 All right. Well, good evening everyone. It's six o'clock. I will call our August 10th 2023 meeting of the airport advisory board to order Hey, look, can you please call the roll? Here here. Thank you Well, we'll call Marcia and when she gets in here nice to see everyone here and have all five of us at once. Thank you everyone First thing our agenda is a public invited to be heard Would anyone like to speak at the first public invited to be heard and if you can start with your name and address You've got five minutes go for it Melinda. Can you turn on the mic though? Melinda Jordan 1110 Twin Peaks circle First of all, I want to tell you I got a notification about a fast webinar on August 23rd regarding swift fuel fuels Marcia when she gets here too because she's interested in that So it's an update on where they are on the hundred are unleaded gas So I did register for it and if I if I'm not present I'll get a recording of it So that should be interesting then the air show so we had a team meeting Saturday and We decided to scrub a fly-in or any activity for September 23rd 2023 so that we can conserve our resources and really focus on 2024 So our next meeting will be September 23rd 2023 at 9 a.m. In Levi's airport manager's conference room and I told him I'll bring the doughnuts Try to get voodoo if I can and then so we The best date for the air show teams is going to be September 14th, 2024 So we have pulled that date I said 7 a.m. To 5 p.m. Just Malcolm had asked if we could maybe go a little longer and stretch it out So we'll see what the program starts to look like The and then FYI that means we get there like four in the morning to set up So it is a long day our leadership though is starting to coalesce fall into place people are starting to really Find their divisions and a good sense of duties. So on the September 23rd meeting I've asked for people to Gather all their inputs will put them all on the table and then divide and conquer and really start Assigning titles and come up with the work chart for the event. I've got a few people in there But we need to finalize that our theme right now is future of aerospace Which is not the most clever theme if somebody's got something better. We're still partial to rack it in the Rockies but sure of aerospace and then We're featuring the st. Brain Valley School District the Innovation Center That's really a cornerstone for us and then the higher ed institutions aims Spartan any of those that want to come along and I've already queried this Silver Creek Leadership Academy for a capstone Student a student that needs to do their capstone would they like to take this as their project? So I've got that query in there off at their retreat right now So I should hear more in a couple of weeks after school starts The teams come up with some really good ideas some fun Malcolm had the idea of starting the air show with a Car parade down the runway to officially close the runway kind of get everybody's attention out there I've secured the band already and they're very loud So they could start all that and we could really get that attention grabbing That we haven't really done we that hasn't been our strongest suit in the past and then really Call attention to the field and then the announcer can be heard really make it more of the kind of air shows that we go to and And where there's more information about what's in the air and what's on the ground and that sort of thing So we're ready the team is ready to start diving in securing sponsors donations commitments entertainment the whole shamasal so We're really working to develop of an engaging program we've got we're over a year out which is The main thing we needed to do and then we've got a lot of creativity So and our team is about I think my distribution list is at least 14 people and We had a good show on Saturday despite it being Rather impromptu and so it's looking good. It's all it's all coming together finally and We're feeling encouraged about it. So if you guys have any questions or input for the team Please let me know and we will be reporting back to you regularly We'll start having a regular monthly meeting and provide an update on what's going on and we've got a few people on the board that'll be Participating as well so they can be bringing reports back. Thank you and Marshall repeat. There's a webinar on the 23rd with fast which is the FAA safety team and it's about the The new 100 are unleaded gas and a registered for that and we'll see see what that looks like To get some more information about it and what when it's going to be available that sort of thing the Swift he'll Thank you, Linda. I can't ask you a question and back and forth But can you just repeat for the record the date and time of the next meeting next meeting for the air show team is September 23rd 2023 9 a.m. In the airport manager's conference room at the airport. I heard doughnuts and that's where I can Thank you and then the air show officially Right now Pending any conflicts with the city or anything like that September 14th 2024 and that was coordinated with our local performers when they would be back here to be able to perform Thank You Melinda Anyone else like to speak it first public invited to be heard Seeing none. We'll move on to approval of the July 20 23 minutes Does anyone have any comments revisions on the minutes? Otherwise, I'll go through my list That's that's number one on my list All right, so page one line 11. It doesn't say that Steve shook was present. He should be ab listed as absent Page one line 33 It says the motion carried six to nothing. There were only four of us here. So it should be four to nothing Page two line one same story motion carried six to zero in the notes. It should be four to zero Page three line 13 same thing four to zero page three line 16 The there's an acronym there is a op. I believe that should be a op a that sounds correct Line 22, I believe it was Don Dulce who spoke non not Don Dorsey And that's what I had Any other comments revisions from anybody? Did you get those killer? Do you want me to repeat any of them? Thank you Anyone want to make a motion to approve them? motion and seconded Any discussion all those in favor say aye aye any opposed? Motion carries five to zero Updates from the airport manager. All right, Levi Updates, I will skip my first item, which was air show and Linda did an excellent job of covering everything that I would have covered on it So all right Next item I have on updates Kind of a multi unit here Different improvements we've been doing on the airfield starting with mowing that continues to be kind of a learning process as we kind of deal With the new mowers that are out there At a meeting this morning where we went out and did a another survey of the airport and the mowing map that we created And we thought we were missing quite a bit of chunks, but it just turns out that maybe there was some miscommunication with some of the mowers so I've Asked to meet with some of the public works guys So we're gonna all kind of cross train on exactly what needs to be mowed So when any of us are out there on the field and people are mowing we can tell them like I know you missed the issue Oh that so we'll keep it closer on them. There's been a couple issues From my standpoint, they don't seem to be cleaning up the areas along the fence rows and the ditch and The front of it. It kind of it's looking they're leaving some weeds So we need to up that a little bit on top of that for mowing also I'm looking at entering a letter of agreement with the local farmers to cut some hay on the airfield Apparently that's been going on for years. There's just no documentation of it So currently working with the city on what needs to be done to make sure all teas or cross and eyes dotted on that New wind socks up this week, which is just a nice city little update and they look really nice out there This week also we did begin The improvements on the airport perimeter road They've already done all the repaving in between the taxi lanes Which is really nice because I'm looking forward to getting rid of that gravelly Stuff that was there before which caused great issues with dragging Rocks onto the taxi lanes. So that's looking pretty nice. They're continuing on the rest of the perimeter road today filling in the potholes Grading up re-leveling the rest of that. So it should be really nice when they're done with it That's kind of what I had on airfield maintenance. Was there any questions on any of that? All right, vice chair Dean first whereas I've mentioned last time do you have any information on a gate by chance that would be updates from like the gate that was opening slowly? Or it was rusty the chains. Oh, we I did call the Waterford Corporation to come out and do some gate repairs. They haven't made it out yet They've been Not recently Now I'm not a hundred percent on it. It's one of those things We're just calling a list for until it gets down here, which it's you won't probably be more than a month or so Mr. Salamity You just two quick questions about the farming farmer that you're gonna engage with There be any positive revenue from that or is that just kind of now that's gonna be probably an in-kind agreement It's really expensive to mow that if we have to So it'd be benefit for everyone if they want some hay and we want to get that mode for free It would be really nice. Oh, yeah, that was my second point was how much savings you think we'll be able to get from Using the farm rather than a significant. It'll be thousands of dollars like half I have I hesitate to say that much But of course we'd have to run the figures and kind of see on that sweet good work. All right Next item I got on there the has the airport survey has officially begun we initiated a survey with local company to essentially Go look at all the parcels on the airfield. We don't really have a good parcel map We have a parcel map that was created in 2000 and I want to say it was 16 without a lot of provenance behind that map So we're kind of having that redone There's been some headache struggles recently. I'm sure I covered this in previous meeting With getting leases completed because we have no good exhibits for leases and nothing showing the parcels. So My my joke is it's they're all Google Maps, you know, but actually a lot of them are Google Maps I'll say a little exhibit a and they'll be little Google in the bottom of the corners I'm not exactly the most professional. So those are moving forward with being completed That'll take a good chunk of my professional services budget for this year About 20 grand all that all together that was quoted a nice thing about that. It's gonna be brand new map It's gonna be they're also gonna be have digital copies. So it'll be something there You know for future too, so we can add to it. We can update it. We can maintain that map Moving forward be nice Any questions on that I DSB tracking One of the things I'm trying to get a handle on for the airport I gave an update on this. I know some months back I just want to give a further update on it is making sure we're getting good figures on airport operations Important for funding important for, you know, just general operational knowledge Important for and when we're making a case to a business or sort of the city about who's utilizing our airport We signed a contract with a company called Airport monitoring services as of yesterday. They have Actually shipped their unit to us that should be installed in the F. Yo I'm hoping now knock on wood within this month and up and running pretty quickly after that That'll give us a starting point to get a count to get Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly figures for the airport with all kinds of great data any questions on that That's most of it one other item I am meeting with well the city's meeting with the FAA Next week. We're just talking about general Land use around the airport and they're going to comment on kind of What they see is important for in keeping grant assurances and stuff like that That meeting will be next week with John Sweeney with the FAA The way who from the city is in that meeting that'll be Be me I think fills in on that one cities attorney's office. I don't know if Chris will be there or not And then Jennifer from planning Thank you. Any other questions? That's what I have for the update. Oh Oh Sorry, Steve one second Sorry, I got a quick question back on the adsb. Uh-huh. Is that that's for vehicles. So that's just for that's for aircraft so That's the aircraft tracking for the airport and it utilizes adsb information so So you're just bringing in the Equipment to be able to read yeah adsb off the aircraft and then that gives you the data point exactly So there's yeah, there's there's ways we can kind of track ad hoc here through like fly to where an adsb Share stuff like sure. This is a dedicated unit for the airport with a 25 antenna that focuses on and measures just traffic at this airport and What comes along with that service is also For use of you those who utilize power bi they create a power bi interface That you can essentially customize whatever data points you want permanent. Yeah. Oh cool Yeah, it'll be a Yearly charge but it's from a budget standpoint. It's it's nominal. It's it's low enough. I can put on my credit cards Yeah, it's I know most of the airplane are required to have adsb. So yep, okay It's it's exciting stuff, you know, the the majority of the fleet out there is Either adsb now or very shortly gonna be adsb. I would hope and what's not we can certainly Accommodate that you know in the figures make adjustments for and the company is currently working on other methods of even tracking those so we have 100% accurate, which would be amazing Yep So that's a good update a lot of small airports don't have that. Yes So that's a big deal to be able to do that. It is nice and I got This crew has actually been operating out of Boulder for a bit and they love it It's I've been highly successful there. So they come with all kinds of good reviews from not only there, but all over so I'm excited. Okay. Any other updates? That's what I got Questions for Levi and updates. Otherwise, we'll roll into the budget and we can have questions there too. Okay budget sounds good budget items Fortunately didn't bring the budget with me today. I can give you some updates on some general stuff that I do know working this morning through the maintenance items and stuff like that on the airfield and How can I pay currently we're at? $43,000 left of $100,000 on maintenance budget that budget is going to be Definitely sucked up all this year. We'll be using all that money One thing I didn't put on the update, which perhaps I should have Budget concern is we just priced out bollards to get the airfields gas lines Fire hydrants up to standard There's a lot of areas that should have bollards around them that don't and kind of the areas that are easy to hit by car that was Cheapest bid for that was $13,000 just for the material for that. So that's gonna chuck a suck up another big chunk of our our maintenance budget for that Other budget items that's all kind of to my understanding being Approved and talked about in the city right now. I did put in for budget for the air show I don't foresee any issues with that being denied or anything like that I think that was $45,000 that we put in for that. So that we should be Hopefully a help moving forward with that That's kind of what I got off the top of my head for budget were there any specific questions that I could address your answer Yeah, what's the current mowing budget? How much we gonna spend this year on mowing so That's one of the reasons why we're spending such close attention on that previous mowing budget was $9,000 a year this year The lowest bid was $42,000 a year. So it was a huge hike So Yeah, that's that was the lowest bid So that's currently what we're working with The gentleman that had been mowing the airport had been doing it for 20 30 years and Was doing it the price for all that time and it was just him He's out there with his tractor and when we went back again, you know We're going with you know mowing companies and stuff like that and prices just seem like they've they've adjust a little bit over the years I asked about that and that's something that I'll continue to Go back to and reevaluate The last time I brought it up and we sat down and kind of crushed the numbers It it wasn't looking like it would be cheaper To my understanding even the parks department hires out all their mowing now they don't even have their own mowing equipment The airport has some additional resources we could potentially utilize Like the DIA sale and using grant money to buy a John Deere tractor with a big mower blade or something like that If something like that should pop up in the DIA sale and unfortunately, there's nothing like that this year in the DIA sale We could potentially sit down Figure those numbers. Okay, you know if we get the tractor for this price and if we can use, you know Public works guy for this many hours of you know, would it would it balance out? I suppose that's another item. I should have put in my update DIA sale into the month this month And I will be attending that This year also do you have to go that route a reason I asked is there are some other local Option options like Ricci brothers that do have that kind of stuff Promote for mowing. Yeah, so we actually put it out last fall for open contract for open bids and just let whoever Advertise it said give us your bids for cheaper. So yeah, anyone who wants to bid on it Can you just tell us what you're going for in the DIA thing this year and I'm hoping to I'm hoping I literally just got the new update list this morning. I shot it forward to fleet I want fleet to kind of get their eyes on it and give me their input on to on what they feel might be beneficial I'm hoping to get this year. They have a large Assortment of pickup trucks for you know next to nothing our costs would be a couple grand That would be great for me for stopgap measure until we were able to get a new airport vehicle The Dodge Durango I have doesn't really run much anymore Sometimes it runs sometimes it doesn't But having something stopgap, even if it is an older pickup truck that I could at least throw You know the my rakes and shovels on the back would be really great Besides it being cheap is the grants, right? Yeah, so that the the nice thing about that DIA cell program for those of you Aren't familiar with it. DIA yearly Joins up with color department transportation DIA cells. They're used equipment. They essentially switch everything out I want to say it's every five years. They just Get all new equipment So last year they had a big influx of skid steers. So they were all 2017 models They sold them for I want to say it was 10 grand for a skid-steer model and then the CDOT picked up 80% of that cost And wrote it in a grant for us and all we had to do was pay the balance. So it's for as far as equipment goes It's sealer the the thing to watch is just to make sure that you are getting a good piece of equipment And that's why I usually insist on bringing a mechanic with me Reason it's cheap. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's true Any other questions for Levi on budget? navigation easements All right navigation easements. I know we talked a little bit about Last month on kind of what we wanted to go with what I should probably do on that is I'll get to this board I'll shoot out a copy of the navigation easements that has been written and kind of Passed back and forth between the airport and cities attorney's office and that's legal advisors I'll get those guys out to you so you guys can review those kind of see what They look like and start and get some input back from you guys and getting some thought on perhaps how the city Might want to apply such easements or where they might want to buy such easements and then probably move forward after that Any questions on navigation easements at the moment? I don't see anyone yet Leave I think what would be really helpful for us miss list is an action item clearly. We're not going to take action Yeah night but for next month to Steer us with the action you'd like us to take okay, so is this a recommendation to counsel is this to city manager? I Know we've had discussion about those about the navigation means we've had discussion about where they apply It would be really good to have the attorney's advice on that so we're not We're able to follow expert advice. Okay. Well, we all have thoughts what we're all have our own perspectives I don't think any of us are experts on navigation easements All right Questions thoughts from anyone else? Quiet tonight. Okay Leave anything else from your perspective. That's all I got Final public invited to be heard Melinda you want another chance? Are you good? You don't need to anyone Have a back-and-forth. I'm going to close the public invited to be heard and open up to board Council and staff comments and their show would be lovely to be a topic vice chair Dean The only one I do have for Levi is the prairie dog I didn't hear anything about that last month. We talked about of cost and bids and possible Remedies to getting updates on that haven't really got any updates yet So it's all the budgeting is going on right now. I know the wildlife guys also put in a big chunk You know thought process and time into focusing on that also So I'm sure in some respect it's going to be addressed. I just not sure how yet Gotta kind of wait for see what the city gives us the green thumbs up I think with the next month by next month we can have some information. I would I would hope so I can't speak You know with authority on it. Okay Council member martin Um, thank you. I just want to extend my compliments to melinda Sounds like the air show is really coming together and You know, it's it's pretty normal for old institutions to to Take a year or two to resurrect Post-pandemic it seems to be the way things are going. So I'm I'm really glad to see that this one is Looking like it's going to get resurrected and it's going to be a good year I would second that for sure any other board comments Staff comments Everyone's real quiet tonight. Okay Seeing as there's nothing else on the agenda We'll call the meeting adjourned. Thank you everyone. Have a great night