Airport Commission

AIRPORT COMMISSION MEETING Monday, September 19, 2022, 4:30 pm Murfreesboro Municipal Airport Business Center 1930 Memorial Blvd. Murfreesboro, TN 37129 Prayer and Pledge of Allegiance: Steve Waldron AGENDA 1. Call to order – Attendance 2. Introduction of MTSU Safety Director Meredith Boardman 3. Continue ALP scope discussion 4. Consider approval of ALP scope items 5. Review Quadrex Aviation’s Airport Capacity and Safety Assessment 6. Consider approval to pursue recommendations from Airport Capacity and Safety Assessment. 7. Airport Director and Consultant report regarding the following projects: a. Hangar One b. Approach Management/Taxiway A and Apron Pavement Rehabilitation Project c. City Works, City asset/facility maintenance/management program 8. Airport Manager’s Dashboard report 9. Any other business to come before the Airport Commission 10. Consider date and time for next Airport Commission meeting ( October 17, 2022) 11. Adjourn 4. Consider approval of ALP scope items The following are the items discussed to be included in the scope of the ALP drawings and or Narrative and any other supplemental information: Landside: • Straighten access road to run parallel with Walmart property line. • Build new access road extension from existing McKnight Park access road to new McKnight Park entry road behind Chick-fil-A, Panda Express, etc. to ensure that Airport, its customers, and emergency response has access to all facilities from one end of the airport to the other. • Build maintenance facility for all Airport equipment, tractors, barricades etc. • Once existing fuel farm is removed create an outdoor area for people to sit, eat, and watch aircraft. Include possible playground equipment and bike stands. • Show places where future auto charging stations will be located. • Show on ALP the sale of the property at Memorial Blvd and Airport Road. • Show on the ALP the 5 acres that was transferred from McKnight Park to Airport. • Ensure that there is adequate auto parking at various locations around the airport for existing and future use. May need to identify auto charging stations at various locations on the Airport. • Further discussion is needed on the future need/use of Hangar 2 if that facility should be removed with newer facilities located during the expansion of Hangar 3. Site could improve auto parking needs as well as improve appearance of Terminal, Hangar 3 and provide additional green space in the Terminal area. Airside: • Locate a helipad to create one known area and approach path for helicopters to enter and depart the pattern. • Show expansion of main ramp area south of the segmented circle and AWOS. Area south of Taxiway C may possibly be included in that expansion. Expand area for aircraft tie- downs, aircraft runup areas, designated helicopter pads and parking, transient aircraft parking (no tie-downs). • Show expansion of ramp area behind, west side, of Hangar 3. • With the expansion of the ramp west of Hangar 3 include possible locations of various sized hangars some with possible offices attached. • With ramp expansion behind Hangar 3 see if ramp could be expanded north over existing ditch to include 727 ramp area and field in front of MTSU Sim lab. • Show phased approach of development of hangars on the Taxiway F development area including storm water and utilities. Immediate needs: pads for Corporate Box Hangars, pad for 100 X 100 hangar with offices, and pad and construction now of T-hangars. Show development of north end of the area working south. • When drawing and laying out hangars on the north end of the Airport try to straighten out the layout of the facilities keeping them parallel with the runway even though property lines are not parallel with the runway. • With new fuel farm in place show a new south aircraft runup area. • Show possible areas where additional runway areas can be located especially off of Taxiway E and F. • Site location for future Air Traffic Control tower. • Maintain MTSU leased area for MTSU operations. Consider options for future uses which may include some form of MTSU operations and options that do not include MTSU in years 8 and forward. • Continue development of emergency and security access road around interior of airport. • Show areas for customer automobile parking around existing and future hangar areas include possible locations for charging stations. • Extend water line in Taxiway F Development area for fire protection coverage and improved water flow. • Show displacement of Runway 36 threshold and then back to its current location in the ultimate airport layout drawing. (Five years to clear approaches) • Maintain B2 category airport. (Address what impact that has on the way current  approaches are designed) • Develop more specific plans to acquire properties not owned by the City that are in the RPZ on the south end of the airport. • Show paved overrun on the north end of the runway to assist with displaced threshold. Outstanding questions: • Does the Airport Commission want to put an ALP review group together comprised of two Airport Commission members (one to include Vice Mayor Bill Shacklett), two City staff members, two airport customers (business and personal), and two members of the community (non-aviators)? Or would the Airport Commission rather go through the ALP process themselves and get input from an ALP public review event once the plans are at the 60-70% complete phase? 5. Consider approval to pursue recommendations from Airport Capacity and Safety Assessment. The Quadrex Aviation Airport Capacity and Safety Assessment included several recommendations most of which the Murfreesboro Airport has done or is in the process of completing. One of the recommendations included in the Quadrex Aviation Airport Capacity and Safety Assessment was the pursuit of the Murfreesboro Municipal Airport being included in the Non-fed Air Traffic Control Tower Program. One of the concerns expressed by the Airport Commission was the cost of the construction and maintenance of such a facility. Dr. Dave Byers has provided a copy of a recent study and application that was completed for a tower. The document outlines the expected costs for the design, construction, and maintenance of such a facility. The document breaks down the various funding sources. Benson Hadley and various staff at Barge Design Solutions, who also recently completed the application process and construction of a tower at Biloxi, MS reviewed those figures and recommended some adjustments to reflect changes in costs today. As a side note, Dr. Dave Byers was a part of that team with Barge Design Solutions that worked on that location as well. Benson stated that the total cost to design and build a tower, depending on the height and utility costs could be in the $7 million range. With the FAA and State assisting with 95% of the cost the local share is $350,000. Maintenance of the facility is a local cost. It is estimated that it would take $50,000 to $55,000 to maintain the facility. Costs include utilities, maintenance of building systems, ATCT equipment, janitor and groundskeeping. The ATCT would provide at least four new federal contract jobs with an estimated payroll of $400,000. The Controllers salaries and benefits are paid for by the federal government non-fed air traffic control program. I recommend that the Airport Commission consider discussing with Barge and possibly Dr. Dave Byers a Work Authorization to complete the application process to see how the Murfreesboro Municipal Airport scores. If it scores well, the Airport Commission can decide if it would like to further pursue entering into this program at this time. Understand that it may take close to five years before a facility would be built and operational here.