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Airport Board Minutes
April 21st, 2016
MEMBERS PRESENT: Josh Mahony, Darryl Riddell, Marty Burggraf, Paul Algee, Avon Haury, Bill Corley
MEMBERS ABSENT: None
OTHERS PRESENT: Rick Bailey, Terry Gulley/City, Dee McCoy/City, Mauro Campos/city, Ben Perea/Garver
Engineers, members of the public
ITEM # 1: Call to Order. Josh Mahony
ITEM # 2: Approval of the Airport Board Minutes of the March 17, 2016 meeting
• A motion to approve the March 17, 2016 minutes was made by Marty Burggraf and seconded by Bill
Corley. The motion carried.
ITEM # 3: Receiving of Reports:
A. Director's Report —provided by Johnny Roscoe, Airport Director:
• Airport Activity: Tower operations in March were 1864 —down very slightly from February. However,
first quarter tower operations are up compared to first quarter of 2015 by a count of 179. Fuel sales
were down about 2,022 gallons from March, but overall we are averaging over 30K per month for the
first quarter. All-in-all, a very good first quarter.
• Hangar / Terminal Roof Rehab Update: We are standing by to hear from the roofing expert who
accomplished the storm damage report. As stated last month, this report will be added to our claim.
• Tower Hours Update: Per the Airport Board's request, we are in coordination with Drake -Field Tower
regarding our intentions to submit a new hour proposal to the FAA. More to follow.
• New Airport Personnel: The Airport recently hired a new Customer Service Rep (Ms. Katelyn Osbourn)
who is already in place and a new FBO Line Technician (Mr. Michael Scroggin) who will start on April
27th. Matthew Atkinson moved into Jacob Crutchfield's place as the FBO Line Supervisor.
B. T -hangar Report - provided by Dee McCoy, Administrative Assistant:
• The airport has seven (7) vacant T -Hangars, three (3) of these are currently being used for storage.
C. Museum Report - provided by Rick Bailey, Museum Board Director
• The museum has received a $12,500 state grant to be used for the planning study for the expansion
of the museum.
• A membership drive will be conducted during the summer and the fall, and will hopefully bring in some
corporate sponsorship.
• Airport Days will be the third Saturday of May, lune, July and possibly August.
• Shingles came loose during the rain storm and the museum would like permission do get a patch done
until it can be permanently fixed. Ben Perea of Garver Engineers said he didn't foresee a temporary
patch causing any problems.
• Airplanes have been moving in and out due to different events being held.
• Income was down versus expenses for the first quarter.
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ITEM # 4: Old Business: None
ITEM # 5: New Business:
A. Recognition of new board member, James Rankin
James Rankin was unable to attend the board meeting. This item will be moved to the next agenda.
B. Garver Update, Ben Perea
• The AIP Project is currently in the advertising phase. The bids will open for that on April 281h.
• There will be a recommendation and grant application presented to the City Council.
• The project will include taking every taxiway light on the airport and removing all the fixtures, cables
and transformers, and replacing all the incandescent fixtures with LED taxiway lights. The benefit is
that the incandescent fixtures have about 1,000 -hour life in the bulbs themselves while the LED
fixtures have about a 100,000 -hour life. Fixtures will not have to be changed as frequently.
• The manufactures say there is about a 70% energy savings.
• Once the contract has been executed from the contractor and the city, there is a six-week lead time
to get the fixtures in house before the project is started. This project is phased very similar to the
marketing project that was done last year.
• There will a couple of nights that the, runway will have to be closed to address the fixtures inside the
runway safety area. That is already coordinated with the tower and the FAA.
• This project will be using all of our Entitlement Funds so that no funds are lost moving forward.
ITEM # 6: Other Business:
A. Items from the Airport Board: None
B. Items from the Public:
• Mauro Campos, Fayetteville Fire Department: There will be an Aircraft Rescue and Firefighter
Training Academy the last two weeks of May. There will be a lot of firefighter training on the airport
grounds.
MEETING ADJOURNED at 1:46 P.M.
Marty
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