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Home My WebLink About2002-06-06 Minutes• MINUTES OF THE AIRPORT BOARD June 6, 2002 MEMBERS PRESENT: Charles Wallace, Frank Burggraf, Frank Sperandeo, Mike Andrews, Dave Bowman, Otto Loewer • MEMBERS ABSENT: Rick McKinney STAFF PRESENT: Ray Boudreaux, James Nicholson, Louise Powers OTHERS PRESENT: Mike Kratchmer and Greg McCoy -Ark. Aviation Tech. Center: Bob Burbage-Superior Industries International, Inc.; Amy Wolfe -Fayetteville Government Channel; Donald C. Owens -Drake Tower; K. R. Schossow-Wings Avionics, Inc.; Wayne Jones -McClelland Engineers, Christina Crouse -Airport Hair Salon; Judy Hammond and John Kalagias-Ark. Air Museum; Terry Collier -tenant; John P. Ross -Ross Executive Aviation, Inc.; matt Wagner -NW Ark. Times; Anna Jones and Audy Lack-MBL Architects; and Kristal Dearing -Morning News ITEM #1: Welcome ITEM #2: Minutes of the May 21, 2002 meeting. A motion was made and seconded to approve the minutes as written. The motion carried. ITEM #3: Receiving of Reports. A. Charles Wallace, Chairman. Reported hearing positive comments about the airport. The next Strategic Planning Meeting the Board will work on establishing a more defined Airport Board procedure, to work on parity on the airport for everyone using the airport, the services provided, things rented, and marketing priorities. He introduced Bill Corely, who has volunteered to help the airport with a direct-mail marketing piece. This will be mailed to pilots in Northwest Arkansas. He has worked with Director Boudreaux and Tom Wilkerson to come up with the questions and the incentive to get people to respond to the survey. Mr. Corely explained the survey will be a two color, tri -fold document that will encourage people to read, answer the survey, and bring the survey back to the FBO for their free ten gallons of fuel. Mr. Corely suggested having the City's legal department review the survey, and predicted 30% of the list will respond to the survey, and the airport will need to be prepared to handle the incentive. Discussion followed and it was decided to have a cut-off data and post the results of the survey on the airport's website. AIRPORT BOARD CONSENSUS: To leave out the "number of flights per week" on the survey, and for Mr. Corely and Director Boudreaux to work out the final details of the direct-mail survey. B. Ray Boudreaux, Director. Reviewed his report in the agenda. Answering questions about the B.B. King concert, there have been some issues to be worked out. C. James Nicholson. Explained the fuel sales were down in May, which could have been due to bad weather, and also because of the displaced threshold on the runway. Fuel sales last year had followed a similar pattern. Director Boudreaux explained he had talked with Goodyear and Fuiji Blimp personnel before the Wal-Mart event this year. Goodyear had already planned to go to Rogers Airport and Fuji planned to operate from Drake Field. At the last minute, Fuiji was tapped to help fly security over a navy fleet for Memorial Week festivities back east. D. Wayne Jones, Airport Engineer. Airfield Rehabilitation Project: Paving is taking place on Taxiway Delta and should be ready to use tomorrow evening. Work continues tb finish the edges up to the pavement, re -seeding, taxiway lighting and then work will begin on Taxiway Bravo and the west side aprons, and widening the south end of Bravo. Large Scale Development: A meeting is scheduled for this afternoon to brief the Planning Commission members. Forest Service Fire Base: We are working on the Task Order for the extension of Taxiway Alpha to the Forest Service area. Director Boudreaux told of receiving a grant for the taxiway. Mr. Jones said the contractors plan to taper out the uneven places on the west ramp prior to AirFest. ITEM #4: Old Business A. Review of the contract and bids for the Hangar Rehabilitation Project. Ms. Jones, project architect, said there was only one bidder and it was above the estimates. It had been put out for bids around the Memorial Day holiday and they had one week to prepare a bid. It will be sent out again next Friday, giving the contractors four weeks. B. AirFest 2002. Mr. Kalagias went over the scheduled events. C. Airport Survey. Item was discussed under "Reports". ITEM #5: New Business A. FBO Hangar Project. McClelland Engineering has put together a layout. Because the fire code required more green space, the hangar size has been reduced to 150' x 125', with a 100' door 28'high. The airport will present a request to the State Aeronautics Commission for a 50/50grant. If the Large Scale Development is approved on Monday, Flying Investments will break ground soon on their hangar. A motion was made and seconded to move forward with the beginning of the project and bring the project plans back before the Board for approval. The motion carried. B. Lease Review: Wings Avionics and Arkansas Aviation Technologies Center. Director Boudreaux stated both leases were renewals. Wings lease has been restructured and their new rent will be the rate that they are paying now, with a no -kick -out clause. It will start in December when the old lease ends. A motion was made and seconded to approve Wings Avionics new lease. The motion carried. Arkansas Aviation Technologies Center has begun work towards full accreditation and will be spending additional funds towards that effort. They have asked for a slight reduction in rent from $4,500.00 to $3,750.00 monthly. The lease is for two years with a no kick -out clause. This lease does not affect their second building or its lease It is of great interest to us to keep the school here and the accreditation will help them get students easier and faster. Mr. Mc Coy said their candidacy status starts June 12th and they can apply for financial aid during the candidacy stage. He reported they had to be in business two years before they could apply for accreditation, and they have just completed their financial audit which had cost six -to -seven thousand dollars. Mr. Bowman stated the accreditation would give the school a more official status. • A motion was made and seconded to approve the lease. The motion carried. C. FBO Supervisor Position Discussion. Director Boudreaux related that the FBO operations is running 28 to 29 hours overtime each payroll, and this does not include the time other airport personnel spend working and assisting the FBO. Also one maintenance person is working FBO shifts and that takes away from the time he would normally spend on airport/airfield maintenance duties. He stated he has discussed this with the Mayor and Personnel Office It would need a Budget Adjustment of $15,000.00 to cover the rest of the year, beginning Mid -August. Board discussion followed with Chairman Wallace stating the Board does not structure staff. The Board looks at the airport budget. D. T -Hangar Leases. Ms. Powers reported there were three new tenants since the last meeting, and there are three hangars empty. The empty hangars are being used for overnight aircraft storage. Director Boudreaux said the airport charges $25.00 per night for those wishing to store their aircraft inside overnight. ITEM #6: Other Business A. Items from the Airport Board. Mr. Sperandeo asked about the airport's quarterly report. Chairman Wallace suggested having it available at the July meeting. B. Items from the Public. Mr. Schossow asked for volunteers to sponsor the A-10 team to the General Tibbets dinner, for four tickets. C. Young Eagles Program on Saturday, June 8`h. Mr. Sperandeo asked for volunteers to show up with planes, and that Phillips 66 will refund $1.00 on fuel used. D. Bikes for Kids. Director Boudreaux said they will begin and end their motorcycle ride at the airport on Saturday, June 8`h. Director Boudreaux reminded everyone the next Airport Board Meeting will be on Thursday, July 11`h. He also thanked Loyd Luginbuel for the new computer in the Pilots Briefing Room, and he also thanked Mr. Sperandeo and Mr. West for their work on the men's restroom. Locks will be installed on Pilots Briefing Room and the Restrooms and the T -hangar door key will work on those locks. Mr. Nicholson reported that work in almost completed for installing the "WSI Pilotbrief Vector" (the internet weather connection) in the FBO area Mr. McCoy announced and invited everyone to attend the ceremony honoring Carol Lindsey for her contributions towards aviation. This will take place at the Arkansas Aviation Technologies Center on Friday, July 12th at 2:00 p.m. Three $500.00 scholarships will be given away from the Carol Lindsey Memorial Fund. Meeting adjourned. iank Burggraf, Secretary Sty fi -2