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Agenda for the Des Moines City Council Airport Advisory Committee meeting on October 13, 2025, held at City Council Chambers at 4:00 PM, including attached draft minutes from the September 8, 2025 meeting. Agenda items include approval of September 8 minutes, StART (SEA Stakeholder Advisory Round Table) representative appointment, citizens’ complaints/emails, SAMP (Sustainable Airport Master Plan) update, information sharing and distribution, and committee goals. September 8 minutes record attendance of committee members Barton DeLacy, Jeffrey Bogen, and Joe Dusenbury; staff present included City Manager Katherine Caffrey, Planning and Development Service Manager Laura Techico, and Administrative Coordinator Laura Hopp. Discussion topics covered StART meeting update, community survey outreach, and a September 4, 2025 City Council presentation by Community Development Director Rebecca Deming on SAMP. August 11, 2025 minutes approved 3-0.

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Meeting Objectives Introduce the primary feedback themes identified by StART members regarding StART’s Operating Procedures and determine areas that may warrant future discussion. 5:00 PM – Welcome Meeting Management Welcome Lead: Andrés Mantilla, Facilitator, Uncommon Bridges; Wendy Reiter, Airport Managing Director, POS 5:15 PM – Dinner: All participants eat. 5:30 PM – StART Operating Procedures
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Meeting Agenda 10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. | Welcome – Evan Nordby, Chair a. Introductions and Agenda Reviewb. Status of appointments and non-voting member invitationsc. Other updates as necessary 10:15 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | Is it practical and legal to operate the western Washington [Puget Sound] airports as a single airport system? – Consultant
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As the source for federal transportation grants, the Puget Sound Regional Council was charged with developing a system to meet the growing need for commercial aviation. When the search for a second airport failed, they authorized the Port of Seattle to build the Third Runway, with a mandate to develop a noise abatement and mitigation program. In their effort to stop the Third Runway, the ACC argued over every detail of the Port's efforts--including property buyouts and sound insulation. The dispute was meant to be settled by a three member Expert Arbitration Panel. This is their final report. It finds 2-1, that the Port's program was insufficient in several respects. Despite that, funding for the Third Runway was approved by the PSRC, and the 'Port Package' program, proceeded largely unchanged. Expert Arbitration Panel's final decision finding that the Port of Seattle had not shown sufficient reduction in real on-the-ground noise impacts to satisfy noise reduction conditions required for approval of a third runway at Sea-Tac International Airport. The majority decision concluded the Port's noise abatement programs were insufficient despite being impressive in scope.

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