The City of SeaTac, Washington's 2025-2026 Biennial Budget (Amended Version) outlines the city's planned revenues and expenditures across all municipal departments and funds for a two-year period. It covers a wide range of city services including police, fire, parks, public works, and community development, along with detailed capital improvement projects such as park renovations, street overlays, and facility upgrades. Note that despite SeaTac's proximity to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, this document focuses on general city operations and does not directly address airport noise policy.

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The amended biennial budget document for the City of SeaTac covering fiscal years 2025-2026. Contains comprehensive budget information including fund summaries, department budgets, capital improvement projects, and staffing details across all city operations.

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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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