This document contains the agenda and proposed minutes from Port of Seattle Commission meetings held in June 1979, covering a range of maritime and airport-related business. Items relevant to Sea-Tac International Airport include contracts for rental car counters, parking terminal repairs, runway overlaying, and a luggage cart concession agreement. The meeting also addressed property additions to the Port's Comprehensive Scheme of Harbor Improvements and the issuance of $55 million in Port of Seattle Revenue Bonds.

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Agenda for the Port of Seattle Commission meeting on June 26, 1979, covering contract awards, resolutions, and authorization requests related to terminal development, airport improvements, and property additions. Also includes proposed minutes from the June 12, 1979 regular meeting, which recorded bids for a Crane Monitoring System and other port business.

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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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