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Caldwell, ID 83605
Date: June 7, 2007
Time: 12:00 —1:00 pm
Location: (Caldwell Industrial Airport — Office of Curt Hawkins)
Commission Members Present: Bob McGee, Myron Tucker, Phil Fouts, Hoyt Fleming, Mike
Reed, Jeff Miller, Wayne Thiel, Curt Hawkins (Airport Manager), Kathy Schara (Secretary)
Commission Members Absent: Rob Oates, Marty Koch, Mack Kreizenbeck
Guests: Jim & Anita Shore, Tom Lemenager
Chairman Bob McGee called the meeting to order at 12:06 PM.
1. Minutes of May 2007 Airport Commission Meeting
Motion was made and seconded to accept May 2007 Minutes. Motion passed.
2. Greenway Building Purchase
Allen Greenway wants to purchase a building on the Airport to construct inflatable
• buildings, which could be used to house aircraft. He needs approximately 7,000 feet, and
is looking at the building that used to be a bag company.
Curt Hawkins stated that this inflatable building could not be called a hangar, and it would
not be allowed as such on this airport.
Discussion ensued as to whether this business should be allowed on the Airport. The
consensus of the Commission was that this is not really aviation oriented, and should not
be approved.
3. Lemenager Update
Regarding the purchase of property, the City will try for reimbursement from FAA for the
Houston property, which has already been purchased. Since there is an August 15�'
deadline on expenditures for this year for reimbursement from FAA, there is no time to
include the Priddy purchase information into this year's reimbursement request. However,
the city may still pursue the Priddy property by the next FAA reimbursement deadline.
4. "AP" Airport Zone, Final Draft
Curt presented the "AP" Airport Zone Ordinance to the Commission for discussion and
approval. Discussion following regarding land use in the Airport Zone for both "Permitted
• Use" and "Special Use". The Commission determined several changes needed to be made
to the ordinance.
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There was al�a discussion regarding signage allowances, (Section 6 of the Ordinance).
After much discussion, the members agreed upon wording for Section 6.
. Motion was made and seconded to accept the Ordinance as revised. A verbal vote was
taken and motion passed.
5. Minimum Standards Revision
Curt brought to the Commission a request by Gordon Law for a change in the Minimum
Standards document regarding liability insurance amounts. Currently, they list $300,000 -
$500,000 is required. He would like this changed to $500,000 -$1 million, to reflect
current amounts stated in current Airport leases.
Motion for this change was made, seconded & approved.
6. Hoyt Fleming — 2007 Tax Assessment
Hoyt Fleming presented his concern regarding 2007 Tax Assessments. His appraised
value increased by 40%. He has questions regarding whether others feel the values of their
properties are higher than they could get for that property.
There was discussion about whether the commission should work together as a group to try
to get these values down. Someone mentioned that to protest the assessments, they would
� need to have actual recorded sales lower than what the assessed value was.
It was suggested that they request the assessor to come and present to the Commission on
how he arrived at his appraisals?
There was also discussion of having a group of commission members go down to talk with
the assessor &/or file a complaint. It was questioned whether it was possible to do this as a
Commission. It was pointed out that the deadline to file a complaint is June 25 2007,
which is before the next scheduled Commission meeting.
It was decided that a special meeting would be called, for two weeks from today on June
21 2007, to have the Canyon County Assessor come and present to the Commission and
answer concerns or questions. Again, it was stated that data is needed on sales of hangars.
Jeff Miller stated that he thinks the hangars are taxed under a commercial rate, even though
they are not commercial hangars. It was then suggested that perhaps the appraised values
might be fine, but that they may be taxed under incorrect rates.
Jeff Miller stated that he would do some research prior to the upcoming Special Meeting.
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9. Campground for Pilots
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Wayne Thiel stated that the Lewiston Airport is getting a campground for pilots, which is
being funded by an outside source. He asked if the Caldwell Airport Commission would
� be interested in something similar here on airport property, if he could find someone who
would pay for it.
Subsequent discussion was overall positive regarding the possibility. It was stated that
land on the south side of Aviation Way could be used for such.
It was agreed that Wayne will check into possible funding sources for such a project and
future discussion will follow.
10. July Airport Commission Meeting — Thursday, July 12 2007, due to celebration of
Independence Day on July 4tn
The meeting was adj ourned at 1:14 PM.
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