 All right, folks, I will call this meeting to order the Bronson Airport Commission at 4.08. First item is the agenda. I would like to move to accept the agenda as amended. And I've communicated to you number 5.04, a noise report but we can, I apologize, I did not catch 5.03 so we can discuss 5.03 and 5.04 at the same time. So that's my proposed amendment to the agenda. So move. I'll second that. Thank you. Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Next item is the public forum. Is there anyone in the queue or in the audience that wishes to address the commission? Mayor Lott, from When You Ski. Oh, I'm sorry. Mayor, you wanna speak to us? Go ahead. Yes, please. Thank you. Thank you for having me. When I joined your meeting back in December and we discussed the possible early change for a When You Ski seat on the commission, I made a statement that When You Ski is not seeking to revisit airport governance. Since that time, both of the representatives for the city of When You Ski have joined representatives from South Burlington in bringing back legislation that would study airport governance. So I wanted to make it clear to you all that that came as a surprise to me. In my two years serving as mayor, we have never had a discussion about seeking to change airport governance. It's not something that the city council has discussed wanting to engage in. So when that legislation came back up via my representatives, I didn't know that when I made that statement. I didn't know that they were thinking about that. And I want to recommit that city leadership in the city council, our priorities are home insulation, preserving homes and noise mitigation. So the MOU with Burlington working cooperatively with the airport, making sure we get that funding and we get our residents homes dealt with. That is the thing that we are focused on. Also the commission seat as a voice and a way to be involved. So I just wanted to clarify that for you here today. Okay, thank you. I'll relax the rules. Normally we don't get into a dialogue in the public forum. Does anyone want to address Mayor Lott on this issue or any other issue? I do. I just want to say, Mayor Lott, thank you for your words and also thank you for just having a straight up honest relationship with the airport and the city of Burlington. I mean, that's what this relationship, the MOU is about is being open, honest and direct. And I know when we talked, I told you about this, you were really, really concerned and you did something about it really quickly and you and councilor Paul and the mayor talked immediately. And I appreciate that a lot. And I know that you reached out to the folks in your community to find out what was going on. And I know you were caught off guard. And so I know that your words were sincere at the last meeting and I appreciate that. And I appreciate you coming today as well to talk about that and what happened. You only can be yourself and do the best you can. And I think you've done that in this case. And that really tells us that our relationship working with you is going to be great. So thank you. Thank you, Jean. Councilor Paul has joined the group. Councilor Paul, you wanna join in as we've relaxed the rules on the public forum allowing some sort of discourse. There's something you feel you wanna contribute? I don't know, I don't know, former president Keo. You never did that when you were council president. Carry on. Carry on. Thank you. Well, I just wanted to say and just wanted to come in at the beginning of the meeting to just mention that I did hear what Jean has said is absolutely correct, at least my understanding. And I know I do truly and fully believe that this was something that totally took the Winooski City Council and Mayor Lott by surprise and believe that in everything that she has said that she and the council are working collaboratively and cooperating with and cooperatively. And that's all we can ask for. We are committed, I believe the city is committed to doing everything we can to address the noise issues and to having what I understand to be a very good relationship right now that is the result of a lot of work and a lot of listening. And so I just wanted to say to you, Mayor Lott I was the sole sponsor of the resolution and created the charter change. Don't feel badly about that. I was glad to do it because I think that it's the right thing to do. And I'm not gonna say that I'm not disappointed in the fact that there are representatives from South Burlington and from Winooski who for whatever reason did not choose to engage with the airport about an issue that affects the airport. I think that's really unfortunate and just not the way that I thought that we all treated one another. But that being said, I am still very supportive of you having a seat on the airport commission because as I say, I think it's the right thing to do. And thank you for being here. I know that you feel badly and all I can say is please don't, I'm committed to it. The mayor is committed to it. And we will move forward with the charter change which I fully expect will be fairly overwhelmingly approved. So thanks and thanks for being here. Thank you, Councillor Paul. And I do wanna just make that commitment that I am committed to continuing to be transparent and collaborative even if in this moment, my city was not. The one thing, I was gonna say President Keoh, sorry, force I have it. The one thing I did wanna mention is that my understanding is that the city of South Burlington has signed the MOU and that we are, the city of Burlington, the next council meeting on the 19th of January is one that will be signed I'm assuming that you are going to be signing that sometime in the month of January or maybe you already have, is that correct? We are also doing it on Monday on the 19th. Okay, wonderful, thank you. Bill, can I just make a quick comment? The council, the South Burlington Council did not take a position on this governance issue, although we now have a council who is also a senator and he did note at a meeting that he was planning to introduce, I assume companion legislation in the Senate and he has also been assigned to transportation which is where that bill was sent in the house and I assume it will go to the transportation committee in the Senate if it moves. But that, I certainly and I think our council is committed to continuing the dialogue and moving forward with better communication and I think that's, and certainly supporting the addition of Winooski to the commission. I think that's very important. I know I missed the last meeting and it wasn't a unanimous decision but I believe that it's really important for enhanced communication and moving forward and working together with the sound mitigation and I think that's where South Burlington sits as well. As you know, Bill, legislators are free to do whatever they introduce whatever they would like. Thank you for saying that, Helen, because that's exactly right. They're independent of their constituency or whatever you want to call it. So there's nothing, no heartburn, Mayor, when things like that happen. But I wish this had been put on the MOU was put on the agenda. I mean, it sounds like there's some developments there that we all should have known about. But anyway, let's move on. Did I see Jeff on this one? I don't see anything. Jeff's on. Jeff, you want to take over? Unmute yourself or whatever Max Tracy would say. Okay, I don't hear from, all right, next item is the consent agenda. Somebody want to approve the consent agenda is presented and I want to make a clarification. I'll second. I'll second. Who said that? I moved it and Helen seconded. Okay, for clarification, the minutes that are 11 pages long are the item on the agenda for consideration at this time. I think hopefully that's clear. Anyone have any confusion with that? Okay, seeing none, all in favor of the consent agenda and the implements, I want to add to that Tim or Helen. I think my only question, the only question I had on the implements was I was curious, you know, the year to date traffic is down a little over 80%. I'm curious what the holiday traffic was like at the airport, if that improved at all. June, you want to respond to that? About the same percentages, Tim, and we did talk to our consultant on implements and I think Vermont is the worst in the country. You know, as far as implements and that tracks with COVID, you know, our COVID numbers. So, you know, by following the state rules, you know, we get the results of what's going on and that's exactly, believe it or not, that's our goal as public health right now and our numbers at the airport. If we were doing well, the state would not be doing well. So, you know, we're certainly not doing anything to increase it or encourage people to fly right now unless they have to. So, you know, we're well aware of our numbers. The good news is, is we did check on future numbers and, you know, all the aircraft that have been allocated to Burlington are allocated in the future for second, third quarter, if there's a need. So that's a really good thing for us and that was as fresh as last night. So, I'm happy about that, but the numbers are the numbers and it has nothing to do with performance as much as it does with the performance of COVID-19 in Vermont. Okay, thank you. Oh, any other questions on implements or the minutes? Seeing none, all in favor, seeing none, saying aye. Aye. All opposed, no. So ordered. Jeff, you want to take over? I see you on the screen, you want to take over? Jeff Munger? I think he said, go ahead, Bill. We did, okay. Next item are action items. The first item is a 5.01 FAA grant for terminal integration projects. You know, guys, I have emotions. I hate to be doping this, but I've looked at this and I've prepared the motions for these three items. So I guess I will move the recommend approval and forward to the city council for accepting a grant with the FAA and related contracts that are described in the letter of January 19th on this topic. I can second that. Right. I think this is a tremendous step forward for the airport, but don't let me describe it. Staff, Jean, or someone describe what this is all about. Shelby or Larry? Nick, actually, if you don't mind, Nick wanted to take the lead on this because he will be before city council. Okay, go ahead, Nick, Nick, where are you? Nick isn't there. Shelby, do you want to do it? Sure. So this is for the terminal integration projects that we are working with final design. And so this is primarily to, sorry, it's loading for me, but primarily to move forward with the acceptance of this with the understanding that we will bring forward final design to you all when we do have it. And the good news on this is we received a $10 million grant last year and we received notice that there will be an additional $5 million coming. So we'll have our full 90% for this project probably within the month. And so that's really good news that we'll be able to go from A to Z and wrap it up. So in that we expect that to finish up in 2022 and start in spring of 2021. And the match, we have the match? We do. Where does that come? Yeah, thank you for that question. Where's the match coming from? Gene, for our STP or whatever it is? Coming from South Burlington. They're donating it. Marie, you want to answer that? Sure. So the money's going to come, the local share, the 10% of the grant comes from a combination. We're going to be able to use each year we've been able to get about half a million dollars this year, the last few years from the state of Vermont. So that money can be used toward this grant. We also have some money that the airlines, we had a surplus back in fiscal year 2019 and they authorized us to instead of returning the surplus to the airlines that we could retain it and use up to $450,000 toward this particular project. So that's going to be a pretty good, between the two of them, that's going to be a significant portion of that match. And the rest of it, we'll just budget as we do for all grants. But that's a significant contribution toward those. Is the state kicking in anything on this? They, in the past on about $500,000 bill, they were doing a million, they cut back to 500. We hope they continue and are able to do the 500. Yeah, so. Do we know that now or is that? No, you never know anything with the state. So, I think we have to wait and see. I think they have a lot of commitments and a lot of issues that they're going to have to deal with. But since we are, we contribute about $30 million to them, you think they would want to continue to, give back a very, very, very small portion. This project will go over two fiscal, state fiscal years, so that will be helpful too. Okay, what I'm gathering is, this is all local airport money that is providing 10%, is that correct? I see Shelby nodding her head, so okay. Okay, all right. Any further questions from anybody on this issue? Are there any like schematic designs or this is what this authorization is? Now there are some designs. We've actually are through about ninth rendering. We started initially with an out-of-state firm that came in with making it look a little bit like a covered bridge. The committee that reviewed it wasn't happy with that. They wanted it more traditional and to have it looking a bit more like the building we have with more glass and maybe more beams looked to it and certainly having a good buffer of landscape in front of it too. So we are, is it seven, three vision, Larry? What are we at? Yeah, we did actually six scenarios. We're now on the sixth and final one. So Nick could share it or we could forward those, you know, you know, tonight or tomorrow morning. We're just not there yet with that to give you but it's looking a lot better than it did and it doesn't look like a covered bridge anymore, which I think is really appropriate. So we probably will have something, I would say within a month and we'll share it with you as soon as we have it. Great, love the sip. Congratulations. Any further questions? Are you ready for the question? If so, all in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. I'll oppose no to order. Next item is the 5.02 contract for a hotspot mitigation project. In my notes, I recommend approval and forward to the city council of contracts relating to the airfield hotspot mitigation program as described in the letter of January 19th, 2021 from the Burlington airport. I'll second that. Discussion explanation and then discussion. Can I just have a question? This goes to the finance committee and then the board, correct or the council? Yeah. So there's actually two sets of motions. Well, no, just our relationship is with the city council. Okay. Commissioners do not have any relationship with the board of finance. All right. It just the language in the packet suggested that. So I just wanted to make sure. Okay. Description and questions. I can do this unless Nick's back to do it. I'm back. Okay. I'm back. Sorry, I had to take a call with the FAA, but I'm back. So what I'll do is I'll quickly share my screen because it's a bunch of geographic areas out on the airfield that we are mitigating hence the topic. Everybody, can everybody see my screen now? It's coming up. There we go. Yep. Now we can. All right. So what you're looking at, of course, is the Burlington International Airport with our two runways, our terminal building in that vicinity right in the central portion. And there's three areas out on the airfield that we are mitigating hence the terminology hotspot mitigation area. The first one is a relatively simple situation where we're- What is hotspot mitigation? So a hotspot is defined annually by a team of folks that we have here at the airport. It's headed off by the air traffic controllers and the manager of the air traffic control tower in association with the airport itself. And then we invite all of the users of the airport, airlines, general aviation users, heritage. And we talk about some of the actual events that have occurred out on the airfield over the course of that past year. A hotspot is just an area, a geographic area out on the airfield that may have had either a deviation of some sort with a pilot, may be an area of relative high concern or confusion by users, whether it's a ground vehicle driver or a pilot, an aircraft, so that we just put an extra set of eyes on that particular area every single year. And we talk about it and we identify literal hotspots. On some of our publications as well, our maps that pilots use every single day, those hotspots are literally identified as hotspots and why they are hotspots. And I could go into that if you wish, but I don't want to spend too much time. No, no, go ahead. Okay. Essentially, like I said, it's just an area that we're looking at in greater details because of possible confusion with that area. Area one just has a quite a bit of pavement. If you can look at the size of our terminal on this map and then the relative size of this pavement area, it's a significant area within that section one or box one. Area two also has multiple intersecting taxiways, which is why that's being looked at. And then area three, it has intersecting taxiways with a runway, which is also a high area that we always look at. Any intersecting runways is something that we always look at. So for hotspot one, that big old piece of pavement that I was referring to, we're simply looking at removing a piece of pavement. So there's less of that, less confusion, less misunderstanding with a clearance for an actual pilot. Hotspot two, adjacent our terminal building, we're looking at putting in what's called elevated runway guard lights. Those are literally guard lights that are standing up adjacent the edges of the taxiways that flash back and forth constantly with yellow lights, just warning pilots that you're approaching a runway or a runway crossing. And then hotspot number three is a little bit more intense where we're not only installing those flashing lights on both sides of the runway on what we call taxiway Charlie, we're moving a PAPI, which is a navigational aid to help aircraft land. So we're just moving this navigational aid. And then most importantly, we're looking at installing new pavement to the end of runway one. This is our runway one. This allows no runway crossing. So just another area for aircraft to get to the end of the runway, as well as some additional painted islands, et cetera. So what we're looking at with you today is the engineering, the design and I think there's a budget amendment in there as well, correct me if I'm wrong. Yeah, so the design preparation for those particular areas up to that amount, that 365,000. And getting it out to bed so we can get pricing for a grant on the evening. Nick, Larry, you finished? Yep. Okay, questions. Any questions of staff on this issue? Seeing none, are you ready for the question? If so, all in favor of approval of the motion signifier saying aye. Aye. Aye. All opposed, no? So ordered. Next item is, see 5.03 and 5.04. I have to apologize. I missed 5.04 when I was going through all this stuff. So I will combine, if I may, combine number four and number three. After I did my proposed amendment, I ran across 5.03. I don't know how I missed it, but I did. But I think 5.03 is excellent. I'd just like to add street address to the format that we have that is in 5.03. And I think Helen might appreciate this, but street address makes a difference as to where these complaints are coming from. And first of all, let me just, first of all, it should be motion on the floor. I guess I would move to approve the proposal 5.03, 5.04. I'd move to approve that as presented. I'll second that. Okay, no, let me go back. That's good, that's very, very well done. The only thing I would add to it is the street addresses. Does staff have any problem with adding street addresses to that? We do have street addresses. The city attorney advised us not to put them in there. We certainly can map it out and things, but we don't want people to be harassed by giving people addresses if they have differences of opinions. And that was a recommendation from city attorney. We certainly have the information and we can discuss it. We just didn't want to publicize it. But if it's something you want us to do, you certainly can make the recommendation and tell us to do it and we'll do it. But it was recommended from the city attorney not to do it. Okay, go ahead. Helen, go ahead. I just have a question. When I went through the information, I think there are only like five people from South Burlington that made a complaint. So I wondered if all those Burlingtonians, if we are missing an S in front of their town. I was just amazed. I think the military ones go to the military, Helen. And so the ones that are F-35 are told to call and deal with the military. So I think what you're talking about is what the airport gets. And so there's a difference there. So certainly, you know, if they're calling for the F-35, I'm sure they get a fair amount of them. I would think so, but the right hand column said, you know, the concern, and a lot of it was possible F-35. So I think it's... Nick, am I wrong on that or... Well, I think it's important to explain how this is happening. So... I'd appreciate you putting your hands up, guys, if you want to speak, okay? Thank you. Nick, go ahead. So I think it's important in different areas. Gene is absolutely right. The military does have a hotline, a website, a PR phone number that you can call to make a military noise complaint. We have two areas that you can use to call or make a noise complaint as well. We have a phone number and you can leave a message on that noise hotline. As you can imagine, not all information is given on that phone line. So we might not have addresses or cities or even the type of aircraft or even we might just have a very vague description of what the noise complaint is, which we try to put into the logs as much as the information as we can collect. The second part, which is most what you're looking at right here, a significant amount is a website form that you can fill out and fill out all of this information yourself with your address, your city. That's why some of them say S Burlington versus South Burlington or Burlington, different spelling, all that. So this is raw data taking from those forms on our website and you can fill out what the noise complaint is about, which is what that right hand column is when the public actually inputs into that form itself. Also, going back to Bill's comments or Gene's comments there, we do have the address but like the city attorney was a little bit hesitant to release some of the specific details on personnel. I believe it was Commissioner George last time that mentioned a heat map feature that we were able to address and at least put on so you can visually look at because if you just have this raw data list, it's very hard to understand where those noise complaints are coming from. So Shelby was able to actually input or import a lot of this data onto this noise map so we can identify exactly where those complaints are coming from as well. And we can fine tune this as we move along. One of the really important future programs that we're going to have is part of our noise monitoring system is actually gonna collaborate with all of this. So not only are we going to be tracking the actual decibel levels on a departure aircraft, if somebody calls for a complaint we'll have an updated form that they can fill out. And that form based on the time that they input a complaint is going to start associating with actual radar track data so we can actually see or they can see it live in most cases or at least minutes of delay what the departure airplane was, why it was departing that way, which way it's going, et cetera, et cetera as well as the decibel levels associated with it. So it's a pretty interesting tool to use. Nick, what's the timeline on that program? So the noise monitoring program is, so we just awarded, are in the process of awarding the contract to the low bidder. You all approved that I think a month ago or so. I wanna say Larry correct me if I'm wrong. I forgot the date or... It's a month or two ago. Nick, I don't think that's germane to our topic. There's just noise complaint data. Okay, all the report is about, I think, is about the addresses and names and type of report. And if you're getting a noise monitoring system, I think that's another topic. But if you wanna wrap up, go ahead, but I wanna get back to the... Perfect, yeah, I could... I'll make a note to comment on the timeline of the noise monitoring system later. I guess the point is it's all gonna be associated with the noise complaints similar to the forms and the heat map that you're looking at right now. Okay, thank you. Now, I think this map is, from my perspective, that's all I care about. It's where on the map are these complaints coming from? I don't necessarily care about the name, but to me, this map is the answer, because I wanna know, like in Burlington, are they complaining from the New North End or are they complaining from Lakeside or South End or even in South Burlington? Are they complaining from Dorset Street or Spear Street? That's what I'm looking for. Yeah, I think the issue, Bill, to, if we follow up with the city attorney says, like I said, when I brought up this concept of using this map, you can drill into this map further and find exactly where the complaint comes from. But there's also the issue that was raised about confidentiality. So I don't know at what level you can zoom into this before that threshold of concern is hit, but that is data that can be seen theoretically by airport staff if this is zoomed into greater detail. And that's why we're trying to refine this a little bit to get that generalized heat map feature. So you're not looking, even on a close in Zoom, you're not looking at particular people's houses on where those complaints come from. Well, I don't support the confidentiality thing. Everybody's name and phone number and addresses in the phone book. I mean, you can get that anywhere. So all that's public information. But, and I agree, is there a way to have something like this to give us the information as to the location of the location of the noise complaints, I guess is the big item as far as I'm concerned. Yeah, I think the solution is this map is a visual representation of those addresses. Okay, is that something you can give to the commission on a monthly basis? Yeah, I don't see a problem with that. I think it's gonna look very similar to this as we refine it, but Gene Shelby, I don't think there's a problem. Yeah, we absolutely can do and it is all public record everything. So if someone does want those addresses, they're available. Sure. Finish, Gene, finish. That's it. No, you could put, really could put, if you find numbers in each of those balloons, you could put one or five or six or whatever number of complaints are. That's what those numbers are. There are numbers in them though. Oh yeah, I see them now. Okay, got them, okay, all right. And for what time period is this data? Well, I would say on a monthly basis, but staff, if you want to- No, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Bill. I mean, in the data that's here, what time period is this? Period, and then it's covered next. Looks like from April. Yeah, April of 2020. Okay. So this is a full month. Yeah, this is since April. This is like eight months, eight or nine months. Oh, eight or nine months. Oh, okay, oh, all data since April. Correct, yep. Okay, are we clear, does anyone object to this in lieu of the document that was presented in the agenda? Does anyone object to substituting that format to the map format or do you want both or just you want the street at the one presented by staff as on the agenda? Commissioners, what's your response? My thought is the map is fine. You know, I hate to question the data integrity, but like all the complaints are in my neck of the woods in the North End. And that, I mean, I do hear it out there for sure, but it just seems disproportionate to the rest of the locations. Jeff, I mean, some of this has to do also, you know, your sensitivity to certain types of noise. Some of the mapping we've done before, when you look at the addresses, it has to do with your position on sound. So I think some of it, you know, might be just that. And it also could be a cloudy day, night flying, you know, and how sensitive you are to it. Yeah, I agree. I think it needs to be associated with the quantity of calls coming from a relatively low number of individuals, right? High quantity of calls from low quantity of individuals, if that makes sense. Because that's like, you could have somebody who called 40 times and they're gonna show up as a 40 in that circle. Correct. Right. I also think the South Burlington neighborhoods that are close to the airport have figured out that I am suspecting that they call the guard and complain about noise to that entity. That's what they've been sort of told to do. That's the instruction, you know, call where the problem is. And that has been it in the past. So. Okay, well then, without objection, we'll amend the motion to include a map representation on a monthly basis. Is there any objection to that? Okay. Seeing none, the motion is amended. Could full screen please. Thank you. Any further questions on this matter? Are you ready for the question? If so, all in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. All opposed and all. So ordered. Thank you very much. That'll be, I think that'll be very helpful. Next item is communication and discussion, 6.01. Our financial guru, is she president and account for? Three. I am here. Did we talk about the budget amendment? Oh, did I miss that? I'm sorry, I did miss that. I'm sorry. Thank you. Let's go back to item 5.03, a budget amendment. My proposed motion is recommend the approval of the budget amendment from Marie Friedman and Jean Richards as described in a letter of January 13th, 2021. There's second to that motion. I'll second that. Second. Discussion. Marie. So I'm doing a little housekeeping with this particular AIP grant. This is a grant that we got authorization for back in June of 2018. We received, or 2019, we received the grant. And we, we're not looking to change anything about the authorization. What happened is this grant goes over multiple years and I budget for it. Each, for the years that we're doing construction, more construction is being done in this current fiscal year than I had originally when I prepared the budget. We thought so much more was gonna happen in the last fiscal year, but that construction project was shut down. They had mobilized, but it got shut down. And, you know, after that would have been better if I upped the budget initially, you know, when that happened, but I didn't do that. So now I'm coming back to you saying, hey, we're doing more construction. We've actually done a significant portion of the construction. This is the parallel taxiway, taxiway G that we've done. And we've been talking about that in the construction updates. And I just need to amend the budget to cover the remaining expenditures that we're gonna be paying over the rest of the year. So that's what I have brought forth in front of you. Thank you, Marie. Any, any questions of Marie? You're ready for the question. If so, all in favor, I'm sorry, you had a question, someone? No, all in favor of the motion signified by saying aye. Aye. All in favor of the roll. So ordered. Thank you, Marie. Now, Marie, you're still, I guess you'll still have the floor by going through number 6.01 in the financial package. Very good. Thank you very much, Bill. So you have in front of you, primarily the financial highlights that go for our expenses and revenues as they go through the month of October. I've included a few schedules in there like the cash schedule or the amount of our grants receivable go through the end of December. So I'll go through the bullets here on the highlights. The CARES Act, I'll talk about two things a little bit here. We have, I am putting together a additional reimbursement for the month of October. So we go back in and ask for money and we have to submit them reimbursement. So that's in process. Additionally, one thing I do wanna, so with that, we still will have about $4.3 million to continue spending from the month of November onward for this fiscal year. So that's very helpful as we get into talking about our revenues. It's something we're going to need. Additionally, a new CARES Act stimulus grant package has been approved by the federal government that's going to be giving more money to the FAA and they're going to be, they're coming up with the, they have a formula and they're going to be distributing some more money that's going to be coming to Burlington Airport, which will be very good. We will not get as much money as we did the first time and we're still awaiting news on that. There are some estimates out there. So it'll be about three, three and a half million dollars potentially, but that is not set in stone. So, you know, I didn't write that on here until we actually see what it will be. The debt coverage score I've included in here is 1.54 based on, and that is helped by having that CARES Act money that we're getting. The year to date revenues for October were $3,578,000 that is prior to adding the CARES Act money. The operating revenues, that number, that $3,578,000, it is about $4.9 million lower than prior year. So it's pretty significant. This is the impact that we are seeing based on our implements. We're doing a great job here in the state of Vermont of controlling COVID compared to the rest of the country, but the impact is that we're not having the fine public going through our airport and that it has an absolute impact on all of our revenues. So that is how it's playing out here. And again, the CARES Act money is very crucial and we're using it responsibly and very helpful to helping us balance our cash flow and helping us balance offset the revenues, expenses that we have. I give you an idea. Just go through the largest revenues, just to highlight them for you. The largest revenue changes were parking fees, we're a million $765,000 lower for those four first months compared to the last year. The rental car concessions are about $844,000 lower. CFCs are $565,000 lower. And landing fees are $444,000 lower than the prior year. So you have the whole schedule, you can go through, but those are the biggest ones that have obviously the biggest impact. The year to date expenses were $3,926,000. We are about half a million dollars lower year to date for the first four months compared to our expenses for the prior year. Some of that has to do with just timing a project. We did some roof projects in the prior year. We did some more significant lit things and that positioned us well, that we didn't have to do some of that this year. We had done some HVACs replacements last year, things that were sort of had hit their useful life. And so we haven't had those major expenses come up and that's really helped us. And then just trying to control anything we can, where we can, a lot of it we can't, but where we can we are, that's why you're seeing a lower number overall than the expenses. And I just give you an idea, the largest year over year reduction expenses were repair and maintenance. Those things, equipment repairs, as I was just referring to. And our salaries and overtime are also lower than last year. So again, trying to just control what we can. The AIP receivable, those are the grant money that we are owed from the FAA. We are at, they owed us $2,800,000 because of December 31st. We just put in a large reimbursement for about $1.6 million went in this week, a request. So we'll be drawing down some of that money very soon and we're putting together more requests ongoing all the time as we issue checks and invoices. We did repay the FAA for the Kirby Cottages that was on the prior month. That was showing that we owed them the money. We no longer owe them the money. We did repay that to the FAA in December. And the cash update as of December 31st, we had $12.7 million in our bank account in the airport international account. And we did owe the city some money, about $300,000. More that was due to timing at year end and due to vacations downtown and just they didn't swipe the money. They didn't throw up, which is not an issue really. It just was a timing issue and holiday issue. And let's see, the last, I think I had one more. And the other thing I do want to discuss, it did go to the board of finance last week. It'll be going to the city council next week. The airport has been working with the city, with Rich Goodwin and with the city to refinance two years of upcoming debt. So the goal is when we have some flexibility on what will look like the best option as we get closer to finalizing this. But the goal is to take fiscal year 2022 and fiscal year 2023, and to not make those principal and interest payments on those bonds that we currently would be owing. We would owe money on to take that and give us a little relief on the cash flow and take those, put them in refunding and then we would be paying that back over the next 10 years we'll say. We would just add it out. It would give us a little breathing room and a little protection as the uncertainty of the COVID and when our implements will return and when all of our revenues will return, this is just sort of a step to give a little relief in that area and be more proactive about that. So we have been working on that with the powers that be and that you may have some questions on it. So that is my, the overall highlights and I would like to take any questions you may have. That was a lot of information. So does anybody have any specific questions? Questions for Marie. Anyone question for Marie? Yeah. Any bill? So on that last point, we're not talking about redeeming anything. This is kind of just like a swap that we're going to enter into where we're exchanging principal and interest payments at different periods of time. That is correct. We are, those will get refunded, they get put into a reserve account, we'll say, not on our books. And we will literally have a new debt schedule for those two years. We'll have a repayment schedule based on those interests and principal payments for those two years. Okay, that makes sense. Is there a reason why we only have through October financials at this point? Usually we would have at least November if not December at a January meeting. Yeah, that's a great question. So some of this is, I've been working to put together the information for the bond for the official statement. And there's been very time consuming on my part. There's a tremendous amount of backend work, accounting work and financial work. And so I've been focused on that. But part of that is we're reporting on that on the official statement through October, actually. And because that's the information, we know really we have final numbers from our vendors or from others. So a lot of that is, I'm not having to speculate the revenues that might be coming in. In November, a lot of the information for November, believe it or not, we start getting that the very end of December and even into January on a lot of them, they have 30 days to report to us. So some of that is just the timing. Maybe if we were like the third week of January, we're about a week earlier for this meeting, I probably would have had November's information for you. I would have felt- It's a good point. Yeah. Okay, thank you, Marie. Those are good explanations. Thank you. And Tim, again, the only reason we're doing what we're doing with the cash is just being proactive. If anybody, nobody could tell where we're going today with the vaccine. We have a pretty good idea. When we'll be coming out of this and we have a pretty good idea about how things will kick in and we know it's not gonna be right away. So we wanna plan and we wanna be conservative in our approach so that when we come out of this we're as strong as we are when we went into it. And we believe this is the best possible way to do that without having a real adverse effect on the airport's long term and how it runs. Oh, I agree. I mean, the more that we can, we can, you know, re-time those payments without actually restructuring the debt. That's great. Any further questions, Marie? Seeing none, we'll, let's go to the construction report and then from Larry and then we'll make a motion put those documents on file. Larry? All right, I'll be quick tonight. Shelby already reported on the terminal integration project. It's great to have a grant on its way, hopefully a grant offer and being able to accept it and then assign a design bill contract with Ingleworth and their team. The next thing, the new security system, we're just completing some by American requirements to finalize that so we can start that project. The inline baggage screening system where we are gonna receive a grant from the TSA to redo that. We submitted scope and feed to the TSA as they required and I'm going back and we're going back and forth right now to finalize that so we can start that process. Chamberlain School, Helen Ascension email. Yes, thank you. Everybody knows on or about January 22nd that will be out to bed with the beds being received within three to four weeks from that. So we'll have a price in a contractor to do those upgrades. The noise monitoring equipment, Nick, already mentioned that we have received bids. I mean, we're in the middle of finalizing the contracts with the low bidder. I'll just expand a little bit more on that, Larry, now. So like Larry said, we got the bids back late last year just before the, just after the holidays rather before the holidays, I can't remember. And that's being finished up with the procurement process of that. We're expecting a brought a 19 week process before everything is procured and set up. We're looking at an actual trailer unit, so a portable unit to move these noise monitoring stations around. So we're looking at by June, about June, middle of June to have these installed and actively being used. This is June of 21, Nick. June of this year, yep. Okay, great. Great. Hey, I'm sorry, Nick, I'm sorry. Okay, so the next thing being the hotspot project which Nick went over, again, we're our goal or we will design and bid and have pricing ready to apply for grant in May. That's our goal right now. So as far as updates from our last meeting and that was it, I sent out a bunch of photos, I labeled them, actually, I'm gonna revamp this whole reporting thing with each project and the photos under them moving forward. I just need to have time to do that. But I think the most of the photos were basically that of the new perimeter road, final stabilization, new fencing, the new wall, looking back at new taxiway gulf. And then the last photo I sent was called Bye Bye Taxiway Kilo. And it shows them replacing the taxiway kilo sign with taxiway gulf, which is huge, which is huge. And that's all I got, Bill. Anybody have any questions? Any questions of Larry? Larry, you just have to find someone who has the initials KJ so they can take the old sign from you. All right. That wall is pretty impressive, though. Yeah, that was something Gene asked for. I tried to deliver. So Gene wanted to utilize that space and also Doug wanted the perimeter road right around the outside of the fence. It used to come in. So with that wall, we were able to have the perimeter road being there at the perimeter. So. Okay, the chair will accept a motion to accept the communications and place them on file. So moved. Second. Any questions? If so, all in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Next item is South Burlington seat update. Hello. Okay. So as it was reported or I mentioned the city council unanimously passed the tri-city MOU and we are hoping that with both Winooski and Burlington will do that to date the planning commission has not had the time to focus on any discussions regarding any rezoning of airport owned land. They're currently working really hard to complete the interim zoning tasks they were given. Those should be completed by late February, mid March. And then I hope they will initiate conversations with the airport regarding the old dog park land and what are some potential, you know, commercial uses for that land that are not allowed now. As we've already commented, the state representatives did submit a bill to create a study committee to explore regionalization. This wasn't pushed by the council, although it is certainly supported by I think at least two members. And then as I indicated, Senator Chitenden said he would be pushing for that as well. Frankly, I would be surprised that the bill sees a lot of any action given the considerable financial and human issues surrounding COVID that demand first priority. And I think the legislative leadership has said as much. And I certainly hope that that doesn't diminish the positive actions by Winooski and Burlington councils to approve the MOU and have the charter change for Winooski to have a seat at the table. I would also note that I know it isn't the airport but they use the facilities. The guard has asked South Burlington if they would be interested in participating in some kind of community advisory committee to look at the PFOA contamination at the base slash airport. And the city responded in the affirmative. We have not yet heard back if they will form the committee. I believe this is a requirement by the Air Force to have this advisory committee when there are those kinds of situations. They haven't followed up with us yet but we met their deadline and said that we indeed would be interested to discuss whatever they wanna discuss about their contamination, fixing up or whatever of that contamination with the city. So I think at the moment that covers everything. Okay, any questions of Helen? Any questions of Helen? Okay, thank you Helen, appreciate that. Next item is the director's report. The director, the mic is open. Thank you, Bill. And the video is open. Good, good. I mean it's just, it's been a really busy month and the team has done absolutely amazing work and we did have the director of maintenance resign and Shelby and Nick have stepped in as well as myself to fill in. And it's actually working out really well. The team has stepped up and has really responded well to working with the two of them in a really good way. The results are very evident and very pleased and I'm thankful for Shelby and Nick's effort. And also the tact that they've taken with the challenges that come along with that. But they're a wonderful team to manage and just we're very lucky for that. During that same time, we had a new employee start and second day in, he let us know that his wife was a teacher that caught COVID. And so since they had lunch the day before we lost seven employees for 14 days. But again, that same maintenance team stepped up and filled in and it was like nothing really happened. They worked extra hours and they filled in all the void. So, and that was during the holidays. So I'm very proud of everybody and all their efforts and just that's all the good that's out there. We can sit here and we can hear about what's going on in the world and it's not so good. Well, an awful lot at BTV happens, it's really good. Again, I wanna thank Mayor Lott and Councilor Really for their efforts with the MOU and the efforts that we put in. It was a struggle this week. And both of you thank you for picking up my call. Thank you for talking and talking it out. And that's really what that's all about is talking out our issues and being able to move forward and thank you for that. Some other good news. We received good news from Beta that they'll be moving forward with our relationship with them and we'll give out more details down the road about that but it's very promising. And for electric aircraft to be here in Burlington and there's some really, really good news and at the next meeting I'm hope to share it with you. And I'm just really happy that that hard work is paying off and again at BTV. There's a lot of other as Marie mentioned we've been doing aggressive amounts of fit up at different parts of the airport that have deferred maintenance and it's been a project that I've had going on since started and it doesn't seem to end but we are really making great headway. And again, what's that same maintenance team is stepping up and going above and beyond and figuring out instead of hiring it out and that's where Marie was talking about things that we would have typically hired out and paid a lot of money for. Our team is doing it during their spare time and making things work for us. We have a pretty significant renovation coming up with the Weather Bureau this year and next year and again we're gonna use our team for that as well as the conversion to the new TIP project joining the two. Again, it would have been very, very expensive but we're gonna do this ourselves to cut back and come in on budget. Marie has been keeping us in check and to the point where we don't like her. No kidding. She's really tough with those numbers and I appreciate that very much but it has been a challenge for us. We do have to find monies and figure out how to spend what we do have and there are demands and there are things that have broken and things with COVID that need to be done but I think together the whole team approach has worked out really well. The PFOAs, that's a concern that many communities at least with airports have because we all use the same products and so what was really nice about our guard is they disclosed it early as Helen had said this is part of what they have to do but it's still there, it's in the ground, it's an issue and it has to be dealt with and it's something that you can have your committees and your public involved but at the end of the day has to do what's already, how are we gonna remedy the issue? How are we gonna make it whole? And I'm not big on following what other people do. I'd like to be aggressive as we can be and come up with something sooner rather than later. I don't wanna be with the PAC so I really hope that we can do what we need to do sooner rather than later. We've made and had meetings with the guard about this. We've talked to Senator Leahy's office about it. We've talked to the FAA about it. So we are turning stones, we've not had a lot of results at this time but I do feel that the guards doing more than they should do but probably not enough for me. And that's the guard, they really do work hard but we, this is Vermont and we gotta keep it as clean as we can. And that is about all I have right now. I'm just pleased that everybody's healthy and I'm glad that you're all on today and very healthy and that's our report. Any questions of Gene? Any questions? Okay, we'll move on to commissioner's items. Anybody have a bone to pick or anybody wanna comment on anything or something that they've been thinking about for the past six months or like share with the commission and the staff. Have to be restricted to airport business? Well, I'll make an exception if you wanna announce that the president has been impeached but what is your topic, Tim? Go ahead, we've been pretty flexible today. No, that was me who said that Bill. I was just, I was just kidding. Oh, okay, all right. All right, I have one technical question of Nick or anybody. Nick, you're running this, I've been to meetings where you put your hand up. What's the yardstick? I mean, I don't see that possibility here on my screen. How does that work? There should be a hand at the bottom. It's the very bottom on the three quarter mark on the bottom of your screen, there should be a hand. There isn't. Let me try it. Oops, you see my hand? Yep. No. Okay, ready, I'm gonna do it again. It's at the top of my screen on the left-hand side. Top of your screen on left-hand side. If you look at my face, look at the top left-hand corner. Yeah, I see it. On the top of the right-hand corner right there. Yeah, I can already see it. We don't see it on our side. Yeah, I don't see it. Nope, no. I see it. It's there. It's there. It's there. Right there? It says chat and pin. Okay, well, next time- I might need to update your Zoom. It may be an older version and you might wanna just try to go through and do an update. I did it the other day for a meeting about Colchester Avenue corner and there was that hand there. So I'm really off to, if I run a meeting again, I'll ask for that beep. Anyway, okay, thank you. Anything else? Shane, Alex, a motion is in order to adjourn? So moved. Second, somewhere? Second. Any questions? All in favor of seeing if I was saying aye. Aye. All opposed, no. We are hereby adjourned. Jeff, I hope he's still there. He is. Okay. All right, guys, we'll see you there. Hey, everybody. Bye-bye, everyone. Bye. And well. Yep.