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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes Airport Board - 04/16/2014 � REGULAR MEETING MINUTES CORPUS CHRISTI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT BOARD 1000 INTERNATIONAL DRIVE AVIATION BOARD ROOM CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS '' ' ` APRIL 16, 2014, 3:30 P.M. BOARD MEMBERS Don Feferman, Chairman Bill McCord, Vice-Chairman Alex Garcia, Member George Richard, Member Wayne Squires, Member Dana Gunter, Member Mary Helen Dunnam, Member Robert Williams, Member Shawn Morgan, Member Kelly Harlan, Member Jay Wise, Special Advisor CITY STAFF Fred Segundo, Director of Aviation Mario Tapia, Asst. Director of Aviation Adelle Ives, Management Assistant Kim Bridger, PR & Mkt. Coordinator Gary Williams, Facilities Manager Carl Gross, Operations Manager John Hyland, Chief of Public Safety Victor Gonzalez, Major Projects Manager Marcie Downing, Asst. City Attorney I. Call to Order The meeting was called to order at 3:30 p.m. by Chairman Feferman. A quorum was present. II. Approval of the minutes for the March 19th, 2014 Regular Airport Board Meeting Chairman Feferman called for approval of the minutes from the March 19th, 2014 Board Meeting. Board member Williams asked for a correction to be noted on page 3, Paragraph 6 of the word "reported" to be changed to "report". Board member Garcia moved to approve the minutes as corrected. The motion was seconded and carried. The minutes were approved as corrected. III. Approval of absences for the March 19th, 2014 Regular Airport Board Meeting Chairman Feferman called for a motion to excuse those members who were absent from the March meeting. Vice-chairman McCord was absent from the March meeting due to a business meeting. Board member Garcia moved to excuse Vice-chairman McCord. The motion was seconded by Board member Gunter and the motion carried. IV. Public Comment* None V. Future City Council Agenda Items a. Discussion and Possible Action on HMS Host Agreement Asst. Director Tapia reported to the Board that this item was being taken to City Council as an amendment to their lease to include a name change, due to their company reorganization, as well as, the addition of office space for their manager. This item will be taken to City Council on May 29th, 2014. Chairman Feferman called for a motion to recommend approval of this action to City Council. Board member Garcia moved and Board member Williams seconded. The motion carried. VI. Discussion and Possible Action on the Election of Officers Chairman Feferman called for nominations for Airport Board Chairman. Vice-chairman McCord nominated Don Feferman as Chairman. Don Feferman accepted the nomination. As there were no other nominations, a motion to re-elect Don Feferman as Chairman was made by Vice-chairman McCord. Board member Garcia seconded and the motion carried. Don Feferman was re-elected as Airport Board Chairman. Chairman Feferman called for nominations for Airport Board Vice-chairman. William McCord was nominated as Vice-chairman. Mr. McCord accepted the nomination. As there were no other nominations, a motion to re-elect William McCord as Vice-chairman was made by Board member Garcia. Board member Williams seconded and the motion carried. William McCord was re-elected as Airport Board Vice-chairman. VII. Discussion and Possible Action regarding the Airport's Strategic Planning Committee Director Segundo reported that annually the Airport is instructed to put together a business plan for review by the City Manager and the Asst. City Manager. He continued by stating that part of the plan called for the development of an Airport Strategic Plan, which, he interjected, would be different from the Airport Master Plan. He added that this sub-committee would, over the next 12 months, work on several aviation categories, such as, commercial air & GA, and how those categories would be developed over the next 20 years. It would also include the non-aeronautical development of the Airport. He added that Kim Bridger, Public Relations Manager, would be working with this sub-committee. Director Segundo stated that the sub- Corpus Christi International Airport Board Agenda April 16t", 2014 Page 2 of 4 committee would be tasked with developing an Airport Business Plan for the next 15 to 20 years and the Annual Business Plans will be modeled to achieve the 15 to 20 year goals. Director Segundo also notified the Chairman that the number of members interested in sitting on this sub- committee exceeded the available slots. Board member Garcia and Vice-chairman McCord volunteered to remove their names from those expressing interest in sitting on this sub-committee. Discussion was heard on the members for the three Airport Board Sub-committees. Discussion of the Business Development sub-committee determined that the following members would be on this sub- committee: Chairman Feferman, Vice-chairman McCord, and Board members Squires, Garcia and Morgan. Discussion was also heard regarding the Marketing and Special Projects Sub-committee. It was determined that the following members would be on this sub-committee: Chairman Feferman, Board members Kaffie, Garcia and Harlan. The members to be seated on the Airport Strategic Planning Sub-committee are as follows: Chairman Feferman, Board members Gunter, Dunnam, Harlan, and Williams. A new sub-committee list will be sent out to the members via email. VIII. Discussion of Director's Report a. Airport Monthly Reports i. GAR Mario Tapia, Asst. Director of Aviation, reported that enplanements are up 9.5% for March from 2013 and YTD up by 11.5%. He added that this time last year these figures were in the negative. ii. Parking Revenue Report Mr. Tapia added that the parking lot revenue is still going up. He also added that load factors are at a 75% increase from last year which was at 69% for 2013. This is a 12.42% increase. iii. Financial Report Mr. Tapia continued by reporting that with 2/3 into the fiscal year, even with the extension of two months to change the start of the City's fiscal year, the Airport is on target with revenue. Expenditures are at 58% with under$500,000 in operating surplus. He felt that at the end of the year there could be $300,000 to $500,000 in the operating surplus. He added that 80% to 90% of this savings is due to salary savings. He continued by reporting on the fuel-flowage fee. In the new agreement with Atlantic and in negotiating with Signature, there is a new fuel-flowage fee where 6'/4 cents of every gallon of fuel purchased is charged by the Airport. This has shown a significant increase in revenue. Mr. Tapia continued by reporting on the revenue increase seen with the new lease agreement with Atlantic. The increase will be about $400,000 annually. Discussion was heard on this topic. Director informed the Board that today staff went through the facility in order to compile information for the Deferred Maintenance Report. He also stated that an engineering company would be involved in creating the report which will be brought to the Board as well as City Council. Mr. Tapia continued his report by discussing the Parking Revenue being at $157,000 over budget. He added that the CFCs and Rental Car Concessions are also on an increase. Including overcoming the money owed by the previous concession tenant, Mr. Tapia reported that the budget is $31,000 over. He added that he has heard customers complimenting on the new food service. Mr. Tapia responded to Board member Garcia's question regarding "Other Income" at last month's meeting. He stated that this money is comprised of meeting room rentals and also includes funds received from Internok, an energy management company. They are contracted to pay the Airport $40,000 annually for energy shifts from the grid and the Airport's generators. Negotiations continue and no payment has been received to date. Corpus Christi International Airport Board Agenda April 16t", 2014 Page 3 of 4 He continued by commenting on the salary savings and the steps staff are taking to recruit employees. He continued by reporting on CFCs. He stated that CFCs are $614,000 compared with an estimate from last year at $758,000 annually with projections to change to $950,000 at the end of the year. He added that the Airport has collected $3.3 million to date which he anticipates will keep the facility maintained and operating properly. Director Segundo interjected that staff is compiling the Airport Budget for next year starting in October, 2014. Staff will be presenting the first draft of the budget in early May. He stated that budget numbers were not being released to the Boards until October, 2014 as suggested by the City Manager, so that City Council would be the first to see the budget. Discussion was heard on this item. Discussion was heard on the Financial Report. iv. Enplanement Comparison Report Director Segundo stated that he would be visiting the valley airports to get more information on their enplanements as well as check on ground-handling issues he is researching. The Director also mentioned that an O&D study would be done in the near future due to the change in enplanements at CCIA. He added that the Airport's Aviation Consultants recommended a study be done at the end of the year. He added that this information would be used to encourage other airlines to come to CCIA. v. Construction Status Report Victor Gonzalez, CCIA's Major Projects Manager, began by reporting on the Runway 13/31 Extension/Displacement. He added that this project has been divided into two construction projects: Project 1 — Runway 18-36 NAVAID Access roads & Gate 1013; Project 2 — Extend/Displace Runway 13-31 & Taxiways B, B1 & B5 & NAVAIDs. Mr. Gonzalez covered the details on all the Bid Alternates. He also reported on the scheduling for each aspect of the project. He anticipates that Project 1 to be completed by May 15, 2014. Discussion was heard on this project. Mr. Gonzalez continued by reporting on the USCG project. He reported that they have completed the excavation including the concrete work, grade piers and underground plumbing. He expects they will be erecting the exterior walls and steel beams soon. Mr. Gonzalez reported on the QTA project stating that he continues to deal with the concrete issues as well as issues with a light pole. He commented that he has been struggling with these two issues and he reported he is still holding retainage for the project until they are resolved. He has also involved the Airport Attorney in attempting to resolve these issues in the near future. Discussion was heard on this topic. Mr. Gonzalez also reported that he has submitted the information necessary for the LEED certification. He anticipates that he should hear back regarding the Airport's submittal sometime in early May. vi. Marketing Report Kim Bridger, Marking Manager, informed the Board that the City does a Community Survey in coordination with Texas A&M looking at a number of different departments. The scope of the survey is to determine general perceptions of major categories within the City by citizens of Corpus Christi. The data from Corpus Christi is compared with similar survey data of other Texas benchmark cities. This survey was conducted in November, 2013, and, was done by Texas A&M University graduate students. Ms. Bridger then began going through her video presentation indicating areas where CCIA was rated higher in customer satisfaction. Those areas included the area titled Quality of Travel Experience at CCIA which was rated higher than the last survey in 2011. Director Segundo also mentioned that the Airport's new advertising campaign was running about the time this survey was being conducted. b. MUFIDS Director Segundo reported on the Multi-User Flight Information Display Systems (MUFIDS) which are being upgraded. Carl Gross, Operations Manager, gave a video presentation on the new upgrade which showed the location of the new displays including all airline ticket counters; gate counters; restaurant & coffer shop; terminal lobby; entrance to screening and baggage. He added the information to be displayed on the new monitors will include: arrivals & departures (automatically updated by airline Corpus Christi International Airport Board Agenda April 16t", 2014 Page 4 of 4 feeds); weather information; flight tracking; visual paging for ADA compliance and baggage claim displays notifying passengers which belt their flight will be using. He is currently reviewing 95% drawings for this project and he will be returning them to the consultant on Tuesday. He is also reviewing the electronics specs and the final quote should be submitted to staff sometime this week. He also added that staff will be going to City Engineering for this project and then approaching the vendor. He anticipates that the project will begin within 5 to 6 weeks and the completion will be within 8 to 10 weeks. The cost for the hardware is $134,000, not including installation. The final cost will be $200,000. The funding for this project is coming out of Fund Balance as was discussed with the City Manager during last year's budget planning. Discussion was heard on this topic. c. May Airport Board Meeting Location — NOAA Director Segundo reported that the May Airport Board meeting will be held at the National Weather Service facility and it will start at 3 p.m. so that members will be able to tour the facility prior to the Board Meeting which starts at 3:30 p.m. d. QTA Director Segundo stated that this item had already been discussed in the Construction Report. IX. Identify items to be placed on next Airport Board Agenda Director Segundo asked that an update/presentation on the reconstitution of the JAZB. He also stated he would be having a meeting on wind farms with Mark McLaughlin from Kingsville NAS. He will update the Board on this at the next meeting. Chairman Feferman commented that this was the last meeting for Board member George Richard. He also presented Mr. Richard with a plaque for his service to the Community, the City, the Airport and the Airport Board. Jay Wise was also attending this meeting as his last meeting in the capacity of Advisory Board Member. He was also recognized for all the hard work he has contributed to the Board and the Airport even after he had completed his term as a Board member. X. Adjournment As there was no further business, Chairman Feferman called for a motion to adjourn. Board member Garcia moved and Board member Squires seconded. The motion carried and the meeting was adjourned at 5:07 p.m.