• 2025-12-08

    Airport Advisory Committee Meeting Agenda and Minutes

    Airport Advisory Committee meeting agenda for December 8, 2025, including items on SAMP updates, StART meeting updates, complaints/communications, and committee workplan. Also includes minutes from the November 10, 2025 meeting with discussion of Q&A with Steve Edmiston and various airport-related updates.
  • 2025-12-08

    Airport Advisory Committee Meeting Agenda and Minutes

    We recognize that a healthy environment is essential to the quality of life in Des Moines. To ensure that we have a healthy environment, the Committee will advocate for adding a nationally recognized toxicologist(s) to the team responding to the Port of Seattle’s Sustainable Airport Master Plan (SAMP). The Committee will network with similar advocacy
  • 2025-12-08

    Airport Advisory Committee Meeting Agenda and Minutes

    Agenda for Des Moines Airport Advisory Committee meeting on December 8, 2025, including approval of November 10, 2025 minutes, StART meeting update, SAMP update, complaints/communications, and committee workplan discussion. The document also contains the complete minutes from the November 10, 2025 meeting.
  • 2025-12-03

    Public records request response PRR25-568: SAMP legal services selection

    The City of SeaTac responded to a public records request (PRR25-568) from Paula Rodriguez seeking all communications, proposals, and scoring related to the selection of legal services for the Sustainable Airport Master Plan (SAMP), covering both NEPA and SEPA processes from January 2024 through October 2025. The city provided 34 pages of responsive records, available on the city's website, and closed the request on December 3, 2025. Under RCW 42.56.550(6), the requester has one year from that date to seek judicial review.
  • 2025-12-03

    Public records request response PRR25-568: SAMP legal services selection

    The City of SeaTac responded to a public records request (PRR25-568) from Paula Rodriguez seeking all communications, proposals, and scoring related to the selection of legal services for the Sustainable Airport Master Plan (SAMP), covering both NEPA and SEPA processes from January 2024 through October 2025. The city provided 34 pages of responsive records, available on the city's website, and closed the request on December 3, 2025. Under RCW 42.56.550(6), the requester has one year from that date to seek judicial review.
  • 2025-12-02

    So you thought that Sea-Tac expansion was really underway?

    Transportation By Mike Merritt December 3, 2025 The Port of Seattle has embarked on a much-needed, massive Seattle-Tacoma International Airport expansion. But the plan is far from taking off. The projects, including a new passenger terminal with 19 new aircraft gates, still must undergo another year of environmental review and win approval by the Port
  • 2025-12-02

    PRR25-568 public records request acknowledgment letter

    The City of SeaTac acknowledged a public records request (PRR25-568) from Paula Rodriguez seeking all communications, proposals, and scoring related to the selection of legal services for the Sustainable Airport Master Plan (SAMP), covering both NEPA and SEPA processes from January 1, 2024 to October 31, 2025. The request was received on November 30, 2025, and assigned a tracking number for processing by the relevant city departments. The City anticipated fulfilling the request by December 19, 2025.
  • 2025-12-02

    PRR25-568 public records request acknowledgment letter

    The City of SeaTac acknowledged a public records request (PRR25-568) from Paula Rodriguez seeking all communications, proposals, and scoring related to the selection of legal services for the Sustainable Airport Master Plan (SAMP), covering both NEPA and SEPA processes from January 1, 2024 to October 31, 2025. The request was received on November 30, 2025, and assigned a tracking number for processing by the relevant city departments. The City anticipated fulfilling the request by December 19, 2025.
  • 2025-12-01

    Case 25-7439 Docket Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

    A mediation questionnaire filed in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the FAA’s September 2025 FONSI/ROD for Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Sustainable Airport Master Plan Near-Term Projects. The Cities contend the FAA’s environmental review violated NEPA by using an artificially truncated environmental baseline and failing to assess cumulative impacts.
  • 2025-11-26

    Petition for Review FAA NEPA FONSI ROD email chain

    City of SeaTac officials exchanged emails in November 2025 regarding a Petition for Review filed to appeal the FAA's NEPA Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) and Record of Decision, coordinated under an Interlocal Agreement (ILA) with the cities of Burien and Des Moines. A council member raised concern about the petition listing 'Attorneys for Vashon Island Fair Skies' rather than the three cities, to which Director Evan Maxim clarified that outside legal counsel Mr. Taber also represents other parties including Vashon Island in a related SAMP appeal, and that the reference was likely included by mistake. SeaTac is identified as the primary party in the event of any conflict of interest among the represented parties.