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Special Meeting
November 6, 2019
The Fairhope Airport Authority met November 6, 2019 at 9:00AM in the
conference room at The Aviation Academy, 8600 County Road 32.
Present: Joe McEnerney, Chairman, Chip Groner, Vince Boo the and Don Lagarde.
Jack Burrell, Amy Pearson and Will Bruce were absent. Also present was Graham
Coffelt, Program Manager for Southern Region Airports District Office, Hank
Eubanks, Volkert Engineering, and Jordan Stringfellow, Volkert Engineering.
Cynthia A Boothe took the minutes.
Joe McEnerney intro duced Graham Coffelt to the group and everyone else from
the group introduced themselves to Mr Coffelt.
Joe gave an overview of the existing infrastructure at the Airport and what the AIP
capital improvement funds have been used for in the past. Mr Coffelt then
discussed what type of projects the FAA would be able to fund going forward and
the relative priority of these projects in respect to competing for discretionary
FFA AIP funding.
The meeting was adjourned at 9:32AM to allow Frank Farmer and Jordan Garner
with the Aeronautics Bureau of ALDOT to join the meeting. The meeting resumed
at 9:37AM.
The group then had a general discussion and question and answer session.
Following the discussion, a motion was made by Vince Boothe to add Airport
Layout Plan (ALP plan) update to the 2020 AIP plan. Included in the ALP plan will
be a non-destructive test of the runway capacity. A second was made by Chip
Groner and unanimously passed.
Chip Groner asked about rates for ground leases and after a general discussion if
was decided that there is a need to adopt standard rates and charges for all
ground leases.
There being no further business the meeting was adjourned at 10:35AM.
nerney, Chairman
Submitted by Cynthia A Boothe