 So between the three commissioners attending remotely and the two in person, we have five commissioners that constitutes a quorum to that effect to call the meeting to order at 4.05 p.m. The first item on the agenda is the agenda. Do I hear a motion to approve the agenda as proposed? I move we approve the agenda as proposed, Allen, really. Thank you, Allen. Is there a second? Jeff Schulman, second. Thank you, Jeff. Any discussion on the agenda? Hearing none, all those in favor adopted in the agenda is presented. Please signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? We have an agenda. Item three is public form. Is there, there's somebody in the lower quarter of the screen. I don't know who. You do have someone joining us. Okay, perfect. Yeah, there's somebody here in person and it looks like there's a couple of folks digitally. Yeah, okay. Ashley Adams, looks like she just raised her hands. A Collin Morrison and a Jenny Diary. Okay. Yeah. Great. Looks like Ashley and Collin have raised their hands. So I'm going to allow them to talk one at a time. Perfect. All right. Ashley should be able to talk. Okay. Can you hear me? Yes, we can, Ashley. Okay, great. Hi, my name is Ashley Adams. I own a manufacturing business in South Burlington and I rent to 14 families in the Chamberlain neighborhood. I'm here today because I'm disgusted by the callous remarks that I heard from commissioners at the last airport commission meeting. Shame on you for laughing about the climate emergency for making a joke of how Nick Longo could start selling snow to Sugarbush. The unfettered airport expansion that you support contradicts what every climate scientist is urging us to do, which is reduce and eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from every source. Expansion is there for a better future and has always been a part of working with us. These are the people who pay the cost of the climate. Ashley, you're breaking up. It's really hard to hear you. We're just getting every other word. I'm sorry, yeah, it sounds like it can actually be for sometimes if you stop and you want to try typing to her and just sign up. So I was just going to try to sign back on. Gotcha. Okay, so we'll circle back to Ashley if she pops back on. Yeah. Okay, I'm going to allow Collin to talk. Hi, Collin. Hi, can you hear me? Yes. Yes, we can. Great. Hi, everyone. Yeah, I just wanted to say that I know the commission has been recently discussing some airport expansion plans. I would argue that your charge at this point is to be stewards of the existing resources that we have. We had this conversation last year with the proposed expansion into the Chamberlain neighborhood in South Burlington. We know that at this point, expansion of the airport's footprint would likely necessitate removal of land for other purposes, notably housing in a time when that's a sincere need that our city has. So I understand that the airport commission and the airport in general has kind of a goal of growth, but I think that's at odds with what our city needs at the moment. So I would urge you to reconsider that goal. Thank you. Thank you, Collin. Ashley, you're back online, so I'm going to allow her to talk. Okay. Okay, so perhaps if you can hear me, you can tell me the best way to get my comments, my written comments to you. So we hear you perfectly clear if you want to try again. Oh, okay. That's great. I'm on a train. And the goal that I could go out again, I'm not sure where you stopped hearing me, but I'll pick up where I think you may have, or that may have happened. So we are living at a time of intense human suffering. People around the world who bear no responsibility for the climate emergency are losing their livelihood, their homes, even their lives, so that we can continue to live highly privileged lives that we lead and hop on a plane whenever we'd like. Many children are experiencing mental health crisis due to despair and hopelessness in the face of the climate emergency. Dispatch of climate emergency and not all of that. It's not all of us, we're not all of us, we're not all of us. All right, yeah. You want to hear again? You want to put it in the chat that she's going to use in her comments? Yeah. Ashley, if you have access to the chat feature, you want to send us your comment that way. Unfortunately, it just, you lost the signal again. Okay, well, it says chat is disabled. Okay, I can provide a cue to rectify this. Or you can email as well, and we can share that with the commission. In conclusion, Chair George, whatever you want to do, there's a couple of options here. Sure, either way, Ashley, I'll defer to you. If you want to email the commission, I believe all of our email addresses are on the website, correct, Nick, the airport website? Correct. Yes, so you can certainly email us that way, Ashley, or if you want to type it in the chat while the, when Hannah gives access, either way, we will definitely review what you have to say. I will go ahead and email everyone that I think that's the easiest thing to do. Okay, fair enough. Thank you. All right, thank you. I think we're good. We can work with you a little bit, but at least that's true of the city council. Yeah, no, you're right. I just want to let me know and take your comments, because they're lost, unless you're reading. That's right. Yeah. But, so, Tim, what we're just talking about is it's very hard with the chat feature of Zoom to actually recapture any of this. So the best option is to email. Okay, perfect. If you or any of the commissioners, if there is any comments, and then we can also post them at our next meeting, if that's something the commissioners interested in. Okay, thank you. Thank you for that clarification. It also looks like you have an additional person joining us, Dan Castri-Castrodona. And Jen, what would you like to talk? Oh, yeah, he does. All right, I'm gonna allow Shed to talk. Hi, everyone. I'm Jen Ricardi. I'm just with Dubois and King, and I'm just here to listen and find out what you guys have going on. Thank you for joining us, Jen. Thanks for having me. All right, and I will get person for Dan to talk. Hi there. My name's Dan Castrigano, and I was recently made aware of some of the comments that were made at the airport commission meeting last month, and talking about endless expansion in a climate emergency is one thing which we can't do. But then cracking jokes about selling snow to Sugarbush, when you're in charge of the airport and airplanes melt snow is callous and irresponsible. I'm a climate educator. I work with kids. I'm with my son right now, but I work with kids. And just hearing your comments is just incredible. Like I sort of was flabbergasted when I saw them. And then at the end, laughing about the decades of time it's gonna take to properly mitigate for noise when there's robust data on kids to learn worse because of aviation noise, cardiovascular health is worse, there's PTSD from veterans, there's immigrants and refugees when they hear aviation noise, they are traumatized because of their fleeing from conflict and war. And just everybody having a good laugh about that at the end of the meeting was just, I don't know, I'm kind of left speechless because it was so irresponsible and unprofessional. And I wanted all of you to hear that. Thank you. Thank you, Dan. Okay, I think we've heard from everyone. Yeah. Yeah, we're talking to the top. She's not good. She's good at everything. I think that's it, Dan. Okay, so no one else? All right, thank you. So we'll close down on public forum. Thank you for your comments, everyone. Next up is the consent agenda. Do I have a motion to approve the contents of the consent agenda as proposed? I will approve the consent agenda as presented. Do I hear a second? Second. Jeff Shulman. Thank you, Jeff. Helen Bailey, the motion. Okay, any discussion on the consent agenda? If I may, Tim, there's just a couple of things I want to point out. There is no document on the agenda. We'll post that as soon as we can. Okay, I was going to ask about that. With the final numbers for the month of February, as soon as we get them, we're just obviously collecting the final pieces of the month. We're again not quite there with passenger numbers prior to COVID compared to today. We are, however, this week in particular, extremely busy. I think folks are very eager to travel. One of the indicators, as Marie's going to point out later in our financial report, is our parking garage is extremely full, maximum filled right now. We've actually had tremendous help from the many employees of the airport. We've asked them to relocate. We typically allow employees to park within the parking garage during the winter months. However, we have no more space in the garage because this week in particular is a holiday or school vacation travel week. So very excited to accommodate that. We have our spring and summer schedules starting to kick off. Specifically, United Airlines is starting to use our brand new gate nine area, which is in the upstairs level of the terminal integration project. They're gonna be starting to use that tomorrow, I believe, with one of their main line, either Boeing 737 or an Airbus sized aircraft, which is fantastic news. So again, we're not quite there with pre-COVID numbers as far as passengers are concerned. But again, as I reported over several months, we're getting there. We're climbing into those future numbers. Our freight is also climbing. One of the things that Larry might share later on, I'm sure, is a new grant application that we're going to be putting in this year for a design of a new cargo ramp facility because again, our freight, and we track this by pounds is increasing. And right now we have two carriers that come to the airport. We have FedEx, and this is also reported on the passenger and statistics, our passenger and operational statistics strategy. And we had Wiggins Airways who contracts with both FedEx and UPS. So a high demand for additional cargo operations out of the Burlington Airport. And we want to be prepared for that operation. I still, I'm going to add a section to this report as well because our operations, number of takeoffs, number of landings, if you recall at past meetings, our operations are still extremely high, over 100,000 operations per year. We are now the busiest airport in the Northeast outside of Boston, Logan, on the number of operations landings and takeoffs at the Burlington Airport, which is going to continue into the future. The demand is here, and we're ready to serve our passengers. Great, thank you, Nicole. May I ask a question? Yeah, go right ahead, Helen. No, I'm really, I'm just curious. It's related to the garage being fulfilled. And I'm just wondering, I understand the larger planes coming in, which means more people potentially a need for more car, a parking space. So I'm just curious about, are we right-sized with the parking garage or, or not? Will that be as we get bigger planes coming in? I think that's absolutely something that we need to start studying. This is an anomaly week for sure. It's pretty consistent. Yeah, I understand that. But similar to what we've talked about in the past, where we have our peak hour demands, whether it's through TSA or at a particular holding space or a gate area, those hour period of time can be extremely busy. Granted, it's not just that hour in the parking garage, it's that fluctuation in the time somebody is actually traveling. So I think there definitely needs to be a study of, is this the right-sized parking garage? I think it is. I don't want to, I don't, I definitely don't want to jump to any conclusions. I think there's alternatives that we need to put in place for contingencies like this. Yeah. Well, that would be good. I mean, I'm not proposing that we build another parking garage or go up another couple of levels, but we need to have some alternatives. That's right. That continues because then people really get annoyed. That's right. And even if we have 5%, 10% of parking available, it's still very difficult to find that actual parking spot. You're still certainly going to take some time to go through the garage. So that also needs to be a consideration of affordable capacity, right? Luckily, we've had some contingencies. We started planning for this a couple of weeks ago. Started moving around some of our different folks that park, typically park in the garage, including our own staff. And yeah, we're busy, we're full, which is great. It's going to drop down next week once everybody's back home, but it's not going to be any different for April vacation. Right. Thank you. Commissioner, is there any other conversation on this topic? All right. I have a couple of things. So on the parking deck, two things. One, I know that we close off parking on the ramp as well as the uncovered third floor. Is that, for this week, is that still the case that that's a no parking zone? It is not. And we opened that about a month ago. Okay. And then our numbers were climbing. So the third floor parking deck has been open about 30 days, which is unheard of. We typically have not opened that up this early in the season. There's some operational and snow climbing concerns. Exactly. Opening that. But it is fully open. All of our ramp spaces are open. We just opened our last wrap last night or this week. Yesterday. Yesterday. And we also opened up additional overflow lots, oversized vehicle and overflow lots for additional folks as well. Okay. And then I guess we've never had this issue before, but if someone is attempting to park and they're taking their ticket, is there functionality that will say that the garage is full? Not on the screens. We were doing a large social media campaign and a large campaign that was on the news last night speaking about it as well to advise folks that it is busy, arrive early so that you can accommodate the time it takes to park or there's alternative ways of getting into the airport. I want you to drive to the airport. I want you to use the parking garage. But again, we are very full. Our pastor team led by Marie is also very much in tune with this. So a lot of times we'll have multiple folks in the garage. We'll either be guiding somebody with available parking spaces. There is still a couple of spaces on the fourth to fifth levels as well as direct home calls to our ambassador team. So if you do go in the garage, you can't find a parking garage and call our ambassador team and they'll help you guide the 192 additional parking outside the garage. We had our ambassadors, if anybody's come by the airport and you may even notice, you'll see that somebody with the yellow vats has been standing in the entranceway of the garage and we had multiple people in the garage that were, it was almost, I felt like if I had to describe like an event, like telling people where to go. And then as we opened up the ramp yesterday and as we had other parking, when we know people were coming off the floors, we had ambassadors at our station that were able to direct the traffic. So it was very much appreciated. They got a lot of positive feedback. This is something that's sort of above beyond what we would normally need to do. But even that it's harder or tighter, it just felt like the best that we could do to serve our customers. So they were outstanding. I mean, I'm very proud of the team for their hard work. Great, that sounds good. I just want to make sure that in the long run, we have something in place where if there literally are no parking spaces left in the garage that we don't have a bunch of people driving around trying to find something that doesn't really exist. Right. We're monitoring those numbers in real time. So, and we're monitoring as planes are coming out. And so we're keeping close tabs on that exact number so that we can have a best solution and handle. We don't want anybody to be leaving the airport and not have a place to park. We are not letting that happen. So we are finding places for people and finding a way for them so that they can, they can, you know, if they're here to fly out, that they are getting a spot to fly out. We also have hired some contractors to help move some snow around so that there also is additional parking spots typically where we stage or pile snow. Thankfully, you know, this year's been a somewhat of a mild year. So our snow piles typically, that we typically have are as large but we're able to kind of shift those around a little bit to open up additional spaces outside the parking garage. Got it. Okay. Thank you. And then the last thing which has nothing to do with the garage but going back to the minutes from last month, it actually notes that I was a present member on the minutes and I was not present. So I would like to have the minutes be updated from February to remove me from the member's present list. So hearing no other conversation, I would move that we, I would call the question, except modify the question such that the agenda be modified as proposed. All those in favor of approving the contents of the consent agenda, including the modified minutes of February's meeting, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? And the completes consent agenda. Next up is item five, construction update from Larry. Good afternoon, everybody. First of all, I'd like to say, I heard the word expansion thrown around. At this time, we are not really, we are not expanding off the immediate airport footprint with exception to the beta facility, which is an electric aircraft manufacturing facility and all the sound insulation projects we're doing in the area. Any projects with regard to expansion, they are expansion of our terminal, but they're replacing other areas which is going to make for ease in a more safe environment for our passengers and our aircraft on the airfield. So I just wanted to clarify that before we got going. So the few things I got to update, John, from last month or the parking garage, I did report last month that we're moving forward with electrical upgrade, lighting and fire alarm. We are progressing through, when COVID hit, we were going to be replacing the expansion joints in the parking garage. Some of them where there's water leaking down through, we are moving forward to get that project re-bid. We're also, if you've been in the parking garage, our stairwells need some serious work. There's humidity issues in their falling apart. So they need to be fixed. So that'll be part of that. And we've got a couple of beams that need to be repaired. So that is in progress of the design and getting out bid. Also to report on the residential sound insulation program, I have to report that we are pretty much finished design of 54 homes. There might be one that might be backing out, so it might only be 53. Those plans have gone through the FAA for their review. And we anticipate being out to bid by late March. We're also going to host a construction workshop. And we're going to break, rather than going out with one bid package for 53 homes, we're going to break it into two and go out the bid. So we can hopefully get the local contractors to get interested. And we're going to have a, along with that pre-bid, we're also have another meeting to invite a bunch of contractors in to get them interested. And that's going to happen, I think March 29th or something around that area there. So we are designed, we're in the midst of going out to bid for those 54 homes for sound insulation, sound insulation for the phase one. And I think you'll notice I relabeled them and read different phases because the FAA is looking at this different. So we're going to move towards there, the way they're phasing this project. So phase one will become phase two, the pilot program will be considered phase one. And then the next, well, when I get to it, the next year's project will be phase three or this next year. The South apron, we're awaiting issuance of the grant before that can be constructed, which will add to our general aviation apron area, which is also adjacent to the electric aircraft manufacturing facility. Nick already touched on the cargo apron. We will be applying for design only grant for the cargo apron. For the SRE building and new maintenance facility, again, will be built on within the fence, the existing fence of the Silling Knot into any neighborhood. The SRE building on airport property, the SRE building, we have done some preliminary conceptual stuff and cost analysis. And it's looking good to move into the next portion, which is scoping with the FAA, which is scheduled within the next two weeks. We'll be doing that. That scoping will lead to a full scope to do full design and bidding of that new facility. Burlington Tech Center, we've been working with them. They are gonna receive a $10 million grant to improve facilities here on the airport. So we're working on that. The Runway 1533 improvements project, we have done scoping with the FAA and move forward with design and scope. So for that project, which is just fixing existing facilities, airport payment plan update, airfield payment plan update, that's just a review of the condition of all our payments. So we can evaluate moving forward over the next several years when we have to do rehabilitation of those payments, both Runways, Aprons, Taxiways, and so forth. Noise reuse plan, there was one done years ago, but since that was done, there were some other properties that were acquired. So that just needs to be updated for requirements. And we are doing scoping with the FAA on that right now. And then the residential sound insulation program phase two, which is now gonna be called phase three, we are gonna apply for the money by May 1st for a grant to do those 54 homes, home improvements for sound insulation. And in that grant application will be the next design and bidding amount to the next homes we do for the next year. And anybody hasn't noticed a beta not only building their electric aircraft facility, they're also building a new hangar on the Valley West Apron. That's going on. If you guys are interested in going out right around, there's a lot going on out there. That's it for me, Tim, unless you have anything else. Are there any questions? For Larry? I have a question. In terms of the noise mitigation project, is there a point where they'll go back and evaluate whether what they've done to the homes actually is making a difference before we keep going through with all of the homes? That's the requirement. Once it's done, the decimal level gets checked to make sure we're meeting those requirements. Similar to how we did that acoustical testing in the beginning of the project where we had interior out here and what the difference is with the current materials, we're going to do the same thing. Because there is a lot of money. I mean, just to keep plowing along and doing stuff that's really nice, I have some new windows. And remember the goal here is to meet those federal requirements, which is the interior noise level of less than 45 decibels. I also had another question. This just is the, I think it's in this, the noise, what do you call it? Report, no, the map, the new map. Have we reached out to the community to let them know when, I was just asked that and I didn't know. Not yet, not yet. But I know Hannah and Larry and our consultant team, both with the HMMH and the New York Spain group are putting together a draft list of new technical advisory committee and regional advisory committee so that we can start the invitations and reaching out to those communities to see, did we miss anybody? Do we want to add anybody? Yeah, that's what it looks like the last time. So we want to make sure that each community, the regional planning committee, those folks are involved. We have that full list. We're just scheduling now, probably later March, we'll start having our first meeting to the tech meeting and all that type of stuff. Excellent, okay, thank you. Because they're not just the noise insulation project, the noise exposure map is coming online or being produced this calendar year. And the, what am I missing? The noise use and reuse plan also has to be updated this year. Thank you. Good. Another question. And Steven, talking about the parking garage you were mentioning that you're gonna start doing the some different maintenance because of COVID puts you back. When a parking garage such as this is built, what's the life expectancy? And is there any free budgeted ongoing maintenance funds that are set aside knowing that it's gonna have a lot of wear and tear? I have a good answer, but Marie probably has it better. We do have a long-term maintenance program with so much money each year. So Marie, you wanna talk about what we have for a plan? Right, and I mean, it is a long-term asset. And one of the things that we have when we work with the Confederation of Reviewers goes he put together a schedule and they put together a schedule for us to follow for like doing all sorts of maintenance. We are updating a little bit to tweak it because we got a little bit behind with COVID and trying to figure out, make sure that we are depressed like it's worse. But that plan helps us to maintain and keep this infrastructure solid and safe and the long-term structure. How long will it last? I don't think we have a plan for replacing that at this time but because it would be out in decades. But when it was built to the contractor say this is a 15-year structure and you wanna have the demanding for 15 years that's falling apart sooner than it was planned. I don't know about when it was built, maybe six or so years ago we did put together a capital plan for the next 50 years. Granted, 50 years is a very long time and it can change. We may not be using cars, but we might not be using cars. So that's exactly another part of the conversation of the expansion or the growth of the airport and maybe I don't use the word expansion although we are expanding, we are expanding. To meet the needs of the technology, the customer, the demand. And to understand it may look different in 10 years and it looks different. How often does the parking garage get a safety inspection? Multiple times a year, but a major one annually with both our insurance company and our engineering folks. So we got a review, but yeah, we respond. I'm sure you're aware of the places where it's looking pretty. Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah. So what happened is we actually had a contractor under contract when COVID hit and then they couldn't come into the state just addressing some of that stuff. So that set us back. So we're doing, we had that project designed, bid, ready to go, no contractor to get in here. Right, we had a, we had a contract before you could even like do it. It was, it was that logistically happening. Which is why there's not a choice this year to spend this two plus million dollars in the capital improvements or the necessary improvements out there, plus going back to what we were trying to do a couple of years ago and get that in place with joints and those types of things. And, you know, I mentioned the stairwells and I saw you shaking your head, but also some of the other stuff you're seeing on the lower levels, that is the next step. I mean, sandblasting, you know, all that type of stuff. So that will be the next one when we get these move forward. So this year and then next year. Thank you. All right, commissioners, anything else for Larry? All right, Larry, thanks for your report. Thank you. Next up is item six, the financial update from Marie. Hi, Marie Friedman. And this month you have the December, I've got information for December for our revenues or expenditures as well as the December recovery model. And then for the cash, our receivables from our grants, I've got that updated through January 31st. Those information is where it's available. We did draw down some money for operational. We got some reimbursement money under the CRISA grant and under the ARPA grant. So we are with some of these, even though we're doing very well with our revenues, we know that we're spending more on some repair and maintenance stuff, specifically in the garage, but also on some other areas. We're spending more on repair and maintenance. We're trying to, these are planned things and we're going ahead and doing that. So we are able to sort of strategically look and cover qualified expenses, specifically like salaries and things we're able to use these stimulus grants for it. It's very helpful for managing all of such projects. We do not owe any money on the grant anticipation note. In fact, we're still, I think we're still waiting for that grant anticipation note to close with a bank. It's taken longer, but we have not needed to draw down. We have not had any cash flow issues whatsoever. In fact, quite the opposite, but we will have that grant anticipation note in place and it will be available so that if we need it as we have some grants that we're waiting on and decide that we would like to draw down on it, we will have that option. Our year date revenues through November, almost $15 million, $14.8 million. That includes what I just mentioned, we did draw down some of the, about 1.75 million on the grants than stimulus funds. If I exclude that money for a second, our operating revenues were $3.1 million higher year to date. So for the first six months of this year compared to last year. So just, this is what we expected, but I think we're even doing a little bit better than what we expected in terms of our revenue recoveries. And these are good, that's good information. And I think the airport recovery model still, it's still very interesting. I like that to look at that and see where things are heading. The CFCs, the car rentals are really much better than we could have anticipated, but the recovery of our other revenues are continued to do very, very well. Parking garage revenues for the first six months compared to pre COVID, which was July through November, 2019, which was, that was a peak year for us actually at that point, our 101% of those revenues. So our garage continues to perform. And I just looked this morning and figured that in February, February compared to 2019 garage revenues, this past month was 106% of that. So our revenues are very strong in the garage. It makes sense since we're seeing the activity and traffic in there. Our expenses through, oh, I didn't change that. Our expenses through December, it says here in November, we're $7.7 million. It is higher, some of that is higher because we are now operating the QTA, which last year had just opened in November and late October. So we have some of our, we have fuel expenses. We purchased the fuel, but then the car rental companies reimburse us. So those are, those are, you know, it's really a little bit of a timing, but it's almost the same, the revenues expenses, but we have other operational expenses that we have with the QTA that we never had before. So those are going to make our expenses look a little bit higher, but we are getting reimbursed either from the CFCs or covering a lot of the operational, the utilities and the fuel costs are reimbursed directly from the car rental companies. We are also seeing some expenses increasing with related to salaries to overtime. Repairs and maintenance was another area that over last year that we're seeing that and salaries, we did have an increase and with a COLA overtime, we just were very short staff. It would not that we're short staff, but our staff are doing a lot right now in terms of covering a lot of extra things and just to keep the airport safe and keep it open. And so we are short staff. We are still, we are. I mean, we have minimized that. Right, we have then, certainly, you know, from the administrative office, it's been very short staff, but that doesn't affect the overtime because we are not paid overtime, but the, the thing is- Unless you want to change. No, no, no, no. I mean that in a joking way, actually, but like we've been not able to 100% fill the ambassador roles, you know, we've had some other areas that we've been, so it does in fact result in overtime if I have to have ambassadors covering, you know, 88 hours where I don't have people filling those jobs and then vacations. The good news is, as we speak right now, I have an ambassador that we just offered a job to and they've accepted, except they are trying to find housing, so they're up here this week to find housing. They're moving out of the state. Moving from out of state to take this job and he's downstairs right now shadowing our ambassador because he's up for the week and we have somebody coming at five that applied in this good candidate for a part-time position, so we may very well in a few weeks be at full staffing for ambassadors, which we haven't probably had since COVID. I don't even know the ones that we've had. So that, that will be very good for all of them. They work incredibly hard, so if you see them, just smile and say hello and thank them for what they do. Very proud of their hard work. Our cash is on as of the end of January with 5.8 million dollars. Hold it again, as I explained, it's holding very strong. Our cash flow is very solid. We don't have to worry about paying bills in a timely fashion and, you know, our cash levels are very healthy for us and I'm happy to report that and our airport receivable, our grants receivable is just under five million dollars. So we did get a couple of big payments. Taxiway G phase two, we got a pretty sizable about $1.7 million reimbursement in February for that one or I guess the end of January. So we have, we're doing well and I'll entertain any questions that you may have on any of this or any of the line items. I do have a question. Helen really, looking at all the stimulus grants summary. Yeah. So by April 5th, 2025, all of it, if I'm reading this correctly, will have to be spent. Yes. And so what, how comfortable are you that on April 6th will have, you know, the revenue and the resources in place to just keep going the way we're going? I think I'll take that back. I'm very comfortable right now. I mean, that gives us, we're in 2023. It gives us quite, quite, this money has been very instrumental in helping us manage it during great time of uncertainty. It almost feels unreal now as we're stepping back. But we had a lot of, as other businesses did, there was a lot of anxiety that came with managing all such issues and watching the number of flights and the customers using the airport just really overnight evaporates. So very unusual time, but across, you know, across the country we were similar. So this money has been very instrumental. We are doing exceptionally well and we are spending the money wisely. So we are taking into account as we are structuring like these electrical repairs that need to be done in the garage, you know, we're able to go ahead and tackle those and the fire line, we're able to go ahead and tackle them and get them done. And it's been really incredibly helpful for us. So I feel very confident that what I've seen on the recovery of the revenues and where revenues are trending that we are going to be well, well able to cover any and all of our expenses. So I think we're looking to probably finish up spending the stimulus money by the end of next fiscal year. That's right. So 2025 I think is a very long term goal. Of course, obviously that's the expiration of the grant. Right. I also share Marie's confidence and feelings especially with our guidance that we are very comfortable you know, finishing these grants well before 2025 really next fiscal year so that we can just seamlessly move on and work with the concessionaires. It's in news, for example, is up 140%. They still don't even have the staffing to open up all their stores. But there's still up 140%, 40%. We're right back where we need to be pre COVID. There is some volatility with that, right? There's the inner line schedule. There's the ups and downs of running in the airport. So we need to make sure that we're taking advantage of this grant funding, make sure we're catching up on this deferred maintenance that we really needed to catch up on. And that's not just parking garage. That's this building, that's the future stuff and accommodating. I think we had a great conversation last meeting about all of these grants coming down the pipeline, the big projects, the North expansion project, the projects that I'll start explaining a little bit later on, the North renovation project. There's local shares to that. So we need to make sure that we're fiscally responsible, moving beyond these grants as well. Okay, thank you. And that's all, we'll keep it updated. Mr. Zahary, anything else for Marie? All right, thank you, Marie, for your presentation. We'll move on to item seven, the noise data. This is Hannah's presentation. So from last reported in our January meeting, we had 25 additional comments. The graphs are keeping largely the very, very similar percentages between the comments associated via town and by aircraft type. We've also added on there the map of the, excuse me, the phase one of the map of Poland's, those specific designated areas. And we will keep that each meeting and we'll adjust as necessary. I think that's it. The only other thing that I'll add, Hannah, is we did include on here an excerpt from the noise exposure map back in 2019. And that is the heat map of our radar data. The reason I showed it in this map is we're trying to extract this data and put it onto, as we've talked about in the past, put it onto the noise comment map so that you can see where the comments are coming from and where the majority of flights, of course, are going over. And some of them do correlate. So there is some regular reporting both from a comment point of view as well as from a radar point of view. Not quite there yet. I have a PDF of both of these. We just have to figure out how to combine these maps with our consultants. But I wanted to give you an idea what that's gonna look like. Great, we'll look forward to that. Commissioner, is there anything else on this segment of the agenda? All right, we'll move on to item eight, which is the director's report from Nick. All right, I have a few things for you. Just a quick couple of updates more or less to elaborate on what Larry presented earlier. I didn't just want to give you a recap of the North renovation project happening moving on right now. This is the two-ish million dollar grant from the FAA to renovate the North wing of the airport, the North concourse. Hudson News has officially relocated their store in the North. So they are no longer where they used to be. They are now temporarily set up as they go through some of their changes that they need to do based on this relocation. The relocation, again, just as a reminder, is because the new exit door is going exactly where Hudson News was prior to their relocation. And that door is gonna start being constructed over the next several weeks. The escalators are out. The floor is being completely renovated behind a construction wall. There's lots of temporary walls up. It does look a little tight in there right now, but once this project is completely opened up, it's going to be a very, very different seating area and experience for the past years, which we're all very excited for. There already is some improvements over there with some walls being removed and opened up and additional seating. Just a quick update on the project next, which is the North Expansion Terminal. That's the $34 million Congressional Directed Spending Bill. Thank you, former Senator Leahy. That bill, or excuse me, that project is in the design phase. I know we talked a little bit about it before we had an action item or a follow-up item that Jeff, you requested. We'll have our architects come in, probably next month I'm hoping that we can come in and share kind of a broader vision of that and some ideas of what this terminal will look like. This is March 2023. We're hoping to be out to bid by March 2024. So we have a long, long design process in front of us, but very exciting nonetheless. And like Larry was saying, it is a different experience. Maybe we'll call it the North Experience Terminal. It is a different experience for our customers where it's replacing existing square footage. Some square footage is being removed and some is being added to our existing term. I'm happy to report, I sent you all an email yesterday. It was in the news. Yesterday as well, the whole team really should be sharing this major, major accomplishment, but another new grant to the airport. This is probably the most competitive grant that we've ever saw since I've been here. And this is a $2.09 million grant to start the design of the South end of our terminal. We would not have been able to start this design and if we wanted to, this would have been an internal funding mechanism which we are not in a position to do on a discretionary project like this. But with this grant, we're able to, so that we're prepared after our North project is completed that we can roll right over into our South project as well and really start making the airport look like those images over there. Yeah, I'll just keep rolling right into the next one. We talked a lot about parking garage repairs. One last addition to that is when you go looking into the garage, you'll notice that the signage is a little bit old, the paint is a little bit old and albeit some of the materials are a little bit old as well, that needs some help. So we're not only improving it, we're improving the lighting, we're improving some of the safety features of it as well but we're also adding brand new signs and new way of finding. So this will be essentially a one-way garage. So it's less confusing where people are kind of configuring rates on a single floor. They're gonna go into a very methodical approach to the garage and start finding parking positions a little bit easier is what the theory is. It's complicated and complex garage but I cannot wait even for that little project to improve the experience. I spoke again earlier about the summer airline schedules. I love thinking about summer, I think we all do. I think Dave Karn especially does, he's been working incredibly hard with the snow crews and the snow teams and the operation teams but our summer schedules are up with the airlines, the planes are still getting bigger. We're bringing back a couple of destinations. Denver is starting up in just a couple of months. Some country is gearing up to start their service. United Airlines, like I said, is starting tomorrow at multiple positions. They'll have three mainland aircraft every night here between the Airbus and the Boeing series. It's gonna be a busy summer. I'm predicting that it will be one of our busiest summers that we've had in a long time. Maybe the history of the airport on it if we're lucky. With that, we're trying to encourage more growth of air service at the airport. The demand is very high for specific destinations. I'll let everybody guess which one of the major destinations is that we get the most comments on. It's a lot warmer than here in Ferdinand but yeah. Orlando, Florida, you've been down in the Florida region and it is on our top, really our top three destinations or yeah, destinations where past years go. I'm gonna be on the road with the team quite a bit over the next couple of months throughout the summer and into the fall. The airlines finally opened up their headquarters that we can now be in person at their headquarters. We do this multiple times a year so that we can sell here or we can encourage additional air service at the airport and grow our incumbent airlines but also encourage new growth with new airlines. There are a few new airlines that you might have seen in the news throughout the feast that I am very eager to continue our conversations with. And then the final piece is just another quick thank you to our staff, not just the folks in this room who are wearing multiple hats every single day. We've had lots of things pop up, lots of water issues and hikers first thing and winter issues and lots of busy times, not just in this terminal but throughout the entire airport all over the place. So thank you to the administration team, the leadership team, the operation team are just nonstop. The multiple snow crews that we have, if ever you do see them, please thank them because while it hasn't been necessarily challenging to, well I should say that it hasn't been as challenging as maybe some prior winters, especially with this kind of very large fall spring that we had, we didn't have a lot of snow piles which we typically do right now. So even in event like these last couple of days or the events coming up on this Friday with snow, it doesn't make it any easier for the crews that are out there 16 hours a day. So a lot of thank you for them and that's a lot of reason why we really haven't closed this winter at all, this runway, lots of projects going on. So as they're out there, this isn't their real primary duties out here, they're also facilities maintenance, they're working on HVAC systems, they're working on patching taxways and runways. So they're moving and making sure that everything is accomplished for a safe winter, safe spring, safe year ahead of us. And that's all I wanted is just to leave it with a big thank you and I'll leave it with that. All right, thank you. Tim, first of all, congrats, Nick and the team on that grant. That's awesome news. I think I'd mentioned earlier, I have to hop off. Okay, Jeff. But I will see you all in our next meeting. Take care. All right, thank you for coming today. All right, commissioners, any comments or questions for Nick? No, just cheers. Cheers. We are busy, we're hopping, we're excited. A lot of things going on. Yeah, that grant is amazing. Congratulations on that effort. Thank you. Thank you for everybody. And I do think to just underscore the things that Larry said in terms of these grants that are refurbishing or rebuilding this existing plan or adding to it in ways that make air travel safer. You know, the planes that wanna come in can come in and safely snuggle up to where they can let people off or get on. Those are, it is expansion, but it's, I think really important to our economy and the users of this airport. And while I am very sensitive of climate change and all that we need to do as a society and as a business, we also need to make sure that the people who live and work here can do that successfully. So I think you can continue to use the word expansion and we just need to, I guess, reiterate that it's not moving into the Chamberlain neighborhood. So mine has been drawn. Yes. The fence there. Good point. And it's really our existing footprint that we're trying to make more efficient and effective and user-friendly. And that's important to a lot of people. And sustainability is a very big part of that mission as well. You know, we're talking about a 1950s building that we're trying to renovate and work with and make sure that there's the best air movement in this building. The new building is 10 times better. The next building will be potentially geothermal energized and additional solar. So there's opportunities that we don't have in the existing building that we can't look at that responsibly. I mean, surely we're taking the position that nobody should fly because it uses too much carbon. But I just don't see that as a plausible pathway for the vast majority of people. I understand some people do and mine hats off to them, but they still use trains and buses. That's right. And we have a responsibility and a requirement, a federal requirement to make sure that we can accommodate. There's been hundreds of millions of dollars spent here with federal funds in the long, long period of time that we have that responsibility to make sure that we can accommodate the air travel if the demand is there. And that's exactly what we're going to do. All right, thank you, Nick. We move on to item nine, which is commissioner items. We didn't receive any advanced commissioner items, but if any commissioner has something they want to discuss, this would be the moment to do so. Tim, may I just say something? Sure. So this is my last week as a city councilor in Winooski. So I will not be, I'm not seeking reelection on time any day. So I think this will be my last meeting as an airport commissioner. So brief tenure, but... No, there's five more. Isn't it? No. Oh, that's right. This is March the last. And I discussed with the mayor, they're planning to try and do commission appointments with a new council configuration towards the end of March. And this is one of her priorities. So if she, either she or a new councilor will be serving on the commission at that time. But I didn't want to thank you all for welcoming me as a new commissioner, the extra time spent in explaining some of these big items at the beginning was really helpful and appreciate the work you're doing. So I just wanted to say thanks and let you know that that was coming. All right. Well, thank you, Jim. You know, you are a Winooski resident. So you can stay if you want to. That's true. That is true. That is true. All right. Thank you, Jim. Thank you, Jim, very much. All right. So move on to item 10, which is follow-up items. So 10.01 is the overlay of the flight pass. So we, I think we already talked about that. That'll stay on. I know you're continuing to work on the, on merging those maps together. So we will, we'll keep that on the list for next month. Item 10.02 is queue permits for taxis. Nick, you wanted to talk about that? I do. I don't have, I don't have an update for you from a legal standpoint, but my hope is that we'll have a better briefing for the commission to potentially make a determination to increase the number of queue permits that we allow at the airport. A queue permit being a taxi driver, a taxi company that specifically goes on a vehicle. Right now we currently sell 50 queue permits that are allowed out of the, out and into the Burlington airport. We've had a lot of, well, a lot of demands of passengers both in the parking lot. Those are also our taxi drivers as well, specifically in certain periods of time, mostly after 11, 12 PM. There's very few opportunities for a taxi driver. So my hope is to increase that number to hopefully accommodate additional competition in drivers for our passengers during that time slot. Okay. So we'll hold that for another month. And then we docked on 10.03 is the briefing on the North Terminal building. And I think we'll get into that in greater detail next month. Hopefully you'll be able to swing the architects to come in and have a conversation with us. That's my hope. I don't know what day April 5th is the next month's meeting. So I'm hoping we can break them in. We might not be ready for it. So it might be April, May timeframe that we'll have a much broader form of presentation of it. And this is for the North Terminal, yeah, let's get it. So that's follow-up items, unless anyone else has anything they'd like to add that came out of this meeting. All right. So then we move on to item 11, which is adjournment. I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. So moved. Moved by Helen. In a second. Moved by Jim. All those in favor of adjournment, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. We are adjourned. Thank you, everyone.