MEET­ING MINUTES

PANA­MA CITY – BAY COUN­TY AIR­PORT AND INDUS­TRI­AL DISTRICT

Open­ing:

The Board Meet­ing of the Pana­ma City-Bay Coun­ty Air­port and Indus­tri­al Dis­trict was called to order at 9:00 a.m., Novem­ber 20, 2024 by Chair, Mark Sheldon. 

The Invo­ca­tion was giv­en by Ms. Hol­ly Melzer.

The Pledge of Alle­giance was led by Mr. Les McFatter 

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

Pub­lic Comment: 

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

Accep­tance of Agenda:

Chair Shel­don asked if there were any items on the 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. Cramer made a motion to accept the Agen­da, and Ms. Melz­er sec­ond­ed the motion. The vote was tak­en and the motion passed unanimously.

Reports:

Mr. McClel­lan updat­ed the Board on the Octo­ber’s Activ­i­ty Reports. The Air­port was up 10% growth over last year, aver­ag­ing 15% in total pas­sen­gers year to date. The Mar­ket Share was main­tained at 22% for the month. Region­al Com­par­i­son con­tin­ues to show the Air­port with sub­stan­tial growth through­out the year. 

Con­sent Agenda:

a. Approve Board Meet­ing Min­utes – Octo­ber 30, 2024

This item pro­vides for Board approval of the Octo­ber 30, 2024 Board Meet­ing Minutes.

b. Approve 2025 Board Meet­ing Schedule

This item pro­vides infor­ma­tion for the Board­’s con­sid­er­a­tion of the Board­’s 2025 Meet­ing Sched­ule.

c. Approve Land Lease with DC Avi­a­tion

This item requests the Board ot approve a Land Lease with CD Avi­a­tion

d. Approve Change to Admin­is­tra­tive Pol­i­cy 9.1 — Paid Leave

This item pro­vides infor­ma­tion for the Board­’s con­sid­er­a­tion of the change ot Admin­is­tra­tive Pol­i­cy 9.1 — Paid Leave.

e. Approve Change to Admin­is­tra­tive Pol­i­cy 9.2 — Unpaid Leave

This item pro­vides for Board approval of the change ot Admin­is­tra­tive Pol­i­cy 9.2 — Unpaid Leave.

Ms. Williams made a motion to accept the Con­sent Agen­da, and Ms. Melz­er sec­ond­ed the motion. The vote was tak­en and the motion passed unan­i­mous­ly.

Busi­ness Items:


a. Award Con­struc­tion Man­ag­er-at-Risk (CMAR) for North Ter­mi­nal Expan­sion Con­struc­tion — Cardel­la Con­struc­tion Company


Mr. McClel­lan pro­vid­ed abrief his­to­ry on the CMAR ser­vices for the North Ter­mi­nal
Expan­sion. The sin­gle bid­der for the CMAR of the North Ter­mi­nal Expan­sion was Cardel­la Con­struc­tion Com­pa­ny. As of yes­ter­day, the Air­port was noti­fied from FAA that addi­tion­al time was need­ed to review on the sin­gle bid­der. The request is to approve the Cardel­la con­tract pend­ing FAA con­cur­rence with award being ot a sin­gle bidder.

Dis­cus­sion ensued.

Mr. Cramer made a motion to Approve the Con­struc­tion Man­ag­er-at-Risk (CMAR) for North Ter­mi­nal Expan­sion Con­struc­tion — Cardel­la Con­struc­tion Com­pa­ny and Mr. McFat­ter sec­ond­ed the motion. The vote was tak­en, and all mem­bers vot­ed ​“Yes”.

b. Hol­i­day Park­ing Plan ‑Pre­sen­ta­tion
Mr. McConnell updat­ed the Board con­cern­ing the upcom­ing hol­i­day park­ing pan, which includes feed­back from pas­sen­gers last hol­i­day sea­son. With a sig­nif­i­cant increased park­ing demand dur­ing the Thanks­giv­ing Hol­i­day, cours­es of action to help pas­sen­gers with their trav­el include pay­ment options in the Long-Term and OVer­flow Park­ing Lots, addi­tion­al light­ing in and to over­flow park­ing, and added exten­sive shut­tle ser­vice. There will be a new pay­ment option to pay in advance using a QR code and also an on-site QR code to scan to pay in over­flow parking.

Dis­cus­sion ensued.

Con­struc­tion Updates (Infor­ma­tion Only)

a. Ter­mi­nal Buildout

Mr. McConnell pre­sent­ed updates on the Ter­mi­nal Build­out, which includes get­ting the doors, kick plates, and hard­ware installed. Final touch­es on the restrooms are being done, the water is in and turned on, as well as the hand dry­ers being installed. Every­thing is oper­a­tional. The exit­way has all con­struc­tion walls and con­struc­tion bar­ri­ers removed. The con­trac­tor is fin­ish­ing up on paint and pol­ish­ing the floors.

Dis­cus­sion ensued.

b. Bag Make­up Expansion

Mr. McConnell con­tin­ued his Con­struc­tion Update pre­sen­ta­tion with updates on the Out­bound Bag­gage Claim project. Inte­ri­or con­struc­tion of the project has been com­plet­ed. Punch list items are being done now.

Dis­cus­sion ensued.

c. Ter­mi­nal Ramp Expansion 

Mr. McConnell gave the last Con­struc­tion Update pre­sen­ta­tion updat­ing on the Ter­mi­nal Ramp Expan­sion project. Plans are for project com­plete in May.

Plan­ning Update (Infor­ma­tion Only)

a. North Ter­mi­nal Update

Mr. McClel­lan shared that the Staff and con­sul­tants are begin­ning the admin­is­tra­tive paper­work to move for­ward with the North Ter­mi­nal Expan­sion, once FAA approval is received. 

b. Project InSPIRE

Mr. Cole Davis informed the Board about work­ing with the legal coun­sel at FSU to com­pose the MOU, with hopes to present the MOU at the Jan­u­ary Board Meeting. 

Dis­cus­sion ensued.

c. Rental Car Counter Facil­i­ty Design

Mr. McClel­lan informed the Board of the kick­off meet­ing with the design team and rental car com­pa­nies. Staff wil be prepar­ing an RFI for rental car com­pa­nies to pos­si­bly add addi­tion­al businesses.

Dis­cus­sion ensued.

Bay EDA Update (Infor­ma­tion Only)

Ms. Bec­ca Hardin updat­ed the Board on Pre­mier Avi­a­tion with the project mov­ing for­ward with antic­i­pa­tion of get­ting an RFI for the con­struc­tion out soon. Updates were giv­en on Project Spin­ner, Tri­umph Gulf Coast Grants, Project Opal, (300 job project $1 bil­lion cap­i­tal invest­ment); and Project Express (1,700 jobs $150 mil­ion cap­i­tal invest­ment). Project Horace, which is a Cana­di­an main­te­nance repair and over­haul com­pa­ny look­ing to build a 100,000 square foot hangar, is explor­ing ECP and oth­er sites (300 jobs, $400 mil­lion cap­i­tal investment).

Ms. Hardin also gave an update on Project Super­bowl, which is a defense relat­ed com­pa­ny, (200 jobs and $30 mil­lion cap­i­tal invest­ment), Project Trail­blaz­er (1,100 jobs, $1 bil­lion cap­i­tal invest­ment) Project Son­ic, a Euro­pean MRO (100 jobs, $20 mil­lion cap­i­tal invest­ment), and Project Har­mo­ny (1,800 jobs, $2.5 bil­lion cap­i­tal investment).

Dis­cus­sion ensued.

The Moore Agency Update (Infor­ma­tion Only)

Ms. Katie Spill­man shared the upcom­ing reg­u­lar­ly sched­uled Novem­ber and Decem­ber newslet­ters. She stat­ed that trav­el reminders will con­tin­ue for the hol­i­days. Email blasts are going out on ECP top trav­el tips, which include know­ing what you can bring, reminders on the 311 rule, and TSA tips. Park­ing and shut­tle ser­vice reminders are going out ahead of the hol­i­day. Social media con­tent is going out to sup­port the reminders on these hol­i­day trav­el tips. 

Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Report:

Mr. McClel­lan report­ed on the upcom­ing trip to Wash­ing­ton to thank the leg­is­la­tors for the ten mil­lion dol­lars and to lay the ground work for addi­tion­al funding. 

Reminder the Hol­i­day Lun­cheon with the staff on Decem­ber 20th at 11:00 a.m.

There were no addi­tion­al pub­lic comments. 

Next meet­ing sched­uled: Board Meet­ing: Decem­ber 18, 2024 – 9:00 a.m.

The meet­ing was adjourned at approx­i­mate­ly 9:39 a.m.

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Park­er W. McClel­lan, Jr., AAE Mark Shel­don, Chair

Exec­u­tive Director