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Courthouse  
King County  
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Seattle, WA 98104  
Meeting Minutes  
Transportation, Economy, and  
Environment Committee  
Councilmembers:  
Steffanie Fain, Chair;  
Pete von Reichbauer, Vice Chair;  
Claudia Balducci, Reagan Dunn  
Lead Staff: Jake Tracy (206-263-0875)  
Committee Clerk: Angelica Calderon (206 477-7470)  
9:30 AM  
Tuesday, April 21, 2026  
Hybrid Meeting  
DRAFT-Special joint meeting with the Regional Transit Committee  
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Meeting Minutes  
April 21, 2026  
Transportation, Economy, and  
Environment Committee  
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meeting.  
1.  
2.  
Call to Order  
Chair Fain called the joint meeting to order at 9:32 a.m.  
Roll Call  
4 - Balducci, Dunn, Fain and von Reichbauer  
Present:  
Briefing  
3.  
FIFA Transportation Summit  
Sam Zimbabwe, Seattle FWC2026, Grant Lahmann, Transit Operations Chief of Staff,  
Sound Transit,  
Jonathan Rose, FIFA Program Director, King County Metro, Travis Phelps,  
Management of Mobility Division Director, Washington State Department of  
Transportation and Elizabeth Sheldon, Deputy Director and Chief Infrastructure  
Engineer, Seattle Department of Transportation, briefed the Committee via PowerPoint  
presentation and answered questions from the members.  
This matter was Presented  
Adjournment  
The meeting was adjourned at 10:49 a.m.