HomeMy WebLinkAbout1999-07-28 Airport Committee Minutes � AIRPORT COMNIITTEE MEETING
CITY HALL—THIRD FLOOR CONFERENCE ROOM
WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1999 AT 4 PM
Present: James Tyler, Committee Chair
7oe Baldacci, Mayor
John Rohman,Member
Michael Crowley, Member
Judy Vardamis, Member
Gerry Palmer, Council
Pat Blanchette, Council
Edward Barrett, City Manager
Bob Ziegelaar, Airport Director
JeffRussell, Airport Marketing Mgr.
The meeting was opened at 4:15 PM. by Chair Jim Tyler. Items were taken up as per
published agenda.
Item#1 - Marketing Report. The Airport Director and Airport Marketing Manager
provided the Committee with a complete overview of the Airport's ongoing marketing
activities related to Domestic Air Services. Following extensive discussion the Airport
• Director asked if the Committee would want to meet with the Airport's Washington based
lobbyist and Marketing Research team. The Committee indicated it would like such a
meeting and Mr. Ziegelaar stated he would schedule the meeting in the near future.
Item#2 - Hangar Construction. The Airport Director informed the Committee that
construction has commenced and that he expected it to be completed before December 1�.
Item#3 - Runway Repair. Mr. Ziegelaar reported that the planning process for the
runway overlay is virtually completed. Plans now call for a 3-year schedule, starting in
2001. Work would commence with 3,000 ft. sections, on either end of the runway, during
the first two years. The work would be completed during the third year by overlaying the middle
part of the runway at nighttime.
Item#4 - Historical Item. Mr. Ziegelaar handed the Committee Chair a letter mailed from
Bangor's Airport, via Air Mail, on the first day such service was initiated in 1931. The
Committee decided to present the letter to the Maine Air Museum for safekeeping.
Item#5 - Business Overview. The Marketing Manager reported that Finnair would be
returning to Bangor for another season with near daily flights. He also stated that the
issue of Cuba transits continued to be an obstacle but that it would not cause the program
to be cancelled.
. The meeting was adjourned at 5:15 PM.
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