We didn't think that uh we were gonna have much luck hiring general surgeons.

There's really not a whole lot of there's not an abundance of general surgeons because nobody wants to be a general surgeon, they all want to be a neurosurgeon or uh cardiac surgeon or some kind of some kind of specialty.

And uh but we've uh golly, we we have three uh general surgeons uh now.

One guy has been a professor of surgery at the University of Arkansas for the last thirty years, and uh he and the other two guys are and one other guy, they switch out, but that guy knows everything about robots and you know, any anything's new he knows because he's teaching those teaching it to those kids uh at the University of Arkansas.

It's we we've really we've really really really been blessed with providers.

Uh I never thought I was gonna be a real fan of uh they call them advanced care providers, nurse practitioners and physicians assistants.

But uh that works, you know.

A lot of those people they're they don't have an MD degree, but they do have a doctor's degree and whatever the specialty is.

My wife goes to uh arthritis specialist in Amarello.

Uh it's a doctor, young doctor young MD lady and a nurse practitioner that works with her who has a doctorate.

And uh we love them both, but uh I would when we go in there, I would just as soon my wife see the nurse practitioners I would uh the MD.

I think she's every bit as good a provider as the as the MD.

You know, sort some things you they have to be MDs.

You know, you don't particularly want a nurse provider doing neurosurgery, but you know, they can fill the gap and take the load off so they could uh the heavy duty MDs can take care of the heavy duty stuff.

Exactly.

That's exactly right.

But Dr.

Lugo filled that gap real nicely.

I'm really impressed with it.

Well he had uh you know it's pretty amazing that a doctor that had a practice on Fifth Avenue in New York City's gotta is in Clubus, New Mexico.

You know, that's that says quite a bit for Dr.

Lugo.

I he's an interesting guy.

Uh for doctor's day, we were trying to figure out what we were gonna give the providers for doctors day, and uh just somebody came up with the idea.

We'll we'll give them stethoscopes and engrave their name on them.

Some of the docs were going, ah we don't want to do that.

Every doctor's got this got their stethoscope and they like the one they have, you know.

And Dr.

Lugo said I have an idea.

He said, uh you're right.

I have a stethoscope.

I like my stethoscope.

But uh he said I would like to have one with my name engraved on it.

I like my stethoscope, but uh he said I would like to have one with my name engraved on it where when I have a rep and an usually good resident, a great nurse, uh an anathesiologist, you know, somebody that's helping me operate.

I would like to have that where I could hand that to them, and it's kind of a pass it forward deal that in ten years and they're operating on their working on somebody, and they look at that stethoscope, and there my name is.

They they'll know that I appreciated what they did for me and my patients.

He uh he's he comes across a little bit crouchy uh initially, but he's really a nice man.

Oh yeah, he's very thorough, and he's kind of has that grandfatherly professional.

Yeah, but I was I was impressed with him.

You know, I had to see him last fall for routine stuff, and then he uh I had an earn yeah in April.

Really?

He was Dr.

Takur.

Oh my god.

He's the nephrologist.

Typically you I think I have because I have as a matter of fact, I gotta go do a follow-up with him.

He's probably gonna belly.

Well he uh he's a car nut.

But yeah, nothing like that.

He has two electric cars.

He has uh a Tesla model S plaid, which is the same exact car that Elon Musk uses for his daily driver, and that Jay Leno uses for his daily driver.

We'll go from zero to sixty in one point nine seconds.

And uh he took me for a ride the other day, it's crazy fast.

Just we hope that's okay.

What are we to keep the keeping these things off?

Uh well we when we get a uh quorum quorum.

Yeah.

Sick.

Thank you.

There we go.

There comes our quorum.

Yeah.

But anyway, uh, and then he's got a Porsche electric report as well.

Hi, Robbie.

How are you, sir?

I'm good, sir.

That's the world of law enforcement today.

Hectic.

It's not bad.

You've got some bad guys lately, haven't you?

They've been knocking them down a little bit.

Hopefully, we can keep it up.

Wow.

Justin, do we know if John's gonna be here?

I have not heard from either uh Mr.

Martinez or uh Mr.

Mundella.

And of course the mayor sends his apologies.

So that should be ready to go.

We have a quorum now.

Okay, we'll uh start the meeting.

Thanks uh for being here.

Appreciate it.

Uh uh and you're gonna have to tell me your name.

My name is Jamie.

Jamie?

Yes.

Jamie, could you call the roll for us, please, ma'am?

Yes, sir.

Please let me know if I say anybody's name wrong.

Jamie Martinez.

Lonnie Leslie.

Stephen Verdil.

Robert Tellis.

Here.

Sorry.

John Book.

Here.

Lewis Houston.

Here.

Mayor Morris.

Okay, we have a quorum.

Um we will uh go next to the approval of the minutes of the April 29th, 2025 uh board meeting.

Are there any additions or corrections to those minutes as uh as printed or sent, I think electronically?

Mr.

Chairman, administer from July 1st, 2025.

I'm sorry?

The minutes were from July 1st, 2025.

Excuse me.

Okay.

Excuse me.

I was looking at the wrong one.

Just make sure.

July 1st, 2025.

Yeah.

It's amazing what happens when you look at the wrong piece of paper, isn't it?

Do we have any corrections uh to those minutes for July of one?

Hearing none, do I hear a motion that we approve those?

I'll make the motion.

Thank you, sir.

Second.

Very good.

Moved and seconded that we approve the minutes of the July 1st, 2025.

Uh Clovis Civil Aviation Board minutes.

All in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Opposed, same sign.

Thank you.

All right.

Director's report.

Yes, sir.

Sir, we'll begin with uh runway 04 localizer.

The FAA is uh they're replacing the uh the localizer shaft.

It's uh positioned right next to the localizer.

It's uh it's a basically a portable building.

Uh it's being uh replaced and uh with it they're they're adding a DME to the ILS system uh which will provide uh uh mileage uh distance measuring equipment uh from the uh navigational aid.

Uh there's a note amount currently it's as effective today, and they expect to be finished with the uh with the project by the 24th of October.

That the notem is uh indicating 31 October, but the uh but the project manager feels like it'll they he he added in a week uh just just in case for weather and whatnot.

Um currently the 04 ILS uh approaches will not be available, but we do have other approaches such as uh uh 04 R NAV, which it it mimics the localizer correction the ILS uh approach, and Denver uh said they don't have any concerns with the LS being out of service for that length of time.

Next, we have a U pipeline.

Um they're gonna be coming out between now and November uh doing utility locates.

They're going to uh place an eight uh eight-inch pipe uh down parallel to our fence along uh East 21st Street after utilities is uh completed for the locates.

Uh they expect the uh construction to be between 30 November and 7 July.

I don't anticipate any uh any issues.

Uh they've been coordinated with the FAA and myself uh and they'll be able to mark their vehicles accordingly uh to FA standards and in event of an emergency, they will be uh in radio contact with me and we'll ensure they re uh evacu the area in case there's any type of approaches uh to 04 or 2.

Our FA Air Force certification is we are now 100% compliant with all uh findings.

Um I just received the inspection schedule for next year, and as of today we are scheduled 10 February for our next FA inspection.

Okay Part 139.

Um next we have a bulk fuel fuel storage upgrade uh with innovative fuels out of Amarillo.

Uh they've been they've received notice to proceed.

Uh currently uh they're performing most of the work uh at their plant in Amarlo.

Uh they will be they project uh they will arrive mid-January to uh do the work.

Uh the reason for the delay is the uh the large tanks are having to be uh constructed, and so they're they're waiting for their subcontractor to finish the tanks.

And so how much storage will we have?

So we're gonna both tanks will hold 10,000 gallons each.

So uh right now we have a 10,000 gallon tank and an 8,000 gallon tank.

Uh 8,000 is for AF fuel, 10,000 is Jet A.

And so now the the new tanks will be won't give us any more storage capacity except for the AF fuel.

It gives us two thousand more gallons, but it's it's more in environmentally compliant.

You know, it's uh it's uh double walled, so so we're just adhering to EPA standards for New Mexico.

How often do we have to fill those tanks?

Uh so it really depends.

Right now we're on uh uh every 10 days we have an automatic uh tanker truck arrive.

Um sometimes you know we're unable to take the full load because for some reason if it was due to weather, uh we we didn't have that many sorties fly or or uh aircraft missions.

So uh so sometimes you know he leaves with a couple extra hundred gallons that we have to pay freight on because they have to return it to the refinery.

But typically right now we're every 10 days and we get 8,000 gallons each each time.

So thank you.

Any questions for Chris on these uh items he's uh to this point?

No.

Okay.

All right, keep we'll keep on going.

All right, sir.

If I talk too fast, y'all holler at me.

The uh in addition to the uh the fuel tank project, uh innovative fuels, while they're on on station, they will be doing a modification to our 1998 JED A truck, the older style truck.

It doesn't have a scully system, which is a uh a safety mechanism to prevent overflow during refill operations.

We're uh working with them to while they're on station to be able to do that at the same time as they're doing the tank replacement.

The duration of the uh tank replacement we're expected to be four days and we have a a plan in on on file to uh you know ensure our both of our uh trucks are full and operational so that's that's the really the big push to get the 1998 truck operational and fully serviced so we'll have two 5,000 gallon trucks available for during those four days just in case we have a heavy you know uh aircraft flying so okay good okay sir uh any questions about that no okay sir next to the terminal construction um the project is ongoing the the walls are starting to be erected um as of today or tomorrow the uh the contractor is supposed to receive low profile lighted barricades that will be used to uh cordon off tax ray bravo uh for the um for the construction of the of the apron tie in to Bravo from the uh terminal um they expect the the entire project to be completed by the end of April uh we expect tax ray bravo to go down that portion of Bravo uh between uh our hangars and taxway alpha to be unavailable to aircraft tax operations uh the end of October probably until March and what what will happen sir is the uh aircraft will landing uh 1230 they'll have to back taxi on the runway to to avoid the area so uh currently project is 31 percent complete uh again with uh e tech of uh the end of April 26 Sir uh in front of you got a uh a pamphlet uh printed out it's from the state DOT aviation uh section it's uh it's just a local guide for uh for it's a guide for local leaders to become familiar with the all the processes with uh airport operations you know funding um inspections things like that so it's just for for your convenience and and for your situational awareness so uh I've done this or uh a similar program in Rioza and uh I I am so glad I went to that that's uh that's been a really good thing uh and uh I'm I appreciate you putting this together yes sir and and while we're on that when the DOT does offer and I think Robbie have you been to the airport 101 trainings with the state aviation yeah so we'll make the board aware of what those opportunities are and so if anybody is interested in attending those classes uh we'll we'll certainly can make arrangements for that to happen.

Good good good okay sir next on the uh fuel our fuel sales uh as of uh this set this past September uh total sales uh was one thousand one one hundred thousand uh we sold uh twenty five thousand dollars worth of AV gas uh nearly thirty two thousand of jet A and we issued uh 43,000 dollars worth of fuel to key lime uh in gallons amount it's uh AV gas was 4400 jet A to general aviation was 7400 and key lime uh received uh 2,500 gallons for the month of of September for our Denver flights uh we had uh uh revenue in plane 832 which is uh on par of last year at 861 um so the only bad thing that happened sir which is I'm trying to figure out we we did have a drop in sales uh between August and September in August we sold a 145,000 dollars worth of fuel in September again it dropped to uh 101 uh I'm not really sure uh I need to do some investigation from last year it it could be just the school started and just people just aren't taking their vacations things like that but I'll I'll investigate and find out what happened so does the low lead gas the is that stay pretty stable on the AV gas?

And the in the jet fuel uh is it bounce around or is it?

It seems to bounce around uh a lot of that with with with Denver, you know, and also we'll have a it'll be pretty quiet for for several weeks, and then all of a sudden we'll get especially with the local economy, you know, we'll get um uh business jets from uh companies like Ross and Lowe's, uh you know, some of the the uh restaurant companies will will come in with their executives and you know they take quite a bit of fuel.

You know, and also we've had some King Air aircraft arrive.

Uh they're doing some uh some work with the art with the Air Force, and so they'll be here and they they they make several sorties a day, and so they're taking on a lot of fuel.

So that that helps with our sales quite a bit.

You know, and then every once in a while we'll we'll get half a dozen helicopters from the Army come in and and they'll they'll eat up our fuel quite a bit.

So Army?

Yes, sir.

Yep.

You know, they'll come in and in a flat of six, land and uh and we'll spend a couple hours gassing them all up.

Any questions?

Sales or status?

I do have a quick question on the terminal.

You were saying that the terminal, are you talking about the apron construction that's due to be finished in April?

With the entire project should be should be done by the end of April.

The entire project, okay.

Right.

And and with that uh the construction manager feels like because of the extent of the apron project, you know, tied to the to the terminal, it's extensive, and plus we know with the winter months and the weather, so he's he's projecting it being done just either a month prior to the official grant opening or or almost at the same time as the terminals finished.

So they'll coincide about the same time.

And that's scheduled for May, correct?

The end of April, yes, end of April, okay.

Yes, sir.

Are you satisfied with uh work that's being done and then?

Oh, absolutely.

Yes, sir.

They're they're very hands-on.

They're they're they're always talking to us, communicating.

We have uh great communication with with Ty and his uh his associates.

So I was sort of surprised that Justin decided to make it yellow.

That's not the final color.

You know that presentation they did for the uh for the beam signing, that was pretty impressive.

Yes.

Um what they did and what they what they set up for everybody, I I thought was really impressive.

Well, sir Ty is a local, and so I th that has a lot to do with it.

I believe he's he's he's invested, you know, in the community, so it helps out quite a bit.

Well it looks like a lot of pride going into that.

It's gonna be pretty sharp.

Yeah, and if you haven't been out there, I encourage you to go out there and take a look at it.

The just the once the exterior walls uh started on the interior walls too on the east side where the restaurant is.

But once that has started to go up, it's really starting to take shape now.

I appreciate it.

Denver Air Connection and the contractor both uh we had a fundraiser for the hospital, and uh they highly supported that uh that fundraiser both both groups and uh we really appreciated them.

They flew all their egg uh Denver Air Connection fluin executives in uh in their metro liner that they uh have and uh uh and then um DEK the what the contractor, what's their the initial EPX.

Oh that's close.

But uh they uh I I talked to Courtney, who's one of the owners, and uh she uh told me that, you know, hey Mr.

Leslie, uh we want to be the lead sponsor of your uh event.

And uh that was because uh recently she had a baby 15 weeks early, and uh they had the baby at the big hospital, Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque, and the baby spent 15 weeks in a baby warmer, and that's what we used with this money that we raised through our fundraiser and uh so uh they wanted uh kind of help pay back that and that's all.

That was uh uh uh just they are really nice people, every every one of them I met, it's been great.

All right, anything else?

Yes, sir, just a few more items.

Um for our AWAS, the automated weather observing system.

Uh you remember we had such we had some trouble with it a few months ago going in and out of service.

Uh FA came out, they basically uh replaced all the components and uh and put in a new UPS system.

Uh we have had zero outages, zero anything with it uh for 90 days.

So it's so that technician, and he's the sole person that comes and works on it constantly, always on call, and he's he's upgraded it and it's been perfect.

So no complaints.

That's good news.

What about training airport staff and all on uh weather reporting where are we at on that?

Well, sir, uh I believe because we hadn't have any issues with the with the AWASP with 90 days, I think Denver is kind of stepped down a little bit from that.

And and right now we don't have available people in airport uh to to be assigned that duty right now.

Okay.

No.

May maybe after we make some more uh hire a couple more people or once I get situated a little bit better, you know, I I'll be able to take on that role as well.

And what was happening with the AWA system, obviously when we'd lose power to it, the battery backup system wasn't lasting long enough.

And so it would uh basically shut down and then it would always have a hard time coming back up and coming back online.

And so part of the improvements and upgrades that they made was increasing the length of time that the battery backup system can be in place.

And so since that time and since as Chris mentioned, we haven't had any problems with the system itself.

And so I think uh how many hours now backup do we have?

Oh, I believe it's it's 12 hours.

Yeah, I think we have 12 hours of backup now.

So hopefully uh whatever uh if we have any electrical systems go down, hopefully they can get the power back up within 12 hours, so we don't have to have to reboot the system.

Okay, thank you.

Yes, sir.

Also um uh with the uh one two PAPI outage that we've had, the extended outage, it's uh the transformer has been replaced and is operational and it's a uh the PAPI's for uh 1230 are are constantly on and we've had no issues with that.

They've been perfect and perfect.

And the the reason before for the outage uh the electrician suspected uh lightning strike to the transformer, that's why it calls the outage.

So any questions, guys?

All right.

Okay.

Also the airfield lighting generator is is been fixed and is oper is operational.

Uh it's been running perfect.

Uh it does a self-test the first Wednesday of every month at 0800.

It runs for 20 minutes and shuts off.

And we're there at 8 o'clock to make sure it turns on and shuts off, and it's been doing perfect.

So uh Norse Electric did a great job bringing that up to is that a natural gas generator?

Yes.

Okay, sir.

Um, our airport vehicles are are doing well.

We have uh four out of the seven passenger vehicles serviced in operation.

All all vehicles are in operation, but four have been uh still need a little bit more servicing.

The tractors have finally been returned to service.

Uh we had uh incident with one of them where there was a small accident that uh damaged part of the tractor, but it's uh back from repairs after a long stay at Western.

Uh and uh and so it's operational and so during that time we had to contract a mower to come out to the airfield and mow the uh the primary areas around runways and taxiways, just the safety areas.

But now that now that we have both mowers back in service, both the shredders are operational, the the attachments that we pull to mow their the airfield, we've been knocking it out.

You know, so uh you'll you'll see a big change now from last month.

So everything's looking good, especially it's it's not raining and the growing season is over, so it's it's helped quite a bit.

And we've been spraying the the weed killer and veget vegetation killer too, so that's gonna have a big impact next year.

So lastly we have our our staffing, we're down two positions.

We're currently operating at 60 percent manning, but both those positions are being uh uh submitted for our consideration on the internet uh on our on our web page for the city, and we expect to have those hires done within a couple of weeks.

Okay.

And sir, that's all I have for you.

How many how many employees does it take to run the airport?

It takes how many do we have or how many does it take?

Well well, right now we have five, including, you know, then with myself and my secretary, and that's that's optimal.

What happened?

So we we uh we're there at seven in the morning and we provide service until eight o'clock at night, Monday through Friday, and on the weekends we have someone there from seven in the morning until four o'clock in the evening.

And we have someone on standby 24-7.

I see.

Yes, sir.

Okay.

Any quite questions, comments, gentlemen?

Uh wings and wheels canceled this year, right?

It's canceled.

What was the impetus behind that?

Excuse me.

What was the driving factor behind that?

I'm sorry.

The terminal.

The terminal.

Okay.

Copy.

Okay.

Unfortunately, I mean, obviously Wings and Wheels brings out a lot of people, and it's awesome.

It's a great event.

However, if you haven't been out there recently uh with the terminal and we've had to narrow down widths for entry points, plus with uh uh the airline service and the number of people that are in that parking lot, uh we just thought it would be best this year to kick it off again the following year, and everybody can see all the wonderful improvements.

Okay.

Sir McBride.

Tell me about the hangar rentals.

Uh we have all our hangers full?

No, sir.

We have about seven or eight available hangers.

I see.

I saw that look like uh does also still uh uh maintain and own that hangar.

Uh there is somebody else.

It's Jonathan Vander nuts.

I'm sorry.

Jonathan Vanderdosen.

Oh okay.

And um Sir, the the very last item it just happened Sunday.

We had a uh small incident with our perimeter fence.

It looks like our neighboring uh farm may have uh done some damage to our fence, knocked it down about 20 feet of it.

We're able to do a temporary repair.

It is secure.

Uh probably not keeping the the wildlife out as it was before, but it's definitely keeping out personnel and vehicles.

And we're working on getting that repaired as soon as we can.

So well, thank you.

We appreciate all the work that you're you're doing a great job.

We appreciate everything you do for the airport.

Justin, we appreciate everything you do for all of us in so many ways.

Thank you very much.

And uh and Mr.

Chairman, I the one thing I would add, I don't know if y'all have heard, but there's a government shutdown right now.

And so um we did receive notification uh from the FAA or the US DOT that if there's not um a resolution to the shutdown and and uh and a budget passed uh by October 12, uh that would impact our EAS service, which uh obviously Denver Air uh provides that for us.

And so once we received that notification, of course I reached out to Denver Air uh to see if they would still honor the flights and still provide the service.

And they said that yes, they would.

Um and so we shouldn't have any interrupted service.

Um obviously Denver Air is doing that at their own risk as far as uh the obviously not potentially being able to receive their government subsidy, but they're gonna still provide service to our area, so that's a wonderful thing and a great partnership that we have with them.

I was listening to National Public Radio as I was driving uh over here this afternoon and uh evidently four major airports were shut down, I think today uh because of the uh federal shutdown.

So that could get pretty exciting, couldn't it?

I did we don't want it to.

We don't like something certain excitement.

I'm glad that you had that conversation with Denver Air.

Uh that's that's great.

Yes.

Okay.

Anything else?

All right.

For the good of the order, do we have any like to make any comments, sir?

Oh, I've got a few questions.

Please.

If you'd give us your name and your address, please, sir.

Uh Larry Jones, uh close New Mexico uh 1801 East 21st Street.

Yes, sir.

Uh I was checking to see uh over on the northeast side over there when the gates might be operational.

I know you always have problems with IT or something, the gate openings over there.

Okay.

By the air care?

Yes, sir.

Okay.

Well, the the gate's operational.

You just have to get out of your vehicle to and put the code into the gate.

But it's not secure, so anybody can walk through there.

It it's got it's been damaged, that's true, and we've been looking for a contract to come in and repair it.

So it looked looks like someone had ran into it with a vehicle and bent the bent the gate a little bit.

So it does secure, it does shut, but it it there is a gap.

It doesn't fall in the way it should.

To get out of the gate, you gotta push it to the side, walk around it and go to the outside to put your code in.

Wow.

Open the gate.

I've got a hanger on the north side there.

You could easily squeeze a body on that gap.

Anybody can walk through your deer or anything.

You know, that that needs to be secure for y'all or something.

So we appreciate that.

Uh that help.

I'm glad it's always good to have eyes.

Oh, yeah.

You know, watching what's going on.

Yeah.

And I love the airport, and I just like to be around it and everything.

I work on airplanes and everything else.

So well, thanks for uh the thanks for bringing that to us.

Okay.

Anything else?

Uh that's it.

I just kind of like to see what's going on at the airport and everything.

So we'll come back anytime.

We'll do.

Thank y'all.

Thank you.

All right.

Our next meeting will be Tuesday, January 6th, 2026.

And uh if there's uh nothing else uh to come before the group this afternoon, uh we'll adjourn the meeting.

Thank you very much for being here.

Thank you.