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MINUTES
• FAYETTEVILLE EXECUTIVE AIRPORT
November 19, 2010
BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Bob Nickle, Janice Stanesic, Vaughn DeCoster, Richard
Greene, Tim McCarley
BOARD MEMBERS ABSENT: David Hollman, Otto Loewer
STAFF PRESENT: Ray Boudreaux, James Nicholson, Louise Powers
OTHERS PRESENT: Russell Smith -Flying Investments, Mike Gibbs -citizen, MaryKathryn
Floyd -Million Air Fayetteville, Warren Jones -Arkansas Air Museum, Wayne Jones —McClelland
Engineers, Terry Gulley -City of Fayetteville, Joel Walsh -NWA Times, Ty Rogers -Fayetteville
Government Channel
ITEM #1: Welcome —Chairman.
ITEM #2: Approval of the Airport Board Minutes of the October 14, 2010 meeting.
A motion
to approve
the minutes
was made by Tim
McCarley and seconded by Janice
Stanesic.
The motion
carried.
• ITEM #3: Receiving of Reports. List revised to allow the Museum report to be presented first.
A. Museum Reports. Warren Jones reported the Museum visitors count has been down. The
Museum recently had a visitor, Charles Lang from Mississippi, who would like to donate to the
museum, a gyro-copter that he had built. It is worth about $25,000, and will make a nice
addition to the museum. The Annual Membership Meeting and Election of Officers will be on
Sunday, December 12'h, at 2:00. The Aviators Ball has been re -scheduled for May 14, 2011,
giving staff more time for planning the event; and we are looking for corporate sponsors.
B. Director Boudreaux, report on Airport Activity. October was the strongest month for
operations, 31,250, and fuel sales of almost 50,000 gallons. We are planning for the Ribbon
Cutting for the Runway Safety Project to be the same day as the next Airport Board Meeting,
December 91h. Wayne is working on the Runway Obstruction Removal project which involves
about 50 parcels of land. James attended the FAA Conference and met with Paul Burns, our new
FAA Project Manager, he is a registered P.E. Representatives from Loomacres were not able to
be here today, but will report at the next meeting. Work at the Fuel Farm has been completed,
removed old controls and installed digital electronics. We are losing two of our Board Members,
Richard Greene and Vaughn DeCoster. We invite anyone interested in being on the Airport
Board to apply through the City Clerk's office by the December P deadline. The Airport's
Facebook now has 80 friends.
C. Financial Coordinator James Nicholson report on FBO and Budget. James presented the
charts in the agenda. The airport's operations are trailing last year by 8.9%. Million Air is
promoting their military fueling contract and military training agreement. Fuel sales for the
month of October were the best in 2010. MaryKathryn Floyd reported she had attended the
• NBAA Conference and had made great connections there promoting Drake Field, and what
really helps is the easy access to Interstate 540 from Drake Field. James reported he planned to
break out the military operations from the corporate operations on the chart in 2011. The
itinerate jets bought the greater portion of fuel for October. Across the region everyone raised
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their fuel prices. Stated the airport is slightly ahead of what was predicted in the budget, with
two months to go. Answering Chairman Nickle, the billing invoices are posted as revenue when
they are created, we don't have to wait until the invoice is actually paid. We do not have any
real unpaid invoice problems.
D. Report on T -Hangars. Louise Powers reported there are four T -Hangars empty, three
singles and one twin, and also one storage unit. Director Boudreaux stated there is no news on a
possible tenant for the big hangar.
E. Wayne Jones, McClelland Engineers, report on construction projects. Reported the
contractors are working on the final grading, and the new fence is being installed. The cost and
the quantity of asphalt was down so may be able to add part the cost of the new fence. Materials
for the additional fence will be here next week. Regarding the Aviagation Easements, the
Obstruction Study identified trees extending through the imaginary surface of the glide slope at
the south end of the airport. We have identified there are 50 parcels of land, and we will have to
get Aviagation Easements from 36 property owners, and remove any obstructions. Cost could be
around $1,000, or less, per parcel and take approximately 6 to 8 months to get the easements.
Grant monies may be available. Director Boudreaux said staff had topped and cut down trees
identified, but the FAA wasn't satisfied, we have just one more year to finish the project. We
seem to have pretty good cooperation from the property owners. James reported news from the
FAA Conference: The FAA will be requiring, in the next 2 to 3 years, electronic Airport Layout
Plans (ALP), and along with that will be different procedures and equipment to develop the ALP
for 139 Certificated Airports. Now, one plan is submitted and it has to go through 6 FAA
departments for comments and can take up to 6 months to get approved. With the electronic
version it would be faster. Wayne Jones reported that XNA Airport is one of the pilot airports
for the new program and there have been some problems with the system. It is costing XNA
• approximately $300,000 to develop the new ALP. Director Boudreaux reported the FAA will be
auditing all our grants and the DBE program.
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ITEM #4: Old Business. None.
ITEM #5: New Business.
A. Presentation: Raymond VanHook, air service. Director Boudreaux offered Mr.
VanHook's apologies for not being here for this meeting. He will make the presentation at the
next meeting.
ITEM #6: Other Business.
A. Items from the Public. None.
B. Items from the Airport Board. Director Boudreaux answering Vaughn DeCoster, said he
had been in touch recently with Seaport Airlines and they had promised a proposal in 3 to 4
weeks but it hasn't arrived. Mr. VanHook is working on a scheduled charter, nine passenger,
round trip to Little Rock or Dallas Love. Seaport was looking at Memphis. Mr. VanHook saw
the article in the paper about Drake looking for an airline, he developed one in California and
sold it and would like to develop one here. Said he had seen Mr. VanHook's rough draft.
Stated security for scheduled charter are done with a wand, security is still required. Sometimes
airlines train their employees to do the security, and it would be cheaper if we could get that.
Hollman,
2:25 p.m.
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