Wednesday, April 15th, and I'd like to call the Carson City Airport Authority meeting to order.

Roll call, please.

Chair Bulitz.

Present.

Vice Chair Norvell.

Here.

Treasurer Sutton.

Here.

Member Flint.

Unmute yourself.

Member Horton.

Member Hutter.

And Member Stewart.

Here.

We have a quorum.

Okay.

We have quorum.

Let's go ahead and do the Pledge of Allegiance.

Corey, why don't you do this?

One nation under God.

In the visible liberty and justice for all.

As always, board members were all uh provided uh minutes of our last meeting.

And I know that uh everyone had a chance to review them.

Do I hear a motion to approve the minutes?

All right.

Second.

All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

Okay.

Minutes pass.

Modification of the agenda.

The chairman reverse reserves the right to modify the agenda in order to most effectively process the agenda items.

Items may be taken out of order, items may be combined for consideration by the authority.

Items may be pulled or removed from the agenda at any time.

Public comment.

Members of the public who wish to address the airport authority may speak on agendized and non-agendized matters related to the airport.

Comments are limited to three minutes per person or topic.

If your item requires extended discussion, please request the chairman to calendar the matter for future airport authority meeting.

The public may provide comment in advance by a meeting by written submission to the following email address.

Manager at Fly Carson City.com.

For inclusion or reference in the minutes of the meeting, your public comments must include your full name, address, and be submitted via email, but by not later than 5 p.m.

the day before the meeting.

The Carson City Airport Authority values your input.

Members of the public who wish to provide live public comment may do so during the designated public comment periods indicated on the agenda in person.

Yeah, we'll start off with the first item, which is the airport engineers report.

Um, okay.

Well, we can go ahead and do that.

Uh I don't see we have an uh an engineer's report anyway.

Do we hold on a second?

Do we have we don't have a engine?

We don't have one anyway, do we, Corey?

We have a late report, um which has been handed out and there's a copy available for the public there.

Okay, and there's no one here to present it.

Okay, so we'll just take the the written report as is and we'll offer comment.

Okay, what I was referring to is when you read that public comment section, the next thing you do is call for public comment if there is any.

And it looks like there may be some.

That's right.

We're not used to having people in the in the audience early.

There you go.

That's it.

I'm calling for public comment.

If you'd like to make a comment, please come up to the uh mic, state your name.

My name is Paul Hamilton.

Turn on the mic.

Okay.

Paul Hamilton, I'm a current FBO flight school operator with Sport Aviation Center at CXP since 2012 and flight training at CXP since 2005.

Private pilot, CFI and FA pilot examiner, your fast team representative with our local FISDO, CXP board member, just as you are for six years, operating managing a flight school almost every day, paying airport directly with four training aircraft taxes, FBO fees, indirectly, hangar class two FBO insurance, plenty of money going to the airport, probably more operations at this airport than anyone, then through three airport managers, plus Corey.

SCXP.

In summary, just in touch with our airport operations.

Now I want it to be understood that my motivation is simply to run a flight school at CXP with safe, fair, and friendly environment while supporting mutual prosperity for all.

In coordination with Tim Pulitz, Chairman, I interviewed potential airport managers.

Corey answered every question and scenario considering patrons, Carson City, FA factors flawlessly.

No comparison to the other airport manager applicants.

Since getting the job, Corey has pursued every claim made in that interview as best as practical, and maybe not at rocket speed, but he's getting there.

Corey uses myself as a resource rather than being a know it-all.

I've seen consistent efforts to a global view and operational and safety decisions.

Since his employment, we've seen a nice build out of GA and jet hangers and customers, simply more revenue and controlled growth.

Over the years, as Corey has turned out to be someone who I can trust to evaluate all sides of an issue and determine the best outcome.

As pilots, we call it aeronautical decision making and risk management.

Yes, in the upcoming board closed session, there will be discussion and debate over the salaries of other airports, which are all over the map.

However, we have given Corey the skills and opportunity to bid on other high paying jobs, related jobs.

We owe it to the airport, our patrons in Carson City to maintain our current success.

Another way to look at this, we do not want to have spent all our previous time and money training someone for hiring pay higher paying job elsewhere.

We need to keep that investment.

It would be strategically smart to provide a higher paying job here and now.

Therefore, I recommend the board provide Corey at least a 20% raise in the upcoming agenda item.

Thank you for your consideration.

Thank you, Paul.

Is it okay if I drop off my my spiel here with you guys?

Yep.

Anybody else would like to make a comment?

Thanks, Paul.

I'll sign in and please state your name before you do.

I just remember I know.

I know.

Thank you.

Thanks, Paul.

Please state your name.

Thank you, Chair Denny French of Carson City.

I just uh Corey and I have had few real personal discussions, but when I have gone to him with issues or if I've called, he's responsive and thoughtful, and everything I've seen during meetings would suggest that what Paul is saying, the gentleman just before me.

Um I'm not too sure about the pay part because I'm a little worried about our budget overall, but um the main thing is he's a good guy, and that if you don't appreciate it, shame on you.

Somebody's not paying attention.

So the next thing is I'd just like to ask y'all later on in the thing, because you can't respond right now, how'd the airport do with the earthquake?

I understand that you're in the midst of doing some uh air um strip uh work and considerations.

I don't know if they're in the works now or just in still the consideration space because I haven't been able to get to all the meetings.

But I appreciate your work, and even though I'm still flown over quite a bit, it actually is a joy to go out there and a lot of pilots in my family, and while I didn't follow suit, um the side of them coming off and going on to their day doesn't hurt my feelings at all.

And now, if you get a big jet liner in there and they come over and take my roof off as they go across, I'm gonna be a little concerned.

But right now we're doing good.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Would anybody else like to make a comment at this time?

Okay.

That's it for this point.

Let's move on.

It looks like we do not have a consent a consent agenda item at this meeting, so we're gonna move on to public hearings.

Now, um, for that the uh first public hearing item is agenda H1 for discussion and possible action, approve FBO permit of real clean aircraft detailing as a class five FBO, providing aircraft cleaning services.

And do we have a staff summary for this?

Okay, so real clean aircraft detailing uh Reno Tahoe LC is applied to operate as a class five FBO at Carson City Airport.

Uh the company has provided evidence of insurance, naming the Carson City Airport Authority is additionally insured.

Um, what they have provided is adequate to approve the uh class five FBO permit.

Um, I can also say that I've been impressed with the company's professionalism, and they are actively deploying to other airports across the state, not just in Carson City.

Um, this is not a um side gig or something like that.

This is a professional organization.

Um the details of their application are attached, and I'm available for any questions.

Would there like to be any comments from the make a motion?

Or any other comments between us, none?

No.

Okay.

Do I hear a second?

Second.

All right, it's been seconded.

All those in favor, please vote.

Aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

Michaela and uh Brian, did you guys vote?

You're both muted.

Oh, I said I.

You did.

Okay.

Great.

I'm for it.

Okay.

Yeah, I'm I'm for it.

I just I didn't get to my button in time.

All right, it's unanimous.

Thank you.

So at this point, I shall I'll go ahead and ask the um attendees to please um vacate the meeting room and Corey as well.

And I'd like to go ahead and um have a chance to uh have the uh broadcast uh stopped.

And then we'll uh we'll we'll call back out.

I'd like to call this meeting back to open session.

Agenda item H three for discussion and possible action to set the compensation of airport manager.

And we have uh Mr.

Takis and Mr.

Norville that make a quick comment.

You go ahead with this item now.

I mean, you just announced it, so I don't think there's um of course we've made several recommendations, and it's up to you to decide what compensation to pay him.

Thank you.

Okay, there's public comment offered to anybody.

Yeah, we're set.

Okay.

No more comment from the board.

We'll go ahead and have a motion.

Mr.

Chairman, uh, I move uh that we set uh the airport manager's compensation via an equity adjustment to a salary of one forty-four thousand nine hundred dollars per annum.

Okay.

All those in favor.

Um, thank y'all very much.

Um the tentative budget.

Um it has been converted to the acquired state format and submitted to the department of taxation.

Um, I have received some feedback from the department, and there are some mistakes that I'll have to make some corrections to.

It's uh not an issue with the budget that we prepared, it's uh formatting with the state's format.

Um I always receive comments comments from them each year, so it's not abnormal to have to make some changes.

Um I've been working with potential developers for new hangar development.

Um that's something I mention every month.

Um, a lot of interest in new hangers at the airport.

Um, I've attended multiple conferences.

Um last month I was at the Washington DC conference during the meeting and I participated from there.

Um while I was there, I was able to promote the need for runway extension project funding for airports across the United States.

Uh, I wanted to make a make sure the policymakers were thinking about the increase in jet and turboprop traffic across the United States, and how this is something that just doesn't just impact Carson City.

This is something that is countrywide.

And um I hope that the um aviation subcommittee will be considering general aviation airports with their funding to include runway extensions.

We've heard support for this over the past couple of years, um, and that support seems to be continuing.

Uh I was able to ask the director of the FA directly for advice on our issue with the nighttime approach.

And I am working on writing a letter based on the feedback that I received from the retired FAA chief operating officer.

I think this attend attendance at this conference was enormously successful, and um I achieved the exact things I wanted to do by going there and doing that.

This may be the last year that I feel the need to go to that conference, uh, depending on if our ACIP continues to get approved, which we will find out fairly soon as our ACIP is formally due to the FAA beginning of next month.

And um, if they're continuing to support it as it's written, which it's as of right now seems like they will be, uh, we'll be on track for the runway extension, which is a huge win.

This is something that's been pushed back every year.

Um, so they're now actually seriously considering it.

I attended the Western Nevada Development District uh annual summit.

Um I spoke on a transportation panel at this event, and I'm always surprised to not see other airports attending these events.

Um these sort of development organizations ultimately are for the people that end up being our customers as the airport.

And um I had some really productive conversations with some other airport sponsors as to some ideas how to help them market their airport, and uh I really referenced Carson City's success as an example that they can look to how they can utilize airports as a tool for their own success in their own counties and cities, um, where there it's really a missed opportunity right now.

Uh, there's this cultural issue across the state that I'm finding where the cities view their airports as playhouses for rich people and not as the tool they are for economic development.

I think that if the state as a whole recognizes the value of their small airports, it'll benefit Carson City greatly with things like um what the NBAA is working on, which I'll kind of get into that in the next item.

Um, but the state as a whole is kind of behind other states when it comes to statewide support for aviation.

Um I'm able to help get that message out by attending these events and also market our airport and aviation as a whole to our actual customers, which are not pilots, they're the companies that have aviation assets.

They are the um cities and the communities that we support.

Attendance at the MBA conference.

Um, I spoke on a panel specifically about uh consisting of airport managers about attempting to maintain part 139 airport standards, uh, even though we don't hold part 1393 certificates.

Um it was a very interesting conference overall.

Um but we were able I was able to kind of highlight some of the um successful things that Carson City is doing.

Uh and I grew I had a lot of attention and um from the other airports uh because we're doing a lot of really good things in Carson.

Fuel flowage, we're still one month behind, but we do have the updated numbers for February, uh, or slight 2% increase over the previous year on fuel flowage.

Um airport operations are down about 22% uh over the previous year, so that trend is continuing to support that we're having bigger airplanes using the airport.

Um fewer of the smaller airplanes are flying.

Um our operations numbers for March, however, I do have, which are up 22 percent.

I think this is primarily driven by weather um year over year.

I think it's um we've had almost no snow.

Um and that is all that I have for the manager's report.

Mr.

Chairman questions?

Corey, just revisit one more time on our night minimums.

What where do you think that is at?

So right now we've submitted the application for the FAA to complete the actual review of the approach itself for nighttime approval.

Um we did that once already, but they only did an inspection of the PAPIs themselves.

They didn't actually do the portion to review the approach.

So we had to reapply and that put us back at the bottom of the list.

So at this point we're in queue waiting for them to redo the approval for the nighttime approach.

So we don't actually know when that'll occur.

They will not give us very, very much information.

And I've reached out to every party I have I've maybe by the time the snow flies again.

I don't I I can't make an assumption because they they don't give me any information.

Um I can say that based off the feedback I got from DC, I am writing a letter to the Western region, and I will explain in detail what has happened since the beginning of this project and where we should be at the top of the list.

Um I'm working with our engineer uh Armstrong on putting this together because a lot of this predates me.

One of the things that you know strikes me is that for example, we had a list of comparable airports here.

We've got to be right at the top of that list in terms of present and future development and potential.

Many of those airports are not going anywhere.

The feedback I've received from not just our engineer but other engineers that I meet and talk to at these conferences is that our airport is experiencing more interest and growth than any other airport in the state, uh potentially in the country.

Um this is a really interesting time, and we seem to be the only airport that is capitalizing on this change of the industry to turboprops and jets.

And um, at least in the state.

Not that doesn't include the commercial airports.

The commercial airports are always doing that.

Um but uh these GA airports, they they they're missing an opportunity right now.

You're satisfied there's nothing else we can do.

There's no one else that we could appropriately contact or I do believe that I can write this letter and get it to the Western Region Director.

And um I don't from my experience talking to different departments throughout the FAA gets me nowhere.

Um it's all depends on the procedures department specifically.

That's that's the feedback I get from all the different departments.

But um following the advice I got in DC, putting this letter together to the director of the Western Region, and um if there's any success, that's where it would be.

However, I I'm not gonna make any promises that'll change anything because we're more than likely just gonna stay in the list.

Thank you.

Any other questions for uh Corey before we move on to legal public?

No.

Steve?

Uh yeah, from the legal report.

Uh I just want to remind you that next meeting we need to approve the final budget that's statutory that has to be approved at our May meeting.

And so um beyond that, uh, I don't have anything else to report.

All right.

If there's no questions for legal counsel, we'll move on to treasurer's report.

I believe that we are uh ready, Corey.

Are we not to uh submit the preliminary budget?

So that was submitted a few days ago, but today was the deadline for it.

But today was the deadline for it.

Yes.

So we have submitted the preliminary budget.

Uh, we have a few things to adjust.

Uh, and we'll get that handled in the next couple of days, and then be prepared to submit the final budget.

Very good.

Any questions for the treasurer?

From the public?

Board?

No.

All right.

Any other comments?

Uh, anything from the board members they would like to go uh discuss before we uh close this meeting.

Okay, nothing else?

Nothing from the public.

Then uh we'll be publishing the items for the public.

There's nothing from the public.

No.

All right.

Well, if that's the case, we'll be getting agenda items for the next meeting coming up throughout the month.

And I can call for this meeting to be adjourned.