HomeMy Public PortalAboutAAC Minutes 1998 06/23AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMITTEE
SPECIAL MEETING MINUTES
June 23, 1998
The Airport Advisory Committee meeting was called to order in the Toothman-Orton office
conference room on the second floor of McCall Air Taxi's building at 4:33 p.m. Persons present
were Rick Fereday, Tom Tucker, Mike Anderson, Merrill Saleen and Gene Heikkola.
Gene Heikkola presented the Committee members copies of the draft budget proposal for 1998-
1999 (attached) and the members present began reviewing the revenue figures. The first item
questioned was the $28,120.00 shown as item 337.000, "County Airport Levy". Gene explained
that these figures had been revised as a result of his and Rick Fereday's visit with the Cascade City
Council the previous evening. Since they had been reluctant to adopt the new agreement on how
funds were to be split until they were assured that the County Commissioners would raise the levy
to a sufficient level to guarantee that Cascade airport would not receive less money than they
currently do, which none of us wanted to see happen, the figure shown reflected the negotiated
split assuming the Commissioners would raise the levy from the present mill rate of .000016383
to .00003. That alone would represent a 70% increase, so the consensus was to leave the figure
at the present $11,960.00. If the County Commissioners do raise the levy, then we have more
money in the bank.
The next item of discussion centered around separating operations and capital improvement
revenues. The committee would like to see a new paragraph heading for Capital Improvement
Revenue, with line items for Federal Grants and State Grants.
Item 442.000, Professional Services was questioned as being too high. Mike Anderson and Tom
Tucker brought up the memo that the City Manager wrote explaining how this figure was a
proportion of the management overhead split according to the size of the department budget.
Since our last year's budget was roughly $2 Million including capital expenditures, and this year's
budget is on the order of $120,000.00, ten percent of last year's figure was deemed reasonable,
and another $4,000.00 was added, bringing the total for this line item to $8,000.00. Tom Tucker
made a motion to amend the figure, and Mike Anderson seconded. The vote carried
unanimously.
Item 459.000, Repairs, Buildings & Grounds came up when Mike Anderson asked if we couldn't
get the items broken out for "Runways", "Taxiways", "Lights", "Radio", and "Other" categories.
The consensus was that this would greatly help identify where the money goes
Item 460.000, Repairs, Automotive (PW Vehicles) was the next item of discussion. Mike felt
that this item didn't belong in our budget because we didn't have any automotive equipment.
Some discussion ensued about having Public Works include their maintenance costs in the Public
Works transfer that comes out of item 461.000 Rick Fereday moved and Tom Tucker seconded
that we zero this item out and move the funds into 461.000. The motion carried unanimously.
In a similar manner to item 459.000, Mike requested that item 461.000 be broken down into
"Snow Clearing Operations", "Sweeper Operations", "Airfield Light Repairs", and "Other"
categories, and all agreed that sounded like a great idea.
The issue of the Airport Manager's salary came up when Mike noted that there were no benefits
included in the "Personal Services" category. Some discussion followed when Tom Tucker asked
if Gene had obtained the information he requested earlier about rules governing benefits and
contractor vs. employee status. Gene presented the information requested along with a guideline
chart of the IRS 20-factor control test he had obtained from the accounting dept. It was apparent
from IRS information that his status was that of an employee, not an independent contractor and
Mike observed that IRS could collect significant penalties if the situation was not corrected. He
moved, Tom Tucker seconded, and the vote carried unanimously to change the Airport Manager's
status to city employee and include full benefits.
Tom Tucker then addressed the salary figure. Tom stated that the Airport Advisory Committee
had originally intended to offer the Airport Manager $24,000.00 per year when he was hired last
October, but the budget would not allow that. Tom moved, Mike Anderson seconded, and the
vote carried unanimously to increase the Airport Manager's salary to $24,000.00 per year.
Having resolved all the budgetary issues and arrived at a balanced budget, the meeting was
adjourned at 5:50 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Airport Manger
Approved:
Rick Fereday, Cjzair