RP10012937

1. I am the Mayor of the City of Seattle ("City") and have served as Mayor since 1998. Prior to serving as Mayor, I served as a Commissioner of the Port of Seattle for nine years. Over my years of public service, I have gained an increasing understanding of the interrelationship between citizen and business needs, on the one hand, and regional air transportation capacity on the other. 2. In my capacity as Port Commissioner, I reviewed and listened first-hand to many hours of testimony related to regional air transportation capacity issues. That experience further developed my conviction that the economic well being of citizens in the Northwest and the City depends to a large extent on adequately and timely meeting the air transportation needs of our residents and businesses. Residents in the City depend on Seattle-Tacoma International Airport's DECLARATION OF PAUL SCHELL - 1 FOSTER PEPPER _ SHEFELMAN PLLC 1111 THIRD AVENUE, SUITE 3400 SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98101-3299 206-447-44OO ,o7o 4.o, ORIGINAL AR012939 ("Sea-Tac") ability to provide commercial airline service on a timely basis throughout the region, country and world. Hundreds of businesses located in the City also have a vital stake in Sea-Tac's ability to promptly and efficiently import and export their goods. 3. More than ten years ago, it was generally recognized in the regional meetings in which I participated that the facilities at Sea-Tac were ill-equipped to deal with weather-imposed delays on commercial and freight airline service and that, over the long term, additional solutions would be…

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