Aviation Commission Meeting

Minutes CITY OF TULARE AVIATION COMMITTEE Monday, January 28, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. CITY HALL COMMUNITY ROOM 411 East Kern Avenue Mission Statement To promote a quality of life making Tulare the most desirable community in which to live, learn, play, work, worship and prosper. I. CALL TO ORDER II. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE III. CITIZEN COMMENTS This is the time for citizens to comment on items within the jurisdiction of the Committee. The Committee cannot legally discuss or take official action on citizen comments that are introduced today. Each speaker will be allowed 3 minutes, with a maximum of 10 minutes per item, unless otherwise extended by the Committee. IV. COMMUNICATIONS Communications are to be submitted 10 days prior to a meeting to be considered for this section of the Agenda. No action will be taken on matters listed under Communications; however, the Committee may direct staff to schedule issues raised during Communications for a future agenda. Citizen comments will be limited to 3 minutes per topic, unless otherwise extended by Committee. V. STUDENT REPORTS VI. CONSENT CALENDAR All Consent Calendar items are considered routine and will be enacted in one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these matters unless a request is made, in which event the item will be removed from the Consent Calendar to be discussed and voted upon by a separate motion. 1. Approve Committee minutes of February 26, 2018 regular meeting. 2. Approve Committee minutes of October 22, 2018 regular meeting. Motion was passed to approve the minutes from the February 26, 2018 and October 22, 2018 Aviation Commission meetings. VII. GENERAL BUSINESS (1) New Committee Member, John Arriola Mr. Arriola is a Tulare resident and aircraft owner. Joined the committee to learn about the functions and budgets and how they work for the City. (2) Laspina Street Lights / Caltrans Inspection The last 4-5 Caltrans inspections have shown that the street lights along Laspina are too high. There has been a negotiation taking place between the City of Tulare and Southern California Edison for the last two years, but Edison has not been very cooperative due to their standards for street lights. Most likely, the lights will  be removed altogether. The City of Tulare is going to try to negotiate with Edison to leave the electric and the pads there in hopes of getting the new property owner of the Tulare Golf Course to put in another type of lighting. (3) Review of 5 Year Capital Improvement Projects (CIP) Will be combining multiple projects in order to get better bids on projects. Projects to be done are: Relocating the segmented circle, the main hangar/main apron rehabilitation, and restrooms. The timeline for the apron and relocating the segmented circle is expected to begin construction by spring of 2020. (4) Loss of VIS VOR Preparations / LPV Approach Could potentially lose the Visalia VOR within the next 12 months. The impact would be that we would lose the Instrument Department Procedure, meaning that you would be able to fly in, but would not be able to get out. An application has been made for LPV Approach, but it could be 18 months to 2 years out. (5) AG Show Preparation We are requesting the same frequencies that we operated on during the AG Show 2019. Volunteers have been lined up. Currently there is 8 volunteers committed to the Ag Show. 14 signed up to volunteer, but only 8 have participated in the safety class. There will be multiple drones flying over this year. VIII. ITEMS OF COMMITTEE INTEREST There were no committee interests. IX. ADJOURNMENT Adjournment was at 6:48pm In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Brown Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, including the receipt of the agenda and documents in the agenda package in an alternate format, please contact the City Manager’s Office at (559) 684-4200. Notification of 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to this meeting (28 CFR 35.102-35, 104 ADA Title I), and allow for the preparation of documents in the appropriate alternate format.