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Florence Regional Airport

Pee Dee Regional Airport Authority

November 19, 2014

MINUTES
MEMBERS PRESENT:

Mr. Norwood Bonnoitt, Chairman

Rev. Leroy Edwards

Mr. Glenn Greene

Mr. Pete Gioldasis

Mr. Tommy Parham

Mr. Willie Smith
MEMBERS ABSENT:

Mr. Toy Nettles

Mr. Joseph Powell

Mr. Frank Rogers

Also present was Mr. Charles Henderson, Airport Director and Airport Staff Members; Connie Anderson, John Ferguson and Marshell Johnson.
John Russell with the Florence Morning News was present.
Mr. Phil Brown with Avcon Airport Engineering, Dennis Wiehl with Mead & Hunt and Jack Mayfield with Pond & Company were in attendance.
The meeting was called to order at 5:00 PM by Chairman Bonnoitt in the Airport Conference Room, 2100 Terminal Drive, Florence, SC. The media was notified in accordance with 30-4-80.
The Invocation was given by Rev. Edwards.
On a motion by Mr. Smith and a second by Mr. Parham, the minutes of the October 15, 2014 meeting were approved as previously emailed.
Chairman Bonnoitt presented Tom Kinard with a Service Plaque in recognition and appreciation of his service to the Airport Authority. Mr. Kinard’s appointment to the Airport Authority ended in October.

Chairman Bonnoitt welcomed Pete Gioldasis, the newly appointed Airport Authority member representing the City of Florence to the board meeting. Mr. Gioldasis briefly gave a formal introduction of himself to the Authority.


COMMITTEE REPORTS:
ADMINISTRATIVE AND FINANCE COMMITTEE REPORT: Mr. Powell
Chuck Henderson asked the Authority if they had received a copy of the proposed Employee Handbook that was emailed on last week. He stated the handbook was sent to Joe McLean for legal review. He stated Mr. McLean provided some comments, none of which were substantial or presented any significant changes. Chuck Henderson commented a few minor changes will be made to the formatting and paging structure of the handbook, but for the most part the handbook is completed. He stated he is proposing the handbook to go into effect January 1, 2015.
In Mr. Powell’s absence, Chuck Henderson asked Connie Anderson to present the monthly Financial Report.
Connie Anderson referred the Authority to the October 2014 FLO Sheet. For the month, the total Airport revenue was $141,928.34. Total expenses were $143,502.82 with a net loss of $1,574.48. FBO revenue for the month was $163,127.90 and total expenses were $136,910.80 with a net income of $26,217.60. The overall net income was $24,642.91.
Connie Anderson reported she is continuing to move forward in the new QuickBooks Accounting Program and is making a lot of improvements and changes. She stated her goal is to hopefully generate Financials using QuickBooks at the next meeting.
Chuck Henderson stated that in a previous meeting, it was discussed that at the end of the fiscal year in June to select an Auditor. He stated that he and Connie Anderson met with Don Milhous who audits a number of public agencies in the state including the Columbia Metropolitan Airport, Myrtle Beach and Charleston Airports. He stated he asked Mr. Millhouse to give him a proposal to conduct our audit for FY ’13. He stated he also discussed with him the idea of adjusting the fiscal year to January 1st and conclude on December 31st. Chuck Henderson reported Mr. Milhous stated to adjust the fiscal year would not be difficult to do. Chuck Henderson stated if the Authority is receptive of the idea, he will request a motion at the December meeting to revise the Bylaws to reflect a January 1-December 31 fiscal year.

Finally, Chuck Henderson stated back in June, he and Connie Anderson presented a budget and it was decided to do a Continuing Resolution. He stated the budget was implemented, but not adopted. He proposed that we continue with that budget until December and over the next week, present a proposed budget that will begin January 1, 2015. He stated he will get a draft budget for the Authority to review and will ask for approval in the December meeting. He stated he will also have a proposal from the Auditor for an 18-month audit (June ’13 – December ’14). There was some discussion.


AIR SERVICE COMMITTEE REPORT: Mr. Bonnoitt
Chairman Bonnoitt presented the Enplanement Report. He reported October ’14 over last year, Enplanements are up by 335, a 6% increase. Year to date, Enplanements are down 1%.
Chairman Bonnoitt reported October’s Load Factor rate is at 80% and the flight cancellation rate is 5%.
There was some discussion about the industry’s average cancellation rate. Chuck Henderson stated he will work on getting a comparable industry cancellation rate comparison by the next meeting.
PROPERTIES AND PROJECTS COMMITTEE REPORT: Mr. Nettles
Mr. Henderson reported the restroom renovation project is going well.
He reported there will be a Preconstruction meeting next Tuesday to start the Airfield Signage, Airfield Lighting and Generator projects. He stated he took a trip to Atlanta to meet with the contacts at the Airport District Office. He stated he spoke with Bill Pearson about an update of our Capital Improvements Projects. He stated the more prominent project will be the development of a new Public Safety building. He reported the wildlife hazard assessment will begin in the next few weeks.
Finally, Mr. Henderson reported that the Tree Removal Project is not yet completed. He stated the Contractor still has some thinning of some underbrush and clear cutting of tall timber and clean up that needs to be done.


FBO COMMITTEE REPORTS: Mr. Edwards
Mr. Edwards referred his report to John Ferguson.
John Ferguson commented and explained the reason why the FBO did so well financially for the month was mainly because of an increase in Avfuel gas sales and because of a little more activity in the amount of traffic coming into the FBO.
John Ferguson referred the Authority to the Fuel Sales Chart inside their notebooks. He reported that from July to September the maintenance shop had a total of 716 Billed Hours. He stated July to September of last year there was 648 Billed Hours. So there is about a 10% increase this year over last year. He stated in October there were some planes that have not yet been billed, but will roll over into November.
John Ferguson reported they are still working on improvements to the FBO facilities. He stated the lobby of the FBO has been repainted and looks very nice and that they have been receiving a lot of good comments. He also reported that the FBO has a new logo separate from the Airport’s logo. He stated the new logo is more in line with promoting Florence Aviation. John also brought a T-Shirt and cap with the FBO’s new logo on them to show to the Authority.
Finally, John Ferguson reported yesterday there were about 15 National Guardsmen at the FBO.  He reported these men are from the South Carolina and Georgia National Guard and are planning a training exercise in the spring and will be using Florence Aviation as a supply point.  He stated they are expecting 200-300 Guardsmen to be here during the training exercise.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S REPORT: Mr. Henderson
Mr. Henderson reported the new website is ready to launch, he is just waiting to enter the text for the Executive Director’s Report. He stated what he would like to propose is rather than emailing the agenda, minutes and FLO Sheet, we would now post the information to the website when it is ready. He stated prior to the meeting the Authority would go to the website to retrieve the information. He stated what we will do is have a rolling 1 year period where we will post minutes for up to 1 year so that when one month’s minutes come on, that month minutes from the previous year would roll off. He stated we will also post Airport Stats to the website and asked the Authority to take a look at the website and give us feedback as to what they like or dislike.
Chuck Henderson commented there may be some information that we may not want available on the website for public that we could make available on the intranet that would be password protected.
OLD BUSINESS:

None.
NEW BUSINESS:



None.
ADJOURNMENT:
There being no further business, the Pee Dee Regional Airport Authority adjourned at 5:38 PM.




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