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HomeMy Public PortalAboutORD09302 r BILL N0. d ►�� INTRODUCED BY COUNCILMAN: ORDINANCE NO. 9%Zl 6 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON, MISSOURI, AMENDING CHAPTER 4, OF "THE CODE OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON, MISSOURI" RELATING TO AIRPORTS BY REPEALING SECTION 4-1, SECTION 4-3 AND SECTION 4-6 OF CHAPTER 4 AND ENACTING IN LIEU THEREOF NEW SECTIONS 4-1, 4-3 AND 4-6 RELATING TO THE SAME SUBJECT. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON, MISSOURI, AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Sections 4-10 4-3 and 4-6 of Chapter 4 of the Code of the City of Jefferson, Missouri relating to airports are hereby repealed. Section 2. It is hereby enacted new sections 4-1, 4-3 and 4-6. of Chapter 4 which shall read in words and figures as follows: Ask Section 4-1. Airport Commission - Generally. There is hereby created an Airport Commission, which shall consist of (9) nine members. One (1) of the members of the Commission shall be a member of the City Council, seven (7) members shall be residents of the City and one (1) member shall be the Director of Public Works of the City of Jefferson or his designated representative. In the event the member of the City Council cannot attend a meeting of the Airport Commission, the Mayor shall designate an alternate member of the City Council to attend the meeting. The seven (7) members shall be appointed at the first meeting of the City Council held after the city election of each year by the Mayer with the concurrence of the City Council. Members presently serving on the Airport Commission shall continue to serve until their successors are appointed and qualified. The Mayor shall designate one of the members of the Commission as its Chairman. The Airport Manager shall serve as Secretary. The Airport Commission shall elect from its membership a Vice-Chairman. Members of the Airport Commission shall receive no compensation but may receive reimbursement for reasonable amounts expended by the members in carrying out their duties. Any member of the Airport Commission may be removed by the Mayor and a majority vote of all members of the City Council for failure or inability to attend meetings of the Airport Commission or for other good cause shown. The airport Commission shall be subject to call and shall meet at such times and places as may be designated by the Chairman, or in his absence, the Vice-Chairman, and the Commission shall also meet upon the call of the Mayor at the time and place designated by him. The city shall indemnify every member of the Airport Commission, his heirs, executors and administrators, against expenses reasonably incurred by him in connection with any action, suit or proceeding to which he may be a party by reason of his being or having been a member of the Commission, except in relation to matters as to which he shall be finally adjudged in such action, suit or proceeding to be liable for negligence or misconduct. Section 4-3. Same - Powers. The Airport Commission shall have the following powers: (a) It may expend money from approved Budgeted Airport funds for / the management, operation and maintenance of the Airport, also no unbudgeted appropriations shall be made for unusual or major expendi- tures without the authorization of the City Council; provided further, that the Commission shall prepare a monthly financial report to be filed with the City Clerk for distribution to members of the Council. (b) It shall make all decisions pertaining to the normal and customary operation, management and maintenance of the Memorial Airport and shall control and determine operation policy on said Airport. It shall prescribe and adopt rules and regulations con:tr olling the management, maintenance, operation and use of the Airport. Such rules and regulations prescribed and adopted by the Airport Commission, under the authority of this ordinance, shall be enforced by the Airport Commission and the Airport Manager, and to this end, the Airport Commission and the Airport Manager, if need be, may call upon all officers, officials and employees of the City of Jefferson for assistance, which assistance may be given. Copies of rules and regulations adopted by the Airport Commission, hereunder, shall be filed with the City Clerk. (c) It shall oversee and supervise, direct and control the duties and work of the Airport Manager. (d) It may negotiate contracts subject to the approval of the City Council and to be signed by the Mayor. It may enter into leases relating to the use of all land and buildings at the Memorial Airport by individuals, firms or corporations, for either commercial or private operations of aircraft, for agricultural purposes, and for the use of all city buildings and appurtenances on said Airport for such periods of time and at such schedule of rentals that have been submitted to the City Council for prior approval. It may negotiate contracts for construction on the Airport subject to the approval of the City Council to be signed by the Mayor. (e) It shall select and employ such persons as it deems necessary to employ to manage and operate the Airport in an efficient and businesslike manner, and shall cause to be paid from the Airport Fund the compensation to such employees; said compensation to be within the approved Annual Budget and within the City adopted salary scale. Such employees shall be deemed to be employees of the City of Jefferson. It shall be the duty of the Director of Public Works to assist the Airport Commission and to supervise the planning for and all construction at the Airport and to make such alterations or improve- ments at the Airport considered necessary by the Commission. Employees under the supervision and control of the Director of Public Works may be used to make alterations, maintenance and improvements upon all land and buildings owned by the City on the Airport property, and compensation therefor shall be paid from the Airport Fund. (f) Ay pets , firm or corporati des ring to provide commercial al li a service at the Airport 11 make application in writing to th ission, through the Air o Manager, for permission to provide ch c cial service, stat g tha a or it is able if f i armies o nd consent is ran a for such comma airline servi a the Airport, to following qu -fications: (1) That such person, firm or corporation in insured, and will continue to be insured, and will provide the City, through the Commission, with evidence of such in- surance against public liability and property damage in the following amounts: For injury or death to one person $500,000.00; for injury or death to two or more persons in one accident $1,000,000.00; for damage to property $1,000,000.00. (2) That in the case of those persons, firms or corporations, .offering commercial scheduled airline service, such persons, firms or corporations must be authorized by a certificate of convenience and necessity issued by the Civil Aeronautics Board of the United States or by an appropriate certificate of authority from a governmental agency, to provide such scheduled commercial airline service to the Municipal Air- port. The Commission is authorized and empowered to give permission and consent for the commercial use of the Airport under such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the Commission and it is authorized to negotiate and enter into contracts with such persons upon such terminal rental rates and other charges as the Commission may determine, and the payment of landing fees for scheduled commercial airline service as are hereinafter provided. (g) Such other powers as are reasonably necessary and incidental for the purpose of carrying out the express powers hereinbefore granted. Section 4-6. Landing fees and other charges. Any person authorized by the Airport Commission to provide scheculed commercial .airline service at the Airport shall pay to the City, through the Airport Commission, seventy-five cents for each landing on the Airport of an aircraft used in performing scheduled airline service. Each scheduled commercial airline operator shall file a statement, on or before the 10th day of each month, with the Airport Manager disclosing the total number of landings of the commercial carrier's aircraft on the Airport for the preceding month, the total number of passengers and the total amount, in pounds, of air freight transported by the carrier in the preceding month, and the Airport Manager shall then bill the commercial airline operator for the landing fees due the city, which shall be paid to the city prior to the first 'day of the next succeeding month at the rate mentioned above, together with any other charges and fees prescribed by the Commission and as provided in any agreement or contract between the scheduled commercial airline operator and the Airport Commission. All other fees and charges for commercial or other use of the Airport, for the occupancy of buildings owned by the City on the Airport, and for all services rendered at the Airport, either. by the Commission the Airport Manager or a fixed base operator, shall be determined and fixed by the Commission, either by express contract between the Commission and any com- mercial operator or business at the Airport, or by a sbhedule of fees and charges determined by the Commission which shall remain in effect and be lawful charges until disapproved by the City Council. # Section 3. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Passed Ge Approved CO c) __.,. t ea id f t e C it Apra or Attest: C y C k AMENDMENT TO HILL NO. 26 INTRODUCED BY COUNCILMAN: AMEND BILL ,NO. 26, SECTION 4-3 (f) BY STRIKING OUT ALL OF THE WORDS IN (f) , EXCLUDING SUBPARAGRAPHS (f) (1) AND (f) (2) , AND SUBSTITUTING IN LIEU THEREOF THE FOLLOWING: " (f) Any person desiring to enter into any business or provide any commercial services at the airport, shall make an application in writing to the Commission, through the Airport Manager, for permission to provide such commercial service, or to lease any property, or conduct any business on the airport, agreeing that if he is authorized by the City to provide commercial scheduled or non-scheduled airline service, to provide fixed base operation, to 'lease any property on the airport or to conduct any business on the airport, he will meet the following qualifications: " Passed Approved v ZO 7 esidAft of the Cou cil Mayor Attest: C y C er