201209 StART Meeting Recap

StART enhances cooperation between the Port of Seattle and the neighboring communities of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport December 9, 2020 Recap The SEA Stakeholder Advisory Round Table (StART) meeting took place on December 9, 2020, through video conference, with a focus on a review of the StART Federal Policy Working Group’s December 7 meeting and on discussing potential StART priorities for 2021 through reflection of what has been learned and what is needed to further StART’s objectives. This voluntary, advisory roundtable, convened by the Airport Managing Director, Lance Lyttle, is a venue for the Port of Seattle to engage with the communities of SeaTac, Burien, Des Moines, Normandy Park, Tukwila and Federal Way. Representatives from Delta Air Lines and Alaska Airlines are also members. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) participates as a non-member. The Airport Managing Director, Lance Lyttle, welcomed participants and mentioned that work was being done to revise StART’s Operating Procedures based on shared input from the cities and Port. Eric Schinfeld, Federal Government Relations Manager, provided a briefing on the December 7 meeting of the StART Federal Policy Working Group. Schinfeld and representatives from congressional offices provided an update and analysis based on national election results. Schinfeld also reviewed the European Union aviation industry’s initiatives to connect aviation recovery with increasing environmental sustainability. Schinfeld provided an update on the virtual Washington DC Fly-In that will include representatives from the six cities involved in StART. The focus of the meeting was reflection on a series of questions and discussion…

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Call to order – Roll Call – Quorum Established – Land Acknowledgement We would like to acknowledge that our Agency operates in four present-day counties, which are the traditional lands of the Coast Salish people, past and present. This acknowledgement does not take the place of authentic relationships with indigenous communities in our jurisdiction and [...]