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A. Board minutes and resolutions
From the district's own minutes archive (seattlecc.com), 2016–2026.
A1
The board named the Garden Terrace for the principal of its paid development-management firm, four to one, dissent unnamed
Document: 11/26/2024 Special Minutes · Page: 2 · Captured: 2026-08-02 04:11 UTC · Status: verified
A2
The board named the Summit ballroom for its own sitting chairman; he handed off the gavel and abstained
Document: 11/26/2019 Regular Minutes · Page: 6 · Captured: 2026-08-02 04:11 UTC · Status: verified
A3
The labor seat handover — the departing member supplied the chairman with the name of a suggested successor
Document: 10/26/2021 Special Minutes · Page: 4 · Captured: 2026-08-02 04:11 UTC · Status: verified
A4
A salary increase and full incentive approved in open session with no dollar figures
Document: 10/28/2025 Regular Minutes · Page: 2 · Captured: 2026-08-02 04:11 UTC · Status: verified
A5
The labor member abstained on the C&M Res LLC authorization
Document: 7/30/2019 Regular Minutes · Page: 3 · Captured: 2026-08-02 04:11 UTC · Status: verified
A6
Resolution 2018-3, May 22 2018
Document: 5/22/2018 Regular Minutes · Page: 4 · Captured: 2026-08-02 04:11 UTC · Status: verified
A8
Public comment sits at item 1 of every regular agenda, three minutes a speaker
Document: 6/30/2026 agenda · Page: 1 · Captured: 2026-08-02 04:11 UTC · Status: verified
A9
Agendas name resolutions by number and one-line title only, with no packet
Document: 7/28/2026 agenda · Page: 1 · Captured: 2026-08-02 04:11 UTC · Status: verified
A7 — public comment appears at exactly five meetings in a decade — rests on a sweep of the full 97-document minutes archive, of which this desk holds 46. It is stated on Findings as "document pull outstanding" and carries no exhibit until the archive is held.
B. Bylaws and board policies
Produced under public-records request, May 22, 2026. Board Policies 7 (Procurement) and 8 (Ethics) are held as the source PDFs; the bylaws as the produced text.
B1
Holdover is explicit and open-ended, and it lives in the bylaws rather than the statute
Document: §2.3, final sentence: "Any Board member whose term has expired continues to serve until such director has been reappointed or upon the appointment of his or her successor." · Status: verified
B2
Officers serve two-year terms with no restriction on serving them consecutively
Document: §3.3: "Board Officers shall serve a two-year term, unless terminated earlier by the Board… There shall be no restriction on Board members serving successive terms as Chair or Vice Chair." · Status: verified
B3
A vacancy reduces total membership for quorum; after six months the board picks an interim member
Document: §2.4 · Status: verified
B4
Removal is available to the appointing authority "for any reason or for no reason" — Governor for his own, two-thirds of the confirming legislative authority otherwise
Document: §2.5 · Status: verified
B5
★ NEW — the bylaws restate the composition floor: one Governor and one County appointment must represent the lodging industry; one City appointment must represent organized labor
Document: §2.3 · Status: verified
B6
The marketing contract is exempt by category AND BY NAME, on a list otherwise composed of single-provider items
Document: Board Policy 7, "Exemptions from Competitive Procurement Procedures": the District "require[s] certain services for its day-to-day business that cannot be secured through an open competitive process," then lists utilities, union benefits/pensions, City taxes, WSDOT maintenance fees, "Seattle's Convention and Visitors Bureau marketing services," postage, King County property taxes, transit vouchers, health premiums, and "other expenses… approved by the Board." · Page: 2 · Captured: 2026-08-02 04:11 UTC · Status: verified
![B6 — Board Policy 7, "Exemptions from Competitive Procurement Procedures": the District "require[s] certain services for its day-to-day business that cannot be secured through an open competitive process," then lists utilities, union benefits/pensions, City taxes, WSDOT maintenance fees, "Seattle's Convention and Visitors Bureau marketing services," postage, King County property taxes, transit vouchers, health premiums, and "other expenses… approved by the Board.", page image](/static/content/dispatch/exhibits/b6-p2-2.jpg)
B7
Board Policy 8 (Ethics) carries a full conflict-of-interest regime that expressly covers the award of contracts
Document: Policy 8, rev. 04-22-2025: conflicts "will be disclosed, and the member will not participate in the decision-making process"; members "will avoid evaluating or voting on the matter involved. This includes the award of contracts" · Page: 3 · Captured: 2026-08-02 04:11 UTC · Status: verified
B8
An unpaid director of a nonprofit contracting with the District is defined as NOT conflicted
Document: Policy 8 definitions: a "remote interest" includes "that of a non-salaried Board member of a nonprofit corporation contracting with the District" — tracking RCW 42.23.040, which adds conditions the policy omits (disclose, note in the official minutes before formation, approve without counting the interested vote) · Page: 3 · Captured: 2026-08-02 04:11 UTC · Status: verified
C. Appointment records
C1
A mayoral appointee's residential council district is listed "NA" — residence outside Seattle
Document: City Clerk appointment packet roster sheet ("Roster: 2026 6.8.26") · Status: quote confirmed; no page image
QUOTE-OK — packet archived at 04-political-network/ahmed-appointment-packet-2026.pdf
C3
King County's on-record commitment to post vacancies
Document: Press Secretary email, 7/29/2026 · Status: ✅ held at 05-outreach/kc-comment-response-2026-07-29.md
✅ held at 05-outreach/kc-comment-response-2026-07-29.md
D. Live webpages
Captured with a retrieval date, because these change.
D1
Thirteen institutions have advisory committees; DAC/IAC purpose; SMC 23.69.032
Document: seattle.gov Major Institution Advisory Committees · Captured: 2026-08-02 03:03 UTC · Status: captured
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D3
Seattle Center Advisory Commission — 15 members, "must reside in Seattle"
Document: seattlecenter.com/about/advisory-commission · Captured: 2026-08-02 03:00 UTC · Status: captured
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D5
Seattle City Council written comment — four business hours, late comments still in the record
Document: seattle.gov city-clerk public comment guide · Captured: 2026-08-02 03:03 UTC · Status: captured
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D6
King County Council written comment by 8 a.m.; remote with no sign-up
Document: kingcounty.gov council meetings · Captured: 2026-08-02 03:01 UTC · Status: captured
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D9
Dahl — "privately owned, but publicly financed corporation"
Document: theurbanist.org 2017/06/15 · Captured: 2026-08-02 03:01 UTC · Status: captured
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D10
Dahl — "there has been no referendum"
Document: theurbanist.org 2016/05/05 · Captured: 2026-08-02 03:01 UTC · Status: captured
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D11
Bonjukian's item-by-item benefits accounting
Document: thenorthwesturbanist.com 2024/12/15 · Captured: 2026-08-02 03:02 UTC · Status: captured
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D12
Sound Transit Board — public attends in person or via Zoom; video posted to YouTube after each meeting
Document: soundtransit.org board-meetings · Captured: 2026-08-18 08:26 UTC · Status: captured
D13
Sound Transit Board — "accepts in person, virtual, and written public comment on items on the meeting agendas"; written comment to meetingcomments@soundtransit.org up to one hour before, provided to members electronically, posted after
Document: soundtransit.org public-comments · Captured: 2026-08-18 08:26 UTC · Status: captured
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D14
Port of Seattle Commission — written comment accepted 3 days prior through 9 a.m. day-of; "Late written comments received after the meeting, but no later than the day following the meeting, will also be included as public comment in the meeting record"; remote speakers sign up by 9 a.m.; two minutes each; live and on-demand video on the meeting portal
Document: portseattle.org public-comment page · Captured: 2026-08-18 08:26 UTC · Status: captured
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D15
Spokane PFD — board meets "via Zoom and at the Numerica Veterans Arena Boardroom," Wednesdays 12:30 p.m.; PUBLIC COMMENTS is item 7 of 8; minutes posted on the district site back to 2022
Document: Spokane PFD board minutes 6/24/2026 (PDF held; page 1 rendered) · Captured: 2026-08-18 08:40 UTC · Status: captured
D16
Lynnwood PFD — "HYBRID MEETING LYNNWOOD PFD BOARD ROOM OR TEAMS WEBINAR" with a Zoom link printed on the agenda; Public Comment is item B, at the top; "*=materials attached"
Document: Lynnwood PFD board agenda 6/3/2025 (PDF held via Lynnwood Today; page 1 rendered) · Captured: 2026-08-18 08:40 UTC · Status: captured
D17
Bellevue Convention Center Authority — regular meetings fourth Tuesday 8:30 a.m., "convene in the Conference Room of the Administrative Offices of Meydenbauer Center"; agendas and minutes posted for 2016–2026; no remote option stated on the page
Document: meydenbauer.com/about-us/meetings · Captured: 2026-08-18 08:32 UTC · Status: captured
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D18
Portland publishes a quarterly lost-business line to its oversight body — Travel Portland's 2nd Quarter Report in the MERC packet of 5/7/2025 carries "2ND QUARTER — OREGON CONVENTION CENTER LOST BUSINESS: 39 groups, 160,582 total room nights, 95,480 attendees, $24,756,950 lost OCC revenue"
Document: MERC committee packet 2025-05-07, packet p.42 (report p.6 of 22) — oregonmetro.gov PDF, held · Captured: 2026-08-18 08:55 UTC · Status: captured
I. Campus master plan production — public-records request of August 13, 2026
Emails and PDFs rendered as produced, except that this desk has masked email addresses and phone numbers on the email exhibits, and blurred the name columns of the stakeholder table in I1; dates, subjects, titles, organizations and text are untouched. The two Word documents (a draft resolution and the roundtable materials) are rendered from the produced files, the draft with its tracked change shown.
I3
Pine Street Group's managing partner, 2025-09-02: "The original plan was for us to hire LMN under our contract (no public process). Hendricks reviewed PSG's agreement and determined PSG was ok, but that the design needed to go through a public process."
Document: Rosauer → Mullen cc Brown/Houg/LeMaster/Vidallon, RE_ Next steps on LMN (1) · Page: 1 · Captured: 2026-08-18 09:20 UTC · Status: verified
I4
RFQ 550-0525-1 §4.1: evaluation "by a review team to be designated by the SCC, which will determine the ranking of the Submittals"; no criteria, weights or scoring method in the RFQ or Addenda 1–3
Document: RFQ 550-0525-1 Campus Master Plan (June 2, 2025) + Addenda · Page: 9 · Captured: 2026-08-18 09:30 UTC · Status: verified
I5
Resolution 2025-5: the October 21, 2025 draft's anti-splitting section ("The breaking down of any purchase or contract into units or phases for the purpose of avoiding the maximum dollar amount is prohibited…") absent from the text adopted 6–0 on October 28, 2025; CEO lease/amendment authority to $250,000/yr, extensions to fifteen years, emergency contracts to $250,000/yr; supersedes 2011-26
Document: Draft R 10.21.25 vs sealed-for-signature text; 10/28/2025 minutes · Captured: 2026-08-18 09:20 UTC · Status: verified
I6
HVS board presentation, August 26, 2025, slide 17 "Increase Hotel Room Supply": public/private partnership, public financing, "Site — Use existing District land or air rights"
Document: HVS_SCC Board Meeting_2025-08.26 slide 17; DRAFT Market and Lodging Study 7.18 Fig. 1-8 · Page: 13 · Captured: 2026-08-18 09:20 UTC · Status: verified
I7
The district's own May 2026 CEO biography: "She currently serves on the boards of the Freeway Park Association, Seattle Sports Commission, Visit Seattle, and Woodland Park Zoo."
Document: May4 Mayor Roundtable Materials (Visitor & Events Partnership Roundtable, May 4, 2026) · Captured: 2026-08-18 09:20 UTC · Status: verified
E. Correspondence
E1
The district's written answer on a sanctuary policy: "no such policy has been adopted by the PFD Board."
Document: email from the district's communications office, May 27, 2026, in reply to a written question of May 19 · Status: held (direct correspondence, not a records production) · published in "No Such Policy Has Been Adopted"
Source files, capture sidecars and the build script live in the desk's research tree; the policy PDFs and other held documents are kept as exhibits, the rest of the productions stay out of the public repository.
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