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Des Moines START representative says SeaTac sound‑insulation effort produced few fixes, urges local advocacy
Summary
Joe Dusenberry, Des Moines’s representative to the SeaTac Stakeholder Advisory Roundtable (START), told the Des Moines City Council on May 8 that a Port‑funded survey and repair pilot for failed residential sound‑insulation packages found almost no qualifying homes under current FAA rules and urged the city to push for local outreach and funding options.
Joe Dusenberry, Des Moines’s representative to the SeaTac Stakeholder Advisory Roundtable (START), told the Des Moines City Council on May 8 that START meetings are mainly informational and that a recent Port‑commissioned study and pilot program to repair failed residential sound‑insulation packages found very few homes that qualify for FAA‑funded repairs.
Dusenberry said START’s presentations are “information only” and that community members at the START meeting felt the steering committee controlled the agenda. He summarized the sound‑insulation pilot this way: the Port authorized roughly $5,000,000 for surveying and a repair pilot and the work identified only five houses that would qualify for repairs under FAA rules, “and the biggest hurdle is that the FAA rules … just make it…
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