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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2006-11-08 MinutesFAYETTEVILLE MUNICIPAL AIRPORT BOARD MINUTES • November 8, 2006 MEMBERS PRESENT: Bob Nickle, David Hollman, Dave Bowman, Janice Stanesic, Richard Greene MEMBERS ABSENT: Vaughn DeCoster, Otto Loewer STAFF PRESENT: Ray Boudreaux, James Nicholson, Louise Powers OTHERS PRESENT: Frank P. Sperandeo III — tenant, Charles Caldwell -tenant, George Scott - tenant, Wayne Jones -McClelland Engineers, Tyrone Rogers -Fayetteville Government Channel ITEM #1: Welcome and Agenda Review -Chairman Bob Nickle. A. Announcement to turn off cell phones. B. Comments from public on agenda items. None. ITEM #2: Minutes of the October 11, 2006 meeting. A motion to approve the minutes was made by Dave Bowman and seconded by Richard Greene. The motion carried. • BOARD CONSENSUS: Move "6A, Items from the Public" to the first of the meeting, to allow Frank Sperandeo brief time to speak before the Board. F. Sperandeo explained he was a former Airport Board member and currently serves as an AAOP representative for Drake Field in the "Airport Support Network". He implied he was representing the T -Hangar tenants in opposing the amount of the rental increase. He quoted from documents he had prepared on COLA increases for the years 1995 through the current year. He asked the Board to justify the 18% increase over the current rent. Chairman Nickle explained the Board had lengthy discussions prior to arriving at the new rental rates, which would not start until January 1st. He pointed out that they didn't want to use COLA or CPI, as there are numerous CPI judgements. He explained that if the $115.00 rent was averaged out over the ten year period, starting when Mr. Sperandeo began renting, to the current $127.00 rent, the increase in rent was very small. CPI increases are accumulative and if using that to make the rent adjustments, the rent would have been even higher. He further explained that just between January 2000 and January 2006 the CPI increase had been 18%. He stated the Board had considered numerous things before making the decision for the amount of the rent increase, among a few of those was the age of the buildings, their maintenance costs, the electric rehabilitation, and electricity cost increases. F. Sperandeo again voiced objections to the rental increase, and that the decision had been made at a meeting prior to November. He remembered in previous years that discussion had taken place at the November meeting. Director Boudreaux explained that notice of increasing the T -Hangar rental rate on January 1" had been included in the tenant letter for the last several months. Those newsletters are mailed out in the invoices. He further requested to make a motion to put the issue on hold until he could meet with the Board at another time to discuss the hangar rent. Chairman • Nickle explained motions come from Board Members, and stated Ray would contact Frank about the meeting. ITEM #3: Receiving of Reports. A. Bob Nickle, Chairman. No report this time. • B. Ray Boudreaux, Director. Million Air reported fuel sales of about 48,000 gallons for last month. Work is progressing on the terminal drive and parking lot. The Boeing aircraft is gone and we spent a long time cleaning up after them. While dismantling the aircraft they caused a fire and we will invoice the contractors about $3,000 to cover the expense for the Fire Department's response. Chairman Nickle suggested next time to require a security bond. Director Boudreaux reminded everyone to attend the FAA Safety Seminar in the terminal on November 28`h, again being sponsored by SkyVenture. He told of attending the FAA Conference in Fort Worth, where he visited with the FAA about our five year development plan. He said they needed to get the Chamber of Commerce, the City Council, the citizens, and our Congressmen to support relocating a portion of Highway 71, across from the north end of the airport, which would improve our runway safety zone. The "planning" to get this support will be an item for our next Strategic Planning Meeting. Ron Sanders of the FAA said we are now on their list to get an LPV for RW 16 and an LNAV for RW 34, these are scheduled for 2008. The PAPI has been installed and will be flight checked in a couple of weeks. Sky Way Productions decided not to put on an Air Show in 2007, and announced the Snowbirds will be back on September 26, 2007 for a demonstration. We have had meetings with Scurlock Industries and the railroad people, and the railroad will install a spur, at their expense, to Scurlock's, which is located northeast of the airport. The spur will be out of our safety area. The Airport charged the auction people a $3,000 fee. Next year we will charge them more and receive a guarantee they will clean up all oil leaks. C. James Nicholson, Financial Coordinator. Related a pattern showing up in fuel sales in the fall, one year up and next year lower, but we are still ahead of all previous years. We think the • pattern is due to the number of Razorback games played in Fayetteville and Little Rock. Chairman Nickle answering questions about the amount we pay towards the tower costs, said we pay 7%, but that was after Ray fought hard showing we had more operations than the FAA had predicted. J. Nicholson said Million Air sells twice the amount of Avgas from their truck than is sold at the self serve pump. He reviewed the Financial Charts in the agenda. D. Louise Powers, T -Hangar Report. The single engine hangars are all rented, but we have two vacancies in the twin hangars. We have several people on our waiting lists that want particular units, one that has been modified and is larger. We have three names on the single unit list and seven on our twin list. E. Wayne Jones, Construction Report. The west apron has been completed and re -seeding will take place next week. The corporate hangars will be the next project with the projected advertising date of November 27`h and receive the bids back by December 14`h. Discussion followed about changing dates so the item could go before the City Council at their first January meeting. F. Maintenance Report, Director Boudreaux. Staff time was used to clean up after the removal of the 727 aircraft, they worked three days using the back -hole cleaning drainage ditches, normal door repairs on the T -Hangars, and everyday airport maintenance. R. Greene related a tenant's complaint of roof leaks in their repair business, and that should be moved to the top of the maintenance list. F. Sperandeo asked that "Doc's windsock" be replaced. Director Boudreaux explained that particular windsock is not the airport's official windsock, was installed by an individual and is a size different than the Airport has in stock. He mentioned the FAA wants the airport's lighted windsock moved because it is in the safety area. Wayne is working • with the FAA for a correct placement. ITEM #4: Old Business 2 A. Ground Lease Policy. Chairman Nickle commented the Board had spent the last Strategic • Planning Meeting discussing this policy. A motion to approve and adopt the "Fayetteville Municipal Airport, Drake Field Ground Lease Policy" as written was made by Richard Greene and seconded by David Hollman. The motion carried. B. Hangar Ground Lease with Live Oak Development. Director Boudreaux explained this item had been "Tabled" until this meeting, and he would like to have it "Tabled" indefinitely. A motion to "Table" the Hangar Ground Lease with Live Oak Development indefinitely was made by Janice Stanesic and seconded by Dave Bowman. The motion carried. Chairman Nickle said the item could be brought back before the Board again, or it would die from a lack of a motion. ITEM #5: New Business. A. Items from the public. Chairman Nickle suggested having a brief Strategic Planning Meeting to discuss the T -Hangar rental increases. R. Greene said he had no problem with anyone coming in to discuss a problem, and Frank Sperandeo had not represented the view of all the tenants on the east side, as he is a T -Hangar tenant, also. Chairman Nickle commented that Frank's mentioning that the money we had in the Airport Fund Balance was suppose to be for hangar maintenance was a misunderstanding; the bulk of the money has been for keeping the • Airport doors open, to build improvements that will provide fuel sales and airport rentals. Discussion followed with some of the following comments. R. Greene said he had no problems backing off the $150.00 rent to $140.00, but if we had done an increase compounded from 1995 to this point, it would not be anywhere close to the $150.00, it would be higher. He read from the minutes, "the cost to operate is more than the CPI". No date was set for a Strategic Planning Meeting. B. Items from the Airport Board. J. Nicholson displayed a flyer he had been asked to develop for advertising the Tech School hangar. R. Greene said the advertisement should reflect there is an office located inside the hangar area, to show the actual hangar area. Chairman Nickle suggested waiting on placing the advertisement. Director Boudreaux said he was allowing Million Air to store aircraft in that hangar if they needed the space. He mentioned the North Arkansas Symphony Guild would hold a fund raiser in the terminal, it is by invitation only at $100.00 per person. There has not been any further interest in a restaurant in the terminal. Chairman Nickle said Dave Bowman would be speaking at the Veteren's Day Program on the ARVEST patio. Meeting adjourned at 3:08. • 3 �/D 107 Date