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HomeMy WebLinkAbout02-14-2006 Regular MeetingThe Airport Authority of the City of Fairhope met Tuesday, February 14, 2006, at the City Administration Building, 161 N. Section Street at 8:OOAM Present: Colton Coile, Chairman; Chuck Zunk, Mike Ford, Joe McEnerney, Jim Garrett, Ken Knutsen, Betty Rivenbark, Secretary Absent: Mike Baugh The minutes of the January 11, 2005 meeting were duly approved as written. The Authority members discussed the possibility of changing the time for the monthly meetings to accommodate the members and a time of 4:OOPM the 2"d Tuesday of the month was set. Chuck discussed the new runway project and said that it had opened on February 3 on schedule. He said the project was not finished, they are still redoing the old runway, taxiway and finishing the cut thrus, 1, 2, 3, 4. He said they continue to have meetings and they are complying and construction completion date is now 4/15/06. and they give every appearance of completing on time. He said further that the lights are on medium intensity. He also talked about the instrument approaches and what we might get in the future. Tom Hutchings was present to talk about his proposed T-hangar project he hopes to put at the airport. He had come up several months before and was restating his proposal. He said he wanted to construct 9 nested T-hangars to the south of the existing T-hangars. He proposes to have power available, water and restrooms and a small pilots lounge. Chuck told him that there were three things we told him we had to accomplish before we could talk about his proposal: 1. restructure the lease with Teledyne — that has been accomplished; 2. complete the restructuring of the Airport Authority (this is an agenda item today), that we need to wait until that finalized until we contract with anybody 3. and decide what is best use for the land on the field for growth, consider long term planning. That we have a long list of people wanting to build T-hangars and minimum space and it will probably be best to have proposals submitted to us. Also present were Greg Arnold and Mikes of Osprey Enterprises who are also interested in making a proposal for T-hangars, they had nothing to add to the discussion. Further discussion led to Mr. Hutchings being told that we have not even established the guidelines for a lease situation. Mike Ford emphasized we were interested in getting the best deal for the city. Colton told them we would move forward as quickly as we can. Ken Knutsen reported on the runway dedication May 20th, telling of events planned and honorees who plan to attend as well as a list of over 300 to be invited, we are going to have flyovers, 25 warbirds, EAA fly -in, Coast Guard and others. with the reception on Friday evening May 19th also being planned at Crestview Aerospace. Chuck reported on runway construction drainage issues and recommendations, east side and west side and the next steps. A meeting is planned for the 16th at City Hall with the engineers and legal representatives and he felt it better not to discuss further. The public safety hangar was talked about and Colton said the building permit has been issued, that the building will be here in four weeks, the site work will be have to be done and possible six weeks to completion. Colton said he has the lease and that he needs to get the troopers to sign it. He said the building will be 6400 square feet — 80 x 80. Crestview status was discussed — nothing has changed. They got the Huey contract but nothing new right now. Safety and Security Plan — Chuck will get with Jim and they will get a plan for us to come into TSA Conformance. Chuck said it pretty much is paste and cut and hopefully have something for the next meeting. Discussion of Airport Authority financial base — Joe McEnerey gave out an outline of what they would like to do, Chuck said the concept is that we lease the land from the city, at what receiving now, the authority will have control of the land from that point forward and any revenue from that point on will come to the Airport Authority. He said the FAA said they think this should work this way. Any accounting will continue to use city services. The Chairman will continue to report to the city council, one distinction is that the Airport Authority can make a contract if they want , if there is a vacancy they still go to the mayor for appointment as before. The Airport Aurhority will retain their own counsel. Mike Ford said he would like for he, Colton and Chuck to present this to the Mayor after the meeting and then schedule to present to the City Council. A time of March 9th City Council meeting was set at 4:30 PM was determined later. Colton said the new ALP and Masterplan is coming from Barge, Waggoner, maybe have it by May. Meeting was duly adjourned at 9:10 AM.