MOTION: Commissioner Spencer moved approval of Resolution 2020-02 recommended changes to the SMAA Employee and Tenant Employee Parking Policy, and that staff be authorized to prepare any documents necessary to implement this action. Commissioner Stafford seconded. MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY (5-0)
ADDITIONAL ITEM: Mr. Piccolo requested the Board's direction on allowing staff to issue parking passes to people attending board meetings in the new Dan P. McClure Auditorium. The old DMA allowed free parking around the building, but the new facility requires parking in one of the airport's paid parking lots. It was the Consensus of the Board to authorize staff to issue parking passes for any persons attending the SMAA Board meetings held in the new DMA in terminal when requested.
The following department reports were accepted:
Financial Statements
Investment Portfolio
Finance & Administration Department
ARFF, Operations & Police Departments
Development/Community Relations, Activity Report
Engineering, Planning & Facilities Departments
Internal Audit & Investment Compliance
Information Technology Department
Mr. Piccolo presented the department reports. Mr. Lange discussed the status of the PFC application process. Mr. Piccolo and Mr. Bontrager answered questions on the progression of the Master Plan Update. Mr. Bontrager stated AECOM may have presentations on the Master Plan Update ready for Board discussion at the March meeting or latest at the meeting in May.
Following discussion on the status of the fuel farm expansion, the Board unanimously authorized an increase to the scope of services on the fuel farm expansion to the build-out of three fuel tanks.
MOTION: Commissioner Beruff moved to authorize staff to increase the scope of services on the fuel farm expansion to build-out of three fuel tanks. Commissioner Wish seconded. MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY (5-0)
Following a question from the Board on the status of the SRQ Taxi litigation, Mr. Bailey advised that we are waiting for the bankruptcy judge to render a decision on liability.
Commissioner Wish requested that, considering new technologies now available, he would like to see changes made to allow a commissioner, when unavailable to physically attend a board meeting, to attend its via skype or other form of technology, and to cast votes at such meeting. Mr. Bailey advised that the airport's enabling legislation presently allows members who are ill or out of the district on the day of a meeting to nevertheless vote in the meeting, but only for emergency meetings. He advised that the legislation was enacted to permit this ten years ago by a bill sponsored by the then-Representative Doug Holder, but that the local legislative delegations supported the bill only if it would confine its application to emergency meetings. He noted that the governing bodies of state agencies are empowered to hold telephonic meetings since their