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This document is an agenda and accompanying memoranda from a Port of Seattle Staff Review Session held on June 26, 1979. Topics covered include the Port of Seattle Stevedore Contract renewal, Airport Cab Deregulation, Cost of Living, repatriation expenses for a Hong Kong office employee, and a Flower Concession at Sea-Tac. While airport-related matters such as cab deregulation and the Sea-Tac flower concession are briefly noted, the session's primary focus was on maritime contracts and administrative financial matters.

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.

Minutes from the Port of Seattle Commission meetings on June 12 and June 26, 1979, cover several construction and facilities contracts, including dock repair work at a port terminal and rental car counter renovations at Sea-Tac International Airport. The Commission awarded a $511,600 dredging and berm construction contract at Terminal 30 and approved a $40,933 contract with a $4,746 change order for new rental car counters in the Passenger Terminal Building. The Commission also rejected bids for an electrical replacement project at Shilshole Bay Marina due to a late submission and unacceptable contractor references, directing staff to readvertise the project with an extended 120-day construction period.

This document contains the agenda and proposed minutes for a Port of Seattle Commission meeting held on June 12, 1979, covering a range of topics including contract awards for crane monitoring systems and rental car facilities at Sea-Tac International Airport. Key items included a resolution for the acquisition of real property at Washington Memorial Park Cemetery near Sea-Tac, and a $55 million Revenue Bond issue to fund capital improvements at Sea-Tac and Marine Terminals. The minutes from the prior May 22, 1979 meeting detail plans to allocate $25 million of the bond proceeds toward Sea-Tac Airport capital improvements for 1979–1981, subject to airline approval.

On June 12, 1979, Port Commissioner Paul S. Friedlander sent a telegram from New York to Dick Ford at the Port of Seattle, Terminal 66, casting his vote in favor of Resolution 2761. The message, addressed to arrive before 2 PM, was submitted as an exhibit for a Commission Meeting held on the same date. The document appears as duplicate telegraph transmissions confirming the commissioner's affirmative vote on the resolution.

A June 1979 Port of Seattle internal memorandum recommends converting the Port's telephone system from WATS to SCAN (State Controlled Area Network) and ESS (Electronic Switching System) in a two-phase changeover. The switch was projected to save $25,680 annually, with one-time non-recurring charges of approximately $19,000 expected to be recovered in less than nine months. The staff review session agenda also included a discussion of repairs to the Terminal 5 Apron.

A 1979 Port of Seattle memo from Airport Acquisition Manager George Sutter to the Citizens Advisory Committee for Hardship outlines Tom Fest's application for hardship acquisition of his property (Parcel Z-685), prompted by unexpected sewer hook-up costs totaling approximately $5,900. The Port expected to purchase the property within two to three years, but the Fest family sought an immediate buyout due to financial strain. As an alternative, Mr. Fest threatened to subdivide the property via short plat — a move that would increase the Port's eventual acquisition costs — but indicated he would abandon that plan if hardship acquisition was approved.

In April 1979, the Citizens Advisory Committee recommended that the Port of Seattle pursue early acquisition of a property owned by Tom Fest (parcel Z-685) under hardship status. The Committee determined that a quick purchase would benefit both parties, urging the Port to promptly establish a fair price and the owner to sell the property as a single parcel rather than subdividing it into three lots. The recommendation also specified that the owner should not be required to pay sewer hook-up costs before the sale unless the Port agreed to them.

A April 6, 1979 memorandum from George Sutter, Airport Acquisition Manager at the Port of Seattle, notifies the Citizens Advisory Committee for Hardship of a meeting scheduled for April 10, 1979 at 2:00 PM at the Relocation Office. The meeting concerns a hardship application filed by Tom Fest and his family regarding Parcel Z-685. Supporting documentation from Mr. Fest and the Board's recommendation for Parcel Z-296 from the March 20th meeting are included as enclosures.

A March 1979 letter from Deputy Ombudsman Rella E. Foley to Messrs. Stockdale and Sutter details the financial hardship of a Mr. Fest, whose annual income of approximately $6,000 makes it impossible for him to afford sewer connection payments. Foley recommends that the DesMoines Sewer District allow Mr. Fest a temporary sewer connection while the Port of Seattle moves quickly to acquire his property, noting that delays forcing him to pursue a short plat subdivision would ultimately cost taxpayers more. The letter was copied to legal counsel for both the DesMoines Sewer District and the Port of Seattle.