Template revised January 10, 2019.
COMMISSION
AGENDA MEMORANDUM Item No. 8h
ACTION ITEM Date of Meeting December 9, 2025
DATE : November 25, 2025
TO: Stephen P. Metruck, Executive Director
FROM: Milton Ellis, Assistant Director Labor Relations
SUBJECT: Extension of Port’s Provisional Pay Pilot Program for Non-Represented Employees
to Represented Employees
Amount of this request: Approximately $247,860
ACTION REQUESTED
Request Commission authorization for the Executive Director to enter a Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) with each Labor Organization whose Port employed members have
chosen the airport’s parking garage as their designated work location parking area. This will
extend the Provisional Pay Pilot Program for one year under the same terms as applied to non-
represented employees.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
In 2026, non-represented employees assigned to the airport who park in the airport parking
garage for work will be provided additional compensation to partially address the imputed
taxable income associated with their parking.
The additional compensation is based upon the difference between the IRS threshold for
tax-free qualified parking benefits ($340) and the fair market value for airport parking
($500); leaving a total of $140 per month of imputed, taxable, income to airport parking card
holders. The amount provided to each eligible employee will be $45 per month.
We are requesting authority to enter into agreements with the unions representing airport
workers to extend this benefit to represented employees at SEA.
COMMISSION AGENDA – Action Item No. 8h Page 2 of 2
Meeting Date: December 9, 2025
Template revised June 27, 2019 (Diversity in Contracting).
JUSTIFICATION
The Port’s Salary and Benefit Resolution
RCW 41.56
FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS
The financial implications can vary depending upon the number of eligible represented
employees who have approved airport parking relative to their assigned work location at any
given time in the year. Currently, there are approximately 459 represented employees with
airport parking cards.
459 employees X 12 months X $45 = $247,860
ATTACHMENTS TO THIS REQUEST
None.
PREVIOUS COMMISSION ACTIONS OR BRIEFINGS
March 12, 2024 – The Commission approved the amendment to the Salary and Benefits
Resolution to include Provisional Pay
