Airport Board

Airport Advisory Board Wednesday, September 26th, 2018 Bowman Field Meeting called by Jim Jonas, Chairman Members Present: Jim Jonas, Chairman; Al Messer, Vice-Chair; Tim Casey; John Lombardi; Type of meeting Monthly Meeting Eric Cortwright Members Absent: Randy Johnson, Nick Nardacci Minutes taken by Carlye Hansen Staff: Greg Bahr, Airport Manager; Carlye Hansen, Planning Department Secretary; Terry Vermeire, Commissioner AGENDA TOPICS Call to order Approval of Minutes A. August 29 t h , 2018 Motion was made by Tim Casey to approve the meeting minutes from August 29 t h , 2018; seconded by John Lombardi. Motion passes 5-0. Manager’s Report – Greg Bahr, Airport Manager A. Grants Greg asked that next month, all board members try and attend as there will be a voted needed for the CIP grants B. DigiWx All is running well. Stephen is going to be going out on his own as an ins pector. This would involve no OSI and should be less cost to us once a year. The triannual inspections will still need to be done and Tyler recommended another person for this to be done at the rate of $250 to $500 every four months It is also in the works to do a dedicated frequency with the AWOS.  C. Maintenance All of the lightbulbs are working on the runway lights. There was a transformer that went out and Greg replaced this. This was due to the light being full of water, but Greg does have an extra transformer in case this were to happen again. D. Mower/Plow There was enough in the budge t for Greg to purchase a rear blade for the tractor mower to do the apron and runways E. Hangars Carlye was able to sit down with Jim Novak’s son. Right now they want to put the hangar up for sale eventually and they are currently working on cleaning this out. This is something that will need to be done through his estate and his attorney. Carlye is also going to call Dennis Shaw and see what his plan is for the future of his hangar. Carlye is beginning to work on the hangar leases and should get them all out i n the next week to ten days. F. Weeds Tom Nugent called from the Weed Department and apparently they had some spray left over. They came down and resprayed around all the runway light an around the buildings. They also sprayed over the snake grass that kee ps popping up. G. Shellenbarger Road Nilda Zacher talked to both Wayne Wendt as well as Greg about this. The road has been build-up. Lee Klemann from the county rebladed this and put road mix o n top. This was built up 24 inches at this time. H. Usage This has slowed a little. There we four fixed wings that came in for the hospital during the past month. New Business John Lombardi questioned the status of the fence and Greg recently drove the fence line and all is looking really good. Tim Casey brought up what they are going to do in regards to the engineering cont ract. At this point it was felt that until the contracts and grants have finalized, they will stay with Morrison - Maierle. Sarah Jones and her husband just receiv ed their business license an d Greg states that they are waiting to set up a meeting to discuss the airport and their engineering needs. Jim Jonas felt that with the c urrent timing, we stay with what we have and what we know and someone will need to talk with Morrison-Maierle to see if they can adjust any of their c harges in order to save some money and be more cost effective. We are going to invite Tyler to come to the next meeting. Greg stated that there will be a $20,000.00 match for the pa vement maintenance and there will be more information on that at the next meeting. He also states that the apron rehab will be the next large project. Page 2 Public Comment None at this time Next Meeting Date: Wednesday, October 31 st, 2018 Adjournment: Meeting adjourned at 8:00 a.m. Respectfully Submitted, Carlye Hansen Carlye Hansen, Planning Department Secretary Approved on October 31 st, 2018 2018 Page 3