MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OF THE INDIAN WELLS VALLEY AIRPORT DISTRICT
June 8, 2006

1. CALL TO ORDER

President David Rosenthal called the meeting to order at 2:02 p.m. Present were: Directors Mark Backes, Arden Wallum, Linda Bozack, David Rosenthal, Manager Scott Seymour and Administrative Assistant Suzanne Turner. District Counsel Scott Navé participated via phone conferencing. Director Farris arrived at 2:10 p.m.

Members of the Public were also in attendance. A Sign-in sheet is attached.

2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG

Director Backes led the assembly in the pledge of allegiance.

3. CONSENT CALENDAR

A. Minutes for the May 3, 2006 Board Meeting

B. Approval/ratification of the Payment Register of the May 30, 2006.

Upon a motion by Director Backes and seconded by Director Wallum the Board voted unanimously to approve the Consent Calendar with the addition of the April financials.

The motion passed by voice vote: 4 ayes. Director Farris was not yet in attendance.

4. MANAGER'S REPORT

Manager Seymour briefed the Board on the FAA – 139 Inspection that lasted three days and the CalTrans Division of Aeronautics Inspection. He stated that both inspections went extremely well for the airport.

Manager Seymour brought the Board up to date on Mead and Hunts progress with the RFQ’s for the AWOS and the other project. He expects the AWOS RFQ’s to go out for bid within two weeks and that the project will start sometime around August of this year. RFQ’s for the other projects should be out within a month with those projects slated to start in September, 2006.

Manager Seymour informed the Board that he was able to sell 7 business card advertisements to help defray the costs of the current newsletter. He also thanked Nancy Bass for putting together the airports quarterly newsletter.

Manager Seymour also thanked Nancy for all her continued help and support with the Airport tours.

Manager Seymour encouraged the board to check out the new Pepsi refrigeration cooler at the terminal. Dollar Rent A Car has made available free Pepsi products to all flying to and from our airport.

Manager Seymour complimented Ruth Justis, Daily Independent reporter, for her article on the Inyokern Airport in the Vision section of the newspaper.

Manager Seymour told the Board that China Lake sent over one of their Hornets to fuel and take off from our airport on a recent flex Friday. It was more cost effective for them to send their military support crew and purchase our fuel so this plane could take-off and participate in Memorial Day fly over than calling in their civilian support crews on a flex. We were able to sell them approximately 2000 gals of Jet A at a cost of around $8000. There is a good chance that they will use our facility in the future for this type of operation.

5. BUSINESS ITEMS: DISCUSSION / ACTION

A. BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2006/2007

The Budget for Fiscal year 2006/2007 was presented to the Board of Directors for their review and approval. After a brief discussion the Board moved to approve the new fiscal year budget with changes.

Upon a motion made by Director Farris and seconded by Director Rosenthal the Board voted unanimously to approve the new fiscal years budget with minor changes.

The motion passed by voice vote: 5 ayes.

B. E-MAILING OF AGENDA PACKETS

Director Rosenthal asked that this item be added during the meeting.

Director Rosenthal asked members of the Board how they felt about receiving their agenda packets via e-mail rather than through the US mail. The consensus of the board was that they were comfortable with e-mail liked receiving the agenda packets via e-mail when possible.

No direct action was taken this item was added for discussion only.

6. DISTRICT COUNSEL

Informed the Board that they must complete two hours of ethics training before the end of the year and that this could be done at one two hour cession or broken down into multiply cessions. The advantaged of District Counsel providing the training is that there is no additional cost to the District and they are there to answer questions that may come up. The District is welcome to invite another agency to participate in this training but suggests that they try and keep the group relatively small.

After a discussion the Board told District Counsel that they would like to hold the ethics training on September 13 at an 11:30 lunch meeting. They felt that this should provide enough time for training, questions, and answer prior to the regular board meeting held at 2:00 p.m. that afternoon.

The Board directed staff to invite another non-profit agency to participate in this training.

Director Bozack asked District Counsel to look into roll-call voting as apposed to voice vote.

District Counsel Nave responded that there is a section that provides for teleconference attendance of a board meeting and it reads; fusing teleconferencing is being used then there must be a roll call vote on all matters.

7. COMMITTEE REPORTS: There were no Committee reports.

8. PUBLIC COMMENT

9. BOARD COMMENT

Director Wallum was pleased to be in attendance and hopes he doesn’t teleconference too often.

Director Bozack would like to see the News Letter made available on line.

Director Backes would like to have a Business Development and Facilities planning meeting.

Director Rosenthal wished to thank Dollar for generously providing airport passengers with free beverages.

Board Meeting adjourned at 2:37pm

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Next regular meeting is scheduled for June 8, 2006 at 2:00pm.