The Payson Town Council held its regular meeting on November 12, 2025, at 4:00 p.m. in Town Hall Council Chambers. The meeting included public comments, approval of consent agenda, water department update, approval of 2026 meeting schedule, delegation of authority for vehicle lockout SOPs, discussion of Hangar One leases, and appointment to Planning and Zoning Commission.
Public comments during Hangar One discussion (H.4):
Are you ready, Megan? This is the common council for the town of Payson. I call this meeting to order. It's November 12th, 2025, and it is four in the afternoon. The invocation is Eric Anderson in the room. If no, uh Brett Flarity will do the invocation. Our Father in Heaven, we bow before thee this day, and we give you thanks for the many blessings that that was given us. We are grateful for this beauty, beautiful community in which we live. And Father, we are so grateful for all of the uh town employees that uh help run it and keep this place beautiful for us and keep us safe and protected. And we ask a special blessing upon our first responders that they'll be washed over and protected as they protect us. Father, we're grateful that for this time of year in which we celebrate uh our veterans and those who have served our country and provided us uh with the opportunity to have these freedoms to enjoy this beautiful land in which we live. Uh we pray that the spirit will be upon us tonight that it we will be inspired and and enlightened uh by thee so that we may uh process all the information that we receive tonight and uh make uh decisions that will better our community and our town and and move us forward in a positive direction. Father, we pray that uh we might uh be filled with love and kindness uh towards our neighbors, and that we will um seek uh sound judgment that allows us to collaborate and uh and move forward in these things we pray for and do so in the name of thy son Jesus Christ. Amen. And it is all for all Meg. Oh, thank you. Oh it's time for call to the public, which allows citizens for an opportunity to speak on any any issue within the legal authority and jurisdiction of the town of Payson. The town must by abide must abide by Arizona open meeting law, and this agendized item is the public's opportunity to be heard at this meeting. When call to speak, please approach the podium, speak towards the microphone so your statements can be heard, give your name. The town also requests that you address your comments to the council as a whole. Speak on an agenda item today, this meeting. You can wait until the specific item is requested to speak to speak, or you may state your comments now. All to the public is is regulated by time, place, and manner, restrictions, and you cannot speak more than once at this meeting on the same issue, and each speaker is limited to three minutes. We're speaking on policy, not personalities. So the purpose of the meeting is to conduct town business. So with that, the speaker request forms. Uh Michael Glenn. 313 West Cody Circle. Um, I was asked to read this for Marge uh Olden Camp. They had to go to Puerto Rico, and so she gave me the form and asked me to read it. Um is Marge Oldenkamp. Susie, no jokes. I'm the owner of MPG East, which has been running the fuel operation at Payson Airport for the last 15 years. For more than 20 years prior to that, I ran a company that at least over 40 hangars and tied out and specs at Van Isa Airport in Los Angeles. Spent a lot of time at the airport, and I have been very pleased with the job that Dennis Duker does managing the airport. Dennis and his staff, Nicole and Kevin, do not get nearly enough credit for the great job they are doing. I was surprised to find out that a local pilot complained at the last council meeting about Mr. Duker's management of the airport. I was particularly surprised by the complaint that Mr. Duker refused to uh let a tenant do the maintenance on a town owned hangar because of liability concerns. Mr. Duker was exactly correct. Over the many years I managed hangers, and I never let tenants do maintenance or modifications to a hangar's electrical system. This includes changing light bulbs, which are typically located many feet above the ground. A commercial electrician is always used to make sure that special hangar electrical codes are met. This avoids the liability that results when an unlicensed individual does something wrong, or worse yet, hurts themselves when they fall from a ladder while trying to change a hangar overhead light. They're about 16 feet in the air, by the way. Rather than having a being a problem to complain about, Mr. Duker should be commended for looking out for the town's interest and not letting unqualified tenants do maintenance on hangers. They're owned by the town of Payson.