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Home My Public Portal AboutAAC Minutes 1996 10/10THE CITY OF McCALL AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMITTEE MINUTES OF OCTOBER 10,1996 The meeting was called to order by Acting Chairman Tucker at 12:08 p.m. in the Toothman-Orton Conference Room above McCall Air Taxi. Members present were Tucker, Anderson, Saleen and Colburn. Absent was Chairman Fereday. Guests: Chuck Sundby Staff: Points Minutes of the September 4 and Special Meeting of September 18, 1996 were read and approved without any changes or additions. STAFF REPORTS: Chief Points showed the Committee a letter we had received from Dave Rickerson requesting quite alot of financial data. We are working on getting this compiled. Dale stated it was quite alot to do in a short period of time, but it is something we needed to do for further knowledge. Chief Points also informed the Committee that Dave Rickerson had written a letter to Cayla in regards to "through the fence operations". What is not on the agenda is Cayla's response back with a copy to Dale. Her letter makes it fairly clear, as Chuck had suggested earlier, that the FAA's feeling about "through the fence operations" are not very good. Infact, they "highly" suggest we don't do it. Chief Points informed the Committee that the Reil building is finally completely set up. Now they are in the beginning process of getting it certified. This should be a done deal as soon as it is authorized. At this point in the meeting Chairman Fereday showed up and took over. Chief Points informed the Committee that we have ordered all new items for the runway lights that have been missing. These items have arrived and are being put up. We also have new snow markers ordered. OLD BUSINESS: Chief Points and the Committee discussed a meeting Dale had with Church and Baird about the maintenance of the NDB and AWOS. The meeting went well. They were extremely interested in taking over the maintenance of both, completely. Infact, the NDB they would like it to become a federal facility and take over ownership of it. They also want to take over maintenance of the AWOS, which has been down for two weeks. We had a major malfunction and we have the parts to correct this, but they cannot technically work on it until we have a written agreement and that should be complete next week. They will maintain the AWOS until we get the ASOS, but as part of the package, they want to maintain the ASOS together with all of the communications to the mountain, the weather service, etc. If there are any upgrades or updates to the NDB they will take care of them at their expense, it will be their facility. Dale did not discourage this agreement. At this point Dale skipped down to Item A under new business (this is not listed because he did not have the information when the agenda was made). Dale discussed with the Committee that next week he is suppose to go to Boise and look at a tower. This tower has everything on it a tower needs to have including brand new radios. The only thing we have to do is build a trailer to mount it on and they have a contractor in Boise that has built a number of these trailers at a cost of $4,450. They will even haul it up here and we will have our very own tower. Dale has spoken to both Gary Shimun and Jim Henderson and they both said they would find the money if the Committee decided to do this. They will staff it, maintain the radios in it, the whole works. The tower itself is surplus, but the radios are brand new. Tom Tucker made a motion that we recommend this to the Council, this was seconded and the vote was unanimously in favor of this. Tucker made a suggestion that on the maintenance agreement on the NDB that Ted Burton put in a provision that in the event the FAA decided to disestablish the NDB's in the Country that McCall would want to have it returned to us. Dale informed the Committee that the pre construction meeting for the ASOS has been changed to October 30th at 1:30 pm here in the conference room. These are the people that actually do the cement and ground work for the ASOS. Chuck Sunby first gave Mike Anderson a brief summary of where we are with AIP 6 as he plans to do for the City Council tonight at the Council meeting, since Mike was unable to make the last special meeting of September 18th. As discussed at the special meeting, he met with Jerry Trujillo, Sandy Simmons and Cayla Morgan when he was in Seattle. He felt it was a very positive meeting. Chuck presented to them how we want to change AIP 6 and asked them if they would support moving ahead with this in 98 or 99. Jerry Trujillo said he would support what we want to do, but we have to do one thing, which is deal with the safety area problem. If we go in and do some grading and do a relocated threshold, even though he knows it's temporary, we have to put it into the project because they agreed to fund this project based on the fact that we have done runway work previously. If we shift to something lower in priority we can all get called on the carpet for it because we are getting money for low priority work when there are other airports that are asking for work on their runways. Jerry also mentioned that we should encourage the board and the community to start aggressively working on the land acquisition and get it tied up as soon as possible because it relates to safety areas and they will get it in for reimbursement. So when we visit with the City Council about this, we need to state that we would like to do this as a FY 98 project because if we start to move on it now, we could get reimbursement back into the budget prior to September 30, 1998. This lead into a lengthy discussion as to whether to buy just enough land to put the new road in, which is .7 of an acre, or buy the entire 1.76 acres. Originally the thought was to buy it all because this would leave a reasonable area to put the new fire station, which would leave one more piece of property on the airport for lease and it would still keep the fire station in the proximity of the runway which would make the FAA happy. Chuck doesn't feel the FAA would go for acquiring the whole piece because the main purpose if the fire station and it not mandatory for the airport. There was a motion to recommend this phase of the project as purposed to the City Council. This was seconded and unanimously agreed on. Merrill Saleen presented to the Committee what he found out, after making many contacts, as far as how the Forest Service can participate in this project. Since the project is not for operational maintenance and is for construction and improvements to the airport, which they do not have the authority to spend money on, the only thing the Forest Service can do is apply for a grant through the Valued Organization, which they are a member of. The process schedule to apply for this grant is a request comes out in January, submit it by April, the grants are awarded in June of '97, and the money would be available for use in 1998. Merrill is not very optimistic about this, but it is worth a try. Merrill also brought up the fact that we have an opportunity as an Airport Advisory Committee and as a local organization to develop our own value type organization. This could include the City of McCall, the Airport Advisory Committee and the Forest Service as participating members and have our own program that would be long standing and could deal with multiple projects. Dale mentioned that the Fire District could also be a participating member and that would tie everything together. Merle will pursue this on our behalf, but first he feels we need a letter from each participating member requesting that assistance. The Committee discussed the fact that as of a month ago the City had not applied for it's share of the 1995 tax collect from the County. Lee gave Henderson a call and requested that we apply for this money so the County could expend it before the end of the fiscal year. Now that we are in a new fiscal year, it was mentioned "let's not wait so long!". Dale is going to give a presentation to the County Commissioners, after the first of January, with the new Commissioners, as to what we have done and how this has assisted and benefited them in terms of new revenues. NEW BUSINESS: There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 1:37 pm V- Rick Fered Chairman y