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Home My WebLink About2013-02-14 MinutesFAYETTEVILLE EXECUTIVE AIRPORT BOARD MINUTES February 14, 2013 MEMBERS PRESENT: Bob Nickle, Mike Gibbs, Joshua Mahony, Bill Corley, Rick Bailey, Marty Burggraf MEMBERS ABSENT: Ken Haxel OTHERS PRESENT: Wayne Jones -McClelland Engineers; Warren Jones -Arkansas Air and Military Museum; Jeff Gates -Museum volunteer; Tyrone Rogers -City's Government Channel; Terry Gulley -Director of City's Transportation Dept.; Peter Mastroianni-Million Air Fayetteville; John Hamilton -tenant; Mauro Campos -Fayetteville Fire Department; Patrick Carter- NFlight Technologies; Ken Schossow-Wings Avionics; Craig Young -Tenant ITEM #1: Welcome. Chairman Nickle. Welcomed Marty Burggraf to the Airport Board and gave her a certificate of membership. ITEM #2: Approval of the Airport Board Minutes of the January 10, 2012 meeting. A motion to approve the minutes was made by Rick Bailey, and seconded by Bill Corley. The motion carried. ITEM #3: Receiving of Reports. A. Director Boudreaux, Aviation Director. Reported January did not break any records but it was still the best January the airport has had in the past five years. Fuel sales exceed last month's numbers. Boudreaux discussed the NFlight project and said the Aeronautics Commission approved the project for the lower level grant. Boudreaux said he will meet with Patrick Carter of NFlight, Wayne Jones of McClelland Engineers, and the architect. He said he hopes they will find ways to save money. Boudreaux said he has resubmitted the Wildlife Management Assessment and the Wildlife Management Plan is underway. He also discussed the Air Race Classic and mentioned a volunteer inspector is needed. Boudreaux said the FAA Safety Area project is going to happen. The pre -construction meeting will be held on Mar. 5. The FAA engineer will meet with the successful bidder. All mounts will be changed to frangible mounts and the concrete bases for the mounts will not exceed the three inch rule. Boudreaux announced to the public that the AOPA seminar hosted by SkyVenture will be on Feb. 19 in the airport lobby. Boudreaux mentioned the FBO changeover will occur in mid-March. Terry Gulley said he talked to Roger last week and they are in the process of negotiating the DLA contract and the equipment. Gulley said he is optimistic on where everything is going. Mike Gibbs asked what time of day will the City take over the FBO and Boudreaux answered midnight. Boudreaux said the job listings that have made it through the entire process are online on the City website and other job sites. Boudreaux discussed sequestration. He encouraged everyone to contact their representatives and senators and express concern about the Drake Field tower and the people who operate it. B. Financial Coordinator James Nicholson, Budget Report. Reported that operations are on the positive side and this was the best January in five years. Military planes are trending at an upward angle and Nicholson hopes it will continue to grow. Boudreaux thanked Million Air for their hard work in getting that done. The percentage of fuel sales that went to the military was quite a bit less than usual but Nicholson mentioned these sales cycle in correlation with military training schedules. Nicholson said Million Air currently owes over twelve thousand dollars. He said he is not sure if this payment will be part of the final negotiation, but if this money is not received it will become the airport's bad debt. Boudreaux added that fuel flowage fees are not invoiced (.10 cents/gal. should be paid to airport when fuel goes into tank) — and these flowage fees have not been paid Oct. thru Dec in 2012. Boudreaux said he does not know if the airport will ever receive that money. Nickle asked Nicholson why the airport is off budget for the current year. Nicholson answered that some of the automatic payments the airport receives from the federal government have not been posted yet. Also, Rose of Sharon terminated their lease so that revenue was lost and Lou required a fairly large payout when she retired. Boudreaux said the terminal space has been re-leased so some of that revenue will return in March. Nicholson also said the NFlight project is coming up which will affect our fund balance by about $63,556. C. Administrative Assistant, Lauren Treat, T-Hangar Report. Some tenants have shuffled around and we have added new tenants but all T-Hangars are still full, with 9 rented for storage. D. Wayne Jones, McClelland Engineers, Construction Report. Wayne said that he will sit down with Patrick Carter, Boudreaux, and the architect on Feb. 19 to go through a list of items and discuss how they can reduce the cost of the project. Wayne said he will advertise bids during the first week of March and finalize bids towards the end of March. Wayne and Boudreaux believe the estimated construction time will be about 90 days. Boudreaux mentioned Wayne has submitted a change order to his task order. Nickle said he hopes the savings will be more than the cost and Wayne said that is the plan. E. Museum Executive Director Warren Jones, Museum Report. Gibbs brought up a discussion about the sprinkler system and discussion about museum funding followed. Nickle suggested the Museum board makes a plea to the Council regarding funding. Regarding the Air Race Classic, Warren said the Air Museum will be used for a big 40s type dance on Saturday (Jun. 22) night. Warren said he has spent a considerable amount of time finalizing details for BBBQ&B, but transportation arrangements from Baum to the Museum still need attention, because the train is not a guarantee yet. Warren has looked into an arrangement with a bus company in case the train scenario does not play out. He noted BBBQ&B will be the museum's largest fundraiser of the year by far and he wants to get a lot of pre-event media out there. Warren said this is a low time of the year for the museum just as it is for any other non-profit organization. He said he is looking forward to spring and hopes that BBBQ&B is even half of what he expects because it will truly be awesome. 2 ITEM #4: Old Business. A. Update: City -run FBO. Director Boudreaux discussed the FBO fee schedule. He said the prices have all been cut from what Million Air charges. Boudreaux said he believes these fees are typical of all airports in Northwest Arkansas (besides Siloam). Boudreaux noted that this is only a draft, and he asked for the Board's opinions. Discussion followed. Nickle asked that since there are three active pilots present (would be four if Ken was present), should the Board hold a brief strategic planning meeting after everyone has reviewed the chart? All members were in unanimous agreement to hold the meeting on Feb. 19 at 11:00 a.m. Boudreaux said that is all he had besides an aviation article he included in the packet about FBO service. He reminded the board that price is not everything — service is important too. ITEM #5: New Business. None ITEM #6: Other Business. A. Items from the Public. Ken Schossow, of Wings Avionics, said he had an incident on Monday in which the hangar door on the East side of his hangar came loose and swung in about 8 inches. Schossow said if he thought he was responsible, he would take care of it. Schossow filled out an incident report. Boudreaux said that was the right thing to do and the form go to the City Attorney's office where the final determination will be made. Secretary Josh Mahony brought up another item from the public regarding the Pigshibition event on March 14. He said the airport's pig "When Pigs Fly" will be in the auction at the Fayetteville Town Center. The event is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. but the auction will be on a -bay as well. B. Items from the Airport Board. None MEETING Joshuf(Mahony, Sticretary / / Date