all right go ahead guys all right uh
i'm going to call today's meeting and to
order it's august 20
uh time is a little after 12 30
uh year 2020 and uh do we have a quorum
mr hume uh yes mr chair we do have corn
president
all right uh in the event that somebody
needs to speak i'm going to ask that you
just
unmute yourself otherwise we'll have
everybody mute yourself
and then andy can let me know i'll kind
of work through him that way
i'll also look at you can do the raised
hand feature
but i have trouble right now
seeing everybody but we'll see what we
can do let's see now if you would
uh
uh what i'd like to do would be to ask
jerry would you
go ahead and lead us in the pledge of
allegiance
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jerry you're muted
i pledge allegiance to the flag of the
united states and to the republic for
which it stands
one nation under god indivisible with
liberty and justice for all
thank you the acknowledgement of guests
would you please advise
uh let me know who the guests are uh for
the
for the record i can see names as
participants but if you let me know
for the record uh andy uh yes sir so
uh we have kent fryer who is uh airport
consultant with melvin corbin
and um let me see here who else we have
we have um
uh cynthia campo who is the um
uh budget analyst with economic
development department
and lorienne romero who is of course
our admin assistant at the airport and
our
recording secretary and we also have
mike cading joining us from southwest
aviation so
uh mr chair those are the guests that i
see who are
have attended um it looks like uh in
addition to you mr chair we have mr
clark
uh vice chair palmer um
uh mr leonard and
uh mr privet as far as board members so
we do have a quorum sir
all right so if you see me get up it's
because these chimes here the wind's
blowing a little bit i'm gonna undo
them so it doesn't override when i'm
talking
uh the minutes for june 18
to have a motion or comment regarding
those minutes
mr chair just for the for the purpose of
uh those who may not have uh tuned in
at the july meeting uh these were the
minutes that were
uh uh denied approval um
and if i appreciate
laurie's work in getting back with our
transcriptionist and uh getting the
amendments taken care of and getting
them um
revised so what you're seeing are the
revised
summary minutes for june 18th being
brought back
for your review and hopefully approval
all right thank you do you have a do you
have a motion or comments
i move the mo the business be accepted
as revised
mr clark moved do we have a second
well second it this is ross mr palmer ii
uh all in favors uh
signify by saying i unmute yourself and
say hi
any opposed i hear none
those minutes are approved now for july
uh do we have any comments or motion
with respect to those
chairman darden this is ted leonard
yes sir under uh number three on the
first page item three
um we need to remove dan ted and wes
from the guest list they were
present there they were present as
members up above
not guests okay
any other comments or questions uh
regarding the minutes
do you have a motion uh to approve
subjects
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oh sorry andy do i have a motion to
approve subject to the
change in article in item number three
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mr chair so moved mr clark moves do we
have a second
second this is ross mr palmer seconds
is there any opposition anybody voting
nay
xenon uh then is there at least one
voting eye
avoid eye
minutes of july 16 are approved
there are no action items so for
discussion items we have
national guard readiness center uh mr
hum
uh thank you very much mr chair um we
uh we were unable to connect with
mr archibeque from armstrong consultants
for an update on this
and i'll just actually before i confirm
that i'll just trip
um so we we do invite um
him to participate in this meeting um
uh anyway the national guard
is is uh my last update was
that their all of the site work is
completed
and um pretty much all of the interior
work is completed as well
um the work that remains is getting the
fire suppression system installed in the
main hangar bay and uh and then they'll
need to be tested
so um uh according to the information i
received
from um the the captain the commander
here in charge
um he said that uh um
not captain lieutenant sorry that the um
uh they look they're looking to be out
of
certainly out of the hangar they lease
from us and hopefully be fully
into that wrap new center beginning of
the year so
those plans are still on track
what i'll do mr chairs i'll reach out to
um
mr archerback and see if there's any
other
information that i need to provide and
if so i will send that back through to
the board
but we will maintain this as a monthly
discussion item
until the readiness center is
open and operational do any members of
the board
wish to ask andy any questions regarding
what
uh he's stated so far regarding national
guard readiness
you have any any comments from any
member of the board
any members of the public
hearing none we'll move on to lru action
plan
and uh with that uh either jerry or ted
one of you
uh take take the lead and i will mute
myself
this is this is ted um i hope everyone
got a chance to read our
our memo that uh laurie attached to the
email with the agenda and i don't have a
whole lot to add to our
memo but um i would like to encourage
the
the other members of the board to take a
look at that market street phase two
study that andy is going to be sending
you
all out and in general i think we should
pursue development of the mission
statement and vision statement etc
as part of what you could call the
rebranding of the airport
you know spotlighted by the new logo etc
but i do think the board needs to be
kind of careful about how we proceed
about filling
gaps in the action plan because it seems
to me the more jerry and i got into it
we kept
discovering with andy's help new
documents like this phase 2 study
that did fit that basically do fill in
some gaps in the plan
so i think we need to be sure that we've
seen everything
that has been done subsequent to the
action plan
before we start reinventing the wheel
and i also might suggest i don't know if
this is the right place for it in the
agenda but
maybe we should have another
presentation from dr martinez
from the economic development division
of
the city to find out what how they're
fitting the airport into their general
plans
and i think i'll uh um
turn it over to jerry because he has
some more ideas on
uh how to approach filling in these gaps
oh i really don't have any more um
ideas but the city
and over the last 30 years has
spent taxpayer money with all kinds of
reviews reports master plans andy was
very
helpful in allowing us to see the 1997
master plan which was quite extensive
and
still fits but we have come a long way
since then
on the facility and
basically it's ted's in my view that the
facility
is really good uh in one of our
estimations of where to go and what to
do next we
took a look at
several airports that were equal
in size or bigger than a las cruces
airport
and it seems like that they had uh kind
of been stagnated
uh after they got everything developed
and they were ready to go
and they didn't know what to do next
and i think las cruces airport is there
the next um the
markets what's the name of that thing
ted
markets um market streets plan
um does a lot about
the development of ways to
attract new business into um
the west mesa and park as well as the
airport
and i think what we saw
the way to go forward was perhaps
to get more buy-in from all the players
not only at the airport but at the
industrial park as well so
on top of what ted just said that's
that's basically all
what my view was and that's what we both
put in
to our vision individual vision
statements
and mission statements that you see
on this memorandum
well this is john i appreciate the work
that you've put into it
and i was looking i'm looking now again
to get the ball rolling to begin with
the first next step i'd like to ask you
as
for uh for the record at least what what
you both either of you recommend as our
as our next step as a board
whether you continue to do something as
a subcommittee
whether we have put this on as a
discussion item
we'll keep this on as a discussion item
but
what we might be able to continue doing
or what you recommend we continue doing
in this regard this is uh
ted um i think we should pursue
developing a mission statement and a
supporting vision statement
and i'm not sure whether that means we
should have a
work group with the board and andy or
whether we should meet with the economic
development department
and if you want to just leave it with
our subcommittee of two
that's fine as well
we would like andy's input if we try to
combine our mission statements etc
and this is john again so what uh
andy what are the possibilities of
getting
uh either doctor or either your
supervisor or
some somebody else to make a
presentation with knowledge preferably
up the food chain uh no disrespect to
you
uh you're you're giving us you give us
uh
valued advice on a on a meeting by
meeting basis
but in terms of what the economic
development department or
the city manager uh has in mind for
the development of the airport because
it is a defined area
within the uh within the entire
region that the city owns property but
it's it has its own separate
uh separate corridor separate boundaries
and separate issues i assume yet they're
intertwined with
the same issue with issues involving the
development of the west mesa
yeah mr chair first of all uh there
i certainly don't take any any
disrespect at all i i
i think we have an excellent working
relationship between us and the board
uh between me and the board and um and
certainly
the the the the approach that is being
proposed
is a uh is a is a very holistic approach
and i think it's a wise one that we
don't look at things
yes i agree there are certain
circumstances that are very
unique to the airport versus any other
part of the city
but um uh when you know what
one of the uh one of the
key phrases is a non-siloed approach
uh we don't want we want to look at it
how the how
the you know almost like a quilt how
does it all come together
and and form that so um what i'll do i
made a note here
uh about your uh the the board's request
for uh to hear more from from uh dr
martinez and
uh also we now have our deputy director
uh dr payatis
who also is is very active he's working
with me
very closely on all of the airport and
industrial park planning projects so
i think his input would be quite
valuable as well so
what i'll do is i'll i'll forward that
request and and we will
work on getting them uh hopefully
getting
to hear from them either uh in
october or november here uh preferably
october so we can keep the momentum
going
um i also would like to in
in return thank uh ted and jerry for the
work that they've put in
uh we had an excellent meeting here at
the airport uh and we've also had some
good conversations i've had good
conversations with both of them
um about this and um
i i i i greatly appreciate
the the work that's that this represents
this document that i have up on the
screen
um looking at a couple of different
versions of a vision statement a mission
statement and some goals
um you know this when when i initially
mentioned this to the board i felt that
these were some very
critical things that were missing um
the uh so so it could be
one or the other or uh better better
still is some um
some coalescing of these ideas into very
strong
statements um uh so i i
absolutely am looking forward to working
with uh uh mr leonard mr clark
on um on refining this and bringing
something back
hopefully something that we can uh put
forward as a as a recommendation to city
council
um wow so uh
hopefully that addresses your questions
uh mr darden and if
chair and if not i'll be more than happy
to call
to clarify the only thing in addition
i'd like to ask is if there are any
members of the public who wish
to participate in that who have
particularly either experience or
um uh either interesting
interest in the airport and experience
uh that might be relevant to
contact uh mr hume and as much as we're
streaming live on
youtube uh perhaps or maybe other people
watching and there just may be the 11 of
us
that are noted on my screen but uh
if there is somebody who wishes to
participate in that uh
with the subcommittee uh let
at least let andy know as far as the
members of the board are concerned
the most we could have would be one
other member of the board
at this point in time involved in that
subcommittee without having to have
open meeting issues regarding your
meeting because then we'd have a quorum
if we had four more with that
is there any comments on any part any
member of the
uh of the board at this point
yes mr chair i'd like to add that
while we're waiting for andy to push
this other part forward
i'd like to ask any members of the board
or the public
that have a inputs to the
vision and the goals and the mission
that we've put forward to
send us a send us a note and tell us
what they would like to see
because you know ted and i
came up with some ideas but there's
probably some more out there
well i think it's excellent excellent
progress people
don't understand mission vision and
goals
and their definition or
how they need to be separated and they
did a good job from my perspective
are there any comments from any members
of the board
mr chair i don't see any other uh hands
raised
in the in the participant list
all right with that we'll move on to the
next topic which is
the airport manager's report and project
list
thank you very much mr chair i
appreciate um
i appreciate this discussion and it's
actually a great segue into
a lot of the things that we've been uh
certainly doing and
and certainly relates to what mr park
was saying with
the the progress that our team has made
over the last couple of years
and some of the things that we're still
uh we still have in front of us to get
taken care of
i want to just update you all on the
part 139 inspection
um normally we have ours of course we've
got some
some some challenges with travel and
those types of things
we are currently in the documentation
and administrative
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paperwork gathering phase
we will have all of that submitted on or
before
the week of seven september so um
and then the the
site visit the in-person visit is
tentatively scheduled for the week
28 september so we just want to let you
guys know that
keep updated on that um we will have
all of our paperwork submitted prior to
the next board meeting
um and uh i certainly you know
we certainly will be able to make all of
that available if anybody wants to
provide some just take a look at what it
is that we have to provide
um uh between now
and the the site visit i'm hoping that
by the time we have our next board
meeting which should be
on the 17th september we will have some
confirmation
of the site visit so uh hopefully we'll
stand by for that uh mr chair
um the next item is
andy on that topic could i ask oh well
i i'm sorry we'll we'll wait till wait
till later i was going to ask and see if
uh if there are any board members who
wanted to participate in that site visit
i know that
uh mr privet and mizzarik have uh
operations out there if there's any if
there are board members
if you'd reach out to them and see if we
can
if they uh can be socially distanced
enough to participate in the
in that if they want to um
but if you in any event go ahead with
the rest of your report and i apologize
for interrupting i shouldn't have done
that
not at all mr um uh one of the things
i'll do
is if there is anybody interested uh
i'll
make sure to connect with our uh faa
inspector
and see how it could be arranged um
this you we have we have there's there's
some
some really key items in this report and
then
this next one is one of them um we
have been talking about rolling out our
uh airport-wide training program for
many many months now and i know that
some of you have even very very early on
in conversations have been involved in
this we've
made a lot of comments and updates at
board meetings
and mr chair i am very very pleased
to report that we finally have it rolled
out airport wide
um we've had quite a number of people i
think we're closing in
on about a third of the tenants
who have already taken the training and
are in line to get their
uh car key i think we're about that that
level uh certainly a quarter i would say
um
and so i i really on the record i really
want to say
thanks to everybody who has uh certainly
supported this
uh all the way along um just a quick
reminder it
is required by faa particularly the
driver training if you're going to have
access
you need to have the driver training and
we're doing it we're really endeavoring
it to do it in a way that
a meets our needs and b is as
uh as convenient and
and easy as possible for our tenants and
our uh everybody who works on the
airfield so
thank you very much everybody for for uh
you know
collaborating with us on this and it is
yeah we will have to make fine tune
this is the first time we've ever had a
training program
like this and so inevitably we'll have
to make some adjustments but um
we're making them on the fly and we're
getting some really great feedback
on both the programs themselves the
sessions themselves
as well as how we're rolling out the
program so that feedback is very much
appreciated
and well miss mr hume when are you going
to let board members
take the training with those of you i
assume maybe mr privet has and ms
mesaric perhaps
but the rest of us uh mr palmer has a
plane out there
the rest of us would probably like to be
able to
take that training so we can understand
the nature of your training
or for me as a pilot to be able to go on
the airfield
absolutely uh mr chair um if
that's one of the adjustments that we
need to make in some cases we don't
there there are some who are sublessees
and so we don't necessarily have all of
their contact information
if anybody needs uh has not already
received the invitation to participate
i know i actually was talking with mr
palmer a little earlier today about the
training
if you have not received the invitation
please by all means let us know and we
will get you signed up
and send you the uh the uh the the steps
that are to take the training uh thank
you very much for letting me know that
mr chair
uh i it's it gets
interrupted i'm sorry i need to go i
need to leave the meeting
i'm sorry did you catch that
yes sir thank you very much uh mr privet
okay
all right thank you dan take care um mr
chair
i'd like to ask mr hume a question about
the training i've tried to get into the
system about
four different days and i've sent
messages to tom reynolds i believe is
the uh the guy that's operating the
thing
and the instructions that you gave me
will not allow me to
sign in andy
thank you for letting me know that mr
clark i am putting your name here
on uh my list here um
let's see i know mr palmer has received
it i know
mr privet has received it and i know ms
irick has received
it uh ted did do you need to do the
uh any driver training on the air deal
i don't know that i need to do it but i
would do it
okay all right i will send you the info
and then also
uh mr chair you said you haven't
received it yet either
correct i have not received anything
okay
i will follow up with this right after
the meeting and make sure that
everybody's uh
everybody is either signed into the
system uh or
that we've uh make make sure that your
login is working
in your case mr clark thank you for
letting me know that
andy um andy yes this is ted
is this is this online training yes sir
okay
yes uh any other any other questions
from the board or or uh
uh guests about the training
uh yes andy ross here one one question
on the sign in the way we were told to
sign in
is our name previously known in the
training
database or can anybody can anybody sign
into it if you follow those directions
and we'll
let them sign in uh excellent question
so uh everybody who is able to sign in
has already had their information
entered into the system so if there is
somebody who needs to be able to sign
in and is not able to uh probably their
name
their their information has not been
entered so
uh all you need to do is send an email
to
myself and tom with their full name
uh and uh email address and then we'll
set it up
and and the sign in is very easy it's uh
first name
period last name uh and so it's it's
super simple and then you can go in
afterward and change the the the uh
generic password
okay uh actually i never changed my
password i just
logged out so maybe we'll i don't need
to get into it again i've already done
the
test so okay i'll let
the person i was talking to earlier uh
know about that and get an email out so
their name can get
uh installed in in your database that
that's all i want to know thanks so much
perfect very good thank you um okay so
i want to move on to um the updates
on the work that we're doing with the
leases um
a it took several months but a basically
a line
by line review of all of the airport
leases has been completed
and there's a very extensive database
that has been put together by
the boys and king who we're working with
on this project and
uh what what we anticipate is
um by the 15 september by the middle of
next
month we should have their final set of
recommendations
uh staff is going to review those and
what we plan on doing is having a at
least a 30-day review
we're going to send it out to everybody
in the community the airport community
to take a look at
uh provide input and mr chair what what
my recommendation is
is that we look at uh having the airport
advisory board meeting in october which
would be right in the middle of that
public review period is have that as a
discussion
item on the october meeting um that may
mean that we need to
have a a a bit longer meeting
there to have opportunity for public
input but preferably
uh and i'll put this in my in my email
to the two of everybody
preferably uh uh comments and writing
are always the best
um because we know who it comes from we
have a good you know date time stamp on
it and we can
we can include it as you know verbatim
what what they
what their concern is what their
question is uh what the feedback is
uh as opposed to you know a conversation
which is so good
but it would be more uh
more verbatim and and and
easier to just you know pass that
information on
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that we have that as a topic on the
october meeting so i'll be getting with
you
um i'll i'll have a reminder on that as
we get closer
all right and are there two types of
leases because they're
my concern about having a group of
people i've seen
uh previously with the cities they was
before you andy but
they run through things and have staff
who've never
owned an airplane rented a
rented a hangar for an airplane or
conducted a business at an airport
and it seems to me that you need to have
two different types of leases
one is for the leases for people who are
leasing
for their aircraft which could be both
the shade hangers
parking outside and parking inside a
hangar and then you have the
long-term business type tenants and
there are two different types of animals
that you have to address
two different types of criterion
and i'm hopeful that your committee if
it doesn't
have then that you would bring on
somebody from each of these two types of
groups to
look at it before we waste time at a
public meeting you know before they come
up with something final
it would be better to have some input
from these type of individuals
that you could uh massage and put into
whatever you get to us
that's that's just my thought but okay
well i uh mr chair i appreciate that
feedback
um when when we get
uh uh du bois and king is is a um
is a consulting firm an airport
consulting firm
and and i know a lot of i've been able
to meet and work with a lot of the folks
on their
uh on their team and um my main point of
contact
actually used to run an airport like me
he was an airport manager and so
they have a really great team very
experienced team in dealing with that i
hear your point i think is very well
taken on having bringing that experience
to the
to the table um what we'll do is we will
have
um probably at least three weeks or so
from the time that we receive their
draft recommendations until the time we
get to the
uh october board meeting and so i think
that would be a great period of time to
um uh certainly engage individuals who
have that experience here locally as
well uh to be able to look at the
recommendations from the consultant
uh so i i will uh thank you very much
for that feedback
and i will work on on being as
inclusive as possible on our review
all right thank you go ahead with your
report thank you sir i'm gonna
move on to projects um i've been telling
people this all morning
uh i'm actually here at the airport
today um
and and i said i'm telling people the
color black has never looked so
beautiful
uh if you haven't been out here uh the
what we're calling area one which is the
main area
for our terminal apron reconstruction
is just looking beautiful it is
spectacular
um and i want to give all the credit in
the world to
both moses corbin who um you know do the
design
and the project management and then
absolutely
to morro enterprises who has been our
contractor they have done a phenomenal
job
i really encourage you to come out and
take a look it's just
it is it is pristine and it's going to
serve our airport very very well for
many decades
and so very happy very pleased about
that
um we fortunately also
came in under budget which is always a
good thing
and so uh and by budget i mean the
amount that the
faa had allotted for the project um
and so we were able to do an additional
ramp area so
we're calling it area two and this is
the area that is immediately adjacent to
and
north of the sun shades of the city
homes
uh it's really one of the last areas of
the ramp that are
in in in so bad as shape we can't do
any maintenance on it we really have to
do some uh
what we're what we're going to do is
call partial depth reconstruction
um so it's it's uh it's
definitely more than maintenance it's
definitely more of a little rehab it's
it's a significant um improved to that
area but um
i think you know if if the current
project is any indicator i mean it's
just going to be
absolutely pristine and we're going to
again have
have great facilities for a long time
um the uh
i'm happy to report that the perimeter
fence is done
the fence is up the gates are up the
anti-burrowing
skirting has been installed there's one
more thing that we're doing and that's
putting a new
uh fence around the retention pond but
i actually was driving by there earlier
today and that's almost done so
um very pleased again um
uh thanks to mosul corbin for design and
project management
and then also i don't have it on here
but lmg fencing
uh is the lead contractor and they have
been outstanding to work with so i just
wanted to share that with everybody
um some of you have been attending the
mass the landscape master plan
uh pub meetings um they
they have been um
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i'm gonna tell you mr chair i'm very
pleased because they have been some of
the most
productive public input meetings that
i've been involved with in a very very
long time
um and so even though our the size of
our groups have not been big
the the the the productivity
out of those individuals has just been
outstanding and i think that we're going
to have a really great product and i'd
i'd like to
bring it to the board um
on the september meeting so we can take
a look at the progress to date
um looks like jerry has his hand raised
uh yes i do
andy um after attending the last of the
those uh landscape master plan meetings
and i was discussing with
a number of the um pilots um
that were gathered at the um
around their hangars i there's one thing
that
in all the discussion about the
landscaping master plan
that we never mentioned and
that was this is an airport after all
it is for airplanes it is for airplane
related
activities and i know i've been involved
with you and bringing up ideas that
aren't necessarily
airport related they're community
related
they're park related they're
other kinds of relations and the people
i talked to
just wanted me to bring back the message
that
this is an airport it's nice to have
certain things
at an airport but it is about airplanes
and it is about people who fly them and
repair
them and do this sort of thing so they
asked me to carry this message
to you cool excellent thank you very
much mr clark i appreciate that
um what i might do is is uh if you don't
mind if i could follow up with you
uh after this meeting and and we can
maybe talk a little bit about that and
i have some maybe some follow-up
questions for you on that so
um oh good
i'd be happy to uh try to answer the
question
okay because i know you and mr leonard
have been uh involved in those meetings
uh
quite uh quite often so um
just based on what your comments are i'd
like to
hear a little bit uh just talk a little
bit more about that but thank you very
much for being involved in that
and and for passing that along um
let's see here uh
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i think i think i talked about the
runway extension updates
last time um we
uh just uh just in case i didn't i
wanted to
bring it up so uh the master plan calls
for extensions for runway 826 and one
two three zero
and uh 826 uh has been programmed
and we are anticipating the
the grant application from
the uh from the faa
and getting that executed here uh just
within the next
hopefully the next few weeks
the that that would cover the
environmental assessment portion of the
project
the second phase which is design
has been programmed into faa's federal
fiscal year 2021
so uh we are moving forward uh
very well on on the extent for for 826.
um during the legislative session
this past january the state
did identify funding for us
for the environmental assessment and
design both both phases
for runway one two three zero right now
uh we are waiting for those bonds to be
sold
that probably will not come about until
uh probably the second quarter of this
fiscal year
uh maybe even as late as december
january in that time
frame so um while we don't have the
funding available to us
yet as soon as those bonds are sold
we will be able to then move forward
with our
with our capital outlay for that project
so we're looking forward to that so
we're we're going to be working those
both of those extensions together
they'll just sort of be offset a little
bit by a few months
which is which is not a bad thing anyway
um because once we get to the point
where we're gonna be requesting funding
for construction
uh that's we're gonna that's where the
heavy lifting is gonna be
and uh and and having some additional
time
to be able to you know build those
relationships and talk about the
benefits of
of those runway extensions having that
time is going to be important so
um let's see here though
the the last thing mr chair that i want
to mention
is um and i'm going to be sending out an
email reminder to all the tenants
um as typical
in the desert we have not had enough
rain
to make our grasses or you know our
lawns green
but we have had enough rain to make our
weeds grow
and i i noticed in driving around
earlier today that
there were several um uh areas
around hangers where the the weeds are
pretty tall
and and need to be need to be uh you
know mowed or
removed or what have you so uh i will be
sending around
a reminder to our tenants about that um
and um you know i just wanted to use
this as
for anybody watching on youtube or what
have you um to please give attention to
that
um and and we will be sending out
reminders so
with that mr chair thank you very much i
appreciate the opportunity
uh to give the update and i'll stand for
any more questions
all right any questions for members of
the board before i
ask mine anybody have any questions
yeah uh john russ here okay
uh annie maybe i i should have mentioned
this on the phone to you earlier when we
had our short conversation uh two days
ago when uh
gay and i were flying in her airplane we
weren't receiving localizer glide slope
or dma signals from the ils
i don't know if you had been reported
before
thank you for letting me know that um uh
techops was out here earlier today so
they
may have it may have been reported back
to them
but they were out here earlier today
i'll make sure that they take a look at
that
um i'm making a note here right now
uh well if they were here they they
probably figured it out
you know they're probably able to figure
out that it wasn't working if they were
in in the equipment area
thank you i will i will definitely
follow up with him and make sure
thank you okay thank you mr hugh uh
probably then andy with that
it's it is a safety issue as far as
uh the glide slope at all and
perhaps there needs to be a
a reminder to members of the using
public that if they have
if they have technical issues that they
need to notify your office like
you periodically send out these abcd i
guess
to everybody on your email list and
perhaps you could remind them
of that plus remind them as well of the
training that's necessary to drive
on the airport and
i know that you get those out on a
frequent basis but
those two might be something that you
might want to remind people
as topics absolutely thank you sir
and then uh on the weeds do you
what does the city do with respect to
the weeds that are growing out there or
i haven't been out there in a in a
couple of weeks so i don't know what
what the status is i know where i live
and work downtown
that the city has these people who come
by in a truck and
spray green stuff on the weeds
that are on the sidewalk and stuff do
they do the same thing out at the
airport
uh mr chair yes we have a pretty robust
treatment program mostly we mow
that's particularly around the runways
taxiways and other
more open areas that we have we also use
pre and post emergent herbicides
uh to do have we control particularly
around the signs and lights and
and more of the the tighter areas to get
into
at this point in time mr chair we do not
do weed control
on the parcels that are leased so
if if um you know if somebody has a
particularly over on the east side not
so much on the west side
but on the east side where you have the
larger box hangers that are
on the uh you know say 100 by 100
parcels
um the areas around the sides and backs
of those
the city does not maintain those uh it's
actually part of the
the leaseholders responsibility to
maintain them
one thing i will say in connection with
that is that
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more than one leaseholder has asked
would it be possible for the city to
maintain them
um it's something that we could consider
uh it's something that we would probably
need to figure out a
a rate a charge for because we we just
can't simply
do that we you know it would it would
require some additional
uh people power and stuff like that to
add those to our already
uh uh you know our already sizable list
of maintenance but
it's something we could consider
all right the next item are there any
other questions any comments
regarding mr hume's report and project
list
if you are raise your hand or unmute
yourself and andy can let
us know if there are anybody i'll mute
myself
you don't see anybody andy so next item
on them
on the menu is public input
as any input from our public
uh participants which is
according to um
let's see as i'm looking at it uh
other than members of the of the
that are work for the city mr cadin
is about the only other public
individuals
any uh public individual who wishes to
make a statement
i don't see any uh individuals wanting
to make a comment sir
okay so the next item is board
member comments and suggestions and
would you just go down
the role mr hume and ask each individual
board member if they have any comments
and i'll go ahead and mute myself right
now
excellent thank you sir um so i'll start
with mr leonard
any uh comments that you want to bring
up mr leonard
i have nothing to add to what i
mentioned about the
gaps in the action plan i'd like to hear
from
the economic development department and
i hope the board members
read that phase to study from market
street
that's all
mr chair i'll make sure to send out that
phase two study
uh make it available to the uh board
members thank you
uh clerk
uh mr hume i have no further comments
uh mr palmer
yes mr hume i don't have any comments
on number nine but i i will for number
10 when you go down that list
thank you okay and mr chair
nothing for the chair thank you oh uh
yeah
my next comment would be under an item
10 as well that would be it
okay uh then um for item 10 uh mr
leonard any future
uh presentation discussion items
i guess just the presentation from
economic development regarding the
airport plans
okay
uh mr clark any uh other
future items uh no sir
mr palmer
yes uh miss mr hume uh this
this goes back to our our brief
conversation earlier
um you know i guess to kind of kind of
bring the board up up to date
mr hume and i discussed airport access
after hours
and also i brought up the issue of
security
mr hume informed me that there are
things under under consideration under
study for after hours access and i'm
i'm i'm presuming that's that's going to
be forthcoming by email or
or however it is to get to get the word
out but i would
uh mr hume i would what i'm asking for
is for you to add the
security issue that i mentioned after
our security issue if that's
if it's possible to to weave that into a
future presentation
sure uh yes mr chair um and just to let
the board know
um we are working on a security plan for
the airport
and this is going to be a comprehensive
plan not just
to address issues that may currently
exist but certainly
in looking ahead as we uh explore
adding passenger air service and and
other things here at the airport
um so what i can do mr chair is we're
expecting
our final draft of that plan and i can
give a presentation to the board at an
upcoming meeting
possibly in september if not maybe in
october
on that plan and we can discuss that
prior to moving forward with it thank
you mr palmer
okay so i guess is that turned into me
then
as the next person uh yes sir you're
you're next on the list
all right uh so they i'd like to ask
that the
city attorney at some point in time
advises of our roles or responsibilities
uh in theory we're supposed to get an
open meetings
presentation every year every once a
year i thought
but at some point whether it's just
coming meeting there
looks like october is going to be pretty
full
but we should probably have that also uh
as responsibility uh one of the
responsibility is attendance
so i that you know if we can
if there's something that involves board
member attendance as part of that then
let me know as well our letter if you
could uh
include that in the city attorney's uh
presentation
i suppose her presentation doesn't have
to be
well it would be nice to be in person it
looks like we're
we're going to be doing this via
zoom for whatever duration the
mayor and council determine appropriate
so
would not be difficult to attend the
meeting
by video to give us our presentation and
then she could leave the meeting
or her designee within her office okay
uh mr chair uh would it be possible uh
to move normally uh based on i have the
the uh the agenda here up for our
current meeting
typically we have presentations given
later on in the uh in the meeting
would it be possible mr chair to move
that particular presentation up to uh
right after approval of the minutes
uh that way that presentation can be
given first
would you be amenable to that uh i would
i
don't know if there's any uh comment any
opposition from other members of the
board
if there are please uh let uh
let mr hume know uh he and i
work on the agenda beforehand and
this this has just been the traditional
way we've done
business but we have since i've been in
as much
during the time i've been on the board
uh moved presentations up so
that'd be fine to me but if any other
board member has any other comment
the same way for uh i would assume for
economic development
uh rather than have her abide her time
and sit there
while we go through other things maybe
her presentation could be done
at a at an earlier point in time too
where we can get the uh the benefit of
understanding where economic development
is thinking
as a department of vis-a-vis
the airport and the mr clark mr
leonard's
uh comments that they've raised
so yeah thank you mister i i don't see
any
i don't see any um objection to that
by the other board members uh at this
point so
uh what i'll do is moving forward um
if there is a particular presentation
from somebody
who is not normally with our group um
then
what i can do is i can propose that
their presentation be moved
ahead of any action or discussion items
typically mr chair what i'll do is if
if i'm giving a presentation i can
certainly
keep mine to to you know later on in the
meeting
till we get through action items and
such so um but i
appreciate mr chair and and from the
rest of the board that flexibility thank
you
uh well i think in terms of that there
may be more discussion items but
we can split the discussion items
they're a presentation but
if if they're not denominated as a
discussion item
then the board would not be able to
discuss
with that individual making a
presentation
uh so perhaps it could be called a well
i don't know you can
you can wordsmith it but it can be they
can be
first are looking at our menu today
it would be the agenda today would be
item five
they could move up there the other items
presumably would be quick
but i would like them to be able to
board members to be able to discuss
with them any issues that might be
raised
otherwise it's just a slam bam
presentation and we're left with any
questions we might have
to ask you so all right
any comments anything else before we
move uh
for future presentations before we move
on to the next meeting
with that the next meeting is september
and it will be 12 30
unless there's an issue with the date
and time i presume it's going to be
by zoom unless we're we're allowed to
meet at the airport and we're allowed to
meet at the airport
in a uh with some type of
uh separation of individuals it seems to
me that
with mr baker's uh
permission we might be able to spread
out in the eaa
hangar got a lot of chairs and
they have some capability there i would
like to ask that you
passed the board's condolence to mr
baker i said i lost my father in 85 but
i still remember him so
those if you'd pass that condolence on
anything else before we adjourn with
with that uh mr clark wants to speak
with you but i'll go ahead and leave the
meeting i'll declare the meeting
adjourned
thank you very much mr chair you all
have a good uh rest your week
bye folks