[EXTERNAL] Port Package
LINDA BOYNTON <excellentmouse@comcast.net>
Sun 5/26/2024 3:14 PM
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Commissioners,
I appreciate the Port’s progress on the Port Package Update Pilot program.
However, I have concerns about the program, including the recent postcards you’ve sent out
announcing an upcoming survey.
I do not understand why only one third of homeowners have received postcards. Sending out
postcards to some but not others, and without explaining the program, the purpose of the
upcoming survey, or how you can properly evaluate the program by testing only thirty homes
has already created needless uncertainty and anxiety. It would have been better if your team
had informed airport cities and groups like SeaTacNoise.Info in advance as to how the program
would be rolled out.
Please send out postcards to all homes with Port Packages immediately so that all 9,600
homes are included in the upcoming survey.
Beyond that, work proactively with SeaTacNoise.Info at each step of the program. Since 2017
they have been contacted by over 1,300 homes with Port Package problems. Working together
will help you reach the greatest number of impacted homeowners, which I’m sure is what we all
want to do.
Sincerely,
Linda Boynton
5/28/24, 8:34 AM
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[EXTERNAL] Take Action to Reduce Cruise Harms!
Patrick McKee <noreply@adv.actionnetwork.org>
Wed 5/29/2024 12:50 PM
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Commission_Testimony Port Meeting,
Dear Port Commissioners and staff,
I urge you to take action to immediately reduce the harms caused by Seattle’s cruise sector.
Giant cruise ships pollute our waters and air, endanger our health and our climate, exploit
onboard workers, and overwhelm destination communities.
I urge the Port of Seattle to take the following actions:
1) Annually reduce the number of sailings, until there is zero water, air and climate pollution. The
“Green Cruise Corridor” claims that it may eventually reduce emissions, but we need to start
now!
2) Lobby the WA state legislature to expand the mission of WA ports to include stewardship. The
Port should advocate to update state law so that ports are no longer mandated to continually
grow business at the expense of the environment and our health. The current mission is obsolete
and dangerous in light of the climate and environmental crises we now face.
3) Support the proposed U.S. Clean Shipping Act, which would end emissions from all ships by
2040 and would also electrify ports to stop health-harming pollution. This law would apply to
freight and cruise ships, and contains reduction benchmarks. The “Greenest Port in North
America'' should champion the effort to raise the bar for all US vessels.
4) Reject false solutions and speak out publicly about the need for true solutions. LNG fracked
gas is proven to be as bad or worse for the climate than traditional fuels, yet cruise companies
sailing out of Seattle make claims that LNG cruise ships are environmentally friendly. “Engine
scrubbers” that turn air pollution into water pollution should not be allowed along the Seattle-
Alaska cruise route; instead of using scrubbers, cruise companies could simply pay for a higher
grade of available fuel. "Net zero" and "carbon neutral" are goals that allow climate pollution to
continue and are not in line with keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees - we need actual
zero emissions vessels and targets.
5) Approach discussions, goals, studies, and presentations about the cruise sector in an honest,
holistic, and unbiased way. When economics are discussed, there should be a transparent
breakdown of the purported financial benefit to our region, AND a breakdown of negative costs
caused by the industry directly, and the costs of exacerbating the climate crisis. Emissions from
the the flights associated with cruise passengers, and from the ships’ entire journeys, should be
counted in the greenhouse gas inventories. Environmental accomplishments must be framed in
the context of total emissions/pollution generated to give a true picture of their effectiveness.
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Take responsibility for the four billion gallons of annual water pollution dumped along the SEA-
AK route.
6) Work in collaboration to support regional solutions that could reduce harm immediately. The
entire Seattle-Alaska route should be a "no discharge zone," to stop the dumping of sewage,
toxic engine scrubber waste, garbage, oily bilge water, and greywater. The “Alaska Rangers”
onboard observer program needs to be funded by passenger fees, and expanded to enforce
environmental regulations along the entire route.
The destructive impacts of cruises are enormous & fundamental to the industry’s current
business model: cruise profits depend directly upon externalizing the costs of pollution &
exploitation. Seattle should lead the way for all North American ports to immediately to
immediately reduce harms, while exploring ways to equitably transition away from this
devastating form of toxic tourism.
Please consider this to be a written comment as part of public comment at the next Port
Commission meeting. Thank you.
Patrick McKee
patmckee@sbcglobal.net
Mercer Island, Washington 98040
5/31/24, 8:59 AM
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[EXTERNAL] POSTCARDS FOR SURVEY?
Johnny Samra <theejohnnysamra@gmail.com>
Fri 5/24/2024 5:57 PM
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Commissioners,
I appreciate the Port’s progress on the Port Package Update Pilot program.
However, I have concerns about the program, including the recent postcards
you’ve sent out announcing an upcoming survey.
I do not understand why only one third of homeowners have received
postcards. Sending out postcards to some but not others, and without
explaining the program, the purpose of the upcoming survey, or how you can
properly evaluate the program by testing only thirty homes has
already created needless uncertainty and anxiety. It would have been better
if your team had informed airport cities and groups like
SeaTacNoise.Info in advance as to how the program would be rolled out.
Please send out postcards to all homes with Port Packages immediately so
that all 9,600 homes are included in the upcoming survey.
Beyond that, work proactively with SeaTacNoise.Info at each step of the
program. Since 2017 they have been contacted by over 1,300 homes
with Port Package problems. Working together will help you reach the
greatest number of impacted homeowners, which I’m sure is what we all
want to do.
Sincerely,
Johnny Samra
13842 29th Ave S, SeaTac, WA 98168
5/28/24, 8:35 AM
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[EXTERNAL] Postcard???!?
Denise Utley <utleydg@outlook.com>
Tue 5/28/2024 4:21 PM
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Commissioners,
Please don't proceed with the port package remediation until you have reached out to every eligible
home address - sending postcards to only 3200 homes, where homeowners have potentially changed
several times over the years of eligibility, and excluding the majority of the 9600 eligible homes,
coupled with you not even explaining the program to those who ARE eligible but simply do not even
know about it will ONLY result in this whole problem NEVER going away for you, as they DO keep
finding out.
This issue will only get louder and uglier for the Port as homeowners continue to find out about it and
that fact that they were excluded.
I was there 24 years ago in February 2000, when my own port package failed shortly after my
installation - (see my attached window photos with their damage that STILL remains!!).
Additionally, the port's window supplier went bankrupt 5 months after my install and the Port's whole
program and all its embarrassing detail blew up very publicly, and several ofus were even featured on
King 5's evening news in 2007 as well as the "Up Front with Robert Mak" show, which brought many
MORE impacted homeowners forward -there are still hundreds+ more just like me.
I have now testified multiple times before you about this, as well as before the House and Senate this
last year, and I didn't receive your postcard, nor did anyone I've talked to.
The only way to make this right is raise your bar to do it ONCE, and do it WELL, as thenewer and
much better Port Commission,and regain the integrity and credibility lost by your predecessors. I
don't know why you would even WANT to do it ANY OTHER WAY.
PLEASE educate and include EVERY eligible homeowner - if you do, you will be heroes for FINALLY
stepping up and making this right!!
If you don't, it is ONLY going to continue to resurface and bite you over and over again, as excluded
homeowners continue to find out and come forward.
You have the group at seatacnoise.info to help you, and I personally would be happy to help you
however I can to make this right.
Sincere Thanks,
Denise G. Utley
5/31/24, 9:01 AM
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