Brd Min 1/25/06

COLORADO AIRPORT OPERATORS ASSOCIATION
MINUTES – BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
JANUARY 25, 2006
DENVER, COLORADO

I. Call to Order

President Rex Tippetts called the meeting to order at 11:06 am. Present for the meeting were Ron Dent, Vice President; Mike Reisman, Secretary/Treasurer; Brian Condie, Scott Brownlee, Lorie Hinton, Janell Barrilleaux, Kevin Gould, Alan Wiechmann, and Traci Plunkett, CAOA Executive Secretary.

Guests present were Travis Vallin, Division of Aeronautics; Dennis Heap, Ken Lawson and Kaitlyn Westendorf, Front Range Airport.

II. Approval of Agenda

Rex asked for any additions or changes to the agenda. Mike Reisman motioned to approve the agenda. Ron Dent seconded the motion. Motion passed unanimously.

III. Minutes: October 21, 2005 Board of Directors Meeting

Rex asked for any additions or amendments. Scott Brownlee suggested adding the year “2005” to the date on Page 3 under Membership Committee, 3^rd sentence; also changing the word “sponsors” to “members” in the same paragraph, 3^rd to the last sentence. Another correction Scott suggested was to page 4, under New Business, last sentence needs to be changed to read “If the form is not filed, the increase of $.219/gallon will remain in the Highway fund and the $.025 will not be refunded to the airport. Scott Brownlee motioned for approval of the minutes. Mike Reisman seconded the motion. Motion passed unanimously.

IV. Reports of Officers and Committees

a. Financial Report

Secretary/Treasurer Mike Reisman presented the financial report as of December 31, 2005. The profit/loss year to date totals $33,603.33 for net income. Cash flow statement indicates a balance in the bank of $72,043.43. After additional review and discussion by the Board, Janell Barrilleaux motioned for approval of the financial report. Brian Condie seconded the motion. Motion passed unanimously.

b. Conference Committee

1. Spring 2006

The Spring, 2006 Conference will be held May 10-12, 2006 at the Hotel Colorado, in Glenwood Springs, CO. Room rates are approximately $120/room. There are 130 rooms at the hotel and all of those rooms have been reserved for the conference. Brian Condie has taken the lead on organizing this conference and has asked the Board for assistance in agenda topics and speakers. Brian has asked Senator Ken Salazar to attend to speak at the conference and should be hearing back from him soon. Golf will be coordinated at Lakota Canyon with a shotgun start at 9:00 am and Janell is working on sponsorships and negotiating the rate with the golf course at this time. As an alternative to golf, Brian discussed a river rafting trip for those who aren’t participating in the golf event. The CAOA Board meeting is scheduled for 5:00 pm the first evening just before the Welcome Reception event. Thursday morning after the Welcome and Introductions, the first session will be offered to any exhibitor and/or corporate member who wishes to introduce their product to the association each 5-10 minutes; the afternoon is still open for suggestion for topics and he is in the process of coordinating the evening banquet event. On Friday, Janell will be giving an EPA update in addition to the regular FAA and CDOT updates and the conference will adjourn around noon. Brian is looking for ideas on giveaways for the “goodie” bag to give to each attendee when they check in. Also Brian suggested on Friday, giving a conference “rating” form to each attendee in order to get feedback on how the attendees enjoyed the conference.

2. Fall 2006

The Fall 2006 Conference will be held somewhere on the Front Range and again will be in conjunction with the grant hearings. Travis stated his continued willingness to assist in coordinating this conference.

3. Spring 2007

The Spring 2007 Conference will be held at a site to be determined. The Board is currently scouting for interested airports to host this conference. Suggestions were made to hold it at a resort location such as Breckenridge or Keystone. Rex will speak to Crested Butte to see if they would be interested. The location needs to be determined within the next two months in order to timely plan this event.

4. Website Committee

Mike Reisman reported that the web resource center is continuing to be used frequently by the membership. Mike encouraged the membership to continue to update the information they have submitted and asked for additional contributions of bid specifications, minimum standards, leases, etc so the information within the resource center does not get outdated.

No other committee reports were given.

V. Other Business

Rex reported regarding the aviation fuel tax issue that United Airlines is still in favor of this issue, however, there currently is no bill for review or consideration by the legislature, and at this time, no legislator is sponsoring the issue. This is encouraging however, continuing to discuss the issue with the legislators is imperative so that if and when this issue is brought up to them, they have heard and understand CAOA’s position on this type of change to the existing legislation. Tonight’s Legislative Reception will be an important tool in communicating with the legislators the airport’s position to not support any change in the legislation that will decrease the amount of refunds to the airports.

VI. New Business

Rex handed out and discussed the proposed 2006 Budget for CAOA. The big change in the budget was the addition of “Scholarship” and also added another line item in the budget titled “Sponsorships NBAA”. Due to the historical benefit the airport industry in Colorado has received from NBAA sponsored events, CAOA can continue to support these events through sponsorship money. The other item was the “Contract Labor” which was agreed to by the Board last year. Scott Brownlee asked if the scholarship money is for AAAE only and Rex explained that the money can be used for other types of scholarships including sending smaller airports to basic or advanced ASOS schools or environmental update schools. The Board discussed coordinating a jointly sponsored ASOS school by NWAAAE and CAOA possibly in the Fall, 2006. Rex and Ron will work together to determine the timeframe and the type of school to sponsor, basic or advanced. Janell also volunteered to host another environmental/EPA type seminar for any interested airports to attend sometime this year.

Rex also discussed the budget as a guideline only. If the Board wishes to spend money on other worthwhile causes that will benefit the Colorado airport industry as a whole, then bring those items to the Board for review and consideration. After some discussion, Scott Brownlee moved to approve the 2006 Budget. Ron Dent seconded the motion. Motion passed unanimously.

Scott Brownlee reported that he has received no updated information regarding the federal excise taxes on aviation fuels being deposited into the highway fund, as opposed to the Aviation fund. Scott will report back to the Board if he receives any additional information. Scott will also forward the memos that started this discussion to Travis to follow-up on.

The next Board Meeting will be held in conjunction with the 2006 Spring Conference in Glenwood Springs on May 10, 2006.

A motion to adjourn was made by Ron Dent at 12:00 pm. Kevin Gould seconded the motion. Motion passed unanimously.