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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2007-09-12 Minutes,•J MINUTES • FAYETTEVILLE MUNICIPAL AIRPORT BOARD September 12, 2007 MEMBERS PRESENT: Bob Nickle, Otto Loewer, David Hollman, Tim McCarley MEMBERS ABSENT: Richard Greene, Janice Stanesic, Vaughn DeCoster (on military leave) STAFF PRESENT: Ray Boudreaux, James Nicholson, Louise Powers OTHERS PRESENT: Wayne Jones -McClelland Engineers, Neal Bilbe-Government Channel ITEM #1: Welcome, A. Please turn off cell phones. B. Comments from the public on items on the agenda. None. ITEM #2: Minutes of the August 8, 2007 meeting. A motion to approve the minutes was made by Tim McCarley and seconded by David Hollman. The motion carried, ITEM #3: Receiving of Reports. A. Chairman Nickle. Commented that the gas station across the highway from the airport had • closed, its sign is an airfield obstruction, and this might be a good opportunity for the airport have the remove the sign. B. Director Boudreaux's report on airport activity. Announced that Vaughn DeCoster our Airport Board Member is now back home from Iraq and will be at our next meeting. Be sure to welcome him home. Referencing the flyer in the agenda, there will be a free concert by Barbara Fairchild for our veterans at the Walton Arts Center on October 21. There will not be a Veterans Parade this year. Our aircraft operations are up this last month. We have replaced all the signs the FAA Inspector noted, and will replace another fifteen after the first of the year, in the next budget cycle. The bids are due in Friday for the re -striping project and we will apply for a grant from the State Aeronautics Commission. Corrective work will begin tomorrow on the corporate hangars to replace ten damaged sheets of siding and take care of items on the punch list. Work continues on painting the floor of the FBO hangar and it should be finished this week. Notice to Proceed has been issued for the Obstruction Project. This is the first step in the improvements for Runway 16. Everyone was reminded to attend the Canadian Snowbird event on September 26, two weeks from today. Commented on the newspaper article about the Snowbirds, saying one more article will be in the paper and it will list the sponsors, one of which is the Airport. C. Financial Coordinator Nicholson's report on budget and FBO. Displayed charts from the agenda on the screen and reviewed the information. Speaking of the recent tenant survey, said a lot of the comments spoke about the bad flying weather during the first half of the year and the cost of fuel as why operations have been down. O. Loewer made several suggestions for different charts referencing a chart shown on screen, but not in agenda: Remove XNA from the numbers and average the rest of the airports; Remove Fayetteville and then compare it to the • average of the remaining airports; Another chart would be to average all the airports within 100 miles. Discussion followed regarding fuel sales, there was a big drop in June compared to June of last year, which could be from not having an air show this June. The fuel prices at XNA and Fort Smith airports went up, but at Pinnacle (Springdale), Rogers, and Siloam Springs the price 1 remained the same as last month. O. Loewer suggested rather than looking at the number of • gallons sold, look at the figure in dollar amounts, that's a lot of money through the system. Chairman Nickle said SkyVenture used 60% of the 100 Low Lead fuel the FBO sold to the based customers. James in reviewing the Financial Report said there was a slight improvement over last month in the projected year end figure. Said the Proposed Budget for 2008 was sent to the City's Budget Committee last week, it will be reviewed, then a meeting will be set for Ray to go before the Committee and defend any amount over the budget. Director Boudreaux said the Airport is doing it's best to conserve spending for anything other than to keep the Airport to standards. Discussion followed about building sunscreens for aircraft. A grant would be available through the Arkansas Department of Aeronautics. They would be built just north of the existing T -Hangars. D. Senior Secretary Powers' report on T -Hangar Leases. All T -hangars are filled, as are the storage units. There has been some activity this month, the FAA moved out of a T -Hangar they used for equipment storage into two T -Hangar storage units, freeing up a hangar, which we filled immediately, meaning one more plane is now on the field. Director Boudreaux said it was the first time we had two storage units available they could relocate into. E. Engineer Wayne Jones' report on construction projects. Said the contractor for the new corporate hangars has been slow completing the items on the punch list and we are holding 10% of their money until the project is completed. The Approach Survey is under way and they had been putting out large white X's in a six mile area to be seen from the air, they are also setting permanent concrete surveying monuments. The survey has to be flown while there are leaves still on the trees, possibly next week. The obstructions will be identified by height, an Excel spread sheet will be set up explaining their locations, and it will then be submitted to the FAA. Chairman Nickle said this is the first step, of many steps, to resolving the runway safety area. • W. Jones spoke of the Airfield Re -striping Project, which will re -strip the taxiways, some apron and runway markings, some taxiway lines will be outlined in black, and rubber will be removed from the north end of the runway. The estimated cost is $80,000 and will take two to four days of work, with some work maybe at night. F. Director Boudreaux's report on maintenance activity. We had one employee quit and have hired a new guy, Dennis Singleton, who is self motivated. He was the lead man on the City's asphalt crew and is happy to be here. They are all working hard keeping the grass mowed. The man -lift has been repaired and they will be replacing the obstruction lights, lights on Lancaster Drive and in the parking lots. They have been working on the overhead doors at Wings Avionics. ITEM #4: Old Business. None. ITEM #5: New Business. A. Airfield re -striping contract (bids due Friday). Director Boudreaux said we are presuming the bids will come in good, if they are bad we'll back off. A motion to approve the project, approve the grant request and submit to. the City Council, provided the bid is good, was made by David Hollman and seconded by Tim McCarley. The motion carried. B. Airport Security Upgrade Project. Director Boudreaux said the Aeronautic Commission • offered a 100% grant based on the number of aircraft based on the airfield, it amounts to $74,000. We have to apply for the grant in September. We will put cameras at all entry points, on the ramp, have new access control with ID cards that you can delete a card out of the system when someone leaves, and upgrade the entry gates. The system on the gates will use cards and 2 will tell us who has entered and left the airport. We used the TSA's manual to come up with • what we needed. Chairman Nickle said the east side gates were the major complaint on the survey. We need to keep up with the times, the FAA is going to require more security at GA airports, and more people will be using the GA airports. There is expensive equipment on airports ---planes, and anyone having a plane should be interested in having additional security. A motion to approve the grant request and submit to City Council was made by David Hollman and seconded by Tim McCarley. The motion carried. C. Airport Mission Statement. Director Boudreaux said Tim and other Board Members had made suggestions and he had worked to consider what was suggested and worked it into a concise version. Chairman Nickle read from the City Resolution that formed the Airport Board, wanting to make sure the proposed Mission Statement met all the City's requirements for forming the Board. Board Consensus was to keep the Goals listed on the existing Mission Statement and to leave out the word "economic" in the last line of the Proposed Mission Statement to read as follows: To Lead Fayetteville and Northwest Arkansas with strategic and innovative aviation services and solutions designed to foster economic growth and commerce in an ever changing environment A motion to approve the new Mission Statement was based on the Airport's Five Year Master Plan Project, the new Mission Statement will include the goals listed on the previous Mission Statement, and the motion states the Airport Board will review the • Mission Statement in five years. The motion was made by Otto Loewer and seconded by David Hollman. The motion carried. I D. Review of Airport Survey. J. Nicholson said he had checked into having the tenants complete the survey online, and will try that next time. The agenda has the compiled information and some responses had good ideas. O. Loewer said it was a good survey, and suggested doing a survey every six to twelve months, and to put the information out in the tenant newsletter, that we have added, or we have completed, or have corrected/replaced, an item suggested or mentioned in the tenants' survey responses. Chairman Nickles thanked James for his work with the survey. ITEM #6: Other Business. A. Items from the Public. Wayne Jones referencing an earlier comment about Snowbird sponsors said that McClelland Engineers had also made donations to the SnowBird event. Director Boudreaux related the Airport would have a cookout for tenants in the fall. B. Items from the Airport Board. None MEETING ADJOURNED AT 2:54 pm. David Hollman, Secretary 3 16-,17-0 Date