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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2005-01-12 Joint meeting Airport Advisory committees meeting minutes • Minutes Joint Meeting - Airport Advisory Committees Dania Beach, Hollywood and Davie Wednesday,January 12",2005 The Dania Beach Airport Advisory Board hosted a joint meeting of the airport advisory committees of Dania Beach, Hollywood and Davie on Wednesday, January 12" . The meeting was held at Dania Beach City Hall. Chairman Jay Field called the meeting to order at 6:30 P.M. Present representing Dania Beach Jay Field Beulah Lair Gary Liedtke Ed Summers Billy Phipps Irvin"Bud"Witz Karen Gottlieb Geri Ingraham Nancy Stafford Representing Hollywood Scott Marder Steve Welsch Irwin Oster Evan Plotka Representing Davie Mayor Tom Tram David Notman Ingrid Allen Others present: • Bob Mikes (Dania Beach Vice Mayor) Pat Flury and Bob Anton(Dania Beach Commissioners) Brenda Lee Shaliford(Save Our Shoreline) Anne Castro(Malelauca Gardens Homeowners Assn.) Rose Lima(Dania Beach Press) Suzanne Witz(Recording Secretary) Dania Beach residents: Ruby Ferguson George Jason Rae Sandler Bill Nelson Betty Sokol Bill Sokol John Bertino Jayne Post There were no requests for excused absence. Minutes of the October 21 ar,2004 Dania Beach Advisory Board were approved as written. Motion by Beulah Lair, seconded by Gary Luedtke Chairman Field asked Scott Marder for his input. Mr. Marder began by saying the Hollywood group feels that politically we have been able to slow the opposition down tremendously but soon they may get to the point where they want money, either from Tallahassee or Washington and it's time that we start building support in those areas.. The airlines insisting on a cost benefit analysis is in our favor but we are going to need some help with putting our campaign together.. NOISE has been quite successful in this type of endeavor and perhaps we should start working closely with them to build our political support and lobbying in Washington. Also we have a new congresswoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz who we should contact to gain her support.. • 1. Chairman Field asked what Mr. Marder felt should be our plan of action. Mr. Marder said we need to start immediately. We should either make a conference call or try to arrange a meeting with Dennis McGrain, Director of Noise and try to build a plan. We need to collect our data and decide on our goals so that when we set down with the legislators we have something definite to offer. Beulah Lair made a motion that the suggested action be taken. Several members present from Dania Beach and Hollywood expressed their agreement. Ms. Lair asked Mayor Truax of Davie for his opinion. Mayor Truax said before he could answer, he had a question. His question was exactly what is the position of Dania Beach and Hollywood regarding the airport expansion and has it changed within the last few months. He has heard that both Dania Beach and Hollywood support a new north runway. Davie's position is they are opposed to any runway expansion whatsoever. Vice Mayor Mikes replied to Mayor Truax question by saying when the federal government considers a problem like this, they look for the best alternative available. In this case the alternative that would displace the least amount of residents,have the least amount of environmental impact, affect the least amount of people and still fulfill the need of the people This is where the question of a second north runway came about. Those present agreed that Dania Beach and Hollywood feel there should be no further expansion of the airport and before any such action is undertaken, the Master Plan must be updated. The • action being undertaken by the Broward County Commission is entirely based on old, incomplete and inaccurate information. Mr. Mikes stressed that if any progress is to be made toward stopping the project the three cities must be in complete agreement. At this point Mr. Marder raised a point of order. He said there is a motion on the floor dealing with lobbying in Washington that was made by Beulah Lair and he fell the motion should be dealt with before any other discussion. Basically the motion was that the joint committees start planning to lobby Washington to block funding. The motion was seconded by Scott Marder and carried. Mr. Marder made a motion the three airport advisory committees recommend the following position be taken by their cities: (1) The Master Plan must be updated before any expansion at the airport can be considered. (2)The County must assess and mitigate the current impacts and needs before expansion. Mr. Summers inquired about the scope of the Master Plan and was told that it encompases all regional issues. Motion was seconded by Ed Summers and carried unanimously. Chairman Field said there was a recent incident that happened in regard to weight limitations on the south runway. Fortunately Capt. Zack Adams had followed up on it and it has been reported to the proper authorities. He assured the group it will be carefully monitored so that it does not happen again. Mr. Marder questioned Mr. Liedtke about an email he had written a few weeks ago stating Ft. Lauderdale/Hollyw..,).. .s not the fastest growing airport in the country. Mr. Liedtke replied the Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel constantly refer 'uf r t. Lauderdale as being the fastest growing but this is not true. The fastest growing airport in the country is Midway, outside of Chicago. An Associated Press reporter recently published an article which stated that Midway is absolutely the fastest growing in the country in every respect. It far exceeds Ft. Lauderdale in operations and number of passengers. The only item Mr. Liedtke was unable to verify being the number of available seats. Mr. Marder asked Mr. Liedtke if he knew where Ft. Lauderdale stands on the fastest growing list but Mr. Liedtke was unable to give him this information. Chairman Field next called on Benda Chaliford for input. She received a number of favorable comments from the group on her recently prepared "Year in Review". Ms. Chaliford said BCAD is doing business as usual,continuing to approve piece-meal and phase projects. She feels that until we get the task force or someone on the Commission to straighten things out, that's the way they will operate. Her recommendation to the board is that each of the cities ask their county commissioner to come into their chambers at a commission meeting and give them an update on what was said in December 04 was going to be done, what they have done and how information can be obtained on what they are pushing forward. She said we are still on top of everything so far but it is becoming • more and more difficult to obtain the information needed. Chairman Field asked Vice Mayor Mikes how he felt about this suggestion. Vice Mayor Mikes suggested the cities request regular task force meetings so we have a sounding board made up of the three representative cities with the pertinent staff and media people present. Ms. Chalifore agreed that the task force meetings could be very important but said she felt the county commissioners should be made more aware of their accountability toward the 260 thousand residents of Broward and that bringing one or more of them in to speak to the city commission meetings would force them to be able to explain and support their actions to a wider audience. Mr. Mikes agreed but said since Dania Beach is in the middle of an election he felt the city should wait until after the election is over. That way it would eliminate the necessity of a county commissioner having to speak to the group twice and also would help to bring any newly elected city commissioner up to speed. Having a county commissioner explain their action in this regard sounded like a very good suggestion. Beulah Lair made a motion that Commissioner John Rodstrom be invited to speak to the Dania Beach Commission after the election is over. Seconded by Geri Gilyard. Motion carved. Ms. Chaliford stressed chat she felt everyone should get to know the newly elected Broward County Commissioner, Lois Wexler. There is a good pussaility that she may -become the next airport liaison and as of now, it appears she is in support of the runway project at any cost. The last item to come before the group was the scheduling of future joint meetings. Chairman Field informed the group that the Dania Beach Airport Advisory Board meets on the fourth Thursday each month at 7 P.M. It was suggested the three Board Chairmen get together and work out scheduling between them. There being no further business to bring before the group, Chairman Field called for adjournment. Jay Field, Chairman • Respectfully submitted, Suzanne Witz