Do you want to wait for any it's up to you?

Do you want to wait a few more minutes?

Five more minutes.

My hearing is terrible.

Did you want to wait another few minutes or do you want to get started?

Yeah, we why don't we give it a couple more minutes just on a just to be safe?

Okay.

Yes.

Okay.

If you'll you'll start, please.

Okay.

So at least seventy-two hours prior to each regional airport authority meeting, a complete agenda packet is available for review on the city's website at WWW.

City of Merced.gov or at the City Clerk's office at six seventy-eight West 18th Street, Merced, California, nine five three four.

Assisted hearing devices are available for meetings held in the council chambers.

Okay, Pledge of Allegiance.

A Pledge of Allegiance through the flag of the United States of America.

To the Republican under God.

Okay.

Okay.

Back to Karen, I guess, for roll call.

Roll call.

Hearst called in sick today.

Um a bomb.

Present.

So Hio.

Present.

Johnson.

Present.

And Silva.

Present.

Scoble.

And present.

Okay.

No one for public comments.

You know, Chair, I currently have zero uh request to speak forms from audience members wishing to speak on items not listed on the agenda.

Okay.

Well, and you want to go right to uh reports?

Airport manager.

Anyone airport manager.

Good afternoon, Council and Chairman Scoble.

Thank you for being here today.

I have our uh airport manager report here.

Um with a little PowerPoint and put some pictures of the uh terminal for the terminal there so we can have something nice to look at.

So um as of current, we have been focusing on uh closing out the CARES Act grant for the new terminal replacement project.

And with that said, we got the close out grant letter from the FAA, which on November 7th was completed.

Um the airport manager Rev Williams, along with Aircraft Economic Development Associate Karen Baker had a meeting with the uh FAA to go over our annual ACIP meeting for this MERSED.

With that, we identified uh roadmap for 2026 through 2030 to review by the FAA with hopes of aligning with federal priorities for the FAA for airport projects, and the FAA was uh successfully submitted to ACIP for review for MERSED for 26 to uh year 23.

Uh the airport staff is still working with the engineering department and DD construction along with the consultants meet and hunt on the punch list for the closeout of the construction project of the terminal replacement.

The terminal floors were resurfaced in all the public areas per request to airport staff, along with the airport apron, concrete valley gutter was replaced to meet the FAA specs for engineering specifications.

After completion, a QA survey was conducted by BSK and a surveying consultants to ensure that the materials and engineering met the requirements for the FAA P501 specifications.

As far as the airport improvement projects, phase three of the FAA radio tower is underway with adding new navigation communication radios for the airport.

This project will complete late spring 2026, and this is funded by the FAA entirely.

The FAA wrote uh remote transmitter receiver project will be switching from PGE to MID, which the current radios are hosted in the existing building terminal.

Now our DOT Essential Air Service by the attached order, the U.S.

Department of Transportation extended the Essential Air Service obligation award letter of advanced air at Merced from January 1st, 2026 through June 30th, 2026 until the conclusion of the air carri selection case initiated by the order of 2565, issued on May 10th, 2025, whichever occurs earlier.

I kind of wanted to show you uh presentation of all the different new upgrades in the terminal as well for you.

So you can see in the back here, this is the view on the planes who come in, and they've replaced the concrete to the door below the welcome sign over there.

And then where I'm at sitting down here, where I'm working the red, is where the valley gutter replacement was taking place.

I love that drawing.

Here is the checkpoint here.