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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1997-07-10 Airport Commission SummaryKENAI AIRPORT COMMISSION Kenai City Council Chambers July 10, 1997 Tom Thibodeau, Chairman "'AGENDA'" ITEM 1' CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL ITEM 2: AGENDA APPROVAL ITEM 3: APPROVAL OF MINUTES - June 12, 1997 ITEM 4: PERSONS SCHEDULED TO BE HEARD ITEM 5' OLD BUSINESS ao Update - Alaska Regional Fire Training Facility Project Update - Taxiway Extension North Project Update- Phone Card Concession Update - Crack Sealing and Runway Remarking ITEM 6: NEW BUSINESS ao ATM Machine Inquiry ITEM 7: AIRPORT MANAGER'S REPORT ao Enplanement Report- May and June, 1997 ITEM 8' COMMISSIONER COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS ITEM 9' PERSONS NOT SCHEDULED TO BE HEARD ITEM 10: INFORMATION ITEMS a, Kenai City Council Meeting Action Agenda (6 / 18/97) Kenai City Council Meeting Action Agenda (7/2 / 97) ITEM 11' ADJOURNMENT CITY OF KENAI AIRPORT COMMISSION July 10, 1997 Acting Chairman' Henry Knackstedt *** MINUTES *** ® ® ® ® CALL TO ORDER & ROLL CALL: Acting Chairman Knackstedt called the meeting to order at 7:02 p.m. Members Present: James Bielefeld, Henry Knackstedt, Barbara Edwards, Bonnie Koerber Members Absent: Ron Holloway, Sandra Hudson, Thomas Thibodeau Others Present: Councilman Raymond Measles, Airport Manager Randy Ernst, Contract Secretary Barbara Roper APPROVAL OF AGENDA: EDWARDS MOVED TO APPROVE THE AGENDA. THE MOTION WAS SECONDED BY KOERBER. AGENDA WAS APPROVED BY UNANIMOUS CONSENT. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: EDWARDS MOVED TO APPROVE THE MINUTES OF JUNE 12~ 1997 . THE MOTION WAS SECONDED BY KOERBER. THE MINUTES FOR JUNE 12~ 1997 WERE APPROVED BY UNANIMOUS CONSENT. PERSONS PRESENT SCHEDULED TO BE HEARD: None OLD BUSINESS: Update - Alaska Regional Fire Training Facility Project: Ernst stated that two bids for Phase I were submitted. Phase I is the infrastructure for the facility. He pointed out that both bids were thrown out and the City is starting over as they will bid it as full package. The new package will include the infrastructure, building and vehicles. There will be two vehicles, a T-1500 and a T-3000. Ernst stated that Symtron was already awarded the bid for the propane props. The bids should be out on the street by July 15 and should be ready to award by the end of August. Ernst stated he will doing the grant by the first of September. Ernst stated that the groundbreaking ceremony was excellent, there were AIRPORT COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES JULY 10, 1997 PAGE 2 about 100 people present including the Governor, President of BP, Mayor Williams, President of ESI, Pete Conrad the Astronaut, and almost the entire City Council. be Update - Taxiway Extension North Project: Ernst stated that the FAA §ave the City the Notice to Proceed yesterday and the City provided written notice to CIC today. Activity should start within the next couple of days. This is about a $1.5 million project. Update - Phone Card Commission: Ernst stated that from May i to June 16, 1~7 the City received $157.50 for our portion of the phone card commission. He further stated that he was pleased by the way it turned out and anticipates this month to be better. Knackstedt asked if Ernst had seen an influx of low-life around the airport. Ernst replied that he hasn't seen a person standin§ around the machine so he isn't sure who is buyin§ them. Knackstedt stated that every time Ernst brin§s this up he will ask. de Update - Crack SealinE and Runway RemarkinE: Ernst stated that the crack sealin§ project as noted in the last meetin§ is still scheduled for Au~st or September and this will also include the remarkin§ of the runway. Ernst stated there was one other item that the Commission may not be aware of and that is the Airport Manager's new vehicle which went out for RFP a couple of weeks ago and the bids were opened today. The apparent low bidder is Hutchings Chevrolet. The vehicle will be a Suburban, 4 wheel drive. The delivery date is 180 days, Ernst has 174 days left. NEW BUSINESS: ATM Machine Inquiry: Ernst stated that he had a gentleman contact him to see if the City would like an ATM machine in the airport. Ernst told the §entleman that it sounded §ood and asked him for a letter statin§ that he wanted it in. The letter received was askin§ the City to purchase the ATM machine. Ernst told him that it would not be acceptable. The §entleman was §oin§ to try to find an entrepreneur that would want the ATM machine so it's not totally out of the picture yet. Ernst stated that he thou§ht a machine was §ood idea even if it was one of the smaller machines. The ATM would be handled the same way the phone card concession is handled. Koerber noted that she §ets a lot of people that ask for a cash machine in the buildin§. Ernst stated they will keep on top of the issue. Knackstedt asked how the phone card concession and ATM machine works. Ernst stated that they §et $2.00 to AIRPORT COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES JULY 10, 1997 PAGE 3 ® ® $4.00 per transaction and then we would take a percentage of their gross just as is done with the phone card machine. AIRPORT MANAGER'8 REPORT: Ernst noted that he has 5 meetings left before his retirement.. Before the meeting started Ernst handed out a copy of the Airport Manager's Report (a copy is included with these minutes). Ernst noted that at the last meeting there were some numbers missing from the enplanement report and asked Commissioners to write in the following numbers for June, ERA 8,274 and Yute Air 1,070. Ernst stated that he called SouthCentral Air on a couple of occasions and they haven't responded yet. He further noted that they are not technically required to until the 15t~ of the month. COMMISSIONER COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS: Ernst stated that he was a little disgusted with the carpet cleaning situation as the spots keep reappearing and he's not sure that the contractor is handling removal properly. Koerber asked who was cleaning it and Ernst stated that it was Heaven Scent. Ernst noted that the restaurant has been closed for the past week as Barb has had surgery on her hand for carpal tunnel, she anticipates to open on Monday. Ernst stated that he has been keeping track of the gift shop and they've been open every day this week, from 9 or 10:30 to 5 at night. Ernst noted that they were a little weak there for awhile but are doing O.K. now. Bielefeld asked if the fuel system on the float plane basin is working. Ernst stated that it is and as a matter of fact they are just about down to 500 gallons so are putting in another 1,000 gallons this week. He further stated that it's not doing a bunch but it's picking up quite a bit. Bielefeld asked what the rate was per gallon. Ernst stated that it is $2.25 per gallon. Knackstedt asked if there was anything going on with the car rentals and the empty slot. Ernst stated that they are pretty much status quo at this point. He said that Kathy Tarr, who is the Director at the Visitors' Center is going to occupy the slot vacated by National. This area will be unmanned and they will have brochures there. Ernst stated that as far as the renovation of the car rental areas, the car rental agencies didn't want to do that so it will remain status quo at this time and most likely would propose renovation at time of renewal which is about 2 years away. Koerber stated that she wasn't aware of the agencies not wanting to renovate. Ernst stated that was what Dan told the City and he assumed that he was speaking for everybody. Koerber stated that they have never discussed it and Ernst recommended that she check with Dan. Ernst stated that the Council was ready to allow the renovations if they wanted AIRPORT COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES JULY 10, 1997 PAGE 4 to. Koerber stated that she will talk to Dan as she wasn't aware that it was a definite no. Ernst stated that unless she resurrects it, it is pretty much stopped. Koerber stated that she didn't realize that it had been stopped and to her knowledge they weren't going to do anything until after June or into July and probably not do any renovations until August anyway. Koerber asked if the other slot was clear yet and that nothing could be done until fall as you can't do anything in July. Ernst stated that maybe he was mistaken but it did require the Payless slot to become available. Knackstedt asked if it was o.k. for the City to occupy that space. Ernst said that the City was going into National's spot and they left voluntarily. Koerber stated that having the booth there last year was really handy as she referred a lot of people to it. Bielefeld stated that he had a couple of questions on the taxiway extensions, one being will there be any trucks using the ramps and taxiways. Ernst said no, it's a really clean project that there is only a period of time where he may have to shut down the ILS but they are hoping not to, basically he sees little or no interference to traffic. Ernst stated that they may have to close "Charlie" for a period of time when making the connection and will close maybe the north 1,000 feet when the connection is made there. He further stated that there is a time in the safety zone area of 1-9 where they are going to have a large backhoe in there to cut the line through, it's not in the critical area of the glide slope so they are going to play it by ear but he thinks they can get away without doing much of a closure. Bielefeld asked if the approach light system will be shut down. Ernst stated no, they will not. Bielefeld asked if the VASI's will have to be shut down. Ernst stated that the VASI's will be shut down for not longer than 24 hours as they are going to cut on both sides then make the connection very quickly. Ernst further stated that they are trying to make the impact as minimal as possible and that there would probably be more impact with the crack sealing project than this one. Bielefeld stated that the ILS shouldn't be a big deal unless we have fog, we've got an NDB approach and VOR approach so that should work for those people that are so equipped with GPS. Ernst stated that basically the traffic will come from the Marathon gate and go down that road off the end of the ramp, the north end. They will probably come in the gravel pit road at this time and once the new strip is complete that road will be abandoned and traffic won't be able to get through there anymore. There won't be direct access to the ramp. Ernst stated that the completed Master Plan project will be brought to the Commission at the next meeting on August 14 if there are no comments before then. The plan is basically the same as the one that was presented a couple of meetings ago. The plan will come to this Commission first for recommendation to the Council. AIRPORT COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES JULY 10, 1997 PAGE 5 10. 11. Koerber stated that she remembered why Dan would have said something like that about the renovation. She stated that Avis decided to back out because they couldn't get the 5 year contract. Ernst agreed. PERSONS NOT SCHEDULED TO BE HEARD: None INFORMATION ITEMS: Kenai City Council Meeting Action Agenda {6/18/97} - No comments be Kenai City Council Meeting Action Agenda (7/2/97) - Ernst noted that the Fire Training Center was on there and was removed as it was tabled. Councilman Measles stated that the Ordinance was tabled indefinitely so it will disappear and a new Ordinance will be brought back combining Phase I and II. Councilman Measles stated that it was handled this way as they did not want it to appear to be a negative vote by Council for the project. Ernst stated that if you are not familiar with the project that ESI {Emergency Services Institute) is going to build an industrial structural facility adjacent to the fire training center and that's part of the negativity we didn't want to show as they are putting about a $2 million structure there. It will be very nice. ADJOURNMENT: BIELEFELD MOVED TO ADJOURN~ EDWARDS SECONDED THE MOTION. MEETING WAS ADJOURNED AT 7:25 P.M. Respectfully submitted, Barbdra Roper / "~'"'~