The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Port of Seattle (Washington municipal corporation; SEA airport and maritime facilities) · Washington
- Level
- County
- Authority
- Port Commission's power over Port leases and property (RCW 53.08.080, 53.08.220) exercised by Commission action
- Issued
- 2020-04-01 Apr. 1, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-04-01
- End
- 2020-06-30 (eviction bar "through June 30, 2020"; relief later extended by further Commission actions) (read as 2020-06-30)
- In force
- Apr. 1, 2020 to June 30, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Other
- Addressees
- airport-based businesses and Port tenants (concessions, airlines, rental cars, maritime tenants, live-aboard residents)
- Functions reached
- CB airport concessionaires and tenants (recognition that closures had eliminated their revenue)
- OP
- Collection
- Aviation and surface-transport regulators AGY-AVIATION-SURFACE
Operative words
"The Port of Seattle Commission today approved an immediate, short-term emergency financial relief package for airport-based businesses, barred evictions of tenants at Port of Seattle facilities (including live-aboard residents) due to an inability to pay rent through June 30, 2020, and authorized the Executive Director to provide additional immediate relief to Port tenants such as maritime and r[eal-estate tenants]...."
Enforcement
Commission action binding the Port as landlord
Notes
Counterparty instrument: the airport landlord's own finding that COVID-19 orders had shut down the airport's commercial tenants; evidence of the suspension of airport concession commerce in Q2 2020.
Retrieval notePort release; Commission motion text not separately retrieved.