CHESAPEAKE AIRPORT AUTHORITY MINUTES January 9, 2013

 

The regular meeting of the Chesapeake Airport Authority was held on Wednesday,
January 9, 2013 at 7:00 p.m., at the Chesapeake Regional Airport, Chesapeake, Virginia.

MEMBERS PRESENT  

Earl Hollowell, Vince Gordon, Burke Craver, Herb Perlin, David Wade, and Tom Epley

MEMBERS ABSENT   Tom Love, Michael Lucarelli, and Julian Jackson
AIRPORT MANAGER   Joseph Love

CALL TO ORDER
Mr. Earl Hollowell declared a quorum present and called the January 2013 meeting to order at 7:00 p. m.

MINUTES
After review of the minutes, a motion was made and passed unanimously to accept the minutes from the December 2012 meeting with corrections noted.

TREASURER’S REPORT
Mr. Burke Craver stated that he had reviewed the financials and found everything to be in order. Mr. David Wade had a few questions about the financial percentages and Mr. Joe Love and Mr. Craver went over the percentages in question and found that most of them involved reimbursements for those items. A motion was made and passed unanimously to accept the Treasurer’s report.

INVOICES
Mr. Joe Love went over the invoices for the month: Cooper Crouse-Hinds $2,355.60 (Sign board); US Bank $1,000.00 (Bond Admin Fee); and USI Insurance $1,414.00 (Insurance). A motion was made, seconded and passed unanimously to approve the invoices for the month of January 2013.

OLD BUSINESS
FY 2014 OPERATING BUDGET

Mr. Burke Craver stated that they haven’t received any further input from the members. Mr. Craver stated that the finance committee recommends approval of the FY 2014 Operating Budget. Mr. Joe Love discussed the payroll percentages that have changed due to changes at the city in the VRS contribution and the Group Life Insurance. This resulted in an additional $2,500 in payroll expense. Mr. Love recommends that the authority approve the budget with this changes included in the payroll section of the budget. A motion was made and passed unanimously to accept the as presented with the additional changes included.

NEW BUSINESS
SASO APPLICATION- COMBINED AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGIES LLCMr. Joseph Love stated that the FBO committee and Mr. Pete Stavrides were not able to meet. Mr. Love did meet with Mr. Stavrides. Mr. Stavrides said he will be out of town and would like to table his request until March.

TALBERT & BRIGHT
Talbert & Bright had nothing to report at this time.

AIRPORT MANAGER’S REPORT
Waste Disposal

Mr. Joe Love stated that our container has been used by someone off the airport causing it to be constantly full. Mr. Love decided that we will try locking up the container and issue keys to the businesses on the field and allow tenants to check out the key to dump trash. If this doesn’t solve the problem we may consider getting a second container.

Public Review of the Comprehensive Plan
Mr. Love stated that the planning department is having a public review of the comprehensive plan on Monday, January 14 at the Hampton Roads Realtor Associates office; twice at 830 am and 6 pm. Mr. Love recommends that the members try to go to one of the review times.

Dover Farms Wetlands Contract
Mr. Joe Love stated that Dover Farms has approved the changes we made to the document. The will execute it and send it to us by FedEx for tomorrow. A motion was made, seconded and passed unanimously to allow Mr. Joe Love to sign the document for the authority so that we can expedite the grant process for reimbursement.

Chairman’s Comments:
Mr. Earl Hollowell and Mr. Joe Love pointed out that the authority needs to appoint a search committee to find a replacement for Mr. Love in September

Concern was expressed as to whether Mr. Julian Jackson was okay as he had not attended last month’s and this month’s meeting. Mr. Joe Love stated that he would try to contact Mr. Jackson.

ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business, a motion was made, seconded and passed unanimously to adjourn the meeting.

Earl S. Hollowell, Jr.
Chairman

The minutes are summary in nature and are not intended to be an exact transcript of the proceedings. The Authority maintains an audiotape of the meeting.

 

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