MEET­ING MINUTES

PANA­MA CITY – BAY COUN­TY AIR­PORT AND INDUS­TRI­AL DISTRICT

MEET­ING MINUTES

PANA­MA CITY – BAY COUN­TY AIR­PORT AND INDUS­TRI­AL DISTRICT

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Open­ing:

The Board Work­shop of the Pana­ma City-Bay Coun­ty Air­port and Indus­tri­al Dis­trict was called to order at 9:05 a.m., Sep­tem­ber 12, 2024 by Chair, Mark Sheldon.

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

The Invo­ca­tion and the Pledge of Alle­giance were led by Chair Sheldon.

Mr. Park­er McClel­lan asked the Board to vote for approval of Remote Par­tic­i­pa­tion, allow­ing Ms. Vic­to­ria Williams to par­tic­i­pate and vote, if nec­es­sary, remote­ly in the Board Work­shop via ZOOM.

Mr. McFat­ter made a motion to Approve Remote Par­tic­i­pa­tion, and Vice Chair Cramer sec­ond­ed the motion. The vote was tak­en and the motion passed unanimously.

Mr. Peter Back­haus, Senior Con­sul­tant, from Ever­green Solu­tions, LLC., pre­sent­ed the results of the Air­port’s com­pen­sa­tion study.

Dis­cus­sion ensued.

Mr. McClel­lan updat­ed the Board on August’s Activ­i­ty Reports detail­ing con­tin­ued growth in August for the Air­port, as well as the Region. The Air­port shows 1.936 mil­lion pas­sen­gers year to date with a total 7% growth in total pas­sen­gers year to date.

Ms. Dar­lene Gor­don ref­er­enced July’s Finan­cial Reports pri­or to pre­sent­ing Fis­cal Year 2025 (FY25) Oper­at­ing &Capital Bud­get. 2024 shows the Air­port’s best finan­cial year in the his­to­ry of operation.

Mr. McClel­lan reviewed the Air­line Agree­ments that were recent­ly renewed.

Ms. Gor­don updat­ed the Board on the Air­port’s His­tor­i­cal Rates, mak­ing note that in FY23, ECP had the low­est Cost Per Enplane­ment (CPE) out of all the small hub airports.

Ms. Gor­don then pre­sent­ed the FY25 Oper­at­ing &Capital Bud­get Board Bud­get Pre­sen­ta­tion, which required no for­mal action by the Board. For­mal approval of the final Bud­get will be con­sid­ered at the Sep­tem­ber 25, 2025 Board Meeting.

Mr. McClel­lan pre­sent­ed a request by FCS Facil­i­ty Ser­vices to amend their con­tract to allow for increased salaries for employ­ee reten­tion. The exist­ing Agree­ment allows for a con­tract esca­la­tion and FCS was request­ing an addi­tion­al amount to cov­er the addi­tion­al cost for salary increas­es. Fol­low­ing a dis­cus­sion, it was deter­mined that the con­tract pro­vid­ed for an esca­la­tion as pro­posed. It was the con­sen­sus of the Board that the con­tract as exe­cut­ed should be main­tained with the pro­posed esca­la­tion for FY25.

Dis­cus­sion ensued about to the Bi-Par­ti­san Infra­struc­ture Law (BIL) in regards to the North Ter­mi­nal Expan­sion fund­ing and pos­si­ble timing.

Dis­cus­sion ensued regard­ing the five (5) land leas­es in the T- hangar area that allowed the own­ers to move their Port-a-port-hangars from PFN to ECP. The orig­i­nal term was 10 years and in 2020, there was an exten­sion for an addi­tion­al five (5) years. Mr. McClel­lan is request­ing one (1) addi­tion­al year exten­sion for four (4) of the five (5) leas­es, this would align all 5 leas­es to expire at the same time and allow the Air­port to begin devel­op­ing options for the devel­op­ment of those parcels. 

Dis­cus­sion ensued con­cern­ing the Com­pen­sa­tion Study for the Staff. There were no addi­tion­al comments.

Next meet­ing sched­uled: Board Meet­ing: Sep­tem­ber 25, 2024 — 9:00 a.m.

The meet­ing was adjourned at approx­i­mate­ly 10:55 a.m.

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

Exec­u­tive Director