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• Workforce development: Support proposals to enhance state investments in workforce development in the maritime, manufacturing, and industrial sectors. This may include possible amendments to port statute to clarify the authority of port districts to continue to play a role in workforce development in these sectors. • Transportation access to Sea‐Tac Airport: Support funding for a partnership between the Port of Seattle and the Washington State Department of Transportation to conduct a study of State Route 518 to address current and future corridor needs related to increased regional development that will affect transportation demand on that corridor. • Statewide tourism marketing: Support establishment of a state‐level entity charged with promoting tourism in Washington state, to compete with similar state‐supported tourism marketing agencies in Idaho, Oregon, and around the country. • Land use: Provide detailed information to legislators and to House and Senate Committees on the current land use issues facing Washington ports, with a specific focus on zoning issues related to the Growth Management Act that may affect port competitiveness. This may include: ‐ Proposals that are consistent with, but not limited to, the recommendations from the state legislature’s Spring 2016 Joint Task Force on the Economic Resilience of Maritime and Manufacturing report; ‐ Proposals that reflect the “Guiding Principles: Stewardship, Enhancement, and Protection of Maritime and Manufacturing Lands” document that was adopted by the Northwest Seaport Alliance on November 1, 2016; and ‐ Any legislative changes that may impact the efficient functioning of statewide essential public facilities 2018 State…

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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 [...]