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Critical support - City of Des Moines Marina redevelopment  Design feasibility  Financial feasibility  Issuance of a Request for Qualifications  Team Managing Partner, Loren Cohen (Point Ruston)  Community information - Marinasteps.com website info and drone tour Also - EATS program - meals to seniors/vets - supporting local restaurants VALUE OF PORT GRANTS City matched by at least 100% Essential to success of significant planning for redevelopment We appreciate! Will help catalyze potential investment opportunities in our City and Marina

Reopening our City in the post-COVID World: “This is not a challenge—this is an opportunity.” 5/20/2022 3 The Highline Forum Federal Way Update 2022 State of the City While there is much that is happening in Federal Way, the State of the City focused on five major areas: • Our Response to COVID-19 • The Budget • Economic Development • Public Safety • Federal Way’s Homelessness Response 5/20/2022 4 Highline Forum Federal Way Update Support for Ukraine 5/20/2022 5 The Highline Forum Federal Way Update Opening of “The HUB” Last week our partnership with the region’s educators including Highline College, the University of Washington Tacoma, and Federal Way Public Schools culminated in the opening of the “The Hub,” a satellite education facility providing access to post-secondary and adult education. 5/20/2022 6 The Highline Forum Federal Way Update COVID-19 Humanitarian Response • Working with the Multi-Service Center, Senior Center food bank and other local partners, we were able to help ensure food banks were stocked for our neighbors in need. • Rental assistance was crucial and we were able to help with $500,000 in direct payments for families who were unable to pay their rent. We did this in partnership with El Cento De La Raza. Eighty percent of this critical lifeline of rental assistance went to historically marginalized communities. 5/20/2022 7 The Highline Forum Federal Way Update COVID-19 Economic Revitalization Response • Using CARES Act funds we distributed $4.4 million in vital resources including cash payments to approximately 638 businesses…

5-25-2022 Highline Forum meeting, Public Comment, Bernedine Lund, resident of Federal Way and volunteer for 350 Seattle Aviation Group Hello, everyone, Anyone reviewing the 2021 StART Annual Report and thinking back to the previous annual reports, say 2018, 2019, or 2020, will see a marked difference in the reports. Previous reports gave a summary of the agenda, discussion, presentations, and public comments. The 2021 report gives a different type of summary, with each meeting and working group meeting listed, members attending the meeting, and general list of topics. This more recent annual summary does not give details of any of the discussions and is like a boilerplate presentation with full color pictures, ready for printing as a glossy brochure that can be printed and passed out as advertisement for Sea-Tac. If a reader wants to know what happened at the meeting, the reader needs to go to the individual minutes. However, there is no way someone can determine what was done or said at a StART Steering Committee meetings that began in 2021, as there are no minutes or summaries of these meeting. As noted in the 2021 StART annual report, page 5 “Steering Committee”, the Steering Committee does make decisions about StART membership. Non-StART members such as the FAA also join the Steering Committee meetings. This lack of openness and mixing of state laws regarding meetings seems to contradict the heading of the 2021 StART Annual Report, page 4, “Renewed Culture of Trust & Cooperation.” Not everyone may know…

• Created by the Port Commission in 2016. • The program provides Cities per capita funding to advance local economic development throughout the region. • Annual grant funding provided on a $1 per capita formula: • Grants capped at $60,000 • Smallest cities receive a minimum of $5,000 • Provides cities some flexibility to define local economic development projects. • Work needs to tie to Century Agenda and/or Port business interests. • Require a 50% local match to ensure cities are also committed to project success (monetary or in-kind). Priorities: Pandemic Relief and Recovery • Narrowed eligible uses of grant funds to focus on economic relief and recovery: 1. Small business (and key industry) assistance 2. Buy local and marketplace development 3. Local tourism promotion 4. Workforce retention/ development 5. Custom COVID-19 Response • Focus on supporting impacted businesses, communities, and workers 2021 in Review: Partnership Grants Advanced Economic Recovery Cities Participated Port Funds Used = $839,880 City Match Funds = $643,760 Total Investments = $1,483,640 Grant Project Focus Port Award % of Port Award City Match Total Investment (Port Award + Match) Small Business Assistance $429,148 51% $339,324 $768,472 Buy Local/ Placemaking $177,701 21% $135,925 $313,626 Tourism $114,741 14% $137,135 $251,876 Custom COVID-19 Response $80,290 10% $30,876 $111,166 Workforce Development $38,000 5% $500 $38,500 Total $839,880 100% $643,760 $1,483,640 Economic Development Partnership Awards by Project Category Successes – Small Business Assistance • Startup 425 and Restart 425 initiatives to support small businesses started by five eastside cities. • Kent…

One of the six practice areas in economic development is BRE. The annual business outreach survey (Business Synergy) has become a signature SeaTac BRE program. The survey is funded by a Port of Seattle grant and the annual results drive decision- making on business support programs that the City develops and manages. PRESENTATION OVERVIEW 2021 BUSINESS SYNERGY OUTREACH PROGRAM OVERVIEW • Collaborative operation between the City of SeaTac’s Economic Development Division (EcDev) and the Seattle Southside Chamber of Commerce (SSCC). • Supported through an ongoing grant partnership with the Port of Seattle. • Builds on the Business Synergy Outreach Program (2022 = 5th year!) • Multiple BRE programs developed based on survey BUSINESS SYNERGY OUTREACH PROGRAM HISTORY Year & Business Mix Project Summary Year 1 (2018) Business Type Logistics/Industrial Number of Businesses 300 Business needs analysis and personal outreach to individual businesses Year 2 (2019) Business Type Office/Commercial/Retail Number of Businesses 200+ Additional business needs analysis and database building Year 3 (2020) Business Type Hotel/Hospitality/Service Number of Businesses 250 No in person outreach – COVID 19 related outreach on needs and issues Year 4 (2021) Business Type Airport (Travel) related Number of Businesses 500 No in person outreach. Formalization of business database and survey resulting in multiple BRE programs BUSINESS SYNERGY OUTREACH PROGRAM METHODOLOGY • Planning Stage: address previous outreach challenges and standardize future outreach • Business Selection • Outreach Workbook • Survey • Interface Standardization • Master List BUSINESS SYNERGY OUTREACH PROGRAM RESULTS • 500 businesses • 142 survey…

July 27, 2022, Wednesday - 2:30pm-4:30 pm Hybrid: Highline College (Building 8) and via MS TEAMS __________________________________________________________________ 2:30pm Convene Meeting/Introductions Community Co-Chair Councilmember Assefa-Dawson 2:35pm Public Comments Audience PUBLIC COMMENTS FOR JULY 27th The Highline Forum meeting will be held in person and virtually. Those wishing to provide public comment will have the opportunity to: 1) Deliver public comment via email: All written comments received by email to Kaplan.D@portseattle.org will be distributed to Forum members. 2) Deliver public comment via Microsoft Teams: To take advantage of this option, please email Kaplan.D@portseattle.org with your name and the topic you wish to speak to by 9:00 a.m. PT on Wednesday, July 27th. You will then be provided with a link to join the Teams meeting. 3) Deliver public comment in person by signing up to speak on your arrival to the physical meeting location: To take advantage of this option, please sign-up on the public comment sheet available at the entrance to the meeting room. 2:50pm Host Update: Highline College Josh Gerstman Highline College 3:00pm Workforce Development in Highline Area Luis Navarro Port of Seattle Sam Kaplan Highline College Chance Gower Highline School District Colleen Brandt-Schluter Chris Craig City of Burien 3:40pm Cities’ Workforce Development Needs Councilmember Assefa-Dawson Highline Forum Co-chair

City of Burien, Human Services: Workforce Development Investments 2021-2022 Pre-Apprenticeship Construction Training/Support 21-22 Funding: $12,000 Provides pre-apprenticeship training in the building trades, employment navigation, and supportive services leading to successful family-wage careers. Burien Residents, 100% BIPOC Youth Mural Apprentice Program 21-22 Funding: $26,524 Provides a Mural Apprentice Program for youth from eligible low- and moderate- income households. This is an arts-based employment program for teens who face barriers to the arts, education, and employment, including those in the juvenile court system. Burien Residents (Youth), 100% BIPOC Immigrant & Refugee Training & Employment 21-22 Funding: $20,000 Connects refugees and immigrants to the resources they need to overcome barriers to employment and access family-wage jobs. Burien Residents, 100% BIPOC Youth Café Leadership & Small Business/Barista 21-22 Funding: $56,215 Provides a Summer Youth Leadership Development Academy for youth from eligible low- and moderate- income households where youth engage with a small business development curriculum focusing on worker-owned cooperatives, as well as leading a facilitating community events and participating in youth mental health workshops. Burien Residents (Youth), 97% BIPOC $114,739 invested 110 Burien Residents served City of Burien, Economic Development: Workforce Development Investments 2021-2022 Pre-Apprenticeship Construction Training/Support 21-22 Funding: $250,000 Investment in the Highline Public Schools Pre-apprenticeship training in the building trades, connecting students with local construction training programs, defining career pathways and providing opportunities for high- paying jobs. Trains the next generation of workers for the construction industry to build for the future. Youth Summer Cohort: Digital Marketing and Small Business Development 21-22…

Director of the Center of Excellence, Global Trade & Supply Chain Highline College sakaplan@highline.edu mailto:sakaplan@highline.edu One of the Larger Business Sectors in the State More than 170,000 work in global trade and supply Chain in WA, more than in aerospace and almost as many as in IT Workforce Supply and Demand Jobs Board Education Innovation Mentorship Guide Workforce Supply & Demand Follow the Supply Chain Study Aboard