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Aviation Advisory Board Minutes - 09/18/2008MINUTES AVIATION ADVISORY BOARD SEPTEMBER 18, 2008 PRESENT: Sid Gills, Chairman Jim McElvain Brad Altman John Burrus Monica Morris I. CALL TO ORDER 1 � � Board Members City Staff The meeting was called to order by Sid Gills at approximately 5:35pm. II. ROLL CALL Members were asked to sign the attendance sheet. III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES Minutes of the May 28, 2008 meeting will be held for approval due to lack of a quorum. IV. REGULAR AGENDA 1. Municipal Airport • Ms. Morris reported on the upcoming new schedule for the ATR service as well as efforts to communicate the concerns related to the ability of passengers to make connecting flights. She also reported on the marketing efforts to maintain enplanements as well as work toward ensuring the ramp /facilities are ready for the ATR ground handling. Dale Morris will be attending the city council meeting on October 21St and staff would like to invite the board to attend to reflect support for the need for better service at the airport. AVIATION ADVISORY BOARD SEPTEMBER 18.2008 1 • Mr. Burrus reported that his grant application for the Small Community Air Service Development Grant that he reported to the board about at the last meeting was approved by the FAA. The $500,000 grant, which will require a $250,000 local match, will provide the airport with a resource to attract a second air carrier for service to Houston, Denver or Phoenix, the three destinations identified in our Passenger Demand Analysis as having potential. John intends to develop a partnership with members to include the 4B Economic Development Corporation, the Board of Commerce and Industry or other interested members to continue these efforts. • Ms. Morris reported that the Passenger Facility Charges a p;ication was approved and the PFCs will begin being charged on October 1St which is actually a month earlier than anticipated. She has training scheduled next week with the FAA PFC Coordinator to ensure proper compliance with reporting requirements to the FAA and air carriers. 2. Kickapoo Downtown Airport • Mis. Morris reported that two of the three sections of airfield security fencing were in place with the third section on hold urifii the Taxiway A4 project is not longer a factor. The A4 project is moving slowly, currently because of a problem wrJi the depth checks on the lime treated subgrade. Orignaiiy the schedule would call for placement of concrete to begin the third week in October but this will likely cause that to be delayed. Contracts for the Taxiway A lighting project are in the works and should be started hopefully in October. When that contractor begins, it will :equi,e a closure of Taxiway A from A2 to A5 but will a3tua:;y help the paving contractor as it will allow him to ag,n Phase II of his work. Finally, Ms. Morris reported that the bid opening for the t- han-gar r;onstruction project resulted in only one bid which was well over the engineer's estimate. With the agreement of TxDOT, the project is going to have some minor engineering changes made and will be rebid. Staff already believes that a number of potential bidder have been . dentified which will hopefully result in better bid results. 3. Other Aviation Items AVIATION ADVISORY BOARD S1 1) 11 VRI R I8, 1008 • Mr. Burrus reported that a recent email from Sheppard real estate representatives indicated that they expected the City would have the lease and joint use agreements from the Pentagon in December of this year for approval hopefully in January 2009. • Members of the board and staff discussed the emergency response to the aircraft accident on September 14th. Mr. McElvain and Mr. Altman suggested scheduling a meeting of local flight instructors to ensure they are including proper departure procedures from Kickapoo as part of their flight training including turning a wide east pattern in order to avoid turning over the neighborhood. V. ITEMS OF CONCERN FOR BOARD MEMBERS • Mr. Gilis offered the recommendation of the city requesting Sheppard AFB to consider keeping Runway 17/35 open, if at all possible, during emergency responses such as the accident in May in order to protect the air carrier and based general aviation tenants. Mr. Gills believe runway 17/35 could have remained open ,vithout any problems and would not have resulted in the commercial cancellations. Ms. Morris reported there were six arrivals and departures affected by the accident of 01 May. She was unaware of the effect on any general aviation operations. VI. ADJOURN The meeting was adjourned at 6:15 p.m. ATTEST: Monica J. orris, Airports Administrator AVIA rION ADVISORY BOARD SEPT17WER 18. 2008 /S TAN a a ° % Date 1 Date