September 2019 Meeting Minutes

Open­ing:

The Board Meet­ing of the Pana­ma City-Bay Coun­ty Air­port and Indus­tri­al Dis­trict was called to order at 9:00 a.m., Sep­tem­ber 25, 2019 by Chair­man Lee.

The Invo­ca­tion was giv­en by Mr. Russ Math­is.

The Pledge of Alle­giance was led by Chair­man Lee.

The Exec­u­tive Sec­re­tary called the roll and indi­cat­ed all the Board mem­bers were present except Mr. James John­son, and that Ms. Sims was on the tele­phone request­ing to par­tic­i­pate by phone.

Mr. Math­is made a motion to allow Ms. Sims to par­tic­i­pate in the Board Meet­ing via tele­phone. Vice Chair­man McDon­ald sec­ond­ed the motion. The vote was tak­en and the motion passed unanimously.

Mr. Math­is made a motion to accept the Agen­da. Vice Chair­man McDon­ald sec­ond­ed the motion. The vote was tak­en and the motion passed unanimously.

Reports:

Mr. Park­er McClel­lan pre­sent­ed and reviewed the Activ­i­ty Reports.

Ms. Dar­lene Nel­son pre­sent­ed and reviewed the Finan­cial Reports.

Con­sent Agenda:

a. Board Meet­ing Min­utes – August 21, 2019
This item pro­vid­ed for Board approval of the August 21, 2019 Board Meet­ing Min­utes.

b. Board Work­shop Min­utes – Sep­tem­ber 4, 2019
This item pro­vid­ed for Board approval of the Sep­tem­ber 4, 2019 Board Work­shop Min­utes.

c. Approve FY 19 Uncol­lectible Accounts Write-Off
This item pro­vides for Board approval to write off uncol­lectible debt from pri­or years. Dur­ing the month­ly account­ing process­es, Staff exam­ines the accounts receiv­able to deter­mine past due amounts and works with the cus­tomer to resolve the past due issues. For FY 19, most accounts have either been col­lect­ed or are deemed col­lectible except for Sun­shine Tur­bine. Dur­ing the pre­vi­ous fis­cal year, Sun­shine Tur­bine was evict­ed from their hangar and their pos­ses­sions were recent­ly sold on the Gov-Deals web­site in order to recoup some of the loss of their uncol­lectible account. Below is a sum­ma­ry of their account and sug­gest­ed write off of the uncol­lectible amount:

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Lease invoic­es bal­ance at 12/31/17 $15,540.70
Less sales tax on invoic­es ( 869.77)
Finance charges accrued $ 5,200.35

Subto­tal $19,871.28
Less pro­ceeds from equip­ment sales $( 3,301.01)
Less secu­ri­ty deposit applied ( 750.00)
Total uncol­lectible $15,820.27

d. Approve Ricon­do & Asso­ciates’ Task Order for Air­port Con­sult­ing Ser­vices
This item pro­vides for Board approval for Ricon­do & Asso­ciates to pro­vide Air­port Con­sult­ing Ser­vices as needed.

Ricon­do and Asso­ciates has pro­vid­ed Air­port con­sult­ing ser­vices to the Dis­trict for sev­er­al years, includ­ing devel­op­ing the cur­rent Air­line Agree­ment and assist­ing with bud­get and set­tle­ment cal­cu­la­tions. The Dis­trict has con­tin­ued to uti­lize Ricon­do and Asso­ciates on an ongo­ing as need­ed basis for air­line ser­vice devel­op­ment issues
as well as the bud­get and set­tle­ment cal­cu­la­tions.

The cur­rent Air­line Agree­ment requires an annu­al set­tle­ment cal­cu­la­tion which includes rev­enue shar­ing with Sig­na­to­ry Air­lines. This cal­cu­la­tion is very com­plex and takes into con­sid­er­a­tion total rev­enues, oper­at­ing expens­es, cap­i­tal equip­ment, debt ser­vice, and cap­i­tal reserves, and Ricon­do has devel­oped a rate mod­el to pre­pare this cal­cu­la­tion.

This Task Order will include assist­ing Staff in updat­ing the rate mod­el and review of the cal­cu­la­tion of the Air­line Rates and Charges for FY 21. The Task Order will also pro­vide assis­tance with prepa­ra­tion of the doc­u­men­ta­tion for the Air­line meet­ing, par­tic­i­pa­tion in the meet­ing, and aid­ing with the cal­cu­la­tion of the Set­tle­ment of the Rates and Charges for FY 19. The Set­tle­ment efforts will include the revisions/​updates to the Air­line rates and charges
mod­el based on FY 19 audit results, cal­cu­la­tion of the final Air­line rates and charges, and the rev­enue shar­ing cal­cu­la­tion for the fis­cal year end­ing Sep­tem­ber 30, 2019.

Addi­tion­al­ly, the Task Order includes the prepa­ra­tion of an updat­ed Air­line-Air­port Use and Lease Agreement,including a five-year pro­jec­tion, nego­ti­a­tions with the Air­lines, meet­ing par­tic­i­pa­tion, and updat­ing the rate mod­el.

A not-to-exceed bud­get of $68,780 is pro­posed for this work effort. Fund­ing is avail­able in the Air­port FY 20 budget.

e. Accept FAA AIP Grant Offer for the Ter­mi­nal Build­ing Expan­sion at the North­west Flori­da Beach­es Inter­na­tion­al Air­port
This item pro­vides for Board accep­tance of an FAA Grant Offer for use of Enti­tle­ment Funds that pro­vides fund­ing for the Pro­posed Ter­mi­nal Expan­sion Pro­gram. This FAA Grant Offer rep­re­sents one of the Airport’s requests for enti­tle­ment funds under the FAA Air­port Improve­ment Pro­gram; this project will be a mul­ti-year grant.

The Grant will be used for the expan­sion of the Ter­mi­nal Build­ing at Gates 6 and 7, to include pas­sen­ger load­ing bridges for all gates at ECP. This will allow for con­tin­ued growth and allow the Air­lines to adjust their fleet mix uti­liz­ing the Air­port with pas­sen­ger load­ing bridge capa­bil­i­ties.

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Fund­ing is pro­vid­ed for in the FY 20 Airport’s Oper­at­ing and Cap­i­tal Bud­get. Project costs are esti­mat­ed to be $4,666,984. Costs are reim­bursable under this FAA Grant at a ⁹⁰⁄₁₀ ratio for eli­gi­ble items, with the Airport’s share total­ing $466,699.

Mr. Nel­son made a motion to accept the Con­sent Agen­da, and Mr. Math­is sec­ond­ed the motion. The vote was tak­en and the motion passed unanimously.

Busi­ness Items:

a.1. Accept FAA Grant Offer for the Con­struc­tion of Taxi­way E‑1 and Tran­sient Air­craft Park­ing Apron at the North­west Flori­da Beach­es Inter­na­tion­al Air­port
This item pro­vides for Board accep­tance of an FAA Grant Offer dat­ed Sep­tem­ber 25, 2019 for use of Enti­tle­ment Funds under the FAA Air­port Improve­ment Pro­gram.
The Grant will be used for the con­struc­tion of Taxi­way E‑1 and the Tran­sient Air­craft Park­ing Apron (300’ x 600’). The Apron is locat­ed between the T‑Hangar Area and the Sheltair Lease­hold. The Ramp will be used for park­ing air­craft of all types of air­craft up to and includ­ing large com­mer­cial jets. 

Fund­ing is pro­vid­ed for in the FY 20 Airport’s Oper­at­ing and Cap­i­tal Bud­get. Project costs are esti­mat­ed to be $7,082,320. Costs are reim­bursable under this FAA Grant at a ⁹⁰⁄₁₀ ratio for eli­gi­ble items, with the Airport’s share total­ing $708,232.

Mr. Math­is made a motion to accept the FAA Grant Offer, and Mr. Tusa sec­ond­ed the motion. The vote was tak­en and the motion passed unanimously.

a.2. Accept Bid from C.W. Roberts Con­tract­ing, Inc. for the Con­struc­tion of Taxi­way E‑1 and the Tran­sient Air­craft Park­ing Apron
This item pro­vides for Board accep­tance of a Bid from C.W. Roberts Con­tract­ing, Inc. for the Con­struc­tion of Taxi­way E‑1 and the Tran­sient Air­craft Park­ing Apron.

This project is to con­struct Taxi­way E‑1 and the Tran­sient Air­craft Park­ing Apron. This ramp will be used for park­ing of all air­craft uti­liz­ing the Air­port up to and includ­ing large com­mer­cial jets. It will also pro­vide access to allow fur­ther devel­op­ment on the Air­port.

In May 2019, the Air­port post­ed an Invi­ta­tion to Bid for Tran­sient Apron and Taxi­way E1 Improve­ments. Three
(3) bids were received and opened on June 18, 2019. All bids were deter­mined to be respon­sive. Bids were received from:
GAC Con­trac­tors –
Base Bid — $2,009,961.74, Alt 1. – $5,443,991.81, Total — $7,453, 953.55
Phoenix Con­struc­tion Ser­vices –
Base Bid — $1,910,805.00, Alt 1. – $4,939,982.00, Total — $6,850,787.00
C.W. Roberts Con­tract­ing, Inc. –
Base Bid — $1,977,820.95, Alt 1. – $4,557,134.95, Total — $6,534,955.90

The FY20 Air­port Oper­at­ing and Cap­i­tal Improve­ment Bud­get includes fund­ing for this Ter­mi­nal Apron Expan­sion Tran­sient Apron and Taxi­way E1 Improve­ments Project. The Air­port has also received and accept­ed a 

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Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion Air­port Improve­ment Pro­gram (AIP) grant for the project. Total project costs of $7,082,320 will be fund­ed 90% by FAA Grant and 10% by Air­port. Air­port por­tion will be approx­i­mate­ly $708,232.

Upon review of Engi­neers Bid Tab­u­la­tion and Rec­om­men­da­tion of Award dat­ed June 18, 2019, Staff rec­om­mends accep­tance of the respon­sive bid from C.W. Roberts Con­tract­ing, Inc. in an amount of $6,534,955.90 for the Tran­sient Apron and Taxi­way E1 Improve­ments.

Mr. Tusa made a motion to approve the con­tract with C. W. Roberts Con­tract­ing, Inc., and Vice Chair­man McDon­ald sec­ond­ed the motion. The vote was tak­en and the motion passed unanimously.

a.3.1 Approve ZHA Task Order – #36C – Tran­sient Air­craft Park­ing Apron — Con­struc­tion
Admin­is­tra­tion Ser­vices
This item pro­vides for the Board’s approval of Task Order #36C to ZHA as the Airport’s con­tin­u­ing engi­neer­ing con­sul­tant to per­form required Con­struc­tion Admin­is­tra­tion Ser­vices for the Tran­sient Air­craft Park­ing Apron for a total not-to-exceed amount of $95,000.

In 2010, the North­west Flori­da Beach­es Inter­na­tion­al Air­port (ECP) opened as the first air­port to be con­struct­ed from the ground up since ⁹⁄₁₁. Since the open­ing of the Air­port, there have been numer­ous occa­sions when por­tions of the taxi­way sys­tem have been closed to accom­mo­date larg­er air­craft. The fre­quen­cy of this need as well as the devel­op­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties has cre­at­ed the need for this ramp.

The Task Order will be for the Con­struc­tion Admin­is­tra­tion Ser­vices which include coor­di­nat­ing with Air­port and con­trac­tor dur­ing con­struc­tion; par­tic­i­pat­ing in pre-con­struc­tion con­fer­ence and prepar­ing min­utes; par­tic­i­pat­ing in up to six (6) on-site vis­its to review work; con­sult­ing with con­struc­tion con­trac­tor & Air­port Staff; review­ing
con­trac­tor shop draw­ings; review­ing con­trac­tor pay appli­ca­tions; coor­di­nat­ing RFIs with con­trac­tor; prepar­ing and sub­mit­ting NWFWMD per­mit clear­ances; par­tic­i­pat­ing in sub­stan­tial com­ple­tion inspec­tion; par­tic­i­pat­ing in final com­ple­tion walk-thru; and prepar­ing and pro­vid­ing record draw­ings/­close-out doc­u­ments.

The over­all cost of this Task Order is $95,000 and it is con­tained in the FY 20 Oper­a­tion and Main­te­nance Bud­get. This project is also includ­ed in the Airport’s 2020 Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion Air­port Improve­ment Pro­gram grant request and is eli­gi­ble for reim­burse­ment at a ⁹⁰⁄₁₀ ratio.

Mr. Nel­son made a motion to approve the ZHA Task Order #36C – Tran­sient Air­craft Park­ing Apron – Con­struc­tion Admin­is­tra­tion Ser­vices, and Mr. Math­is sec­ond­ed the motion. The vote was tak­en and the motion passed unan­i­mous­ly.

a.3.2 Approve ZHA Task Order – #37B – Taxi­way E1 Improve­ments — Con­struc­tion Admin­is­tra­tion Ser­vices
This item pro­vides for the Board’s approval of Task Order #37B to ZHA as the Airport’s con­tin­u­ing engi­neer­ing con­sul­tant to per­form required Con­struc­tion Admin­is­tra­tion Ser­vices for the Taxi­way E1 Improve­ments for a total not-to-exceed amount of $80,000.

In 2010, the North­west Flori­da Beach­es Inter­na­tion­al Air­port (ECP) opened as the first air­port to be con­struct­ed from the ground up since ⁹⁄₁₁. Since the open­ing of the Air­port, there have been numer­ous occa­sions when por­tions of the taxi­way sys­tem have been closed to accom­mo­date larg­er air­craft. The fre­quen­cy of this need as well as the devel­op­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties has cre­at­ed the need for this ramp. The access to this ramp requires a new
taxi­way, which does not have direct access to the Run­way. This is part of the Run­way Safe­ty Action Pro­gram to ensure that air­craft do not have access direct­ly from a ramp to a run­way. All new ramps must meet this safe­ty cri­te­ria.

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The Task Order will be for the Con­struc­tion Admin­is­tra­tion Ser­vices which include coor­di­nat­ing with Air­port and con­trac­tor dur­ing con­struc­tion; par­tic­i­pat­ing in pre-con­struc­tion con­fer­ence and prepar­ing min­utes; par­tic­i­pat­ing in up to six (6) on-site vis­its to review work; con­sult­ing with con­struc­tion con­trac­tor & Air­port Staff; review­ing con­trac­tor shop draw­ings; review­ing con­trac­tor pay appli­ca­tions; coor­di­nat­ing RFIs with con­trac­tor; prepar­ing and sub­mit­ting NWFWMD per­mit clear­ances; par­tic­i­pat­ing in sub­stan­tial com­ple­tion inspec­tion; par­tic­i­pat­ing in final com­ple­tion walk-thru; and prepar­ing and pro­vid­ing record draw­ings/­close-out doc­u­ments.

The over­all cost of this Task Order is $80,000 and it is con­tained in the FY 20 Oper­a­tion and Main­te­nance Bud­get. This project is also includ­ed in the Airport’s 2020 Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion Air­port Improve­ment Pro­gram grant request and is eli­gi­ble for reim­burse­ment at a ⁹⁰⁄₁₀ ratio.

Mr. Nel­son made a motion to approve the ZHA Task Order #37B – Taxi­way E1 Improve­ments Project –Con­struc­tion Admin­is­tra­tion Ser­vices, and Mr. Tusa sec­ond­ed the motion. The vote was tak­en and the motion passed unanimously.

b. Approve and Adopt Res­o­lu­tion for FY 20 Oper­at­ing and Cap­i­tal Improve­ment Budget 

This item presents the Fis­cal Year 2020 (FY 20) Oper­at­ing and Cap­i­tal Bud­get to the Board for adoption.

The FY 20 Oper­at­ing and Cap­i­tal Bud­get includes oper­at­ing rev­enues of $16,353,942 and oper­at­ing expens­es of $8,876,270. The bud­get incor­po­rates the debt ser­vice require­ments for prin­ci­pal and inter­est pay­ments of $3,089,574 for the two SIB loans along with pas­sen­ger facil­i­ty charges of $1,606,578, result­ing in a net require­ment from Air­port rev­enues of $1,482,996. After Air­line rev­enue shar­ing, the net remain­ing rev­enues are $2,475,443.

The FY 20 Oper­at­ing and Cap­i­tal Bud­get was pre­sent­ed to the sig­na­to­ry air car­ri­ers and dis­cussed at the Air­lin­eAir­port Affairs Com­mit­tee Meet­ing on August 1, 2019. The air car­ri­ers reviewed the Rates and Charges cal­cu­la­tions for FY 20 along with the pro­posed Oper­at­ing and Cap­i­tal Bud­get. The Air­lines were pleased with the Bud­get pre­sen­ta­tion and did not request any changes.

A Board Bud­get Work­shop was held on Sep­tem­ber 4, 2019, where the Bud­get was reviewed in detail. It should be not­ed the rates and charges are slight­ly dif­fer­ent than pre­sent­ed at the Work­shop. The Project for Emer­gency Pow­er Gen­er­a­tors for the fuel farms was not includ­ed. The high­lights of the bud­get include:
 Over­all rev­enues increased by $2,311,297, or 16.5%, over the FY 19 Bud­get due to pri­mar­i­ly to an increase in the land­ing fee, addi­tion­al rental space due to Ter­mi­nal expan­sion, and increased pas­sen­ger and Air­line traffic;
 Per­son­nel costs increased by $418,004, or 10.6% over FY 19 Bud­get, which includes 3 new posi­tions and an increase to base pay as rec­om­mend­ed by the recent­ly com­plet­ed com­pen­sa­tion sur­vey. Adjust­ments to bring the employ­ee pay to mar­ket will be made in a two-year phase in peri­od uti­liz­ing the ​“Range Pen­e­tra­tion” method­ol­o­gy. This method moves an employ­ee to the same posi­tion in the new pay scale as he/​she is in the cur­rent one. A two-year phase-in allows the costs to be divid­ed equal­ly between FY 20 and FY 21;
 Total oper­at­ing expens­es bud­get­ed reflect a $596,423, or 7.2%, increase from the pri­or year’s bud­get; and
 Rates and Charges are as follows:
 Ter­mi­nal Rental Rate decreased from $63.74 to $63.64 per square foot
 Land­ing Fee increased from $4.78 to $5.10 per 1,000 pounds
 Sig­na­to­ry Cost per Enplane­ment decreased from $6.25 to $6.11

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Approval of the pro­posed bud­get will also include autho­riza­tion for:

 Cap­i­tal Equip­ment Schedule
 Cap­i­tal Expen­di­tures (Projects) Schedule
 Staffing Lev­els and Pay Ranges
 Renew­al of Prop­er­ty and Casu­al­ty Insurance
 Main­tain­ing the fuel flowage fee at $.04 per gallon
 T‑Hangar rental rate for new tenants:
 Small — $421.60
 Medi­um — $569.70
 Large – $788.23
 Land Rent at the rate of $0.36 per square foot

The FY 20 Oper­at­ing and Cap­i­tal Bud­get con­tains a 7.2% increase in oper­at­ing expens­es over the FY 19 Bud­get and a 16.5% increase in oper­at­ing rev­enues for the same peri­od. This Bud­get request pro­duces $2,475,443 in net remain­ing rev­enues avail­able after rev­enue shar­ing, which may be used for fund­ing the cap­i­tal pro­gram and increas­ing reserves.

After a pre­sen­ta­tion to the Board by Mr. McClel­lan and Ms. Nel­son, a Board dis­cus­sion fol­lowed, and Mr. Nel­son made a motion to approve the FY 20 Oper­at­ing and Cap­i­tal Improve­ment Bud­get and adopt the Res­o­lu­tion, and Ms. Sims sec­ond­ed the motion. The vote was tak­en and the motion passed unanimously.

c. Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Per­for­mance Eval­u­a­tion
Vice Chair­man McDon­ald addressed the Board and explained that this was the sec­ond year of uti­liz­ing the process estab­lished in our Board Guide­lines for Mr. Park­er McClellan’s annu­al per­for­mance eval­u­a­tion. He report­ed that Mr. McClel­lan first pro­vid­ed a doc­u­ment out­lin­ing his as well as the organization’s accom­plish­ments and estab­lish­ing goals for the orga­ni­za­tion based on input he has received through­out the year.

Each Board Mem­ber was then asked to com­plete an eval­u­a­tion form and return it to the Air­port, where they were con­sol­i­dat­ed to assist in the eval­u­a­tion process. Based on the input from oth­er Board Mem­bers and his per­son­al eval­u­a­tion, Vice Chair­man McDon­ald report­ed that Parker’s aver­age rat­ing was 3.8 out of 5 based on the per­for­mance expec­ta­tion reset last year and on Parker’s per­for­mance in 2018.

Over­all, based on his review and input received from Board Mem­bers, Vice Chair­man McDon­ald report­ed that Park­er con­tin­ues to lead and rep­re­sent our Air­port in an ​“above aver­age” man­ner.

A Com­pen­sa­tion Plan Sur­vey was recent­ly com­plet­ed by Ever­green Solu­tions, LLC and pre­sent­ed to the Board in July 2019. The Exec­u­tive Direc­tor posi­tion was includ­ed in the sur­vey, and the salary sur­vey range for this
posi­tion is as fol­lows:
Min­i­mum — $131,945.65
Mid­point — $174,920.40
Max­i­mum — $217,895.15

The cur­rent Exec­u­tive Direc­tor salary is $164,424.00, and Ever­green stat­ed that its sur­vey found that the aver­age Exec­u­tive Direc­tor com­pen­sa­tion is $179,260.00. Ever­green includ­ed in its report a rec­om­men­da­tion that the Exec­u­tive Direc­tor posi­tion be brought to the aver­age amount.

As a result of the Com­pen­sa­tion Study and the recent Per­for­mance Eval­u­a­tion, Vice Chair­man McDon­ald rec­om­mend­ed a salary increase of 4.5% or $7,418.00, which is con­sis­tent with the approach for non-con­tract employ­ees.

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A two-year phase-in peri­od for the rate adjust­ment was rec­om­mend­ed to mir­ror the phase-in peri­od for all non­con­tract employ­ees. The total increase of $14,836.00 would be divid­ed for FY 20 and FY 21, total­ing $7,418.00 per year. The effec­tive date of the increase will be April 1, 2019.

Fol­low­ing Board dis­cus­sion, Mr. Math­is made a motion to autho­rize the 4.5% salary adjust­ment for the Exec­u­tive Direc­tor. Mr. Tusa sec­ond­ed the motion. The vote was tak­en and the motion passed unanimously.

The Bay EDA Update:
Bay EDA Pres­i­dent Bec­ca Hardin addressed the Board and informed them that she recent­ly trav­eled to the Greenville and Atlanta mar­ket and attend­ed meet­ings with site selec­tion con­sul­tants. Ms. Hardin report­ed that Bay EDA and ECP Staff are still work­ing with Space Flori­da on Project Gator; still work­ing on the process with Project Mas­ter­mind whose expec­ta­tions are very high; and pitched a 50-acre site south of the Ter­mi­nal to Project
Edwards that we should hear some­thing from soon. She added that sev­er­al pro­pos­als would be pre­sent­ed in the next cou­ple of weeks.

Ms. Hardin con­clud­ed that she will be trav­el­ling to MRO Europe in Octo­ber.

The Moore Agency Update:
Ms. Katie Spill­man of The Moore Agency addressed the Board on the August high­lights. Ms. Spill­man report­ed that we ran two paid cam­paigns: one short one on Face­book sup­port­ing ECP’s spon­sor­ship of the Pep­si Gulf Coast Jam (PGCJ), which built up our email newslet­ter dis­tri­b­u­tion by near­ly 3,000 – as our owned and earned media tac­tics focused on our PGCJ tick­et give­away; and the sec­ond includ­ed our paid search cam­paign sup­port­ing ongo­ing
traf­fic to our Escape web­site page – as the paid search con­tin­ues to deliv­er our best return on invest­ment; and she added that our Dash­board will con­tin­ue to approach or exceed our goals.

Ms. Spill­man report­ed that our owned and earned media tac­tics also focused on the news of Mr. Park­er McClel­lan being named Chair of the Board of Direc­tors for the Flori­da Air­ports Coun­cil (FAC). She report­ed that Mr. McClel­lan appeared as a fea­tured guest on WKMG 90.7FM Gulf Coast State College’s Morn­ing Mix pro­gram to share ECP’s lat­est news.

Ms. Spill­man said that as a result of the paid search cam­paigns, we saw near­ly 700 Air­line web­site vis­its and 263 assist­ed con­ver­sions from the cam­paign; 3,811 Escape page views; 22,233 new web­site vis­i­tors; 45,001 total ses­sions; 66,699 earned media impres­sions; and 20.7% sub­scribers open­ing the newslet­ter (indus­try aver­age 17%).

Ms. Spill­man informed the Board that the PGCJ tick­et give­away result­ed in 2,884 email sub­mis­sions and 140,665 impres­sions.

Ms. Spill­man wrapped up her report by show­ing images of the refreshed cre­atives used in social media for the Gulf Coast Jam and Face­book ads. 

Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Report:
Mr. McClel­lan began his report by ask­ing Mr. Richard McConnell for an update on the State Road 388 Con­struc­tion Project. Mr. McConnell report­ed that the progress was con­tin­u­ing on sched­ule. The two, light­ed, Air­port Entrance signs had been removed the week fol­low­ing Labor Day and tem­po­rary con­struc­tion sig­nage had been installed. He added that with­in the next cou­ple of weeks, four of the Airport’s street lights would be removed, and the instal­la­tion of sur­charge mate­ri­als would begin. He added that the medi­an just north of the
Air­port Entrance has been asphalt­ed in prepa­ra­tion for the re-rout­ing of traf­fic for con­struc­tion activ­i­ties.

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Mr. McClel­lan report­ed that Amer­i­can Air­lines Sta­tion Man­ag­er Thomas Mer­rill was in atten­dance and asked if he would like to address the Board, and Mr. Mer­rill thanked the Board and Author­i­ty shar­ing that Amer­i­can Air­lines is very hap­py with the Air­port.

Mr. McClel­lan report­ed that this week­end would be the Mooney Own­ers’ Week­end, in case any­one was inter­est­ed in stop­ping by Sheltair to par­tic­i­pate in the events they would have going on. 

Mr. McClel­lan also report­ed that it became nec­es­sary to open the Air­port Over­flow Park­ing Lot, as the oth­er park­ing was full.

Mr. McClel­lan report­ed that CHA’s Vice Pres­i­dent Mr. Paul Puck­li would like to do a Mas­ter Plan Work­shop in late Octo­ber – when the fore­cast will be fin­ished – in order to engage the Board pri­or to going to pub­lic meet­ings with some alter­na­tive devel­op­ment.

Mr. McClel­lan report­ed that this morn­ing there was a valve issue which caused flood­ing in the Ter­mi­nal; and he con­clud­ed that Staff would be meet­ing tomor­row with the Air­lines to dis­cuss a 5‑Year Plan.

Pub­lic Com­ments:
There were no pub­lic com­ments.
Adjourn­ment:
The meet­ing was adjourned at approx­i­mate­ly 10:02 a.m.

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Kathy Gilmore, Exec­u­tive Sec­re­tary Del Lee, Chairman