AIRPORT COMMISSION
Airport Conference Room
Tuesday
Members Present: Heath Gatlin, Michael Leger, Steve Tait,
and Michael Valenti.
Members Absent: none
Others: Butch
Lisenby, David Cleveland, Stephen Flecchia,
and Michael Garrity
The meeting was called to order at
MEETING AGENDA
MINUTES
Motion: Move to approve the minutes of the June 3rd
meeting.
Motion: Heath Gatlin Seconded: Michael Valenti Vote: 4-0-0.
APPOINTMENTS
David
Cleveland applied for an appointment to the Airport Commission. He was interviewed by the Commissioners and
said that he had 70 hours of an aviation background and had produced 10
videos. David also said he had 35 years
of experience in homeopathic medicine and a list of 6K clients. He has been active with the
Michael
Leger thanked Mr. Cleveland for his application and said the matter would be
taken under advisement. There was no motion to appoint Mr. Cleveland at this
time.
REPORTS
Door
Access Control Update
The
door access control has been delayed until this month for financial reasons. The necessary parts have been ordered and Butch
said that we will be moving ahead with the project.
RWY
07 Approach – Grass & Brush Cutting Update
This
project has been pushed back to some time around September. The heat wave in
June caused the Sheriff’s Department to do the elderly complexes, i.e., air
conditioners, etc. so that pushed their schedules back. Our options now are to roll the dice and wait
for mid September (it’ll be much cheaper to wait for the sheriff’s department) or
to engage a private contractor to do the work.
The
best estimate from a private contractor was $13K and Heath suggested getting an
updated estimate with a time-frame – just in case. Michael L. said that since it’s not a glaring
safety issue we should opt to “roll the dice” – but to document with the FAA
that we had planned to have it done and the reason we are late having it done. Just tell them it’s a Work-in-Progress (WIP). This was agreed to by general consensus.
OLD
BUSINESS
EA/FEIR/DRI
Update
Michael
Garrity presented the update by showing the Commissioners the map from which he
was working. He said that the many
yellow spots on the map indicated the Splade Footed Toad’s habitat and he had
already narrowed an area and done everything possible to stay out of the
breeding habitat of the toads. He
continued by saying that this is the best alignment that we can get permitted
for. The National Park Services has not
commented yet.
Mike
continued saying that we already have documentation for them to review and we
haven’t heard back yet. The NPS will
have everything they need to comment. We’re
even putting gaps in the fence with non-barbed wire to accommodate the toads. “It comes down to going above and beyond but
it’s still in a holding pattern.”
M.
Leger told an interesting story about Wellfleet and the box turtles who held up
the building of a Catholic church. In
celebration of the permission they received to build, a box turtle will be on
the weathervane of the completed building.
Bottom
Line: Everything is being done and we’re
waiting...............
Terminal
Ramp Reconstruction Update
Stephen
Flecchia, the principal engineer, gave the update on the ramp issue. We’re waiting to start construction and will
begin on September 15th in order to avoid the busy season.
In early August Stephen will schedule a preconstruction meeting. So far - things are looking good with the
completion date scheduled between Oct 15th and the end of October. He feels that weather shouldn’t be a factor
because our fall is usually the best time of the year.
There
has been a recommended change of the walkway to the Sightseeing Shack from
bituminous concrete (tar) to concrete; concrete pavement lasts a lot longer –
i.e. 50 yrs and tar only last about 20 to 30 yrs. Also since we have a high water table, we’d
be better off with concrete.
Butch
said that we can go back to the grant and we have enough money in our
entitlement to be able to do it.
LEO
Contract Update
Butch
said that it’s an ongoing issue but we have bit of light at the end of the
tunnel. The FAA has said they have an
application process for additional funding for the FY2008 period and it looks
pretty simple. This money would be above
and beyond the current amount money slated for FY2008.
The
FAA came up with a pot of $3M to help airports in need; there are currently 233
airports that are having financial issues.
Butch anticipates that we will
probably have continued financial problems in the spring in ’09.
Michael
Leger said that sometime after the busy season we’ll have a discussion with
Sharon Lynn and Jeff Jaran, the Commissioners and invite Dan Wolf, too. We just have to find the money somewhere and
have already talked about such things as vehicle parking fees and departure
tax. Other thoughts are regionalization, revolving accounts, and perhaps even a
prop 2½ overide.
OTHER
BUSINESS
Provincetown
Airport Enplanements are about flat. April was good, May was flat, and we’re
waiting for the figures for June.
PAYMENT
VOUCHERS
1. NStar $718.24
Motion: Move to pay NStar in the amount of $718.24
Motion: Steve Tait Seconded: Michael Valenti Vote: 4-0-0.
2. Kenyon Wheeler
$1,555.00
Motion: Move to pay Kenyon Wheeler in the amount of
$1,555.
Motion: Steve Tait Seconded: Michael Valenti Vote: 4-0-0.
3. JACOBS, Edwards & Kelsey #6 of EAFIR $80,000.00
Motion: Move
to pay JACOBS, Edwards & Kelsey
#6 invoice in the amount of
$80,000.
Motion: Steve Tait Seconded: Michael Valenti Vote: 4-0-0.
4. JACOBS, Edwards & Kelsey #1 – recon. terminal
ramp $65,000.00
Motion: Move to pay JACOBS, Edwards & Kelsey
#1 – reconstruction of
terminal ramp - $65,000
Motion: Steve Tait Seconded: Michael Valenti Vote: 4-0-0.
THE NEXT
MEETING OF THE AIRPORT COMMISSION WILL BE HELD ON TUESDAY – AUGUST 5TH
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Adjournment happened at
Respectfully
submitted,
APPROVED: