The Payson Town Council held a regular meeting on June 12, 2024, at 4:21 PM in the Town Hall Council Chambers. The meeting covered several agenda items including public comments, consent agenda approvals, a public hearing for a liquor license, a first public hearing on a manufactured home overlay rezoning, and the award of a construction contract. The meeting also included recognition of the Finance Department for receiving the GFOA Triple Crown Award.
From uh Marie Fassano. Thank you for increasing the volume. I had trouble hearing everybody. My name is Marie Fasano. I'm a pilot, and I'm here representing the experimental aircraft association. You've heard us Tom West, our president talked before, but this time I'm going to say a few things. When you mentioned all the activities and all the uh things that the town has, I didn't hear aviation. And aviation is a very important part of this community. Uh we have firefighters who come to our airport and help with wildfire. Uh this Saturday, for example, we have uh the Young Eagles program, and I know with the community kids with some of your grandkids and your children, we've taken a lot of your children and grandchildren up for airplane flights, and the pilots donate their time and their fuel and their hours, and they love giving kids airplanes. This past two years we've given three scholarships for children, ten thousand dollars each, thirty thousand dollars in scholarships to the community, to high school and one college student to they could pursue a aviation career. We have a student aviation program, we've taken them to see Embury Riddle to see different places. We've done a lot with aviation, this community. So we have a lot going on in aviation, and we'd like to we have a blank roundabout, and it's empty and it's got nothing on it. And we have a lot of things related to cowboys, and we'd like to do some aviation. We have a and here you see a sample. Elizabeth Fowler did that for us. We have uh we have an aircraft that has been on this airplane air airport for decades. We have stripped it, the children of the A of Student Aviation Program have helped us work on it. We're continuing to work on it. It was donated. But we definitely need your approval. We've talked to the Firestone company that's right nearby, the Elks Club, and all the people there, and they have approved they said they would love to have that airplane on there. Someone one of you last time, I had I did listen, Chris. I did listen to the meeting, but I have trouble hearing the meeting. And now this is airport road and airline road. There was an airport at Airline Road, there was an airport at Main Street. So this community since the 20s has been an aviation community. So we would like to let people know, not just at the airport, but let people know as they pass through that this is an aviation community, and there's many things that go on. Now we have done everything that people the town said we needed to do. We've spoken with Larry Halverson, we've spoken to Christine Smith, we've spoken to the airport commission, we've been to the council, we've been to ADOT. We've gotten proposals, we've done everything you folks said we needed to do. So what we need now is to your approval that we can we we said that the EAA would maintain the airplane forever. EA has been here for many many years. So we will maintain the airplane. We are putting boulders around for safety. It's going to be on a six-foot pole high in the air. Nobody can get to it easily. So that's for safety. And so what else do you folks need for us to move forward with this project? That's what we want to know. Um can't respond or give instruction, but Mr. Town Manager is something that we could have uh maybe on the next uh agenda as far as the next step, what would need to be done uh to move this forward, and then we could make a decision on that. Sure. Uh you want to put this topic on the next council agenda. Um yes, is that uh good for the council? Yes, please. Thank you. Okay, and if you have any questions, Christine Smith has my contact information. I'd be glad to answer.