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Port of Seattle Regular Meeting Oct 24, 2023

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2023-10-24
Property Tax Levy 2023 (and a few words about sex trafficking)

Commissioners, It’s with an increasingly heavy heart we take in your discussion of the Property Tax Levy every year now. Despite your claims to be the most progressive commission ever, the tax levy is evidence that your relationship with the cities under the flight path, especially fence line communities, is steadily becoming less equitable with

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2023-10-24
Commission regular meeting agenda, October 24, 2023

This is the agenda for the Port of Seattle Commission Regular Meeting held on October 24, 2023, at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The meeting covered a range of infrastructure and operational topics, including airfield construction projects, baggage claim replacements, passenger loading bridge upgrades, and concession agreements at Sea-Tac Airport. While the agenda addresses broad airport development and environmental initiatives, it does not contain specific noise policy items.

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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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