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Minutes of the Fairhope Airport Authority
December 17, 2013
The Fairhope Airport Authority met Tuesday, December 17, 2013 at 4:30pm in the Delchamps Room,
City Building, 161 N Section Street.
Present were Charles Zunk, Chairman, Members; Charlie Bassett, Pamela Caudill, Howard Hadley, Joe
McEnerney, and Rod Platt. Also in attendance were David Bagwell, Lawyer, and James Gillespie, City
Representative. Jennifer Olmstead took the minutes. Member Jack Burrell was absent.
The minutes of the November 19, 2013 meeting were considered and approved on a motion by Howard
Hadley, second by Charlie Bassett, and unanimously carried.
Update on "The Academy At Fairhope" — Charlie Basset provided an update to the board. The
contractor will be on site to put up batter boards to start the construction.
Update on Advantage Sites Program —Rod Platt provided an update to the board. The final package has
been sent to Montgomery and has been accepted. They will be coming for a site visit after the first of
the year and looks like the approval will happen after the site visit.
Update on repairing storm damage to AWOS — Charles Zunk provided the update to the board. The
AWOS is on order. A contract supplement with Volkert & Assoc. has been signed. Volkert & Assoc. will
prepare a draft contract for the installation of the structure. Estimated time of completion will be in
about two months.
Update on repair of runway drainage problems — Charles Zunk provided the update to the board. We
are in the process of getting ready to sign a contract for the repairs. We need to look into doing the
repairs without infringing on the runway environment. The FAA has indicated that they would issue
grant money toward doing an overall study of the draining to include a bore -scope on current drainage
up to adding additional drainage mitigation.
Update on Electrical and hangar doors — Howard Hadley provided an update to the board. There was a
problem with the concrete being soft without any resistance when drilled into. An estimate has been
completed, but not yet received. The original plan was to drill down 18" remove existing concrete and
replace with reinforced concrete. However, John Otts at NW Rogers would like to give a proposal as a
worst case scenario and come back and do the job on time and materials since they don't know what
they will be getting in to. A possibly of removing all concrete that the tracks run on could be the best
solution. The majority of cost with this would be the concrete. Howard does not recommend pouring
concrete on top of concrete.
On the electrical, Stewart Electric and Moody Electric have been contacted about the situation. Stewart
Electric has come back with an informal proposal to start negotiations if we want to move forward.
Treasurer's report — Joe McEnerney provided the report to the board. He stated the year-end
adjustments will be made in December which might change the Fiscal 2013 year-end figures slightly.
The question arose about how to re -capitalize the deferred rent for the Academy in to an asset; it will be
resolved by the City's outside auditors.
There being no further business to discuss, the meeting was adjourned at 4:50pm.