 My name is Keith Griffith. My address is 7066 Johnson Circle in Nileot. I'm here to talk about the future of the airport. We're all here because of that. And the future of the airport I think will depend on many factors, but the key ones will be how the public views the value of the airport. If the public considers the airport to be a nuisance, then we're in good shape. So we've all seen the number of the numerous people and their kids who park by the on-airport road or at the parking lot on the airport road near the end of runway 29. And this is an interesting and unique feature that there are very few airports where you can park within a few hundred feet at the end of the runway and watch parachutes, home-built airplanes, parachute turbine airplanes, jets coming and going, and the ubiquitous 172s doing thousands of touch-and-goes. So that's really quite an asset for a long lot, that it's a place where people can go and appreciate the airport. And on top of all that, it's got the tremendous backdrop of Long's Peak. They also have a good start there in making a nice little pocket park. There's two Eagle Scout projects that have been done with a runway and a tower. There's a stony picnic table that is people meeting the kids on top of it so they can see over the fence. So we have attractions there that can be expanded and enhanced. And what I'd like to do is to have the airport board consider a resolution to foster such a thing and then go to the parks and decoration people with Levi's blessing, of course, and say, let's work something up. Make a pocket park there that's got grass, it's got a fence to protect kids from the road. It's got something other than gravel for teenagers to spin their wheels in. And the airport board can help to advocate this and bring it about. Thanks to our approval of February 2022 and July 2022 minutes from our meetings. Board members, anyone have any comments or revisions to either of those minutes? I will move the microphone closer to me. Is that better at least? None. Thank you. None? Would anybody like to make a motion maybe separately? Is there a second? Any opposed? Motion carries. July 2022 minutes. I didn't hear any comments. If no one has any, I would want to make a motion. July minutes as they were written. Thank you, Mr. Jordan. And do I have a second? Move and second it for the discussion. We've got a few things to go over wise. I guess I'll start off with airport updates, rates and charges. I was hoping to actually have this on as an action item for this evening's meeting, but can you hear me now? There probably won't be a great deal of changes from those from the ones you guys previously approved last summer. A project has continued to move forward. The window now for construction is going to be late October to December. Issues have been kind of stacking up over the years. Take the P planning kickoff and do some meetings. We'll probably go ahead and do some meetings. I've been having that convoying season. We'll be initially inviting everybody to use their mics if they can. Thank you. Let's move on to information items, lease terms. And this is still again updating lease terms. There's going to be some, most likely some minor changes made, which we'll again come back to this board as things. One of the things that kind of, we'll just do this. All right. I feel like a, do you think that that's something we're going to see next month? Well, the experience has taught me that it takes the things earlier today that's the only significant change. As long as what episode, they wouldn't be able to renew for 30, the grant assurances. The FAA says that anything over 50 include for airport emphasis on EABs and next gen, next generation airport infrastructure, multimodal transportation systems, unmanned air vehicles, near-term growth opportunities for Vance brand, and Ben Schmuck for me there. And absolutely you can add to this. This is a set of suggestions. Allow the idea of energy storage at the airport. I think that that's a good location for potential energy. If you'd like to see added, so where do we want to start? In there, especially the high capacity energy transmission lines. New FBO, a restaurant, more hangers. I don't see why we're going to go and jump ahead into the next generation. I think the intent of this list is certainly not to have restrooms, anything. It is how are we, how can we as a board be prepared for what's coming next and be able to kind of be educated to it. Since that is our responsibility to make sure we're kind of keeping up with things. It is in no way shape or form trying to set, you know, a particular, to try to talk before we thought there was going to be a topic that was going to go to council and we would need to recommend a course of action to council so that we have a chance to, you know, hear that, discuss it, receive feedback on it in advance of a specific proposal coming out. And I know that's, you know, at this point to us in, so the downside of my suggestion, but at least trying to, you know, put it in by Mr. Jordan. Consideration, structure, what the future of that looks like, and then next the electrification because we accommodate the electrification for it as we do that. But we saw that some infrastructure needs at the airport if we're going to handle that kind of traffic and then move toward what needs to be addressed sooner than later. That would help me and maybe everybody. Do we have any big maps at the airport, the print and a new one? At the end. So with the permission of the members, and you already objected to me speaking at this point, I just wanted to say because it pertains to two of the really high priority topics here, that resolution that has been prepared for that Longmont commits to a sustainable airport, but the authors of the resolution are not, they're pilots, but they're not Longmont residents. And if a Longmont resident introduced that resolution as a narrow proclamation, talk to me about that thing as interested in doing that, they may. The burn for my contacts in the battery industry and such is that there's a lot of grant money to be had around electrification. And since several people have mentioned that, I would just wanted to get that piece of information out there, but it could get a lot of potentially money coming in other than via the usual channels. And the other thing is that the sustainability resolution would bear a lot on getting a better FBO because it puts on additional clean fuels as well as the electric infrastructure. These are not recommendations by me, these are just pieces of information that I had that I thought that you might want to have. The volunteers, what are they getting? There is a resolution already drafted that is available, so there are several ways to approach it. I have a copy and again, the authors want it to be introduced, but they'd rather it be introduced by a Longmont resident. It could also be a recommendation of this board. So I would be willing to provide it to anyone who, for example, wanted to put it on next month's agenda or give it to anyone who wants to just submit it through the city website. I just was saying it exists and it's time to run with it probably, but I shouldn't and neither should somebody from outside the city. I think we have, I think some guidance on that. I've received for the next couple of minutes. I've got a good list here and we can go over that and give us some good topics for future advisory board meetings. I would also just note a closed list. This is not just us pushing out ideas that initial list came from members of the community, would encourage anyone to keep sending suggestions, and also if you have a particular interest in this board members and public alike and want to be the experts speaking on one of these topics, please let us know. The goal is so that we're all learning. That only happens if we have experts or people who have taken an interest in something willing to talk about it. Otherwise it's a little bit of blind leading the blind here. Any further discussion? Then to our action items. For the avoidance of any conflict of interest since I do work for an engineering firm, I'm going to ask Vice Chair Jordan to introduce our next agenda item and manage that discussion. Item seven, which is an action item. Number one is to select a board member for the RFP process to select an engineer. And number two being to select a board member for RFP specifically for the South. Have any volunteers? Would you like to speak to that? What the expectation would be? Yes, absolutely. So our contract with our all-call engineers is coming up. RFP for the engineer. I'm not volunteering yet. I want to know what your ideas on the south side to help. Hopefully we'll have some decisions to make next month. Would anyone else like to speak to that address? I will start a five minute timer. Address your comments to the board and please be respectful of all. My name is Dave Cobb, an officer with the Long Island Owners and Pilots Association 229 Airport Road Unit 33. And I want to first take exception to Levi's point in land assurance violation. We have a lot of feedback both from the AOPA and the FAA and that is not true. And the land disposal flies after reading 30 pages on that stuff. It has more to do with the cell tower and the seismic guys in the southwest corner. That they need to be relocated if in fact the airport needs that land. Many examples of other airports out there that have 30 plus 30. And we fought for the last 10 years to get that on the ballot. The residents have voted for it. It's a real advantage, not just the airport but a lot of low-income housing on land that the city owns. We're really reluctant to argue. At least I've written that it's 30 years with a renewal at the end of the 30 years. It really doesn't commit to another 30. So it's really a 30-year lease. Obviously that's our expectation but it's not a commitment. It's whatever the city wants. They control the leases. But they have to be fair and equitable. They currently have eight leases out there with to be fair and equitable with everybody. They need to keep that going. The other thing is an investment in the airport out there. So we've got an awful lot of people very worried about the rumors that are flying around out there. And the bottom line is we've sent six questions to Levi, that very basic question that we need answers for. Levi drugged his feet on that. We've been fighting for over a week, two weeks now. I told him to try to get a meeting with him. Can't do it. So he's told us to escalate that to his boss. Did you get that escalation? We got an answer coming. Sending those out to the rest of the airport users. Calm them down hopefully and not raise up something that we have to take further. So I appreciate your time. Thank you for your interest in helping to keep things moving forward. Without understanding the context of the back, you quickly ran through. I'm thinking that maybe there are a couple of items that could also go on that list. One is there is work at various airports, both domestically and internationally with photovoltaic utility scale on the infield of airports. And I don't know if that was on your list. Property represents a very significant asset for the city and unlike a lot of these other infrastructure projects that are net to you can actually perhaps finance it with the infield for power generation. So if that's not on the list I'd like to suggest adding that. The other is there's a lot of news now about unleaded aviation fuel coming soon and in order to implement that it may require some additional fuel farm capability and I'm not sure if that also made it on your list. Just to thank you very much. Or get it, can do it or I'm definitive yes or no so that we can save the date to the volunteer organizations in the meantime if you can help me track down some of the lists and something like that that we use in the past on reaching out to people. I'm happy to do that task and I'm happy to reach its civil air patrol and all the a lot of groups that do the volunteer work so it's really up to reach out to them to see that save the date or if we can you know people who are DOD application Dan Berry had done that for us in the past I'd ask him if and Malcolm would ask him if he'd be willing to do that for us again to start that process. So a few things just to get the ball rolling and number two is because and we have board positions that are going to be open at the end of the year so we do have an empty chair and then my position is up and I'm turned out and there's a couple other positions that are up I think I'm the only one that's going to run out of two since the one thing you can do where you can speak, have input steer you know give some direction and you don't have to be elected and you don't have to apply for a job and go through that and so you just apply and go through a couple of interviews and I know a lot of you guys have served in the past and so if you want to consider coming back then we've got a lot of momentum and as you can tell from the agenda items in our list it's taken us a long time to get past the issues that we're facing the board when I joined and now we're facing the future and a lot has changed and so I really encourage you the board's pretty easy to know how it goes and if you haven't to think about it you do have to be a resident of the city a long time and then the applications are going to be open soon I think maybe even the application season has started as of today so I just encourage you and I really appreciate you participating in coming and then you hear it first hand at least and have an opportunity to interact and ask questions and this board made the decision to extend the public portion to five minutes to let us have more time to hear what's on your mind and get it out clearly and not have a truncated message and this really is your opportunity to speak and be heard and have it on the record it's on the public record so it's really a good opportunity so think about the board either continue to attend and or applying for some of the positions that will begin in January of next year I was on my list so I appreciate you beating me to it Mr. Robeson and this and Valentine Nebraska to see one Airbus named Dale Birkett and he'll be a recommendation to become the Airbus I have to submit a basically a practice airshow to him which I'll just mock up the one for next year the easiest way to go about this besides the DoD is I already know all the guys that perform out there and they if they all come as a package we're done I mean that's an easy way to do it I just got a text from Bob Freeman who lives here and flies the extra on air shows has an amazing show he was at Warriors Over the Wasatch and it's definitely one that we want so he says he's gonna get back to me in a few days about which weekend in September would be best for him and I would recommend that whatever he says that we do that and choose that at next month's meeting and go forward from there the other one is Tom Larkin from Denver he flies a mini jet and the reason I'm suggesting these guys because generally the city is going to pay for transportation for the performers to come to Longmont so if we get a guy from Longmont, we get a guy from Denver we're saving money already and these guys have great shows that I've seen twice or three times now I think those are the main parts I'd be happy to answer any other questions about their bossing part first of all congratulations I missed you at Colby, you were there Friday and I was there Saturday and it was a great show it was really well run and it really took notes about how they handled things differently than we've done and I felt they did a really good job and that was their first show I think so they did a really good job the DOD would be for the flyover that would be for the purpose of the flyover which is the Grand Slam that would be great and it's always a request and we apply and then we hold our breath and then we find out 12 hours before maybe 24 hours before if we're gonna get it but worth doing because when we had it in the past it was a memorable event for sure that's the only thing that takes a year though everything helps four or five months is plenty of time except that I would recommend that everyone familiarize yourself with who would be coming out from EMS, police and fire because they're gonna be integral to the operation so just make sure you know the contacts in the city and that kind of thing but again that's there's no hurry on that we've had people that served in the leadership capacity we've got people on the airport that are connected for a minute to just and then Bob Freeman we didn't get him a couple years ago because patient topics on photo-take sales on the infield and like that's come up before and so that was brave at the beginning of the meeting kind of discuss that and see what possibility it is because it is that is a really unique asset for the airport and I agree that having that community engagement there is important as we're looking to continue to grow and do more things at the airport next month and really diving into that and learning a lot about that Councilmember Martin before I turn on the mic I would appreciate seeing a resolution and at least having a chance to have a discussion with you about it. Yes, thank you very much let's see first of all I'm really happy to see so many people here it's been a long time since I had had to miss the July meeting and was only dialed in but it's great to see so much interest I love the list of topics that you all have assembled second I noticed that on this on this agenda there is no way for a board member to suggest an agenda item for the next board meeting which is something that is a feature that Council meetings have it seems like several times in this meeting that was what we wanted to do and there was no way to do it so I would like to make the suggestion that that becomes a permanent addition to just to the standard agenda I would know whether you guys have to vote on that next month but I'm throwing it out there as a suggestion Longmont is under some special constraints because of our contract with the Platte River Power Authority and that may limit what we can do in terms of PV on the grounds of the airport however a hangar is a building that is entitled by State Law and our contract with PRPA to have PV on its roof and whether it's a tee hangars run by the airport or whether it is a privately owned hangar same deal, those things are both options so I would be willing to meet with a one or two person delegation to discuss that one or two person in terms of the board member people who aren't on the board could be an addition to that I have repeatedly mentioned that we may need to specifically talk about hangars in our updated electrification codes and I'm not sure that there's any traction on that so maybe somebody needs to come speak to the council about that the electrification committee is going to give its report I believe on October 10th to council if that's a Tuesday or it is, I think I thought it was but a number of the hangars that are out there now are not PV ready new hangars could be PV ready so that is an option and I also understand that the FAA has decided that glare is not going to be a problem and so they are also not standing in the way of putting solar panels in the airport so oh and all of those things if we need a new FBO the unleaded fuel there's that zero jet fuel is another fuel that can be provided and I hope we're coming close to the idea of what the battery scheme is going to be for AVs and so all of those things would need to go into the RFP if we put the idea of the FBO out to bid and I would love to see that happen I think that caught everything but those are great suggestions from the public so I'm very happy to see that thank you councilmember margaret that's our goal is to get our airport looking as good as some of the others and with the park idea as well that beautification along airport road would really curbside appeal, arrival, departure appeal as people of country would be great so I assume that the FBO would be a green you know green construction and energy efficient to have your that as well and I think that I don't think there's anybody in the room who's flown into some of these more gorgeous airports that hasn't said how come we haven't gotten that done and the momentum again to start moving getting this swap that has been sitting for quite a while getting it rolled there is an end date for one because it requires I would talk about too much and I want to say off the top I appreciate so many people being here and providing comments