2010/03/17 Council Agenda Packet

• 6 WHEREAS, Aerospace workers earn an average of more than $50,000 a year - 60 percent higher thanthe average for all private sector industries; and WHEREAS, most aerospace companies are relatively small businesses - many with five to 50 employees; and WHEREAS, approximately $5.4 billion is paid in annual wages to aerospace workers - five percent of all wages paid in the state; and WHEREAS, the Mayor and Everett City Council values these jobs and the people who hold them, and will make it a priority to ensure Washington and the Puget Sound region remains the best place to design, build, and market commercial airplanes; and WHEREAS, our national security interests are not served by sending this valuable and strategic program overseas; and WHEREAS, Airbus has a majority of their workers in Europe, and by their own admission would only do the finishing work for a tanker in the U.S. - that's as little as 5 percent; and WHEREAS, awarding the contract to Boeing can create or retain 40,000 to 50,000 American jobs at a time in history when we desperately need them; and WHEREAS, U.S. taxpayers are not served by buying tankers from both Boeing and Airbus in this competition; NOW,THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND EVERETT CITY COUNCIL THAT: The U.S. Department of Defense should select Boeing over Airbus to build the • next mid-air refueling tanker; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT: The U.S. Department of Defense should not split the contract between the two competitors; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT: Copies of this Resolution be immediately transmitted by the Everett City Clerk to Boeing Corporate Offices in Chicago, Boeing Commercial Airplanes in Seattle, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, and the Society of Professional.Engineering Employees in Aerospace. 2 13