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Caldwell Industrial Airport Commission
4814 E. Linden Street
Caldwell, ID 83605
Email:k Kara@ rt of aldw ll.or
208-459-9779
Date: May 7'h, 201
Time: 12:00 Noon — 1-00 PI VI
Location: Caldwell Industrial Airport— Hubler Terminal Conference Room
Commission Members Present: Terrence Biggers (City council Rep.), Barry Everett, Jr.}
Phil Fouts, Marty Koch, Dike Heed, Wayne Thiel, Hob Oates—Airport Manager, Kathy
Schara—Airport Administrative Secretary
Commission Members Absent: Fob Herndon, Steve Kahn
Guests: Brent Orton — Public Works Director, Toby Epler -r JUB, Jim & Anita Snore, Greg
Swanson., like Westbrook
Chairman Phil Fouts called the meeting to order at 12:04 pry.
1. Minutes of April 2015 Airport Commission Meeting
Motion was made and seconded to accept the April 2015 Minutes. Lotion passed.
2. Airport Improvement Program —Toby Epler
Toby reported that all the final documents have been submitted for the design work on
AIP27. Upon approval, final reimbursement will be requested from the FAA.
Paperwork on the construction phase of AIP27 will begin shortly.
3. Canal Relocation Update— Brent Orton
Brent reported they are working with property owners on KCID road and simultaneously
working on design revisions with Pioneer. He stated they are hoping to start digging
the channel before this irrigation season ends, pending availability of city workers.
4. Wall of Fare Committee report
Barry reported that the committee has talked with various airports, as to how they do
their wall of farm, with many different methods reported. Barry suggested that
applicants for Caldwell's wall of fame be submitted to the committee, which would then
make recommendations to the commission for approval. A couple of suggestions were
made of persons to talk to about possible processes. Barry will do further research.
Mike Heed reported on the trophy case for the donated Gary Hubler trophies. He
stated they will custom-build the case which will go on the Hubler Terminal wall of
Fame, hopefully within the net -4 months.
Marty Loch aced for information regarding tine restoration of the old airport beacon.
Hob stated that the actual work is n the back burner of the street department
presently. However, Hob is working on getting information from Hill Statham of Idaho
Aeronautics regarding the history of the system of beacon lights that was between here
and Salt Lake} and of which our beacon was a part.
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5. Report on FAA & IAIVIA Meetings— Brent Orton/Rob Oates
Brent Orton reported on the FAA District Conference in Seattle, stating there was talk of
a program, "planning for compliance", which will change to "planning for business
success". Brent feels this reflects a change in attitude, favoring more of a customer
service mentality in helping airports with compliance issues.
Also discussed at the conference was Ne ctGen/ADS-B. He stated that even private
aircraft will at some point be required to be ADS-B compliant. The FAA is moving
towards electronic airport layout plans. In response to a question of when this would
occur, Brent stated he was not sure ghat the timeline is now. Wayne Thiel said the last
he had heard it was 2020. Brent stated the FAA would provide funds for the AGIS,
however Rob stated there has been discussion of doing this internally and
incrementally r to possibly avoid having to add the cost of it to future grants and forestall
future projects.
Rob concurred with Brent on the Seattle meeting —that this was the most pro-general
aviation meeting he's been to yet.
Food then reported on the [AMA Conference in Coeur d'Alene.
There was discussion on the use of social media to market airports, as well as other
marketing matters.
FAA regulations updates were given# followed by a g eneral Q&A/discussion session
with FAA personnel, including discussion of Ne tGen., and hoer it is currently in use in
Alaska.
Mike Pape of Idaho Aeronautics in Boise gage an update.
One session included the discussion of the agricultural use of drones to improve the
}yield and the cost of operations.
The location of next gear's ]AMA Conference has not fret been decided.
0. Buildable Lots Update— Rob Oates
Rob reported that plans are being reviewed and lease paperwork is its process for
construction of a four-hangar complex in the 900 block area by Calvin Tabor. Ground
breaking should be soon.
7. Announcements — Rob Oates
Former long-time Airport Commission member and chairperson, Bob McGee
passed away on April 91h, and will be missed.
Wayne n Thiel has entered his letter of resignation from the Airport Commission,
as of May 31 �, as he enters retirement. Greg Swanson will be nominated to the
Mayor nor for City Council approval to fill the remainder of Wayne's term.
• The now communications tourer is in the process of being installed on the
outside wall of Hubler Terminal. Communications will be improved with this
addition.
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• Conduit for fiber optics has been installed along Aviation Way by the Caldwell
Water Department, under a design b y the Caldwell Engineering Department.
This will be extended under the highway and connected to the counter
courthouse, as well as to Hubler Terminal. This will allow fiber optic connection
between the airport and City Hall, At a future date, we will then be able to install
new gate controllers which will have remote access.
• An Air Force Special Ops unit recently made use of Caldwell Airport, Hubler
Terminal and apron for training during a week in April. They ran various
scenarios to sharpen the trainee's skills in dealing with the unexpected.
Intensive maintenance has been ongoing on the runway and edge-light systems,
and they are close to being 100% operational.
• Dike Feed has done maintenance on all the airport automatic gates to keep
there running smoothly.
Citation 10 is expected to land at Caldwell Airport next week and will be wing
the Hubler ramp.
8. Commissioner Comments:
Barry Everett Jr. requested permission from the chairman for one last comment. He
started that he recently spoke with the airport manager at John Darr, OFD, The John Darr
airport has established a rule that there would be no more than three helicopters in the
pattern at a time. He would like to have the commission discuss this at the next
meeting.
The meeting was adjourned at 1:05 pre.
Next Airport Commission Meeting: June 4ih9 201 - Noon