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FAYETTEVILLE EXECUTIVE AIRPORT BOARD MEETING
September 26, 2008
BOARD PRESENT: Janice Stanesic, David Hollman, Tim McCarley, Richard Greene
BOARD ABSENT: Bob Nickle, Vaughn DeCoster, Otto Loewer
STAFF PRESENT: Ray Boudreaux, James Nicholson, Louise Powers
OTHERS PRESENT: Wayne Jones and Daniel Barnes — McClelland Consulting Engineers;
Kelly Maddoux-Bamard Dunkleberg Consultants; Hugh Springstead - 21" Century; Hugh
Brewer - Arkansas Air Museum; K.R. Schossow - Wings Avionics; Tyrone Rogers —
Government Channel;
ITEM l: Welcome Vice -Chairman Janice Stanesic.
A. Turn off all cell phones.
B. Comments from the public. None
ITEM 2: Minutes of the June 11, 2008 meeting.
A motion to approve the minutes as written was made by Tim •McCarley and seconded by
Richard Greene. The motion carried.
ITEM 3: Receiving of Reports.
A. Vice -Chairman Stanesic. Chairman Bob Nickle was unable to attend the meeting today.
B. Director Boudreaux report on airport activity. Fuel sales at Million Air are better.
McClelland is working on a Task Order to prepare the final bid documents and specifications for
the Runway Improvement project. The Blood mobile will be at the Airport on September 25`h.
"A Fare to Remember" is serving lunch and will have their Grand Opening on October 3 a in
their new lunch location. The company wanting to lease the Tech facility visited this morning
and gave some changes to their listed officers. They want the lease effective date to begin the
date of signing. We will bring the signed lease before the Board. Reported he and Tim had
attended the AAOA Conference in Rogers. The Table Top Drill was conducted in August; there
were a lot of participants and favorable comments. Washington County invited us to have the
next drill at their Disaster Response Center. SkyVenture has added aircraft maintenance to their
business. The new hangar going up is for Flying Investments. They do testing and
modifications on Falcon jets and have a staff of eight.
C. Financial Coordinator Nicholson report on FBO and Budget. Briefed the Board on the
report in the agenda while giving a slide presentation of the charts. The FBO sold more fuel to
based customers than itinerant customers. There has been a price increase at the self -serve fuel,
but have held off raising the price until after the ballgame weekend. The Airport's operational
revenue is more than the expenses. We have about half -a -million in the cash balance.
• D. Senior Secretary Powers report on T -Hangar Leases. All units are filled. The waiting
lists have six for single engine, two for the twin units, and eleven for the storage. Several names
added to the list are related to school starting at the University.
E. Engineer Wayne Jones' report on construction projects. They have mechanical engineers
looking at the system controls for the terminal's heat and air and will make recommendations.
Work on the system was withheld because the City was conducting their audit on all the city's
systems. What they purposed would have taken 400 years to payback.
F. Director Boudreaux report on maintenance activity. Staff has worked on a lot of lights.
They installed new lights for the new aircraft apron. They have been working on major re-
wiring outside the Air and Ozark Military Museums. Work has also been done on the T -
Hangars.
G. Museum reports. Hugh Brewer reported the Kite Festival will be on October 18`h; he has
been working on getting sponsors and speaking at schools. The Air Museum is very active in the
Bikes Blues and Bar-B-Que event and will be handing out brochures where they sign up for free
T-shirts. Tim McCarley reported at the AAOA Conference they had a speaker from Wal-Mart
Aviation and they mentioned Sam Walton's first plane and they had been able to tell them that
his first plane is at the Arkansas Air Museum.
ITEM #4: Old Business.
A. Update: Certified Repair Station. Director Boudreaux reported they had visited with him
that morning and had some changes, but the provisions of the lease had not changed.
B. Update: Environmental Assessment by Kelly Maddox. He gave a slide presentation of
the Environmental Assessment process. They have completed 80% of the environmental
consequences and the impact on items on the list. The next step is the noise, floodplain and wet
lands impact. Usage.numbers_for the -highway have -been sent -to the -engineers -to: compile -usage
twenty years in the future. All aspects of the project require coordination with several federal
agencies, FAA and the Highway Department. This airport is one of the first to relocate a
highway. FAA's approval of the project will probably be four or five months into next year.
ITEM #5: New Business.
A. Discussion: Lease Extension Wings Avionics. They would like to extend their contract for
their avionics hangar for one year at the existing rate, $1,500.00 per month. They have
experience a drop in business.
BOARD CONSENSES:.Approve the one year extension at existing rate of $1,500.00 per
month.
B. Approve FY2009 DBE Update. The DBE program is an FAA requirement if receiving
grants. The goal must be updated each year, presented to the public, and approved by the City
Council.
A motion to approve the DBE Update was made by Richard Greene and seconded by
David Hoffman. The motion carried.
ITEM #6: Other Business.
A. Items from the Public. None.
B. Items from the Airport Board. None.
AT 2:20 p.m.
Hollman, Secretary
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