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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2007-04-26 Airport Advisory Board meeting minutes City of Dania Beach • Airport Advisory Board Meeting Thursday,April 26d,2007 Prior to calling the meeting to order the Board was notified there was no recording system available and the minutes would be done using handwritten notes taken by Mrs. Witz. Chairman Field called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. Members present: Billy Phipps Irvin Witz Beulah Lair Rae Sandler Betty Sokol Dick Sokol Jay Field Don Hill Loretta Murray Members absent: Clive Taylor Thomas Allen Others present: Suzanne Witz (Dominick Landi&Erin Wilson-2 additional names not available) (Ali four are students at South Broward nigh School) • Minutes of the September 28th,2006 and the March 22ad,2007 meetings were presented for approval. Motion to approve September,2006 and March,2007 minutes as written made by Beulah Lair,seconded by Betty Sokol. Motion carried. Chairman Field mentioned new officers should be elected. The Board asked Chairman Field to continue to serve for the present and he agreed. Chairman Field distributed copies of the thirty page Executive Summary of the Environmental Impact Statement. Also included with the handout were six pages of charts showing various configurations possible for airport runway expansion. Discussion followed. The Board was in complete agreement the best possible solution would be NO RUNWAY EXPANSION. Chairman Field stressed the most important thing the Board can do at the present time is strongly encourage a large attendance at the upcoming meetings regarding the airport expansion. Rae Sandler reported a full page ad is going to be placed in the Sun Sentinel prior to each of the upcoming meetings. Chairman Field suggested a flyer should be distributed to Dania Beach residents listing the reasons why there should be no expansion. It was also suggested the names,phone numbers and email addresses of all the Broward County Commissioners be distributed and people encouraged to contact them on behalf of no expansion. Chairman Field distributed copies of a flyer he prepared which he plans to pass out in his neighborhood. 1. The Board felt flyers were a good idea and said they should be widely distributed in • all areas of Dania Beach as quickly as possible to encourage residents to attend the meeting scheduled for May18'. A motion was made by Rae Sandler, seconded by Betty Sokol that Chairman Field contact the City Manager to request that 3,000 flyers be printed for immediate distribution. Motion carried unanimously. Various ways to get the flyers distributed were discussed. The four young people from the high school volunteered to help with the distribution and said they will invite their friends to help. A number of other possible contacts were discussed. Rae Sandler volunteered to be in charge of distribution. It was agreed a notice of the upcoming airport meetings should be placed on the City website and a write-up prepared for the next issue of the Dania Beach Press. There being no other business to bring before the Board, Chairman Field adjourned the meeting at 8:00 p.m. Jay Field, Chairman Respectfully submitted, Suzanne Witz • 2.