May 2023 Meeting Minutes

MEET­ING MINUTES

PANA­MA CITY – BAY COUN­TY AIR­PORT AND INDUS­TRI­AL DISTRICT

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Open­ing:

The Board Meet­ing of the Pana­ma City-Bay Coun­ty Air­port and Indus­tri­al Dis­trict was called to order at 9:00 a.m., May 24, 2023 by Chair Hol­ly Melzer. 

The Invo­ca­tion was giv­en by Vice Chair Sheldon.

The Pledge of Alle­giance was led by Chair Hol­ly Melzer.

Roll was called. In atten­dance were: Ms. Vic­to­ria Williams, Mr. Matt Algar­in, Mr. Les McFat­ter, Mr. Glen McDon­ald, Mr. Will Cramer, Vice Chair Mark Shel­don and Chair Hol­ly Melzer.

Chair Melz­er asked if there were any Pub­lic Com­ments. There were no Pub­lic Comments. 

Chair Melz­er asked if there were any items on the Amend­ed Agen­da, includ­ing the Con­sent Agen­da, that any Board Mem­ber would like to move to a Busi­ness Item for fur­ther dis­cus­sion, and if not, to make a motion to accept the Amend­ed Agenda.

Mr. Will Cramer made a motion to accept the Amend­ed Agen­da, and Mr. Glen McDon­ald sec­ond­ed the motion. The vote was tak­en and the motion passed unanimously.

Reports:

Mr. Park­er McClel­lan pre­sent­ed the Activ­i­ty Reports. The oper­a­tion num­bers were down slight­ly, but pas­sen­ger num­ber are up in April, at 2.9%. The Air­port con­tin­ues to main­tain is mar­ket share across the Region at 23%. As the Region con­tin­ues to grow, that num­ber should grow as well. 

Ms. Dar­lene Gor­don pre­sent­ed the Finan­cial Reports for the first 7 months of the Fis­cal Year end­ing April 30, 2023. In the month of April, total cash increased $638,000 over March of last year. Com­pared to last year, cash increased $7.2 mil­lion for a total bal­ance of $40.1 mil­lion. Of that num­ber, unre­strict­ed cash is $28.5 mil­lion and restrict­ed cash is $11.6 mil­lion. In April of 2023, total lia­bil­i­ties increased $835,000 due to con­struc­tion. Excess rev­enues over expen­di­tures to date are $9.4 mil­lion. Oper­at­ing Rev­enues account for $5 mil­lion with Non-Oper­at­ing Rev­enues mak­ing up the remain­ing $4.4 mil­lion. Oper­at­ing Rev­enues to date are 110.56% of bud­get. Per­son­nel is at 91% of bud­get. There are cur­rent­ly 8 posi­tions open that we are try­ing to fill. Gen­er­al Oper­at­ing Expens­es are at 90% of bud­get. Most accounts are with­in bud­get and there is noth­ing out of the ordi­nary to report.

Con­sent Agenda:

a. Board Meet­ing Min­utes – April 26, 2023

This Item pro­vid­ed for Board approval of the April 26, 2023 Board Meet­ing Minutes.

b. Rat­i­fy Pur­chase of Wheel­chair Lift

This item pro­vides for Board rat­i­fi­ca­tion of a non-bud­get­ed cap­i­tal pur­chase for a replace­ment wheel­chair lift for pas­sen­ger board­ing bridge Gate 2 at the Ter­mi­nal Building.

In com­pli­ance with the Amer­i­cans with Dis­abil­i­ties Act pro­vi­sions, each pas­sen­ger board­ing bridge at the ter­mi­nal has a wheel­chair lift mount­ed on it for the pur­pose of trans­fer­ring wheel­chairs to/​from the con­course and ramp lev­els to/​from air­craft. In May of 2022, one of the air­lines oper­at­ing the wheel­chair lift at Gate 2 loaded a large elec­tric wheel­chair on the lift which appeared to be with­in the weight lim­its of the lift. The lift sub­se­quent­ly failed as a result of the weight and posi­tion­ing of the wheel­chair. Upon request from the oper­at­ing air­line, tem­po­rary repairs were made to the lift and it was placed back in ser­vice. The tem­po­rary repairs were an attempt to keep the lift in ser­vice until per­ma­nent repairs could be facil­i­tat­ed and ulti­mate­ly failed. In Sep­tem­ber 2022, the lift was removed from ser­vice permanently.

The orig­i­nal intent was to replace the wheel­chair lift through an insur­ance claim, as we were not able to deter­mine whether the dam­age was due to mis­use or fail­ure of the lift. Upon fur­ther review by our insur­ance car­ri­er, it was deter­mined that we would not be able to claim the fail­ure of the wheel­chair lift and the claim was denied. 

In Feb­ru­ary 2023, an ​“Invi­ta­tion for Bid” was pub­licly adver­tised for a replace­ment wheel­chair lift for Gate 2 pas­sen­ger board­ing bridge. At bid open­ing on March 9, 2023, one respon­sive bid was received as follows:

• P & W Qual­i­ty Machine, Inc. — $25,190

Due to the oper­a­tional neces­si­ty of the wheel­chair lift it was nec­es­sary for the Exec­u­tive Direc­tor to approve the pur­chase. The new lift was acquired and placed in oper­a­tion on Gate 2.

The wheel­chair lift replace­ment was an unbud­get­ed pur­chase. In review of the Airport’s FY2023 Oper­at­ing and Cap­i­tal Improve­ment Bud­get, suf­fi­cient funds were avail­able to accom­mo­date the purchase.

Staff rec­om­mends rat­i­fi­ca­tion of the Exec­u­tive Director’s autho­riza­tion to P & W Qual­i­ty Machine, Inc., for the replace­ment wheel­chair lift at Pas­sen­ger Board­ing Bridge 2 in an amount of $25,190.

c. Award Bid for Waste Removal Services

This item pro­vides infor­ma­tion to the Board for award­ing a con­tract for waste removal ser­vices at the Airport.

The Airport’s cur­rent con­tract for waste removal ser­vices is sched­uled to expire on May 30, 2023 with no exten­sion options avail­able. Accord­ing­ly, Staff recent­ly adver­tised an Invi­ta­tion to Bid for Waste Removal Ser­vices for the North­west Flori­da Beach­es Inter­na­tion­al Air­port. Pric­ing was request­ed for the fol­low­ing services:

Base Bid

As per ​“Invi­ta­tion to Bid”, bids were opened at 2 p.m. on May 16, 2023. One respon­sive bid pack­age was received from:

• Coastal Waste and Recycling –

Year One bid annu­al cost of $25,841.52 rep­re­sents a 6.67 per­cent increase over cur­rent agree­ment final year amount.

The term of the con­tract will be for three years with the pos­si­bil­i­ty of two addi­tion­al one-year options, at the dis­cre­tion of the Air­port. The con­tract will begin on June 1, 2023.

The bid­der is required to car­ry com­mer­cial gen­er­al lia­bil­i­ty insur­ance, busi­ness auto insur­ance, Flori­da Workmen’s Com­pen­sa­tion cov­er­age and employer’s lia­bil­i­ty insurance. 

There are suf­fi­cient funds in the cur­rent year’s bud­get for June through September’s ser­vices. Future years’ bud­gets will include the appro­pri­ate amounts for waste removal services.

Staff rec­om­mends the Board award the con­tract for waste removal ser­vices to Coastal Waste and Recy­cling, at an ini­tial month­ly cost of $2,153.46.

d. Approval of Con­tin­u­ing Month to Month Ser­vice Agree­ment for Flight Display/​Public Address Sys­tem – Altel Sys­tems Group, Inc.

The Air­port owns and main­tains a Flight Infor­ma­tion Display/​Public Address sys­tem locat­ed in the Ter­mi­nal Build­ing. The sys­tem is ​“Oper­a­tion Crit­i­cal” as it sup­ports pas­sen­ger and flight oper­a­tions as well as com­pli­ance with ADA laws and reg­u­la­tions. Main­te­nance and tech­ni­cal sup­port for this sys­tem is pro­vid­ed by con­tract­ed ven­dors who are man­u­fac­ture-cer­ti­fied to per­form the work. The Main­te­nance and Sup­port agree­ment cur­rent­ly in effect is on a month-to-month basis as approved by the Board at the Feb­ru­ary 23, 2022 reg­u­lar­ly sched­uled meeting.

As part of the Airport’s cur­rent Ter­mi­nal devel­op­ment and con­struc­tion pro­gram, the Flight Infor­ma­tion Display/​Public Address sys­tem is includ­ed for re-design and expan­sion to pro­vide sys­tem capa­bil­i­ty and cov­er­age in the expand­ed Ter­mi­nal facil­i­ty. The final con­fig­u­ra­tion of the over­all sys­tem has not yet been deter­mined thus requir­ing con­tin­u­a­tion of the cur­rent Main­te­nance and Sup­port Agree­ment. Staff is request­ing to con­tin­ue the cur­rent Main­te­nance and Sup­port agree­ment, on a month-to-month basis, until final con­fig­u­ra­tion of the over­all sys­tem is deter­mined and imple­ment­ed at which time a longer term, com­pre­hen­sive main­te­nance and sup­port agree­ment will be procured.

Funds for the Flight Infor­ma­tion Display/​Public Address sys­tem Main­te­nance and Ser­vice Agree­ment are pro­vid­ed for in the Airport’s cur­rent FY2023 Oper­at­ing and Cap­i­tal Bud­get and will be includ­ing the FY24 Oper­at­ing and Cap­i­tal Budget.

Staff rec­om­mends Board approval of the Adden­dum to con­tin­ue cur­rent Main­te­nance and Ser­vice Agree­ment with Altel Sys­tems Group, Inc. for the Air­port Flight Infor­ma­tion Display/​Public Address sys­tem, on a month-to-month basis, in an amount of $3,196.00 per month.

e. Approve Lease Amend­ment 1 for South­ern Sky Aviation

On June 2023, South­ern Sky Avi­a­tion entered into a lease agree­ment for a par­cel of land to devel­op a sec­ond FBO on the Airport. 

Air­port Staff has received a request from South­ern Sky Avi­a­tion to mod­i­fy their lease to amend Sec­tion 5.A. of the Agree­ment, which states the date they are required to begin pay­ing premise rent. The request­ed change is to mod­i­fy the Premise Rent due date from Octo­ber 1, 2023 to Jan­u­ary 1, 2024. The request is based on the amount to time that the per­mit­ting process took based on the Bay Coun­ty Plan­ning and Build­ing Ser­vices workload. 

Staff has reviewed this request and requests approval.

The fis­cal impact of Amend­ment 1 is the reduc­tion of the rent for FY24 by approx­i­mate­ly $45,500 for the three-month peri­od for the mod­i­fi­ca­tion of the Premise Rent start­ing due date.

Staff rec­om­mends that Amend­ment 1 to South­ern Sky Avi­a­tion Lease be approved.

f. Accep­tance of FAA Grant Offer to Expand Ter­mi­nal Build­ing – Out­bound Bag­gage Sys­tem

This item pro­vides for Board Accep­tance of FAA grant funds allo­cat­ed from the Bipar­ti­san Infra­struc­ture Law – Air­port Infra­struc­ture Grant Project # 3−12−0159−041−2023 for the pur­pose of Ter­mi­nal Expan­sion – Out­bound Bag­gage System.

This Grant Offer rep­re­sents one of the Airport’s requests for funds under the Bipar­ti­san Infra­struc­ture Law.

The Grant will be used for the Ter­mi­nal Build­ing Expan­sion of the Out­bound Bag­gage Sys­tem. The project will include the con­struc­tion of approx­i­mate­ly 11,690 square feet of addi­tion­al bag make­up area locat­ed west of the exist­ing bag make­up area, addi­tion of a new bag make­up carousel, and mod­i­fi­ca­tions to the exist­ing bag make­up carousel and bag sort­ing equipment.

Project costs for the con­struc­tion are esti­mat­ed to be $8,651,158. Costs are reim­bursable under this Grant at a 90% / 10% ratio for eli­gi­ble items, with the Airport’s share being fund­ed with avail­able Air­port Funds. 

Staff rec­om­mends Board Accep­tance of the Grant Offer to Expand Ter­mi­nal Build­ing – Out­bound Bag­gage Sys­tem, as out­lined above.

Mr. Will Cramer made a motion to Accept the Con­sent Agen­da, and Ms. Vic­to­ria Williams sec­ond­ed the motion. The vote was tak­en and the motion passed unanimously.

Busi­ness Items:

a. Approve Con­tract for Con­struc­tion Man­ag­er at Risk (CMAR) for North Ter­mi­nal Expan­sion Program

Legal Coun­sel and Mr. Rick Mellin with ZHA were avail­able to answer any ques­tions asked by the Board about this Agen­da Item. 

This item pro­vides for Board approval of the rec­om­mend­ed Con­struc­tion Man­ag­er at Risk Con­tract and Pre­con­struc­tion Ser­vices Fees for North Ter­mi­nal Expan­sion Pro­gram. The CMAR Con­tract iden­ti­fies the terms and con­di­tions that will gov­ern the exe­cu­tion of the pre­con­struc­tion and con­struc­tion phase ser­vices. The Pre­con­struc­tion Ser­vices Fees define the cost to pro­vide pre-con­struc­tion ser­vices includ­ing con­sult­ing, sched­ule and logis­tics plan­ning, esti­mat­ing and bud­get­ing, and prospec­tive bid­der stim­u­la­tion for the devel­op­ment of a Guar­an­teed Max­i­mum Price (GMP) Amend­ment for the North Ter­mi­nal Expan­sion Program.

On March 2, 2023, the Air­port received five (5) respons­es to the Request for Pro­pos­als for CMAR for Ter­mi­nal Expan­sion Project. An Eval­u­a­tion Com­mit­tee reviewed the pro­pos­als and inter­viewed all five firms. The Com­mit­tee rec­om­mend­ed the Board approve the rank­ing and autho­rize Staff and legal coun­sel to nego­ti­ate the CMAR con­tract terms and con­di­tions and pre­con­struc­tion fees with Hensel Phelps. The Board approved the rec­om­men­da­tion at the April 26, 2023 Board Meeting.

Staff, legal coun­sel and the gen­er­al con­sul­tant met with Hensel Phelps on April 26^th and 27^th to dis­cuss con­tract terms and con­di­tions and their pro­posed Pre­con­struc­tion fees. The base form con­tract was a mod­i­fied AIA A133-2019 stan­dard form of agree­ment between Own­er and Con­struc­tion Man­ag­er as Con­struc­tor and AIA A201-2017 Gen­er­al Con­di­tions of the Con­tract for Construction. 

Sub­se­quent­ly, Hensel Phelps pro­vid­ed revised con­tract terms and fees gen­er­al­ly in accor­dance with staff, legal coun­sel and gen­er­al consultant’s requests. Terms and con­di­tions were enhanced to iden­ti­fy spe­cif­ic pre­con­struc­tion ser­vices and terms and con­di­tions for the con­struc­tion phase administration.

This approval will only autho­rize the pre­con­struc­tion ser­vices. Pri­or to any con­struc­tion phase activ­i­ties, Hensel Phelps will pre­pare a GMP pro­pos­al to con­struct the Project. Giv­en the com­plex­i­ty of the pro­gram, it is like­ly more than one GMP pro­pos­al will be pre­sent­ed for dif­fer­ent com­po­nents of the Project.

The Pre­con­struc­tion Ser­vices Fees include the fol­low­ing services:

• Project Eval­u­a­tion & Consulting

• Design Reviews

• Bid­der Mar­ket Analysis

• Esti­mat­ing

• Sched­ule Development

• Project Phas­ing

• Bid­der Inter­est Stimulation

• GMP Devel­op­ment

The Pre­con­struc­tion Ser­vices Fees are bro­ken into two com­po­nents: Pre­con­struc­tion Ser­vices and GMP Pro­pos­al Devel­op­ment. The fees were sep­a­rat­ed to allow flex­i­bil­i­ty as to when to solic­it final sub­con­trac­tor bids for the GMP Pro­pos­al devel­op­ment based on avail­abil­i­ty of funds for con­struc­tion. The fees are as follows:

Pre­con­struc­tion Ser­vices: $513,738.18

GMP Pro­pos­al Devel­op­ment: $ 96,478.21

Total Fees: $610,225.39

The pro­posed fees were nego­ti­at­ed based on the cur­rent design sta­tus and spe­cif­ic require­ments of the North Ter­mi­nal Pro­gram and are in line with gen­er­al indus­try fees for a project of sim­i­lar cost and com­plex­i­ty. This total fee rep­re­sents a reduc­tion of $86,529.15 from Hensel Phelps’ orig­i­nal­ly pro­posed fees.

Funds are avail­able with­in the FY23 Oper­at­ing and Cap­i­tal Bud­get to finance the ini­tial phas­es of work, and grant funds will be used as avail­able. Fund­ing will also be pro­vid­ed for in the FY24 Oper­at­ing and Cap­i­tal Bud­get for this Project. 

Staff rec­om­mends the approval of the Con­struc­tion Man­ag­er at Risk (CMAR) Con­tract for North Ter­mi­nal Expan­sion Pro­gram and the Pre­con­struc­tion Ser­vices Fees for North Ter­mi­nal Expan­sion Program.

Mr. Glen McDon­ald made a motion to Approve Con­tract for Con­struc­tion Man­ag­er at Risk (CMAR) for North Ter­mi­nal Expan­sion Pro­gram, and Mr. Matt Algar­in sec­ond­ed the motion. The vote was tak­en and the motion passed unanimously.

b. Approve ZHA Annu­al Review

Mr. Rick Mellin of ZHA, Incor­po­rat­ed pre­sent­ed a sum­ma­ry of their activ­i­ties for the last year. 

On May 19, 2021, the Air­port Author­i­ty entered into an Agree­ment with ZHA to pro­vide engi­neer­ing, archi­tec­tur­al, project inspec­tion, con­struc­tion man­age­ment and plan­ning series. The orig­i­nal agree­ment had a five (5) year term with an annu­al review of their per­for­mance and the review of the ser­vices provided.

Dur­ing the past year, ZHA has per­formed and com­plet­ed numer­ous tasks for the Air­port Author­i­ty. The projects have ranged from pro­vid­ing and ensur­ing envi­ron­men­tal over­sight and com­pli­ance, pro­vid­ing plan­ning ser­vices on mul­ti­ple ongo­ing air­port con­struc­tion projects, and by pro­vid­ing design and con­struc­tion over­sight of ongo­ing projects.

Dur­ing this past year, ZHA strived to work in the best inter­est of the Air­port Author­i­ty and has per­formed the projects in an exem­plary manner.

ZHA has pre­pared an Annu­al Report (Pre­sen­ta­tion), which sum­ma­rizes their efforts over this con­tract period.

This Board action does not have any imme­di­ate bud­get impact. We will con­tin­ue to bring task orders to the Board on an indi­vid­ual basis.

Staff rec­om­mends approval of the annu­al renew­al of the Pro­fes­sion­al Engi­neer­ing, Archi­tec­tur­al, Project Inspec­tion, Con­struc­tion Man­age­ment and Plan­ning Ser­vice Agree­ment with ZHA Incor­po­rat­ed for Year 3 of their Agree­ment, based on their sat­is­fac­to­ry per­for­mance in Year 2.

Fol­low­ing the pre­sen­ta­tion, there was Board dis­cus­sion about con­cerns with the per­for­mance of ZHA over the last year. There was also dis­cus­sion about get­ting addi­tion­al engi­neer­ing firms oth­er than ZHA on board to help with some of the upcom­ing projects. 

Ms. Vic­to­ria Williams made a motion to approve the ZHA Annu­al Review, and Mr. Les McFat­ter sec­ond­ed the motion. Vice Chair Shel­don and Mr. Glen McDon­ald vot­ed ​“no”. The motion passed.

Con­struc­tion Update (infor­ma­tion only):

a. Air­port Entrance Round­about and State Road (SR) 388 Realignment

Mr. Park­er McClel­lan gave the con­struc­tion updates. The Round­about con­tin­ues to move for­ward and is about 80% com­plete. The irri­ga­tion sys­tem is done and the grass is begin­ning to grow. The East­bound lane sign needs to be replaced. 

b. Park­ing Lot Expansion

We are wait­ing on com­paction of the Over­flow Lot. Once this lot is com­plet­ed, it will have a self-pay gate for cred­it cards. 

c. Ter­mi­nal Buildout

Mr. Rick Mellin updat­ed about this Project dur­ing his presentation.

d. Bag Make­up Expansion

The con­trac­tor for the Bag Make­up Expan­sion is work­ing on utilities. 

e. South­ern Sky Aviation

Mr. Don­ald How­ell with South­ern Sky Avi­a­tion gave an update; they are still on track with their con­struc­tion time­line and have had no weath­er delays. The steel gird­ers are going up on the FBO Ter­mi­nal and the roofline is tak­ing shape. Fin­ish­ing work on the foun­da­tion is ongo­ing for all three hangars. The week of June 12^th, Hangar A, the large hangar, will begin to go up. Water lines will be installed through­out the site over the next 3 weeks. 

f. Sheltair

Mr. Kei­th Rogers with Sheltair updat­ed on the progress of their con­struc­tion. They cur­rent­ly have 2 con­struc­tion projects under­way. They are on Phase 2 of the Ramp Expan­sion and Hangar 3 Project. The major­i­ty of the Ramp Expan­sion is com­plete and they have begun work on the Hangar. They are also adding addi­tion­al office space to Hangar 2 which will add 4 more offices, giv­ing them a total of 8 offices once that project is complete. 

Plan­ning Update (infor­ma­tion only):

a. North Ter­mi­nal Expansion:

North Ter­mi­nal Design – Mr. Don­ald Gray and Ms. Eri­ca Hagan with ZHA, Inc. gave a pre­sen­ta­tion on the ​“But­ter­fly” design con­cept with the new Ter­mi­nal Expan­sion. He dis­cussed ways that the stormwa­ter drainage would be han­dled in the front of the Air­port, and Ms. Hagan showed areas that would be great for dis­play­ing art and light wells that would allow nat­ur­al light into the ter­mi­nal. Mr. Gray also talked about the option of light­ing the front entry with col­ored light­ing with­in the but­ter­fly design. They showed a ren­der­ing of where the new bag­gage claim, TSA, con­ces­sions, and gates will be located. 

Addi­tion­al­ly, Mr. Gray pro­vid­ed an over­all ren­der­ing of the Ter­mi­nal Expan­sion from the land­side and the air­side perspective. 

Bay EDA Update (Infor­ma­tion Only):

Ms. Bec­ca Hardin gave the Bay EDA Update. Project Maple, an Inter­na­tion­al main­te­nance, repair and over­haul (MRO) com­pa­ny that has com­mit­ted to com­ing to Bay Coun­ty. An $11.2 mil­lion grant with Tri­umph has been ten­ta­tive­ly approved to sup­port their growth here and they are under­go­ing term nego­ti­a­tions at this time. They will be build­ing a 100,000sf hangar at the south­ern end site at the Air­port near the tran­sient apron. Project Maple will bring 250 jobs with $30 mil­lion cap­i­tal investment. 

Project Stam­per, head­quar­tered in the Sil­i­con Val­ley of Cal­i­for­nia recent­ly made a site vis­it to the Air­port. They are an orig­i­nal equip­ment man­u­fac­tur­er that will be assem­bling air­craft. They will be build­ing a 600,000sf mod­i­fied build­ing on the Infield site at the Air­port and cre­at­ing 1800 jobs and $400 mil­lion cap­i­tal invest­ment, with the pos­si­bil­i­ty of fur­ther future devel­op­ment. They will make a final deci­sion mid to late June and will make a for­mal announce­ment in July. Project Par­a­digm is look­ing at 350 acres North of the Ter­mi­nal. It is a Defense relat­ed com­pa­ny that will cre­ate 350 jobs and an unde­ter­mined cap­i­tal invest­ment at this time. She said that they attend­ed MRO Amer­i­c­as and met with 20 com­pa­nies in 2 days. She will be trav­el­ing with Mr. Ben Moor­man to the upcom­ing Paris Air Show.

The Moore Agency Update (Infor­ma­tion Only):

Ms. Katie Spill­man of The Moore Agency report­ed on mar­ket­ing. She dis­cussed the part­ner­ship of ECP with the Hid­den Dis­abil­i­ties Sun­flower Pro­gram. They will be doing a press release about it with about 10 dif­fer­ent com­pa­nies on social media with a reach of about 807,000 peo­ple. WJHG shared it online and on the air, and the Bay Coun­ty Cham­ber also shared infor­ma­tion about the pro­gram as well as Arc of the Bay, a non-prof­it agency in Lynn Haven, Flori­da that pro­vides sup­port and oppor­tu­ni­ties for adults with dis­abil­i­ties. ​“Wher­ev­er Fam­i­ly” a social media lifestyle trav­el blog, will be shar­ing it on their site at the end of the month. They will be cel­e­brat­ing the Airport’s 13^th year of oper­a­tion next week, and will be kick­ing off the Sum­mer Wheel’s Up Music Series again in the month of July, pro­vid­ing live music in the Ter­mi­nal for pas­sen­gers to enjoy. She said that at the 44^th Annu­al Tel­ly Awards, ECP won the Bronze Tel­ly Award for the ​“Let’s Go” com­mer­cial that ran dur­ing the Super Bowl. 

Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Report:

Mr. McClel­lan gave the Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Report. He said that cur­rent­ly there is an open posi­tion for a Pro­cure­ment and Con­tracts Man­ag­er, as well as a Con­struc­tion Pro­gram Man­ag­er. There will be a revised Pur­chas­ing Pol­i­cy pre­sent­ed to the Board for approval at next month’s meet­ing. The Air­port will be renew­ing the TURO Agree­ment. To fund future growth, the Air­port has secured a $25 mil­lion SIB Loan, and had our Finan­cial Con­sul­tant do a pre­lim­i­nary Debt Capac­i­ty Analy­sis. Based on pas­sen­ger activ­i­ty, we are able to do a new PFC Appli­ca­tion. On June 5^th, Mr. McClel­lan will be meet­ing at the White House to talk about the Bipar­ti­san Infra­struc­ture Law (BIL) mon­ey. He asked the Board to approve tem­porar­i­ly reduc­ing the park­ing fees for the grass over­flow park­ing from $9.00 down to $7.00 per day, because it is a less­er park­ing expe­ri­ence, and the Board agreed. The reduced rate will only be uti­lized when the oth­er lots on the Air­port are at capacity.

Pub­lic Comments:

There were no Pub­lic Comments.

Adjourn­ment:

The meet­ing was adjourned at approx­i­mate­ly 10:10 a.m.

Next meet­ing is sched­uled: June 21, 2023 – Board Meet­ing 9:00 a.m.

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Lisa Brady, Exec­u­tive Assistant 

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Hol­ly Melz­er, Chair