HomeMy WebLinkAbout06-14-2005 Regular MeetingThe Fairhope Airport Authority met Tuesday, June 14, 2005, at the City
Administration Building, 161 N. Section Street in the Delchamps Room
At 8:00 A.M.
Present: Colton Coile, Charles Zunk, Jim Garrett, Mike Baugh, Mike Ford,
Council Liaison, Absent: Sue Mason, (Mike McEneo. Tim Kant, Mayor
was also present. ` 68
Mike Ford said he was going to have to leave early and asked if he could
report on having talked to Allen Thames at Barge Waggoner yesterday.
He was asking him about the contract that was on the city council agenda
for Barge, Waggoner.( it was held over). In the conversation Mr. Thames
reported that he had not gotten a surveyor down to go out and survey the
airport as he said would in a meeting with the Mayor two weeks ago. Chuck
Zunk remarked that he has had plenty of time to do this, and as far as he is
concerned he has lost credibility with him. Mike said that Allen said he
would be down on the 28t" for the planned meeting. In Barge Waggoner's
defense, Mayor Kant said they are only required by FAA to build for five year
storm but that should not make them exempt from abiding by Fairhope's
rules and regulations or correcting problems they have created in
construction at the airport. At this time Mike Ford left for another meeting.
Colton Coile said he had talked to Charlie Bassett, Chairman of the
Industrial Board, who talked with Ricky Yates at Crestview and Ricky said
they want to partner with our airport and move forward. Colton said Chuck
Shanklin had made it clear when he talked with him that they wanted the
North Hangar. Possibility of building another storage hangar to the south for
Teledyne was discussed in order to be able to let Crestview use North
Hangar. The Mayor said Teledyne is using it mainly for storage now. Jim
Garrett asked who would be responsible for fixing the building up and the
consensus was it would be Crestview. Chuck Zunk said as a representative
of the board he had met with Bryan Lewis to feel out their plans for Fairhope
and in the conversation mentioned the possibility of Crestview wanting to
become FBO and Bryan told him that Teledyne wanted to remain FBO and
continue operation at Fairhope airport. He said he also mentioned to Bryan
Crestview possibly becoming second FBO and Bryan said he did not think
that the airport would support two FBO's but if that happened in the future
they would deal with it. The Mayor told the members what brought
Crestview to Fairhope and also mentioned fact that in five years Teledyne's
lease will be up for renewal and in that time the authority could see
Crestview in operation and consider their options, take a wait and see
position. Colton brought up the matter of the 5th Amendment to the
Teledyne's lease and the fact that it had never been signed. He asked if we
needed to get a legal opinion on this. The Mayor said he thought we had
one, he will look into it. The Mayor said he knows of other people that would
also like to come out and become FBO in the future. This being said he left
the meeting.
The minutes of the last meeting were considered and approved as
presented.
Mike Baugh offered the comment that as board member that had been on
the longest he is glad that we have a working FBO out there that is reliable
and pays rent. He told of times past where we had been involved in suits
because of unscrupulous FBO's and delinquent rent. But thought it would
be good to portray the image that we want to work with Teledyne, that in five
years we will know more about Crestview and before we take action we will
know the outcome. Chuck Zunk also mentioned that Bryan Lewis said they
would be glad to have another set of T-hangars out there but they have no
plans to build them. Along this vein Colton mentioned that the Tom
Hutchings project has been put on hold at this time because some of the
land he was planning on using was unavailable it is in Teledyne's lease.
There being no further business, meeting was duly adjourned at 9:10 AM.