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Home My WebLink About02102020 City Council Laydown - Paquette Airport coc9c-/ v 2.10.2020 Regarding the Seward Airport situation �1 ) I would like to thank the Council for formin the Air part of it. g port Committee and I am honored to be a The work Carol has done to create the new version of this resolution should be applauded. I wanted to have a meeting of the committee and she took the initiative to just get the work done. The revisions she has made (virtually a new resolution) are excellent. I'd just also like to get it on record that my experience of speaking with folks at DOT is I hear a completely different story than from locals here, stake holders that attended those meetings with DOT and also pilots that were at the airport when DOT first started the project. Sometimes I think with bureaucracy the agencies think that the problem will just go away with time because people will forget and they adopt an attitude of gaslighting with the story they want to be true (they being DOT) and they just keep repeating it till they believe it themselves and expect the rest of us to believe it as well. I don't want to get into the he said-she said specifics, but I want to document that DOT misrepresented the citizen & pilot's responses to their proposals repeatedly to me. I have not found a single person who was interviewed at the onset who will agree to the statements DOT has made. I think it's imperative to understand this. It's their property, they own it, therefore they believe they can do with it what they want. And technically they can! In that regard we have no legs to stand on. So, it's not that the Airport Committee's proposal of City ownership is unreasonable, or outlandish or more than what Seward can handle! It's not about any of that at this point! Some form of transition/takeover/ownership/ IS THE ONLY HOPE FOR THE FUTURE of the Airport. Zero of what DOT is offering is of interest to the people who matter! ZERO!!! Please do not be short sighted here. If you allow the resolutions being presented by Administration to pass as is, it will be as if you have cut off one of the legs Seward has. Air travel will be forever hampered, and some might say ruined by DOT's plans. Please schedule a work session so that the public has time to see the new resolution and discuss the options that lie ahead for the City. Thank you.