Minutes of the Ad Hoc Airport Advisory Committee 11/2/97 The Little River Airport Ad Hoc Airport Advisory Committee met on Sunday, 2 November 1997 from 4:00 - 5:00 pm in the Clubhouse at The Woods, 43300 Little River Airport Road, Little River. Five committee members were present: Fran Tucker, Trey Loy, Jack Reichel, Tim Scully, and Joel Bornstein. Dick Ahrens, Willow Trent, Jason Trent, Lyle Pember, Grant Wheeler and Lauren Jones also attended. We agreed that the next Ad Hoc meeting will take place Sunday, November 16 from 4-6pm at the Woods. Minutes ------- The minutes of the meeting before last were approved. Trey gave Tim $12, $2 for two short reports and $10 for postage. Reports on recent events ------------------------ Tim reported that a breif announcement about the November 23rd community meeting appeared in the Mendocino Beacon. He said that he had also requested an announcement regarding the open positions on the AAC, but that this was not published. He reported that Dave Brewer did a very good job of researching locations for the community meeting, submitting a report on each potential location and selecting the Mendocino Community Hight School building. There was a brief discussion about costs. Joel said he believes there is a $35 janitor fee for use of the Community School building. Trey pointed out that the use of these buildings is a benefit of the school parcel tax. He read a letter from Stan Townsend which told the committee that DPW has responded to an inquery from the FAA by requesting a copy of their information packet on the GPS approach. Stan included a copy of the packge the FAA sent. DPW told the FAA that it expects the GPS approach issue to be reported to the Board within a month or so. Plans for GPS community meeting ------------------------------- Trey asked how many more Beacons will be published before the community meeting. Tim answered 3. The committee briefly discussed its desire for articles on the GPS issue in these 3 issues. Grant asked what the procedure is for applying for a position on the new AAC - he has a friend who is interested. Tim gave him an application form. Fran xeroxed another 10 application forms. Tim said that Charles Peterson had suggested that he send a letter inviting any interested Board members to the community meeting - he said he will send that letter next week. The committee concurred. Tim asked if the committee would like to put up posters advertising the community meeting and if we should ask the local radio stations to run announcements. After some discussion, the committee agreed to do both. Dick said he'd put up posters in the usual 12 places. Joel said he'll give the announcement to the radio stations. Tim said he'd generate a poster. Grant asked about the meeting's agenda. Tim said that at our last meeting we agreed to break the meeting into 3 sections: - a brief summary of the GPS report - a Q&A session, limited to factual issues in the report - comments from the community After discussion, we agreed that a handout would be created to be given to people as they enter the meeting. It will be a single sheet of paper with a summary of the GPS report and an agenda for the meeting. Fran said she will donate the duplication of these handouts. Grant suggested that the poster should also include the agenda. We agreed. Fran said that we should pass a roll call sheet around in the meeting. She said that the summary of the report should hit the community hot buttons. Jack listed some of these: - cost - no new equipment is needed - traffic and noise - altimeter setting (note that the new contract resolves this issue) We discussed using an overhead projector and having some slides to illustrate the talk. These should include the color maps from the report, the FAR 77 approach surface diagram and at least one sample approach plate. Grant will supply the overhead projecter and possibly a screen. Fran can provide a screen if Grant can't get one. Jack will bring a laser pointer. We discussed how to time the 3 minute interval for comments. Tim said he has a large darkroom timer. Fran said a visible timer would be too intimidating for many people. Trey emphasized that we should not try to respond to people's comments. Grant said he won't be able to attend the meeting on the 16th. He'll get the overhead projector to Fran before the meeting so we can do a dry run on the 16th. Fran said that it will be helpful to verbalize the agenda. Someone asked if there is a PA system. Fran offered to loan the Wood's PA system for the meeting. Jack said we should check on the availability of tables - we'll probably need 2 tables for the committee and Supervisors to sit behind. We agreed on making up little nameplates to sit on the table in front of each person. Joel said he may be able to bring a couple of folding tables from Coast Flyers. Willow said that Matt Rowland of the Mendocino Music Festival is very close to the Community School and might be able to provide chairs if the community school doesn't have them. We agreed to make an announcement at the meeting about the official AAC and encourage people to apply. Joel, Jack and Lyle each got copies of the 171 page report. Joel donated $12. Lyle also took one short report and donated $13. Joel also took one long report and 2 short reports for sale at Coast Flyers. [Jack mailed in a $12 donation for his report, after the meeting.] We agreed to meet next on November 16 at 4pm at The Woods. The agenda will be: - approve minutes of previous meeting - reports on recent events - discuss preparations for a community meeting on the proposed GPS instrument approach at Little River - do a dry run of the presentation we plan for the community meeting on the proposed GPS approach - 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