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2024-12-16
City of SeaTac Welcomes New City Manager Jonathan Young

The SeaTac City Council approved a contract for the City’s new city manager at its December 10 regular meeting and officially hired Jonathan Young for the position. He assumed his role as city manager on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. “We welcome Jonathan Young to the City of SeaTac. We are confident he is the right

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2023-01-01
City of SeaTac, Washington 2023-2024 biennial budget

The City of SeaTac, Washington's 2023-2024 Biennial Budget is the adopted financial plan covering all city funds, departments, and capital improvement programs for a two-year period. It includes detailed breakdowns of revenue and expenditures across funds such as the General Fund, Street Fund, and Transportation CIP Fund, as well as departmental budgets for services including Police, Fire, Parks, and Public Works. While primarily a municipal budget document, it also touches on planning areas relevant to the airport's surrounding community, including transit planning and light rail station area development.

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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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