HomeMy WebLinkAboutLaurel Airport Authority Minutes 01.26.2016 Laurel Airport
419 West 8th Street
PO Box 242
Authority Laurel, MT 59044-0242
Jan. 26, 2016
Meeting brought to order @ 19:00 hours by John Smith
Members present: John Smith, Randy Hand, Kyle Albers
Approved minutes of previous meeting.
Approved Claims, Normal items plus the following non-recurring items, Approved fire district of $2221.00,
AWOS repairs of$2,895.60, Truck repair$1829.00, KLJ of$1472.00. All above normal operating expenses.
Also approved trip expenses for Helena State Meeting.
Reports:
1. Land acquisition is about complete, need to send revised drawing for Harvey Fox property
with minor boundary changes.
2. AWOS funding has been approved with 7,500.00 grant and $7,500 loan from state,
balance from FAA funding. Will probably bid this spring. Approved AWOS will need
approximately$5,000.00 per year service contract to meet new FAA specifications.
3. Snow plowing is working well this winter, helps to have less snow for manpower
requirement.
4. Airport influence area will hopefully have a public meeting in February.
Old Business:
1. Discussed ways of generating additional revenue to pay for upcoming potential projects.
2. Provided copies of old budget for board review.
New Business:
1. Have had a noise complaint from a resident in development just west of the airport. We
need to fly standard patterns with a decibel meter to see what changes we can make that
will help issue. Resident wants to change the pattern to right traffic for runway 22. We will
look into this and other possible ideas as soon as weather and time allows. Right traffic
could create a conflict on calm wind days,any changes will need to be fully analyzed.
Adjourned: 20:10 hours
Randy Hand
Secretary