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HomeMy WebLinkAbout04-08-1999 Airport Commission Meeting Minutes MINUTES IOWA CITY AIRPORT COMMISSION THURSDAY MARe1111.1999—5:45 P.M. B?t -. ' IOWA CITY TRANSIT FACILITY MEMBERS PRESENT: Pat Foster,Rick Mascari,Howard Horan,Mark Anderson, Tom Bender STAFF PRESENT: Dennis Mitchell, Ron O'Neil CALL TO ORDER: Chairperson Mascari called the meeting to order at 5:46 p.m. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Anderson said the March meeting was at the Airport Terminal,not at the Transit Facility. The minutes of the March 11, 1999, Commission meeting were approved as corrected. AUTHORIZATION OF EXPENDITURES: Mascari asked about the bill for the trailer hitch. O'Neil said that was for the new truck. The other pick-up truck was ten years old and was on a ten-year replacement schedule. Foster made a motion to approve the bills. Horan seconded the motion and the bills were approved 5—0. PUBLIC DISCUSSION—ITEMS NOT ON AGENDA: O'Neil introduced Jerry Searle, from Synder and Associates. Searle was the planner for McClure Engineering when the 1996 Master Plan was designed. O'Neil said Searle was in Iowa City on another matter and had agreed to come to the Commission meeting to answer questions concerning approach surfaces for Runway 24. Searle said he is working on the Ankeny Airport and there are a lot of constraints around the airport,just like in Iowa City. He said one of the first things they did was to verify the actual heights of obstructions around the airport. After identifying the obstructions,they found that a precision approach could be sited and"near Cat-1"approaches could be sited on the other three runway ends. This could give you an approach with%mile visibility and 300 feet. This would require for a light system. Searle suggested setting up a meeting with the flight procedures officials in Kansas City to see if a"near Cat-1"approach is possible. It would require protecting the approach to RW 24 with a 1000' primary surface. Mascari, Bender, Foster and Horan will try to meet with some of the FAA officials when they are in Kansas City on April 29th. O'Neil will try to contact Chuck Hawkins and Jim Finley to discuss approaches for Iowa City. ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION/ACTION: a. ACSG Project: O'Neil said the Dyer property was purchased on April 2, 1999. This included the triplex and the Airlane Motel. The agreement will allow Mrs.Dyer to live in the triplex until June 156. The motel was closed immediately. O'Neil distributed a list of easements to be acquired in the land acquisition program. Most owners are not interested in signing the easements. The FAA will not require condemnation for easements. O'Neil said he has directed ACSG to close out the easements by the end of the month. b. Rental rehab lease: The lease for the parcel of land leased by the Friends of Historic Preservation ends in July. Because of the development of the North Commercial area, the Commission decided not to renew the lease. The Friends are looking for a new location for their building. O'Neil suggested the property be leased on a month to month basis. He said that would give the Commission flexibility when trying to lease property in the North Commercial area. Foster made a motion to go to a month to month lease. Horan seconded the motion and it passed 5-0. c. Iowa City Flying Service lease—Shop building and United hangar: O'Neil said that although there is a verbal agreement to go to a month to month lease for the United hangar and shop after the new hangar is completed, a written amendment should be added to the ICFS Master lease. Mitchell will have an addendum for the lease ready for the next meeting. d. Airport Terminal Building: Bids are due May 12th. The Commission will discuss the bids at the May 13th Commission meeting. If there is an acceptable bid,this will be an agenda item at the May 18th Council meeting. The pre-bid meeting will be held April 27th at 10:00 a.m. at the Terminal building. e. North Commercial area: Mitchell had some revised plans for the NCA. He explained the new and old flood plains. He said the City Engineer thought the new flood plain area would be adopted next winter. The City was still waiting to here back from FEMA. The Commission discussed the merits of reserving a larger area for a 1000-foot primary surface for a precision instrument approach for RW 24. This would restrict the height of the buildings on the lots on the south side of the development road. Jim Larew, from the Iowa City Science Center, said that if the Commission reserves a 1000-foot primary surface,the Science Center would not be able to have a large format theater on the south side of Ruppert Road. He did not think the Science Center would develop without a large format theater. He also said it would change the whole complexion of the Science Center if it could not locate on the south side of the road. The Commission directed O'Neil to contact the FAA and see what the Commission's options were for a precision approach if they did not reserve the area for a 1000 foot primary surface. Mitchell explained to the Commission that they needed to make it clear that the Iowa City Mobile Home Park was purchased for safety reasons and would not be redeveloped for commercial uses. Anderson made a motion for a resolution to use the Iowa City Mobile Home Park land for green space or for a road to the NCA. Bender seconded the motion and at roll call vote,the motion passed 5 —0. f. Southwest FBO hangar: O'Neil said weather had been delaying the installation of the roof. The walls are completed and the roof could be finished in three or four days. The building is on schedule and should be substantially completed in a month. g. Site Development—Public Works: O'Neil said the agreement in the packet was between Public Works and MMS for site development of the new Public Works site in the southeast corner of the Airport. Mitchell said an agreement still must be worked out between the Council and the Commission before work is started on the Public Works site. CHAIRPERSON'S REPORT: Mascari commented that he was pleased that all the Commission members were at the Council meeting when they were discussing the Terminal renovation project. Mascari reminded the Commission members that he was coordinating the transportation to the FAA CIP Conference on Thursday, April 291. O'Neil will send the Commission members that are going to the conference another copy of the agenda. COMMISSION MEMBERS' REPORTS: Horan said he was at the Airport on Sunday and he commented that the new building looked good. O'Neil said the contractor was getting ready to install the tubing for the in-floor heat. There will be between 14,000— 15,000 feet of tubing in the floor. Bender said the Commission needs to keep moving ahead with the North Commercial area. He said the Commission needs to get to a point where they can begin to market the property. Anderson went through the subcommittee summary report and wanted to delete and add some items. O'Neil will update the report for the next meeting. ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT: O'Neil said a subcommittee project list was included in the Commission's information packet. In the FY 99 budget,the Commission budgeted some money to assist sending someone from the Fire Department to ARFF training. Letters from two of the firefighters that attended training were included in the packet. They both said the training was very beneficial. SET NEXT MEETING: The next regular Airport Commission meeting is scheduled for May 13, 1999, at 5:45 p.m. ADJOURNMENT: The meeting was adjourned at 7:46 p.m. Rick Mascari,Chairperson