MEET­ING MIN­UTES
PANA­MA CITY – BAY COUN­TY AIR­PORT AND INDUS­TRI­AL DISTRICT

Open­ing:

A Spe­cial Board Meet­ing of the Pana­ma City-Bay Coun­ty Air­port and Indus­tri­al Dis­trict was called to order at 3:00 p.m., August 21, 2025 by Chair Mark Sheldon. 

Roll was called. In atten­dance were: Ms. Vic­to­ria Williams, Mr. Matt Algar­in, Ms. Hol­ly Melz­er, Mr. Glen McDon­ald, Vice Chair Will Cramer, and Chair Mark Sheldon.

The Invo­ca­tion was giv­en by Chair Mark Sheldon.

The Pledge of Alle­giance was led by Chair Mark Sheldon. 

Pub­lic Comments: 

There were no pub­lic comments.

Accep­tance of Agenda:

Chair Shel­don asked to approve the Accep­tance of the Agenda.

Ms. Hol­ly Melz­er motioned to accept the Agen­da, motion was sec­ond­ed by Vice Chair Will Cramer. The vote was tak­en and the motion passed unanimously.

Busi­ness Items:

  1. Approve CGMP#1 Amend­ment with Cardel­la Con­struc­tion Com­pa­ny for Phase 1 of the Ter­mi­nal Expan­sion Program

Mr. Sebas­tiano Cardel­la pre­sent­ed the total CGMP (Con­struc­tion Guar­an­teed Max­i­mum Price) con­sist­ed of all com­po­nents includ­ing the enabling aspects of the project. Based on fund­ing, the com­po­nents are bro­ken down into three CGMP’s.

CGMP#1 includes the enabling projects of the haul roads, the TRD (tem­po­rary re-diver­sion or ter­mi­nal dri­ve road), the new road design, the util­i­ty relo­ca­tions, , site cap­tured demo, the MEP (mechan­i­cal, elec­tri­cal, and plumb­ing ser­vices), con­crete steel ter­mi­nal struc­ture and heavy wood tim­ber over­hang and the skin com­po­nents, sheet­ing and fram­ing (inte­ri­or and exte­ri­or), etc. Mr. Cardel­la pre­sent­ed the ele­ments includ­ed in CGMP#2 with tar­get start dates of Jan­u­ary 2026, as well as ele­ments includ­ed in CGMP#3 with a tar­get start date of March 2027.

Pric­ing and finan­cial com­po­nents for each phase were pre­sent­ed as well as the total pro­ject­ed cost based on cur­rent draw­ings, sub­con­trac­tors, and the antic­i­pat­ed exe­cu­tion of award. Project con­tin­gen­cies were pre­sent­ed as well as solu­tions to address poten­tial cost esca­la­tion. Sub­con­trac­tors for the project con­sists of six­ty per­cent local and the remain­ing forty per­cent locat­ed out­side the gen­er­al area.

Dis­cus­sion ensued.

Vice Chair Cramer motioned to approve the CGMP#1 Amend­ment with Cardel­la Con­struc­tion Com­pa­ny for Phase 1 of the Ter­mi­nal Expan­sion Pro­gram, motion was sec­ond­ed by Mr. McDon­ald. A vote was tak­en and the motion passed unanimously.

  1. Project Con­struc­tion Update 

This item was dis­cussed as part of the CGMP ter­mi­nal expan­sion project pre­sen­ta­tion. No addi­tion­al discussion.

Adjourn­ment:

The meet­ing was adjourned at approx­i­mate­ly 3:53 p.m.

Meet­ing Sched­ule: August 27, 2025 9:00 a.m. Reg­u­lar Meeting

Sep­tem­ber 4, 2025 9:00 a.m. Bud­get Workshop