Aviation Advisory Board Minutes - 11/16/2006l �
PRESENT:
Vernon Nesmith, Chairman
Sid Gills
Dana Mills
Jon Rivkin
Curtis Harrelson
Martha Harvey
Brad Altman
Jim McElvain
MINUTES
AVIATION ADVISORY BOARD
November 16, 2006
RECEIVED IN
CITY CLERK'S OFFICE
Date
By Time
Board Members
Jim Ginnings City Councilor — Liaison
Capt. Jeff Collins SAFB — Rep. Major O'Malley
Monica Morris City Staff
John Burrus
I. CALL TO ORDER
The meeting was called to order by Chairman Nesmith at 5:30 pm.
II. ROLL CALL
Members were asked to make sure they signed in for the meeting. Councilor
Ginnings was welcomed as the new council liaison to the advisory board.
III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
The minutes from the July 20, 2006 and September 21, 2006 meetings were
presented. Mrs. Harvey made and Mr. Harrelson seconded a motion to approve the
July minutes. All were in favor. Mr. Mills made and Mrs. Harvey seconded a motion
to approve the September minutes. All were in favor.
IV. REGULAR AGENDA
1. Municipal Airport Update
• Taxiway C Rehabilitation — Ms. Morris reported on the staff's meeting with
Mike Nicely and Guillermo Villalobos with the FAA Airports Development
Office in Ft. Worth regarding 2007 AIP funding, discretionary funding for
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Taxiway C and possible funding sources for the rehabilitation of Runway
17/35 at SPS. The results of that meeting were instruction by FAA staff to
use 2007 AIP funding for Taxiway C rehabilitation, despite the short
remaining length on the lease with SAFB. Mr. Nicely also indicated that the
FAA would not support the city in accepting runway 17/35 in the new lease
with SAFB unless it was delivered to the city in an "acceptable" condition.
FAA funding for any runway rehabilitation should the city accept the runway
would be unlikely.
Subsequently, Mr. Villalobos made a visit to SPS to visually examine
Taxiway C and Runway 17/35. Guillermo instructed city staff to begin the
design and engineering work on the Taxiway C rehabilitation. These costs
would be reimbursable under the 2007 AIP grant which funds would likely
become available in February or March. Tex Schmidt has provided the city
with a work order for this project which should be approved by city council
at its first meeting in December.
Additionally, Mr. Schmidt and Ms. Morris met with SAFB personnel to
gather information and discuss the logistics of the project such as surveying
and geo- technical work.
Councilor Ginnings requested clarification that there would be no federal
funding for the runway 17/35 rehabilitation. Ms. Morris replied that funding
is uncertain.
2. Kickapoo Downtown Airport
Status of construction projects — The Kickapoo construction project is on
day 46 of 275. There is still some work to be done on the stormwater
detention pond. All aircraft on the back row of hangars (16 in total) had
been successfully relocated to other hangars on the airport and the
contractors had begun the milling work on that area. Additional excavation
will be done. Overall, the project is moving slowly but staff is having bi-
weekly construction meetings to monitor and stay on top of the progress.
TxDOT funding — Ms. Morris reported that she had received responses
back from TxDOT regarding Kickapoo's participation in their CIP and NPE
programs. TxDOT is proposing Kickapoo being receiving some funding in
FY2009 for engineering and design. Regarding NPE funding for the t-
hangar project, TxDOT staff has requested some information regarding the
project including 1) a hangar waiting list or commitment letters to the
spaces, 2) location, size and type of construction and conformity with the
Master Plan, 3) lease and rate structure and 4) minimum standards for the
airport.
• Discussion of Minimum Standards Project — As discussed above, adoption
of minimum standards is a requirement to participate in any TxDOT funding.
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Mr. Harrelson had provided Ms. Morris with a copy of the minimum
standards as they were last drafted. It was suggested that a committee be
re- established to help complete this project. Mr. Harrelson agreed to chair
the committee again and Mr. Altman and Mr. McElvain also agreed to
serve. Mr. Harrelson will also ask a few tenants to participate as well. Ms.
Morris will provide all of the committee members with a copy of the last draft
as well as some TxDOT model standards.
• Discussion of marketing ideas — City staff has developed a marketing plan
for both airports. Board members were presented with a draft copy of the
plan and asked to make any suggestions to it.
3. Other Aviation Items
Website domain registration — Staff recently registered the websites
flywichitafalls.org and flywichitafalls.net as part of the marketing plan. Staff
will have these domains linked to the aviation pages on the city's website as
well as work to improve those sites in order to provide a source of
information to the users of the airport using a domain name that will be
easily remembered.
Setting 2007 meeting schedule — Ms. Morris presented the board with a
proposed 2007 meeting schedule based on the same regularity of the 3rd
Thursday on every other month. March poses a potential conflict because
of a city council town hall meeting scheduled for the same date in March. It
was agreed that the board would meet that evening at 5:30pm at Kickapoo
and, if possible, stay for the town hall meeting as an opportunity to visit with
city councilors regarding any aviation related topics.
V. ITEMS OF CONCERN FOR BOARD MEMBERS — None
VI. ADJOURN
The meeting waA adjourned at 6:30pm.
Gills, Chairman
ATTEST:
John A. BurrusVDirector of Aviation, Traffic and Transportation
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