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Min0717BEVERLY REGIONAL AIRPORT MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING MONDAY, JULY 10, 2017 LOCATION: Airport Admin Building, 50 L. P. Henderson Road, Beverly, MA, 01915 PRESENT. Commissioners Brean, Faulstich, Gentile, Lund, Mahoney, and Trefry ABSENT. Commissioners Forgione and Nelson PUBLIC: Ace and Charlene Chase of Cat Aviation, Nick Burlingham and John Messenger of NAA, Craig Schuster from ASG, Joe Gibbons from NSAC, Peter Walton from Hangar 47, Tom Lyons and Robert Krech from Civil Air Patrol, Paul Vitale (retired BAC member), Christopher Amar of 1010 Hangars, and Tony Bettencourt (Danvers resident) A. CALL TO ORDER: Chairman Mahoney called the meeting to order at 6:00 PM. 1. Pledge of Allegiance. 2. Reading of the Minutes, June 2017 — Chairman Mahoney called for an approval reading of the minutes from the June meeting. Commissioner Trefry made a motion to accept the minutes, seconded by Commissioner Lund. Motion passes unanimously. Reading of the Financial Report, June 2017 — Airport Manager Snuck presented the financial report for June 2017. Fund balance is $102,067. The airport received a grant for a tracked skid steer loader and attachments that would commit $24,376 from the free cash balance. Commissioner Faulstich made a motion to accept the financial report, seconded by Commissioner Trefry. Motion passed unanimously. Presentation(s) — Craig Schuster from Airport Solutions Group updated the commission on the status of the Eminent Domain Avigation Easement Acquisition for the tree removal at the approach of Runway 9. Negotiations will begin shortly and offers being presented to the land owners. The Gate Project a 100% grant from MassDOT /Aeronautics for gate, gate motor, etc. was previously approved for $102,000 has been modified for engineering only in the amount of $25,000. MassDOT /Aeronautics has passed part of this project off to Galaxy and ASG will be paid for the engineering only. The grant application for engineering has been submitted and approved by the City Council. The invoice has been submitted for payment. ASG has also reached out to Ryan Gardner on the design issue of direct access to Runway 16/34 and line of sight issues. Hold lines will have to be painted and airport guidance lighting installed. There will be changes when the future taxiway is constructed. Hangar needs to be pushed back 16' to allow aircraft to be parked on the ramp. Chairman's Report — Chairman Mahoney: BEVERLY REGIONAL AIRPORT MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING MONDAY, JULY 10, 2017 • Bob Snuck delivered my Pending Resignation Letter to Mayor Cahill, Paul Guanci, President of the City Council, and Wes Slate, Beverly City Clerk. Chairman Mahoney read the letter to all present. Chairman Mahoney will retire on his 91s' birthday on August 15, 2017. At the next meeting it will be decided if Vice Chairman Faulstich will fill in for the rest of the year and conduct the usual election in December or conduct an election at the August meeting to fill the vacant positions. All present applauded Bill Mahoney's dedication to the Airport and the Airport Commission. • The 1010 Hangar and change of the lease were discussed. There are line of sight problems that were objected to by the FAA and the Tower. The hangar needs to be pushed back 16' for the aircraft to be parked on the ramp. The 16' pushback will also eliminate the line of sight issue. The Lease has been redone with the new square footage and will be submitted for Council approval and Mayor's signature. Commissioner Trefry made a motion to approve the lease, seconded by Commissioner Brean. Motion passed unanimously. B. OLD BUSINESS: 1. Sub - Committee Reports a. August Faulstich — Building 45 RFP, There were no submissions. There is some work that still has to be completed by Mike Collins for the restaurant. Understand that Inspection Services may not move into the building. The restaurant was shown to an interested party. Restaurant is listed on LoopNet and CoStar. Ace Chase asked why not just hire a contractor. Money was delegated to Mike Collins to insulate and complete bathrooms. Siding was also supposed to be installed but no work has been performed on the building for the past 3 months. Will set up meeting with Mike Collins to see what the plans will be. There will be some marketing, and when there are interested parties, another RFP will be advertised. We still do not have a lease for Building 45 in lieu of payment for restoration work. On Airport Road some of the property was cleaned up. Recommends that the parties have to pay up or move out. Would like Harbormaster, FEMA and High School sent a bill. The invoice should cover the airport for an inspection. Commissioner Faulstich made motion to survey and send bill. Discussion: Paul Trefry send letter giving a month or sixty day notice and after that send bill. Tomorrow Commissioner Faulstich, Lund and Trefry will meet and measure area. Bob will prepare letter for review by the Committee and after review, send to the parties involved. Bill by grid zone or square foot established by the Wayside lease. Per FAA rules we must receive fair market rate. In letter state we will start billing on a certain day. Commissioner Faulstich supports not paying Wenham taxes and taking to appellate review board. b. Ralph Forgione — Absent c. Public Relations — Karen Nelson, absent 2 BEVERLY REGIONAL AIRPORT MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING MONDAY, JULY 10, 2017 d. Safety & Security — Commissioner Peter Gentile would like a meeting set up with the public safety groups to discuss emergency operations at the Airport with all involved parties, so that all are on the same page. e. Paul Brean — Nothing new. Will stay on top of the ALP, etc. f. Paul Trefry — Office rental. Paul will be working with City Hall for the lease of the office and the RFP issuance. g. John Lund — No update. Now assigned special projects. SOLAR. C. AIRPORT MANAGER'S REPORT: Airport Manager Snuck report complete as written. He reported on monthly and calendar year traffic counts, landing fees, status of Bobcat, New Admin Building discrepancies, and Wenham taxes. Chairman Mahoney wants to appeal the Wenham Taxes. The Airport received a response from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Solar Technical Assistance Team on the feasibility of installing Solar Field on the airport. The Airport was inspected on June 26th by MassDOT Aeronautics and MassDOT. The inspection revealed that the infield grass /vegetation needs more attention. The airport's existing mowers are not adequate to handle the airport mowing and Manager Snuck will be submitting an ASMP Grant application for a new mower. MassDOT expressed that they wished other Airports were as creative in handling and raising fees and acquiring equipment as the Beverly Airport. • The Airport will have to submit a financial audit to the FAA including the City's amount that is contributed to the Airport for FY 2017. The report is due Oct 1, 2017. The FAA is still waiting on the Building 45 lease. The Airport will be having a full FAA property audit in the near future. The date is not known as of yet. Representatives of the FAA will be visiting the Airport at the end of July. There are 2 Fortune 500 Companies that are investigating the location of their flight departments to the Beverly Airport and an aircraft from Malta that wants to use the airport but a Class B Airport Fire Rating is required. A Class B fire classification would be highly advantageous for the airport. The Airport has investigated the acquiring of an ARFF vehicle for the Airport from GSA Axcess which would give a Class B rating. The vehicle does not have to be manned to meet the requirement, but if used, the operators must be trained. There has also been discussions on the donation of land if the City was willing to locate a Fire Department that would have direct access to the airfield. The FAA would not object to this, as it would be a joint use where this would be an airport aeronautical use and would benefit ARFF activities at the airport besides assisting the City. The location would have to meet the Fire departments response times and it looks like an airport location would not allow this. Bob withdrew a surplus request for a fire truck. It needed expensive repairs. BEVERLY REGIONAL AIRPORT MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING MONDAY, JULY 10, 2017 • Manager Snuck reported that an agreement must be reached on the SOLAR and the net metering credits that are being received from the SOLAR on John Godfrey's hangar roof. Bob believes that the airport should receive all the credits. The agreement must have City Hall approval. John Lund is assigned this as a project and will investigate. The Tom Ford Property did not close by July 1, 2017. This puts the airport in a tough financial positon because the $500,000 that was supposed to be available in October 2017 will not be available until October 2018. Property questions were raised over the release of airspace easement that actually did not include the Tom Ford Property. It appears that the Department of the Army was leasing the Nike Site from the Airport. We will have to wait and see what happens when the FAA does its compliance and land use inspection and review. Crack sealing was conducted on the airport by MassDOT /Aeronautics. They did not do Runway 16/34 because it is due for reconstruction. Runway 16/34 is in dire need of repair and it will be two years before reconstruction. Bob Snuck will follow up with Nate Rawding to see if we can have them come back for Runway 16/34. There is possibility the Airport owns the Nike site. Why would the airport commission sign a lease or a release if not airport property? If this is discovered in an FAA audit, it would require back payment for the last six years at the going rate. It is not the intention of the manager or the commission to do this but it may be out of the airports hands due to the FAA. Commissioner Faulstich and Snuck will meet with the Solicitor on the 17 D. NEW BUSINESS: The Airport Budget was approved as submitted for $432,239.00. The budget does not reflect any increase due to new leases. Money is held in other accounts to transfer to the salary account for Kim Crofts reclassification and pay increase for 35 hours instead of 30 hours weekly. Supposedly the increase is with the Mayor's office. The Commission desires this increase to be retroactive to July 1, 2017. Revised lease for the 1010 Hangar is ready for submittal to the Council for the Mayor's signature. Christopher Amar representing 1010 Hangar explained options that are being explored on pushing back the hangar or changing the size. Requesting a waiver from the Conservation Commission would allow the hangar to be pushed back 16 feet. This would also solve the Tower line of sight problem with the proposed taxiway. It was stated that Beverly's ConCom requirements were more restrictive than other communities and a hangar in Danvers may be pursued as an alternative. • Bob Snuck will explore the sale /disposal of some of the old airport equipment. • Airshow — Rich Little not present BEVERLY REGIONAL AIRPORT MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING MONDAY, JULY 10, 2017 E. TENANT COMMENTS: • John Messenger (NAA). June was a good month. The golf tournament did not generate the amount of parked aircraft that was anticipated. Around 80,000 gal of fuel was delivered and with the new landing fees the airport should receive a good check. All is going well. Another film crew may be on the airport filming "I Feel Pretty" staring Amy Schumer. • Nick Burlingham of NAA complimented the Airport Management and the job it was doing. • Peter Walton — Hangar 47. Air conditioner line was damaged and repaired by the City when working on Building 45. The system was not charged and they have no air conditioner /cooling. The Airport will have it repaired. • Joe Gibbons — North Shore Aero club is doing well. Still has a large waiting list. • Ace Chase — Two rabid raccoons were eradicated from the Airport. Airshow meeting T OOPM at Hangar 4. July 17, 2017. • Tom Lyons — Civil Air Patrol. They have 1 graduate from the ROTC program that will be training with the Airforce. Members will be going to summer camp at OTIS. • Paul Vitale- Former Commissioner. Congratulations on the new building and thank you to Bill Mahoney for his long years of dedication to the airport. • Anthony Bettencourt — Danvers resident had noise complaint about aircraft that flew over his home. F. COMMISSION COMMENTS: None G. ADJOURNMENT: Motion to adjourn Vice Chairman Faulstich, seconded by Commissioner Trefry. Motion passed unanimously. Wi