGNMENT, IT WAS IMPORTANT TO GET THIS BACK INTO THE CAPITAL PLAN
  • AND AS A SIDE BENEFIT WITH WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WITH SOUTH SATELLITE, IT'S ALSO AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT FOR THE SOUTH SATELLITE WORK TO DO THIS REALIGNMENT
  • IT WILL HELP US WITH THE OPERATIONAL IMPACT FOR DOING THE CONSTRUCTION FOR THE SOUTH SATELLITE
  • BEFORE WE MOVE ON WE'VE GOT SEVERAL QUESTIONS, INCLUDING ONE OR TWO FROM ME, BUT I SEE SOME OTHER COMMISSIONERS HAVE THEIR HANDS UP
  • COMMISSIONER FELLEMAN AND THEN BOWMAN AND THEN I'LL ASK A QUESTION
  • I SEE THAT WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME
  • I HAD A COUPLE QUESTIONS THAT WERE SORT OF LEADING INTO THIS BEFORE
  • ONE OF THE LARGER CATEGORIES WAS BUSINESS NEED
  • WHICH SEEMS TO GO THROUGH ALL OF THIS AND I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S JUST A STAFFING QUESTION AND WHETHER THAT WILL VARY BASED ON THE TYPE OF CONTRACTING THAT WE SPOKE ABOUT BEFORE? AND JUST IN THE VERY BEGINNING WHEN WE SAW THE FLY THROUGH IT WAS THE FIRST TIME I SAW A G TAP BUILDING AND I DON'T KNOW WHETHER THAT'S IN SAMP OR WHEN THAT'S ENVISIONED BUT IT WAS A VERY INTRIGUING AND CERTAINLY BEHOOVES US TO HAVE THE FULL G TAP BRIEFING BEFORE THAT
  • THOSE ARE THE FEW QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BUSINESS NEED AND WHERE G-TAP IS ON THE SCHEDULE
  • I REALIZE THAT WE STILL HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS AND WE'RE JUST ABOUT OUT OF TIME
  • I'M TOLD WE HAVE JUST LESS THAN FIVE MINUTES
  • I'D LIKE TO CONTINUE THIS AT THE OCTOBER 13TH BUDGET SESSION AND WE WANT TO BE SURE THE COMMISSIONERS GET AN OPPORTUNITY TO RESPOND TO ALL OF THE COMPLEXITIES OF PROJECTS THAT WE'RE HEARING ABOUT
  • SO BUSINESSES NEED IS REALLY IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHAT IT ACTUALLY ENTAILS
  • YEAH
  • MY QUESTION WILL BE REALLY BRIEF, MR STEINBREUCK
  • AND I THINK IT'LL BE GOOD FOR EVERYBODY
  • COULD YOU JUST LET US KNOW? STEPHANIE, I NEED AN ANSWER TO WHAT IS BUSINESS
  • SORRY
  • SORRY
  • BUSINESS NEED, YOU KNOW, THAT ENCOMPASSES CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE, THAT ENCOMPASSES REVENUE GENERATION, THAT ENCOMPASSES, YOU KNOW ADDITIONAL THROUGHPUT, YOU KNOW CAPACITY
  • THERE'S AS YOU KNOW ADR WORK INCLUDED IN THAT, THERE'S A LOT OF TENANT REQUESTS IN THAT
  • QUITE A FEW OF OUR AVIATION GOALS ARE IN BUSINESS NEED BUT IT IS, IN THE END, SOMEWHAT A DISCRETIONARY TYPE OF DRIVER
  • IT SEEMS TO BE AN INADEQUATE CATEGORY AND MAYBE IT NEEDS ANOTHER BREAKDOWN LIKE REPAIR AND REPLACE
  • LET'S TRY TO KEEP IT MOVING ALONG
  • COMMISSIONER BOWMAN
  • I'LL KEEP IT REALLY BRIEF
  • THANK YOU
  • I JUST LIKE TO GET FROM STAFF MORE DETAIL ON WHAT YOU LIST AS PENDING AUTHORIZATION
  • WE'VE DISCUSSED THE SOUTH SATELLITE, YOU JUST MENTIONED ZONE SIX AND SEVEN
  • I'D LIKE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE COST IS FOR AIRLINE REALIGNMENT, THE LOUNGES, AND THEN THE OTHER PROJECTS THAT YOU HAVE THAT ARE JUST ALL LISTED AS OTHER PENDING CAPITAL PROJECTS
  • AND FOR 2021 IT'S LISTED AT 31 MILLION AND OVER 1 BILLION DOLLARS OVER THE FIVE-YEAR CIP
  • SO I THINK WE NEED TO HAVE MORE VISIBILITY AS TO WHAT THOSE PROJECTS ARE
  • THANK YOU, AND I WOULD ADD REGARDING REALIGNMENT THAT I THINK MAYBE THERE'S SOME INTERIM OPTIONS IN TERMS OF MAYBE GETTING THE DESIGN WORK GOING IN A VAST 2024
  • IT WOULD SEEM TO ME THAT THIS IS A TIME-SENSITIVE PROJECT GIVEN THAT THE IAF IS OPENING SOON AND WE OUGHT TO HAVE THAT ALIGNMENT IN PLACE AND SYNC WITH THE NEW FACILITY
  • SO MAYBE THERE'S A WAY TO GET IT STARTED IN ADVANCE OF DOING THE FULL CONSTRUCTION BUILD OUT PRIOR TO 2024
  • I'VE GOT TO ASK COMMISSIONERS TO COLLECT THEIR QUESTIONS AND GET THEM THROUGH TO STAFF SO WE CAN TAKE THIS UP AGAIN IN OCTOBER ON THE OCTOBER 13TH MEETING
  • OKAY, I THINK WE'RE ABOUT OUT OF TIME HERE
  • WE'VE GOT ANOTHER MEETING COMING UP IN THREE MINUTES
  • OR IN FIVE MINUTES
  • SO COMMISSIONER STEINBREUCK I GUESS WE COULD DO THE PURVIEW OF THE OCTOBER 13TH OR SEPARATELY? I THINK WE SHOULD PICK UP WHERE WE LEFT OFF HERE IN THE OCTOBER 13 MEETING
  • COMMISSIONERS, DO YOU AGREE WITH THAT? I THINK THAT WOULD MAKE SENSE? WE REALLY NEED TO DIVE DEEPLY INTO THIS
  • THIS HAS BEEN A GOOD PRIMER AND INTRODUCTION TO ALL THAT WE'VE GOT ON THE BOOKS HERE
  • MRSTEINBREUCK, THIS IS JEFFREY BROWN
  • IF POSSIBLE, THERE WAS A QUESTION ASKED BY COMMISSIONER BOWMAN REGARDING FORECAST
  • I THINK SINCE IT'S A PUBLIC MEETING IT'S IMPORTANT WE RESPOND TO THIS KNOWLEDGE
  • YEAH, GO RIGHT AHEAD
  • ARLEN CAN RESPOND
  • ARLEN CAN YOU RESPOND TO THAT QUESTION? SURE
  • I'M HAPPY TO GIVE IT A SHOT
  • SO THERE WERE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS
  • ONE WAS WILL WE DO AN UPDATED PASSENGER FORECAST AFTER THE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW? AND THE SECOND QUESTION TO PARAPHRASE IS SOMETHING LIKE IF GROWTH IS EXPECTED TO BE SLOWER THAN THE ORIGINAL SAMP FORECAST, WOULD THERE BE TRIGGERS FOR COMMISSION APPROVAL OF PROJECTS? SO AS WE GET TOWARD THE END OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW PROCESS, WHICH IS AT THE END OF 2021, WE WOULD BE THINKING ABOUT THE ITEMS AND PROJECTS THAT THE TEAM WOULD BRING TO COMMISSIONERS FOR APPROVAL AND HOW WE WOULD PRESENT THOSE ITEMS AND ACTIVITY TRENDS WOULD BE ONE COMPONENT, NOT THE ONLY THING, BUT ONE COMPONENT OF WHAT WE WOULD CONSIDER
  • SO I WOULD IMAGINE THAT THROUGHOUT THE COMING YEAR WE'RE GOING TO BE COORDINATING WITH BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND, IF WE NEED TO, OUTSIDE EXPERTS TO UNDERSTAND EXPECTED PASSENGER AND OPERATIONAL DEMAND
  • BY THE END OF 2021, WE MAY HAVE A CLEARER IDEA OF THE ARC OF RECOVERY, OR WE MIGHT NOT
  • IT'S JUST HARD TO SAY
  • AT THIS POINT, BUT IF IT IF IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S CLEAR THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE BACK ON TRACK TO REACH 56 MILLION PASSENGERS IN APPROXIMATELY 2027 WE WOULD LIKELY WANT TO CONTINUE WITH A REQUEST FOR APPROVAL OF THE SAMP NEAR TERM PROJECTS
  • IF NOT, IF RECOVERY IS EXPECTED TO BE SLOWER THAN THAT, THEN I THINK THE IDEA OF TRIGGERS IS A VERY GOOD ONE AND WE WOULD HAVE TO THINK ABOUT WHAT THOSE TRIGGERS MIGHT BE AND HOW THEY WOULD BE PRESENTED
  • SO I THAT'S ABOUT ALL I CAN SAY FOR NOW
  • I HOPE THAT'S HELPFUL
  • SO ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT MAY BE IN THE OFFING HERE IT SOUNDS LIKE
  • YES, THAT'S A GREAT TERM
  • THANK YOU
  • WE NEED TO BREAK NOW
  • I'D LIKE TO CLOSE THIS MEETING, RESUME ON OCTOBER 13TH, AND WE WILL TAKE A 10 MINUTE BREAK
  • WE'LL GO FIVE MINUTES LATE ON THE EXEC SESSION
  • 11:05
  • DOES THAT SOUND ACCEPTABLE TO EVERYONE? OKAY
  • THANK YOU.

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