Welcome to business session.

Our uh first item of business session is approval of minutes for business session of November 9th, 2023.

Is there a motion?

Oh moved.

Second.

We moved and seconded all in favor of improv uh approval of minutes.

Yeah.

All in favor.

Aye.

Aye.

All opposed.

Thank you.

So he kept me moving.

We will hold the presentation on ordinance 230625.

I believe they're actually going to be coming to the Transportation Infrastructure and Operations Committee soon to start off the chat, so that will be held at least for one week.

Giving us time for the fabulous Department of Aviation.

New terminal operations.

You got the press here and everything.

Amazing.

And they'll only say positive stuff, I'm sure.

Good afternoon, Melissa Cooper, the new aviation director here with my colleagues.

Jade Lisker with the Aviation Department.

Justin Meyer, glad to be demoted.

Excited to come and share what's going on in the terminal.

And uh right after Thanksgiving, what happened, well, and what we're still working on, and so it's hard to believe in 2023.

We opened nine months ago the new terminal, and so lots of lessons learned.

Uh lots of heart has gone into the process, so we're here to tell you about it.

Mayor, members of the city council, Jade Luska again with aviation.

Uh we have a few slides to go over with you today.

Um, what we were gonna present to TIO.

Um, but we're great to have you be here today.

Just to give you a little bit of history, again, uh Melissa said the lessons learned, the excitement going on.

But just to take you back just a little bit uh where we were when we had terminals B and C.

We really don't want to talk about that, but just to let you know during our peak demands and what the transport the uh passenger traffic was like was that it was mostly a one-curb uh layout where most of the public was look working on a one-curb system, but we did have six lanes of traffic that was mixed with all sorts of modes of transportation.

So it had the buses, the taxes, the Ubers, the limos, the red bus, the blue bus, and we had about 1400 linear feet of curb.

We had a cell phone lot near the uh police station that was in the middle of the the locations, and then as I mentioned, just uh a barrage of different locations where people can park and walk across uh all the lanes of transportation at the time.

Um moving into the new terminal format, the arrivals curve.

When we went through the whole process for the six years, we did a full traffic study.

We analyzed terminals B and C's traffic patterns, we understood what we needed to put into the new facility as the departures level was now elevated and the arrivals level is down below on the arrivals and what we came up with.

We reviewed it with our consultant teams, we analyzed the standards and the standard operating procedures.

We looked and vetted it with our our uh uh commercial curb users, the space allocations, and really justified where they were on the curb.

So, what you see out there today was uh very much a um working process for us to justify where they are in the curb.

So the larger and wider curb um is where the buses are at because we're gonna have a more a larger passenger pickup and drop off with all of the transportation locations there, and then the smaller curb, which would be the third curve, where that's where we have the shuttles, we have the Ubers, the limos, um, and so there's the justification on where we place them on the curb based upon the most important need.

And so we reviewed that and completed that, and that's what you see out there today.

And just to give you uh another perspective, this is uh angle looking down through the current the uh arrivals level below the departures, and so we have two lanes of pickup now, and we have two lanes of through traffic, and with those two lanes gives us that same 1400 linear feet for a traffic pickup and then the drive-thru lanes.

And again, this is just for private vehicles.

This is nowhere, the buses will know be not be found in this location.

The taxis or the limos are all in the commercial level, which I'll show you.

But this is just for the private pickup.

So we did transfer all other large modes of transportation off this location.

And then this is the arrivals curve just adjacent to the private um curb line that you had with the arrivals, and again, we're looking at an additional 1300 linear feet where we do put the hotel shuttles, the blue bus, the rental car bus, the ride KC, the charters, and all the locations similar um situated throughout this one.

So, again, separation is what we're looking for and looking for clarity for our passengers to pick up their addition their needed rides once they arrive on the arrivals curb.

So these are the programs that we manage throughout the last nine months as Melissa mentioned, and then Justin's gonna talk about our lessons learned and the operations and how we have pretty much did a fantastic job throughout the holiday season, our first one for Thanksgiving.

So Justin won't take away.

Thanks, Jade.

Again, Justin Meyer with the aviation department.

Just a few things to take you through that we addressed heading into the holiday period as we knew that Thanksgiving was going to be a peak time for the new terminal and passengers experiencing it.

Many of them for the first time as we know that that is uh a holiday that brings a lot of infrequent travelers uh to the to the airport.

So we did a lot of work in uh in promoting the cell phone lot location as that really helps solve the arrivals level curve, uh keeping people that are waiting for guests that have not yet claimed their bags or are not yet out of the building away from the curb.

Uh solves a lot of the traffic control issues.