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AIRPORTS COMMITTEE

RECORD OF ACTION FOR
March 10, 2021

Supervisor Diane Burgis, Chair
Supervisor Karen Mitchoff, Vice Chair

Present:	Diane Burgis, Chair
	Karen Mitchoff, Vice Chair
Staff Present:	Steve Kowleski , Chief Deputy Director, Public Works; Keith Freitas, Director of Airports; Russell Milburn, Assistant Director of Airports, Operations; Beth Lee, Assistant Director of Airports, Operations; Mary Hale, Public Works; Mark Goodwin , District III Representative; Anne O , District IV Representative; Daniel Barrios , Planner Department of Conservation and Development; Jamar Stamps, Airport Land Use Commission; Elke Soberal , Administrative Analyst; Elise Schilling, Administrative Services Assistant II
Attendees:	Steven Starratt, Maurice Gunderson

Introductions

Public comment on any item under the jurisdiction of the Committee and not on this agenda (speakers may be limited to three minutes).

Supervisor Burgis - Motion to Approve
Supervisor Mitchoff-2nd
Aye- Unanimous

AYE:	Chair Diane Burgis
	Vice Chair Karen Mitchoff

Maurice Gunderson Reported:

Reported aircraft noise at normal levels
Tower staff hours back to normal
Working on an aviation fuel distribution project which would require a significant coordinated sales effort by the county.
Supervisor Mitchoff requested to be advised of updates regarding aviation fuel distribution project.

Dudek provided traffic impact analysis to Public Works transportation, DCD Transportation in November 2020.
Meeting held by Public Works, DCD and Dudek to discuss traffic impact analysis report and the received comments. Majority of comments were resolved or clearly communicated to Dudek.
Contract extended for Dudek until end of 2021.
February 11^th final memo with proposed solutions sent to Dudek with comments.
Supervisors Mitchoff and Burgis requested to be advised of any changes with Dudek even if there is no Airport Committee meeting.
An additional $200,000 is needed from the Mariposa Community Benefits fund to cover county staff time to complete project
Supervisor Mitchoff requested a detailed breakdown of the contract and use of the Mariposa funds for the project.

Urban Air Mobility Project broke ground on construction of 2 large hangars at Byron Airport
EssentialAero has been testing Unmanned Aircraft Systems at both Airports

Discuss Airport's Project Development Update

Urban Air Mobility project broke ground on first segment of phase 1.
There are two other phases in this project which includes 3 more large hangars and up to 12 smaller hangars

Working with FAA to release the land for non-aeronautical use to allow a fire station with an aircraft hangar
Air ambulance component is deemed an aeronautical use by FAA