Minutes of the Ad Hoc Airport Advisory Committee (rough draft for approval) 9/7/97 The Little River Airport Ad Hoc Airport Advisory Committee met on Sunday, 7 September 1997 from 4:00 - 5:00 pm in the Clubhouse at The Woods, 43300 Little River Airport Road, Little River. Four committee members were present: Trey Loy, Fran Tucker, Tim Scully, and Joel Bornstein. Dick Ahrens also attended. We agreed that the next Ad Hoc meeting will take place Sunday, September 21 from 4-6pm at the Woods. Minutes ------- The minutes of the last meeting were approved. Reports on recent events ------------------------ Tim summarized the 8/28/97 HWP&T meeting (detailed notes were mailed separately). Trey pointed out that Tim had given Patti a $12 copy of the GPS report for the ALUC's use. The committee agreed this this was a good use of the report and that coordination with the ALUC is a good idea. We discussed the scheduling of the community meeting on the GPS approach. We won't be able to pick a date until the ALUC has reported back. Hopefully we can schedule the community meeting at our meeting on September 21. Trey suggested that Tim should write to Kate Lee at the Beacon, expressing appreciation for the fair and comprehensive coverage the Beacon has given to airport issues. Let her know that the committee is still active. The official AAC will be appointed soon and the GPS community meeting will be soon. Invite the Beacon's participation. The committee agreed with Trey. Fran suggested that we should ask if the ALUC wants an Ad Hoc Committee member to appear at their meeting. Tim reported that Andy Becker sent email expressing concern over the wording of the minutes regarding the altimeter setting issue. All of the committee members agreed that the Ad Hoc Committee does not want to interfere with any negotiations between DPW and Andy regarding his contract's terms. We only want to make generic recommendations regarding duites we would like to see included in any supervisor's contract. Joel suggested contacting some other counties to see what their contracts are like. Tim suggested not doing this since it would lead to exactly what we agreed not to do - getting into the details of contract negotiation. Trey said he has been working outdoors with Jake Jacobs and notices that the Coast Guard plane has not been coming in as much. He talked a little with Jake about the history meeting, asking about drainage at the airport. Jake said that there are miles of drain pipe under there. Trey asked if we have written to the Navy historical division, asking about plans for the original construction. Dick said he'd try that. Dick said he got a packet of information from the historian, including an outline for how the information might be organized. Dick said he has located 11 airports in the County so far - one 1963 pilot guide had two airports in Pt. Arena, for example. This lead to a brief discussion of Holy City airport in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Trey said that he really wants the existing Ad Hoc Committee to complete the GPS report process. There was general agreement that we'd like to do this. Tim said that Dick Ahrens had sent him an email outlining improvements in procedures which he suggested. - amplify agendas to include a longer description of each agenda item - keep a file of agendas, with a record of where posted and when posted - assemble a book of all past minutes (we have been sending them to the airport office, but they haven't been collected in a binder) - start an SOP book (Standard Operating Procedures) to codify the committee's policies clearly. e.g., * Roberts Rules of Order shall be used * the Brown Act shall be followed. All topics acted on shall appear in an agenda, which shall be publically posted at least 72 hours before the meeting * topics not on the agenda may be raised and discussed but no action may be taken. * resolution of disputes in this committee shall be referred to County Counsel or to the Health, Welfare, Planning and Transportation Committee, depending on the nature of the dispute. * minutes of every meeting shall be kept. The minutes of each meeting shall be distributed to the voting committee memebers for approval. Once approved, the minutes will be distributed to citizens who request these minutes. Email copies will be free. Printed copies will be made at a cost of $0.10 per page (for black and white unbound copies) and mailed at standard US Postal rates for first class mail. There was no objection to these ideas. We may act on them in a future meeting. The question of copying costs led Trey to mention the issue of funding the AAC. Trey is still opposed to LRAPA funding the AAC's copying and mailing costs. Fran said that she hopes the majority of the present committee will apply for positions on the official AAC, to provide continuity. We agreed to meet next on September 21 at 4pm at The Woods. The agenda will be: - approve minutes of previous meeting - reports on recent events - report on Airport Land Use Commission coordination regarding the proposed GPS instrument approach procedure - report on the status of the resolution before the Board to establish an official Airport Advisory Committee - discuss scheduling of a community meeting on the proposed GPS instrument approach at Little River - a Standard Operating Procedures book for the committee, including guidelines for agendas, minutes, copying and mailing costs will be discussed - agree on agenda for next meeting Ad Hoc Airport Committee voting members: ----------------------------------------- Joel Bornstein pilot, flight instructor lives near airport Trey Loy non-pilot, lives near airport Jack Reichel pilot, businessman Tim Scully pilot, computer programmer, lives near airport commutes by air to Oakland weekly Ray Yates non-pilot, Albion businessman Fran Tucker non-pilot, neighbor of the airport manages the Woods Ad Hoc Committee alternate members: ----------------------------------- Michael Moore pilot, economist Susan Winding airport neighbor, non-pilot, local business owner