YAMPA VALLEY AIRPORT COMMISSION  February 8, 2024 Meeting Minutes  The regular meeting of the Yampa Valley Airport Commission (YVAC) was called to order at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 8, 2024, in the Yampa Valley Regional Airport conference  room as well as via Zoom. YVACI members present: Sonja Macys - Routt County Commissioner Janet Fischer- - Steamboat Ski & Resort Corp Randy Looper 1 Moffat County Stephen Birch - Routt County Michael Buccino - Steamboat Springs City Council Steve Muntean - Steamboat Springs City Council Michael Stern - Routt County, Aviation Nolene Powers - Routt County Keith Hensley - Routt County, General Business YVAC members absent: Tim Redmond - Routt County Commissioner Chris Nichols - Moffat County, Alternate Katie Brown - Steamboat Ski & Resort Corp, Alternate Trevor Gann - Town ofHayden Bob Reese - Town of Hayden, Alternate  Others present: Kevin Booth 1 YVRA Stacie Fain - SBS  Lauren Rasmussen- - Planner, Mead & Hunt Marc Miller - Project Manager, Woolpert Rebecca Wagner - Architect, Gensler Beth Postemski-I Flying Crown Land Group Iver Retrum - BA Group Barry Sherman - BA Group Roy Daniels- - SBS Project Manager, Garver ORGANIZATIONAL MATTERS  I.  Diane Broweri introduced herself. Sonja Macys chaired the meeting.  1. Approval of Minutes - December 14, 2023  MOTION  Stephen Birch moved to approve the December 14, 2023, meeting minutes as presented;  Keith Hensley seconded. Thei motion carried unanimously.    2. Approval of Sunshine Resolution No objections were registered.  3.Public Comment Diane Brower, 642 Evans Street:  I'm a long-time, full-time resident of Steamboat Springs. I've read that your mission is to maximize revenue and customer service and also to ensure safety and value to the community. The last part ofs your mission is what I'm questioning tonight. Ibelieve those two aspects of your mission; maximize revenue and ensure value to the community, are increasingly in conflict. Myself and many other residents of Steamboat Springs and Routt County have serious concerns about the ever-increasing numbers of airline flights and passengers arriving at the Yampa Valley Regional Airport. My question is the perennial question voiced by many in our community: When is enough, enough? When does the continuing quest for greater numbers get balanced with the impacts ofthose numbers on our communities? We all: recognize the challenges local businesses, law enforcement, medical facilities and other essential services have finding staff due too cost ofliving and housing shortages, and yet, the policy of bringing more and more tourists into the community continues unabated. We're not a large city or heavily populated area that can easily absorb these numbers without losing our highly valued community character. We're becoming less and less a community and more and more a commodity. Certainly, this overcrowding and simultaneous lack of staffing doesn't result in the kind of visitor experience that you want to create. I've read in the newspaper that in 2021, 153,440 passengers used YVRA, the most ever and a 42% increase from 2019. The YVRA could have as many as 308,000 What I wonder is: Does the Airport Commission have ongoing discussions about whether these increases are actually a good thing for the quality of1 life oft the community and the county as a whole. Ify you haven't been including this question in discussions whenever you make a decision, The other factor that's important is the carbon footprint of endlessly increasing flights into Routt County and the carbon footprint ofaccommodating: those visitors. I know the airport has put in place opportunities for passengers to offset their carbon footprint, but any benefits from this limited offset is negated by the increasing numbers of flights. The argument could be: Those people will just go somewhere else if we don't bring those flights here. But the goal ofthe Routt County Climate. Action Plan is to decrease greenhouse gas emissions here in Routt County. That's what we can do and should be doing. Our future depends on thesel kinds of decisions being fully thought out, considering not just revenue and numbers, but also impacts on the  passengers per winter by 2041.  P'd like to urge you to begin to do SO.  people who live here. Janet Fischer:  Ac couple ofthings I thought ofa as you were speaking: An increase in seats isn'tjust a straight across increase in total guests just like that. There'sal big increase in local usage of our commercial flights. Having a variety of flights has really opened up to locals in all of] Routt and Moffat County. There's been a big blow-up in local usage instead of] having to drive to Denver to get a flight. There's a certain amount of guests who are coming here on vacation who fly into Denver, rent a car and drive up. We've really been able to move share from those drivers using I-70: into flying into the airport inl Hayden. So, it doesn'te equate to just a straight-up increase in  guests.  2    Macys: We'll definitely take your thoughts into consideration. I don't think you'ret the only person who has concerns about the number ofpeople coming to our valley, whether by air or some other means. It's definitely a good topic ofconversation and could be a future agenda item.  3.Comments from Board Members  None.  1. SBS. Airport/capital/ntrastructure Update  Stacie Fain:  Year-end figures for operations, fuel sold and fuel sale revenue were very good. We sold a lot of fuel, and our operations were pretty high last year. They're probably not ever going to top the 2020 COVID flights when everybody got off the commercial flights and got on the GA travel, Iupdated the based aircraft and national based aircraft inventory program for the FAA. We currently have 73 based aircraft; 9 oft those are part time. That includes 64 single-engine airplanes, 31 twin-engine airplanes, 2 helicopters, 3 motor gliders and 1j jet that are based at the airport. Those numbers are pretty high for the number of hangars that we have; we have 49 We are struggling with transient aircraft. Those are your visitors who are coming to the valley and spending money ini the valley, and we. need to be able to accommodate them. We're struggling to do that a lot this winter. We had a large hangar that was made available to us almost exclusively last winter, and we were able to accommodate a lot of aircraft. My team andIare trying to figure out some options that will be more appealing to hangar owners to share their hangars with the FBO when the pilot is not using them. We have one. hangar available to us right now: from a pilot who had to fly out to get his annual inspection done, and it's been extremely popular. But we' re trying to find out other ways we can entice hangar owners to share with us. I'm working with John Snyder and my team to do that. We lost a lot of aircraft that wanted to We've seen more snow here over the years, but I've never seen it drift quite the way it did this  but they were still very, very good.  hangars, and most ofthose airplanes are crammed into those.  come here for the holidays and didn'thave al hangar to come to. winter. We had some challenges even getting into the FBO one day.  Projects:  Wel have a lot of projects, but Pllj just touch on a few.  We've submitted the final design for our terminal area improvement project. We're in the final stages of responding to the FAA's comments; they came back yesterday. We'll put Phase Iofthe project out for bid, with construction commencing this spring. We are going to tie that to our self-serve fuel station. We had gotten one bid on that, which was $1 million over budget. So, we're going to do the site work with the terminal area project to bring the price down and get moving on that project. We're working with the FAA and CDOT to do that. We'll also be using $250,000 that was approved in the 2024 budget to move utilities sO that we can move forward with our terminal area project. That will also allow some areas to open up, and I'll bej putting out an RFP for hangar development in three different areas of the airport after the terminal area. RFP. This is to try to accommodate the 62j pilots that would like to be based here and would like to be  ina a hangar.  3    We are reevaluating the exact. location of the self-serve fuel station, sO more to come on that. The location that we. had identified in the diagrams we showed you before has al lot ofnew regulations. We: found the location between the hangar and the office building tol be a little restrictive in trying to meet the new: rules. So, we're going to evaluate another location similar to Our ADS-B is currently working, but the generator that's supposed to back up our lighting is not working quite right yet. But we're getting very close to: finishing that up, and we're working with We're also in the final stages of making a selection on our fuel vendor. P1 have more on that at We're also updating the airport's Stormwater Management Plan. All the airports are going to be required to do this to address issues with PFAS. We'll be doing some testing starting July 1 in A lot oft these projects, as well as everything associated with the airport, is on the City's website  where we had it during the master planning process.  Generac, the generator company, to get that repaired.  the next meeting.  two areas oft the airport for PFAS. We'll report those results to CDPHE.  at tcamboatsprings.net.  Birch asked for comment on the 210 gear up landing at the airport.  Fain: It thought he did an excellent job. Idon'tnormally report incidents and accidents to this commission unless somebody asks about them; I report them to the FAAifwe're required to. But this was an incident; it was aj plane that had come out of annual inspection from here that's based in Hayden. The pilot was heading over to Hayden and discovered when hej put his gear down that his left main gear was not coming down. He had some folks in Hayden look at it, and then he decided to come back here and had us look at it. He did aj perfect gear-up belly landing on the runway. Nobody was injured. The mechanic here on the field went out and they jacked the airplane up and were able toj pull the gear down and lock it in place. Then, it was towed off the  runway. So, it was pretty quick and uneventful.  Birch said he brought it up as an example of how the procedures worked well. Fain reported that the communications were very clear and the pilot was very composed and waited for the airport to get the emergency responders in place. Macys said she was pleased to see the Steamboat Springs Airport's endowment with the Yampa Valley Community Foundation and thought the County might be able to help get the word out Macys: In the coming weeks, we'll be drafting a press release about Routt County, the City of Steamboat Springs and the Town ofHayden partnering to build out: renewable energy to create 100% renewable energy generation for internal operations on the electric side. We're working with YVEA, and they have sited the airport substation is an appropriate place for an up to 3MW array. There are some studies that have to be done. But I wanted to throw it out and get your Fain: Idon'tk know enough about it toj particularly comment on it. As long as it meets the requirements of] Part 77, I don'ts see any reason why that would be aj problem. But I would need  about it.  thoughts on or reactions to that.  to learn and understand more about the project.  4    Fain confirmed with Macys that they're envisioning a solar farm.  Macys: One ofthe questions we don'thave an answer toi is just how close does the installation need to be to that substation, because there is some land available a little further away. There are acouple sites we' 're looking at. A 3MW system would need approximately 15 acres, sO it's not a Fain: I've been working with our engineers; Roy Daniels, Garver, briefed me today that they had ag good meeting with a vendor that does this type of work. We have been thinking about putting panels on hangars and covered parking as well as covered parking area for aircraft. My understanding is that the panels are not as reflective and problematic for pilots as they used to be and they can angle them sO that they' re not impacting the runway. There are a lot of things we've been looking into that are associated with our master plan to try to bring some of these projects to the airport and contribute back tot the grid. We're open to all ideas; anything that's going tol be helpful in that realm is certainly exciting for us. I would definitely want to discuss the project with our engineer ofi record, Garver. II look forward to hearing more about it.  small footprint.  Macys said she would follow up.  2. HDN Airport AirporvCapita/mtrastructurelbudget Update  Kevin Booth:  Since we. just finished up our fourth quarter, Ithought) I would share our financial summary. It's mostly good news, We had about 210,000 enplaned passengers. The number of cancelled flights went down significantly, though Ican'treally explain that. Total aircraft operations down 26% year-over-year; the majority oft that reduction is in general aviation. We're going toi follow up with Atlantic Aviation and see ifthey have anything to tell us about what's going on and whether they expect the trend to continue. We had a slight decrease in commercial aircraft operations, but we enplaned more passengers because ofthe larger, newer, more efficient aircraft. Electrical use was up 7%. Parking lot revenue was up 15%; a lot oft that is in the shoulder seasons and the summer. Until December, we. hadn't changed our daily parking rate, sO that's not really reflected here. This is just more. locals using parking year-round. Concessions were up 10%, which was a little bit of everything between shuttle buses and rental cars. Restaurants were up $81,000 over last year for a profit of about $300,000. Well done to our staff. The gift shop was pretty flat. Fischer thought a big chunk of the decrease in cancelled flights was because the high number of Booth shared some content from the Airline Summit, including a breakdown of expenses incurred by airlines, growth in the mainline, and a decrease in the regional jets as they age out. Booth: We're seeing it in real time here with Southwest, who was an all 737-700 fleet for the longest time, and now they're plugging in the 737-800 and 737-800 Max on a daily basis, SO Someone asked what less departures with fewer aircraft does to operational costs; Booth said it doesn'ti impact the airport the way it will their ground handlers, though he thought they would be  Booth will send the full report to the Commission once completed. Southwest cancellations occurred inl December 2022.  more seats and ai newer jet.  paid more for handling thel larger aircraft.  5    Booth: We're clearing the runways, taxiways and aprons the same way regardless of the size of the aircraft. With the same or more passengers, our staffing has increased. So, that doesn't Our six carriers are six of the seven largest nationally; the only one we don'thave that's slightly larger than Alaska and JetBlue is Spirit. Alaska and Hawaiian are merging, sO that will make It's 90%: mainline with a 16% decrease in the regional jet use. This is specific to YVRA. Iwas kind of surprised to see the growth in Vail; their skier days are down, according to the new CEO of Alterra, as is Alterra's skier days with the Ikon Pass, but not in Steamboat. Buti it does look like Vail has grown a little: faster than we. have in theirs seats; they're up 19%; Sun Valley is We're leading the pack among ski markets as far as our non-stop destinations. Booth showed the locations of airports that connect to HDN with DEN, DFW, then ATL. There was a 253% jump in spring-summer-fall passengers. That's where our growth potential remains, and I think it'll come. Up 169% in the peak of summer, and this summer we' re going to have Houston again. There was a 263%j jump in the shoulder seasons. We are growing seats in United flies 42% ofour flights; Southwest has grown, and some oft the others have decreased a Wel had new daily service to Dallas Love Field (DAL). Newark increased from weekends to five times a week. Service to DEN is on mainline aircraft: more often. Delta upsized to the 757-200, which is selling well. I've developed a really good relationship with Delta, partly through the Booth: Prices have gone up some, but we're affordable. It costs a little more to: fly directly into Hayden, but if you drive up: from Denver, what's that going to cost you in time and money?  impact our operating costs significantly.  them significantly larger.  up even: more.  the wintertime as well.  little bit or stayed the same while the overall pie has gotten bigger.  757 service. American is back on Saturdays only this season to Chicago. Booth showed a comparison of fares to HDN versus. DEN.  Fischer made some comments on the low fare costs to Denver.  Booth: Janet was saying that Denver has the lowest average: fares for al hub.  Last time we met, Iannounced that we had a change in our ARFF Index, and wel had to go to two on-duty firefighters at all times and two. ARFF trucks. We did that through pretty long, 15-hour shifts for them; never two 15 hour days in a TOW, but 15-10-15. It's working pretty well. We've been healthy, and we have some backups. We don't want 15 hour days to be the norm, sO we've now got two new] part-time firefighters on staff. We: flew them both out to California to get them ARFF qualified, sO they can man at truck, which is required to meet the Index. They're not qualified to run our ops center by themselves; that will come later, and we don'tneed them for that at this time. One of them is a qualified EMT, sO. he adds to our medical response capabilities. On Tuesday, the BCCa authorized us to hire a sixth full-time, year-round OSS/ARFF officer. That will allow us to go to two officers on for 8 hour shifts, then they go off shift and two more officers come on for a second eight hour shift each day. That will typically cover our commercial window. It's going to be a little overkill having two on for summer, but we don'tcurrently have ac choice. If we have no. Index C, large aircraft, from April tol November, then the FAA: may allow us to go down to Index B with one: firefighter and one truck. ButId can'tcount on that. I can'tcount on the 737-800 Max not being flown by Southwest, and I don't want tot tell them not to. We're seeing larger airplanes and we need to be prepared. It's going to cost us a significant amount ofmoney, but we can and should doi it. A larger staff and/or off-season resumption of Index B is going to give our firefighters the ability to do more medical training, more firefighting  6    training, and more training with West Routt to increase our capabilities. So, It think, all in all, it's aj plus. I got a verbal denial from the FAA when I asked for an Index waiver in December and I plan toi insist on a written response. I don't want to ask for a waiver now and then find out that The other piece oft that is that we. have two large ARFF trucks, which we need in order to meet Index C. We also have a trailer with some foam on it, so ifat truck goes down, we can operate with this trailer to meet Index. We're going to apply the grant money we received forj plow trucks to a third ARFF truck. It's likely to be this time next year, or even later, before we take possession of that truck. So, we're going tol have to take care of our two ARFF trucks and that trailer, and be ready to use the trailer if wei need it and even lease an ARFF truck ifit comes to that. We're making our firefighters rotate out oft the Ops Center's left seat, which is thel hot seat, sO they do three hours max in the left seat; it's like being in a control tower. We typically have three firefighters qualified for the left seat every day, sO this wasn't that big aj problem for us at this time of year. During the winter season we' ve always had three firefighters on duty during the busiest part oft the day sO one could respond to aj medical call with our squad truck and the As of. January 1, we've gone to Vector Landing Systems, sO they are nowi tracking all our takeoffs and landings, and landing fee billing. We took that responsibility away from Atlantic Aviation, the FBO, with their concurrence. We amended Atlantic's contract agreement to do this. We just got our first report. We won't get paid by Vector for. January until March. We've got some things to work through with them, but I think, ultimately, billing will be more accurate. We're really happy with our: new parking lot system; it's working well. Our employees are super happy with it. We were able to incorporate our old license plate reading cameras, which are very expensive. We thought we were going to have to upgrade them, but they're working well. Our carwash has been up and operating for about ai month and al half. Rental car companies are pretty happy with it. We've still got some punch list items to work through with the contractor, but all three bays are operating well. We're renting a lot of cars, and I think that's going toj pay We increased our paid parking lot fees on December 1 from $9 a day to $10 and really got no negative feedback. It think we did the good job communicating that and noting how longi it had  Southwest wants to fly 737-800s during the non-winter season.  other two could run ops and respond to any aircraft incidents.  dividends.  been since we'd raised those fees.  Grant Updates:  Our biggest grant was CARES Act; it totaled $18.5 million; we' ve been drawing that down ona monthly basis. That expires in May, so if youl haven't drawn it down by then, you lose that Our other two grants total about $3 million. We get reimbursed for our 0&M costs. We do the same thing with the other two, and they don'texpire until August 2025, sO we'll have them We have not heard on the BIL. ATP grant for the design of the terminal, We should find out by March. Ir really don't have high hopes that we' re going to get that funding based on what the We're also waiting for the FAA to announce supplementary discretionary grants. It's only $272 million for the whole nation, but this is where our two senators can make a big difference. Ifwe don'tget a. BIL. ATP grant, then we'll apply for this grant. Ifthat doesn'twork, we've got bill  money. We're going to finish drawing it down in March.  drawn down in plenty of time. Denver ADOi is telling me.  7    BIL. AIG funding available, which is a calculated amount every year of about $1.61 million." That's been allocated to us since it started inl FY22, sO we're in year three. So, we can tapi into that to at. least get started oni the design and pay ourselves back, because BIL AIG: runs through Woolpert and Gensler are on duty. We brought them up a couple weeks ago, and they spent the day with us. We did a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis with one oftheir planners, and then gave them at tour oft the terminal and a windshield tour ofall the airfield facilities. Gensler really wants us to go see the terminals they designed at) Eagle County and Jackson Hole Airports. Gensler's first task will be the terminal expansion design, and Woolpert will start with an update ofour Stormwater Management Plan. I'm sure Woolpert will put in a proposal for the 2025 Master Plan update, we expect to issue an RFP later this year. It's been ten years since we updated our Master Plan. I don't think there's going to be huge changes The Good Traveler Program has aj new poster that gives you the offset costs for all ofour 16 destinations. That's up at the entrance to the TSA checkpoint and looks good. Delta Airlines wanted tol knowi if we could improve the RNAV approach tol Rwy 28. Wel have an ILS approach to the primary instrument runway, which is Rwy 10. I've talked toj probably eight Delta pilots, one of whom is a designer of approaches. I've also talked to Oklahoma City, where all the FAA approach designers work, and they're now working on our RNP approach to Rwy 28, which will be kind of a curved approach. It allows you to make ai more stabilized approach. Our current approach is a stair step approach, sO you've got to watch the DME and see where you're at and that you're flying straight lines. Eventually, you have to make a turn to final, which isn'toptimum in bad weather. We can't go straight because oft the terrain to the east ofus. Pilots would much rather fly a consistent turn that has a consistent descent rate. Delta said they will design one if we don't, and it will be a special that they'll fly, but it would benefit any other airline that adopts it. So, when I presented it to the FAA, they jumped right on it. I'm optimistic that next year we'll have ai new approach to. Rwy 28, and: it might even lower the approach minimums. Right now, you can land with a lot lower ceiling and visibility on Rwy10 than you can on. Rwy 28, and we're on Rwy 28 al lot, so it would be good to have an approach that has the Booth described the approach in more detail. He said the current approach really requires two people to fly it, but they would rather make it sO that one person can handle it, which is what the ILS or a better designed RNAV approach does. He thought the new approach would lower the Booth: We're going to host some EMT training; it's going tol be a 6-week-long course. We're going to offer it through West Routt and the EMS Council to other folks who need it, but we're going to get a discounted rate for our guys because we're hosting it. That will be this summer. Booth and members discussed other challenges to pilots on approach, such as visibility that drops below minimums due to snow squalls or fog, as well as whether a tower or automated weather station is preferred by pilots. Birch said he prefers the AWOS because it updates conditions every second. Booth noted that ifthe AWOS goes down, commercial aircraft won't launch or land. That's why he previously trained a couple of weather observers. He is still trying to get United Ground Express to. requalify a few their weather observers. He wanted to buy a backup AWOS, but ifhe does so, the FAA will take the existing AWOS away because they own  FY26.  ini it, but we still need to update it.  same approach minimums.  number ofr missed approaches and diverts that occur.  8    it. Only the FAA weather station is allowed to populate ATIS information. He noted that both weather observers left last year. Others that he tried to train did not pass the test.  3. Air Service Update Janet Fischer:  We're about halfway through ski season, and the only change from our last meeting is Southwest Airlines. All oft their aircraft were 737-700s with a capacity of 143, but they switched out a lot of their round trips to 737 Max 8 with a capacity of 175, which is a 32-seat increase. They didn'tdo every flight, but they did about 134 round trips of about 423 operations that they upgraded. Southwest is not contracted, sO they. just did it based on their bookings and demand. Ithink for capacity in seats that puts us at a 15% increase for the overall winter program. For passengers, right now we' re forecasting to be up and have another record year in passengers For contracted airlines, the cap this year, which is the maximum out of pocket, is at 3.41 million for this winter. We are forecasting to come in under those numbers, but it's too early to havea Springe-summer-fall, everything is mostly the same. Southwest has their one flight per day with the 737-700. Just today, they loaded through November 2. That's always really good to see. United is pretty much the same; two per day in April and May and three per day June-November is how it's loaded. We've got that Houston nonstop flight this summer. It was loaded from early June through Labor Day, and we actually switched out the dates to June 28 through September We just had our Airline Summit, which is a popular event for our airline partners. We had 90 key We just had another big airline marketing campaign after the big one we had in January. That was January 10-31. Mainly, we focus on all the nonstop markets. It was mainly paid social, display banners, paid search and an email campaign. Wel have a brief one in February. Booth was pleased by the interest the airlines showed in which gate was going to be theirs and sO Fischer reiterated that the Airline Summit is important to nurture relationships with these airlines Muntean asked what United: is loaded through right now; Fischer said they load Denver 11 Booth asked ifa any oft the airlines currently flying once a week have said anything about increasing their frequency; Fischer thought it was too early to expect that since the airlines would  using the airport for the winter.  really solid number on that.  22.  airline contacts at the event that all work on our program in some manner,  forth.  and show them the airport and the City.  months ahead but that a lot of the non-stops are not loaded.  want to measure their results for the season first.  Birch asked about Phoenix.  Fischer: That would be. American or Southwest. We ask. American for all of their hubs every year, but they just cut back al bunch oft their ski routes overall, They tell us they have Phoenix into Aspen and Eagle, and it doesn't do well. Iti think our hardest month is. July. It's really  9    difficult to get that core of summer even if you have the funds to contract. We do have the lowest average fare ofall the mountain airports along with Gunnison. Aspen is way above. Buccino confirmed that the LMD collects the lodging tax year-round and that there is a contract Buccino asked ift they' ve ever offered incentives to get the other airlines to come. Fischer: It'si in our operating plan for 2024 that Steamboat and the LMD as partners budgeted $800,000 for 2024 summer to support more nonstop markets and flights, and we were not able to She reiterated that Steamboat's performance ini the summer core. just isn'tgood enough to warrant the airlines increasing trips. She thought we would eventually get something, She noted that it took five years pushing and business cases to get something new: such as Southwest and JetBlue. She indicated that there are some prospects that they thought would be coming in 2024 Booth reported that the LMD more than doubled the allocation for summer air service from '23 to 24 and that they are going to spend some oft that allocation on the Houston flight. Muntean agreed that it takes years to get airline partnerships off the ground.  for the Houston nonstop in summer.  secure one.  but are: now pushed back, hopefully to 2025.  Stern asked if one of the three Denver United flights could be reallocated to Chicago; Fischer responded that Houston is as far as they could get with United for now. She thought the opportunity costs of best pilot usage might also have something to do with airlines' reticence to add more: routes. Stern thought another route would be more attractive with Denver's weather Booth: Southwest diverted some of their capability to. Dallas Love, partly because that's a hub for them and partly because it takes the pressure off of the weather in Denver and the impact it has on their operations. Iwould imagine that United is watching that closely because they are competing tooth and nail. I wouldn't be surprised to see something like that in the future. One more piece of pretty good news was that the Senate Commerce Committee, by voice, passed the FAA authorization for five years increasing the AIP money. It's still got to go to a vote. Our  issues in the summer.  taxiway project is hinging on1 that reauthorization. 4. Atlantic Aviation Update Kevin Booth (for Tim Ascher):  Ithink he's doing well. He's prioritizing their fueling operations here. II know hel has struggled with hiring and keeping staff. We just hired three janitors, some ofthem with 20 years' The weather has been good as far asi moving fuel in and out and getting the truckloads off fuel  experience; we've been struggling tol keep up with things. that we need tol keep operating, which was a challenge last year. V. REPORTS FROM YVACCOMMITTEES 1. Community Outreach and Marketing The Committee met recently.  Buccino mentioned maybe doing some seasonal walking tours to keep the airport on the minds oft the community. Talking to locals in the shoulder season about how well we're  10    doing, how many airlines are coming, what's loaded coming up to help marketing of the airport. Talk with the private sector on how they can use the Bob. Adams Airport. Buccino asked the group for direction, including whether or not to stop the community Fischer: The goal was to educate Routt and Moffat Counties on the value oft both airports, promote use oft both airports to the locals, and maintain transparency. In the past, we've done outreach to different groups. We got slowed down without David Franzel because he really took the lead on group outreach. We have al little presentation that Kevin, Stacie and I would do. Do we have somebody on this committee that would be willing to take Booth: Ireally like the idea. We did tend to doi it in the shoulder seasons ini the spring and fall. The fall, It think, is a great time because we can share what's new in the upcoming busy season. We can talk about projects that are going to impact the airport, such as the taxiway project, which will necessitate the airport closing at night. It think we concentrate Those briefings generated aj pretty good response; people are interested in both airports. If the group doesn't do it, Tinneal and I go and briefMoffat County at least twice a year to Booth suggested co-leads with Randy doing presentations in Moffat County.  Explaining what our airports offer the community.  marketing altogether.  the lead in trying to set up: some outreach to the community?  on those two parts oft the year.  Craig City Council and the County Commissioners. Looper agreed and said that they want the information.  Buccino said he was neutral on the marketing idea, but thought it would be worth it to tell the community about the success oft the airport. He offered to be the point person moving Fischer listed groups that the Committee has reached out toi in the past: Moffat County, Rotary Club, realtors. She said realtors love to get this type ofinformation.  forward.  Hensley offered tol help with Routt County. noted that it hasn't been updated in a while.  Booth will send the Committee the last slide deck they used for their presentation but Macys thought it would be important to clarify that the majority ofthe airline program dollars do not come from tax revenue. Rather, the program brings revenue into the community. Booth noted that CDOT: is just starting an economic impact study. Macys thought it would be a good idea to update the Steamboat Springs Planning Commission periodically regarding the airport. Booth noted that the Hayden Planning Commission has been briefed by YVRA recently and thought the same thing could be  done in Steamboat.  The Committee will continue to work on this.  11    Members ofthis committee include: Michael Buccino, Janet, Keith, Katie, Kevin and  Stacie.  2. Infrastructure and Fimance  Booth noted that the Committee provides the Commission with an annual briefing. He Fain reported that the Planning Commission approved the SBS airport snow storage on January 25, sO the City is now storing snow at the airport. That area will be used as a Members of this committee include: Tim, Michael Stern, Steve, Randy, Stacie, and  pointed tol his summary given earlier int the meeting.  helicopter parking area in the summer months.  Kevin.  VI. MANAGERS REPORTS - provided via email 1. Vampa Valley Regional Airport No questions. 2. Steamboat Springs Airport No questions.  VII. SETDATE FOR NEXT MEETING  Location: Bob Adams Airport (editor'snote; meeting now will be held at YVRA) VIII. PRELIMINARY AGENDA ITEMS FOR THE APRIL YVAC MEETING  Date: April 11,2024  IX. ADJOURN MEETING  The YVAC: meeting was adjourned at approximately 7:35 p.m.  Minutes Approved: u/ By: linlimml Tim Redmond, Chairman Yampa Valley Airport Commission  202Bf  12