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To: City Council
From: Rick Stein, Airport Manager
CC: Anette Spickard, City Manager
Date 07/31/2019
Re: Monthly Department Report – July 2019
1.Airport Development:
The letter to interested parties is in development and will be sent certified mail, within a week. The
letter will be sent to the current hangar waiting list, known commercial applicants, and known parties
interested in hangar development. The surveyor is scheduled to draw the legal boundaries of the
leaseholds. This survey should be completed within 3 weeks.
2. Parallel Taxiway Relocation:
T-O Engineers has submitted the 20 year forecast for aircraft operations at the McCall Municipal
Airport and has received preliminary approval from Scott Eaton (FAA Planner). Once Scott Eaton
issues final approval of the forecast, the 300 foot relocation of the parallel taxiway will be justified.
With this information, T-O and the City will work with Diane Stilson (FAA Environmental
Specialist) to determine what updates, if any, she will require for the 2011 Environmental
Assessment. At this point, T-O will prepare a scope of work and fee estimate for the environmental
study, design and construction administration of the relocated parallel taxiway. They will submit their
scope of work and fees to the City of McCall and the City will contract with another engineering firm
for the Independent Fee Estimate (IFE). Once the IFE is complete, T-O will negotiate their fee, if
necessary, with the City of McCall. Once the fee is established, T-O will enter into an agreement with
the City and the environmental/design work can begin.
3. Airport Master Plan:
The CIP for the McCall Municipal Airport shows a new Airport Master Plan starting in 2020. The
current Airport Master Plan is close to 12 years old and the FAA prefers that a new one be completed
every 10 years. Gary Gates (FAA Project Engineer) is aware that McCall will be ready to start the
master plan in 2020 and FAA funds are earmarked for this project. An Airport Master Plan is an 18 to
24 month process with data gathering, public meetings and FAA approvals. The City of McCall
needs to complete a consultant selection for the Master Plan because the FAA requires separate
selections for engineering and planning projects. The initial steps will be scoping the planning study,
data gathering and inventory of existing conditions. T-O has completed some of this data gathering as
part of the justification for relocation of the parallel taxiway
Monthly Department Report – Airport
4. Land Acquisition:
The City received reimbursement for AIP 24 and 24 (Taxiway relocation pre-design) in the amounts of
$155,249 and $1,751,410, respectively, on July 31st.
5. Airport Zoning:
Minor corrections to the City Code draft were provided to Diane Kushland. Maps and exhibits are being
created by Garrett Mapp. The recommended Code changes will be discussed at the Sept. 5th AAC, and
the Oct. 1st P&Z commission meetings.
6. Airport Lighting:
An electrical control board went out of service last week, causing the runways lights to go out of service.
The board was shipped to the manufacturer last week for diagnosis and repair. We should know the
repair time-line by this week. Pilots have been notified of the outage.