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Port of Seattle Regular Meeting Sep 10, 2024

2024-09-10
Commission regular meeting agenda, September 10, 2024

This is the agenda for the Port of Seattle Commission Regular Meeting held on September 10, 2024, at the Port's headquarters in Seattle. The meeting covered routine consent agenda items such as fleet vehicle acquisitions, restroom service contracts, and a collective bargaining agreement, as well as new business including resolutions on carbon tax credit trading and city transportation funding. Notably, the meeting did not address Sea-Tac Airport noise policy directly, though it did include an order requiring greenhouse gas reduction goals to be considered before renewing long-term cruise agreements.

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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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Commission regular meeting agenda, September 10, 2024

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