PROVINCETOWN
AIRPORT COMMISSION
May 4, 2005
5:30 p.m.
Members Present: Steven Page, Richard Silva, Jason Stover, and Steve Tait
Members Absent: Lenny Alberts & Joan
Drysdale (both excused)
Airport Manager: Butch Lisenby
Consultants: Mike Garrity and Maryann
Magner
from Edwards and Kelcey
The
meeting was called to order at 5:34 p.m.
Butch
feels that the group has missed the window of opportunity on answering Joe
Salters visit to the commission and believes we should wait and see how things
go as it starts to get busy. There is a rumor that Cape and Island Airports
will soon come under the authority of Boston Logan Airport and no longer
Providence Airport. This might change how TSA at PVC operates.
Peak hour price decision has been made and Provincetown is waiting for a template to apply for an exception. The decision already took effect in March 2005. The report indicates that there is no need for peak hour pricing until possibly next summer and - based on many facts - maybe it will be 2006 before any more is known. Butch Lisenby told the group that if we have to go into peak hour pricing sooner than next summer he believes that we will be given time to get the exemption request in without being penalized because we had to wait for MASSPORT to get us the template.
Maryann Magner then made her presentation to the group. She has been with E&K for 15 years and her expertise is in preparing documents to do with environment. She said that they’ve put together a program for the airport. It’s targeted and goal driven and will seek an meeting with the FAA, MAC, Cape Air, NPS, DEP and any others deemed as stake holders to create an advisory group for the Master Plan. She said she was looking at June 15 (Wed.) at 10 a.m. for the initial meeting of the proposed advisory group to begin the overview of the master plan and any projected projects. The goal is to coordinate, inform, and listen in order to give everyone a chance to participate. She also envisions one large public informational workshop perhaps later in the summer at which general public participation will be asked for. Town officials from Provincetown, Truro, Wellfleet and Eastham will also be invited to this meeting. The draft plan would be contained in an outline form and would be advertised in all the town papers and advertised as an evening meeting. A second advisory group meeting would happen when master plan is almost finished. The advisory group would get a copy of the master plan and Ms. Magner is looking toward the end of this year for the finalizing of the master plan. “We would like to get a letter out for next week.”
Butch
advised aiming at a Tuesday or a Thursday – rather than Wednesday, June 15th. Tuesday,
June 14th at 10:00 a.m. is
a possibility.
Jason
Stover asked if the environmental study had been completed? Maryann replied that the wetland flagging
has been completed but it is too early for entire study to be completed.
Epsilon Associates $1,054.30
Edwards and Kelcey Invoice #6 $24,000
Invoice #7 $28,000
Motions were made to approve of the above three payment vouchers, seconded and approved unanimously. 4-0-0.
Butch
Lisenby advised that because of environmental issues, some airport projects
have been delayed and as a result a large portion of the current airport budget
was available for some other use. Thus, Butch explained that we now have the
opportunity to replace our 1996 Crown Victoria with a replacement vehicle. This
is not an FAA and or MAC project so the total amount of the vehicle would be
coming out of the airport budget. Steve
Tait said he was uncomfortable because he felt it should go before the town
mtg.
Butch
said the amount was already in the budget and Keith Bergman approved the
expenditure since it was available unspent budget monies.
Motion: Steve Tait made a motion to approve the
minutes of the March 2nd meeting.
Steven Page seconded the motion and it was approved 4-0-0.
A motion to adjourn at 5:55 p.m. was made, seconded, and
approved unanimously.
Respectfully submitted,
APPROVED: JUN 1, 2005