In case you weren’t taking notes during my comments today and don’t call the email date/me I menoned, I’ve included it below for your convenience.

As I specifically referred to this email during my comments, it would be great if it could be added to the official meeng record as if I had physically handed it over to the clerk

aer my comment. If that needed to be done before the meeng that’s OK, though I would note that as of this moment (3PM PDT), the commission meeng is sll in session.

Thanks,

David

From: David Goebel <david@vifs.org>

Subject: Wrien Public Comment on 8/24/22 Port of Seale “StART” Meeng

[Cc: Facilitator and Port staff from 8/24 StART* meeng, StART member Brian Wilson, Port of Seale Commissioners, Rep. Jayapal’s staff, and Dominic Gates (Seale Times)]

I’m wring to comment on the fundamental and negave change in engagement brought about by the new virtual meeng procedure introduced at this evening’s StART

meeng from convenonal Zoom to Zoom’s closed and opaque “Webinar Panelist” style format. Facilitator Brian Sco described it this evening:

When the me for public comment rolls around, “observers” signed up to give comment are escorted from their isolated viewing pod by having their camera and mic enabled

for two minutes.

I can’t help but suspect this change was movated, perhaps subconsciously, by the discomfort generated from the contradicon that the community seemingly most upset

about plane noise, as measured by complaints, unique complaining households (see the Port’s aached July report), and past public parcipaon in StART meengs is explicitly

excluded from actually having a seat at the StART table. Aempng to alleviate that discomfort by making the public invisible is anthecal to open government.

David Goebel

President, Vashon Island Fair Skies

PS: Feel free to forward as desired

*StART = “SEA Stakeholder Advisory Round Table” (hps://www.portseale.org/page/StART_Partners) is the Port’s primary nexus for discussion of the Port’s environmental

impact on surrounding communies.