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AFTERNOON, WELCOME TO THE SEPTEMBER 13TH MEETING OF THE AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION.
OUR FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS IS, UH, ATTENDANCE.
CALL TO ORDER, AND PRESENT IN THE MEETING IS COMMISSIONER ELLER, VICE CHAIR BROCK, MYSELF, COMMISSIONER FONG FONG, UH, SECRETARY ROSE, COMMISSIONER YOUNG AND VIRTUALLY, COMMISSIONER KON.
[PUBLIC COMMUNICATION: GENERAL]
COMMUNICATION.WE HAVE, I BELIEVE, ONE SPEAKER, ANA AGUIRE.
UH, GOOD AFTERNOON, UM, COMMISSIONERS AND CHAIR.
I'M THE IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR OF THE SOUTHEAST COMBINED NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN CONTACT TEAM.
AND I'M A DISTRICT TWO RESIDENT, AND I AM SPEAKING ON ITEM NUMBER NINE.
I'M SPEAKING WITH YOU TODAY REGARDING THE PUBLIC SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS WE HAVE IN SOUTHEAST AUSTIN.
WE APPRECIATE MR. K CARVILLE'S RESPONSE TO OUR CONCERNS AND THE A B I A STAFF THAT ATTENDED OUR CONTACT TEAM MEETING ON AUGUST THE 14TH.
SEVERAL OF OUR CONCERNS WERE BROUGHT UP BY OUR COMMUNITY RESIDENTS AND A B I A STAFF RESPONDED TO, TO RESPONDENT AND OR ADVISED US THAT THEY WOULD PROVIDE US WITH REQUESTED ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OR A FOLLOW UP.
A COMMUNITY MEETING IS SCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY SEPTEMBER THE 23RD, AND WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT.
EFFORTS HAVE BEEN MADE BY A B I, STAFF AND COMMUNITY LEADERS TO GET THE WORD OUT, INCLUDING COUNCIL MEMBER FUENTES.
WE RECOGNIZE THAT ANY ENVIRONMENTAL DECISIONS MADE BY A B I A HAS AN IMPACT ON THE RESIDENTS AND WORKERS IN SOUTHEAST AUSTIN AND DELL VALLEY.
THE CLOSEST NEIGHBORHOOD IS THE ONE LOCATED ON MCCALL STREET, WHICH IS RIGHT ACROSS FROM THE FUEL TANKS ON HIGHWAY 180 3.
WE RESPECTFULLY REQUEST THAT WE, WHEN WE REQUESTED, UH, DURING OUR CONTACTING MEETING, THAT THE A B I A PROVIDE US AN ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT TO THE APPLICABLE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS AND CITY COUNCIL.
THE RESPONSE FROM STAFF IS THAT THEY WOULD TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION.
WE URGE THE COMMISSION TO ENSURE THAT THIS LEVEL OF TRANSPARENCY BE INCLUDED IN THE ORDINANCE.
WE ALSO ASK THAT NOTIFICATION PROTOCOLS REGARDING PUBLIC SAFETY THAT COULD HAVE AN ADVERSE IMPACT ON SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOODS IN COMMUN IN COMMUNITIES BE BE INCLUDED IN THIS ORDINANCE.
I'M ALSO OFFERING AN EXAMPLE AS TO WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT TO US.
I HANDED OUT, UM, INFORMATION, UM, THIS, WE WERE AWARE ABOUT JET FUEL HAVING A HIGH FLAMMABILITY PIECE, AND WE'RE COMFORTABLE WITH THE RESPONSES THAT WE'VE RECEIVED FROM A B I A, BUT WE WERE NOT AWARE ABOUT THE HAZARDOUS COMPONENT REGARDING EXPOSURE TO THE JET FUEL AND THIS INFORMATION.
I ONLY GOT THROUGH A MAILER BECAUSE I'M A RESIDENT THAT LIVES VERY CLOSE TO A PIPELINE, AND THAT'S WHY WE HAVE THIS INFORMATION.
SO, UH, WHAT WE'RE ASKING THAT IS THAT THIS IS A FIRE HAZARD, NOT ONLY A FIRE HAZARD, BUT AN EXPOSURE HAZARD.
AND WE ASK THAT A B I A ASSURE US THAT THERE HAVE BEEN STEPS THAT HAVE BEEN TAKEN TO PREVENT THESE POTENTIAL DISASTERS, INCLUDING NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS TO THE COMMUNITY AND HOW THEY'RE GOING TO COLLABORATE WITH A B I A FIRST RESPONDERS, AS WELL AS THE CITY'S FIRST RESPONDERS, INCLUDING LAW ENFORCEMENT, FIRE DEPARTMENT, AND E M SS.
WE ASK THE A B I STAFF STAFF SINCERELY TAKE OUR PUBLIC SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONS INTO CONSIDERATION BY PROVIDING US WITH THIS TRANSPARENCY.
WE CONTINUE TO INVITE A B I A STAFF TO WORK WITH US AND REMAIN GOOD NEIGHBORS.
AND WE'RE WORKING LOOKING FORWARD TO ESTABLISHING THAT RELATIONSHIP WITH AS WELL.
I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND CONSIDERATION AND FOR YOUR SERVICE TO OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, THERE WAS A CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION CONDUCTED ON TUESDAY, AND A BRIEFING WAS MADE BY THE AIRPORT STAFF.
AND I BELIEVE THAT COUNCIL MEMBER FUENTES SPOKE UP ABOUT THIS, UM, COMPONENT OF PUBLIC OUTREACH.
HOWEVER, I, A COPY OF THE ORDINANCE IS IN, IS, IS POSTED ONLINE AND MENTIONS NOTHING OF IT.
I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IS YOU TYPICALLY INCLUDED IN AN ORDINANCE, BUT THAT MAY BE SOMETHING YOU'D LIKE TO SPEAK TO THE COUNCIL ABOUT.
ACTUALLY, I DID SPEAK WITH SOPHIA MORALES, WHO'S OUR, UM, CONTACT PERSON WITH COUNCILWOMAN FUENTES OFFICE.
AND, AND OUR GOAL IS THAT THAT IS INCLUDED.
UM, UH, YOU KNOW, COUNCIL, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT COUNCIL MEMBER FUENTES WILL BE ASKING FOR THAT CALLED TOPIC OF COLLABORATION.
AND WE'RE HOPEFUL THAT WE'RE, WE HAVE THAT SUPPORT.
UH, COMMISSIONERS, ANY QUESTIONS? OKAY, LET'S MOVE ON TO APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES
[APPROVAL OF MINUTES]
OF THE AUGUST 9TH, 2023 MEETING.IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE? SO MOVED.
DO I HAVE A SECOND? COMMISSIONER YOUNG.
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COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, EDITS? UM, IS, ARE THE MINUTES? YES.THEY ARE IN THIS PACKET, CORRECT? YES.
UM, ALL IN FAVOR OF APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES.
OR RAISE YOUR HAND, UNA? UH, YES.
DO WE HAVE THAT UNANIMOUS APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES? MOTION BY ROSE.
I'M TRYING TO DO MY WORK HERE.
UM, THE FIRST ONE IS THE JULY, 2023
[2. July 2023 Financial Results presented by Rajeev Thomas, Deputy Chief, Finance.]
FINANCIAL RESULTS PRESENTED BY RAJIV THOMAS, DEPUTY CHIEF OF FINANCE.HELLO, GOOD AFTERNOON COMMISSIONERS.
UM, DEPUTY CHIEF OF FINANCE, RAJIV THOMAS.
UH, THE JULY RESULTS, UM, YOU KNOW, WE DID HAVE FROM A PASSENGER, UH, STANDPOINT, TOTAL PASSENGERS.
I WAS A RECORD PASSENGERS FOR THE MONTH OF JULY, AND TYPICALLY JULY IS OUR BUSIEST MONTH OF THE YEAR, UM, WHICH TRANSLATED TO OVER 25 AND ALMOST 25 AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS IN OPERATING REVENUES, WHICH WAS ALSO A NEW HIGH.
UH, IN TERMS OF MONTHLY REVENUES FOR US, THIS WAS A 9.7% INCREASE OVER THE PRIOR YEAR.
SO, UH, A, A VERY GOOD RESULT, UH, OVER LAST YEARS.
AND ALSO LANDED WEIGHTS WERE ALSO, UH, SET AS A NEW HIGH FOR THE, THE MONTH OF JULY, 2023.
ON THE OPERATING EXPENSE SIDE, UM, OPERATING EXPENSES ARE ABOUT 28% HIGHER THAN LAST YEAR, WHICH IS IN LINE WITH WHAT WE BUDGETED.
WE ARE ABOUT $8 MILLION LOWER THAN WHAT WE BUDGETED AND ALSO ABOUT $1.9 MILLION LOWER THAN OUR CURRENT YEAR ESTIMATE.
SO WE ARE DOING WELL ON THE OPERATING EXPENSES SIDE AND MOSTLY THAT MOST OF THAT IS DUE TO THE VACANCY RATE.
UH, SO OVERALL A VERY GOOD, UH, MONTH OF JULY FOR US.
UH, CONGRATULATIONS COMMISSIONERS.
DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR MR. THOMAS? I'M GONNA HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU LATER, BUT, UM, CONGRATULATIONS ON THAT.
[3. Air Service Update provided by Jamy Kazanoff, AUS Air Service Development.]
SERVICE UPDATE.UH, JAMIE KOFF IS HERE IN REAL LIFE.
THEY'RE POSITIVE, WHICH IS GOOD.
AND HERE WE ARE IN SEPTEMBER WITH 4% MORE CAPACITY THAN WE HAD IN SEPTEMBER LAST YEAR.
UH, THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THEIR RECENT AIR SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN HERE, UM, INCLUDING SOME SUSPENSIONS TOO.
SOME OF THIS WE HOPE TO COME BACK.
ONE THING I DO WANNA HIGHLIGHT IS DELTA.
DELTA TYPICALLY FLIES TO ITS HUBS, BUT FROM AUSTIN, THEY HAVE POINT TO POINT SERVICE STARTING IN OCTOBER TO LAS VEGAS AND ORLANDO.
THAT'S A BIG NEW DEAL FOR AUSTIN.
UM, WE ALSO SAW A LOT OF UT ACTIVITY WITH COLLEGE FOOTBALL, AND THOSE WERE FULL FLIGHTS.
THEY SOLD OUT VERY QUICKLY, AND WE LOVE TO SEE THOSE EXTRA FLIGHTS COME IN.
OCTOBER WILL BE VERY, VERY BUSY WITH OUR CAPACITY.
AND THE WEEK OF FORMULA ONE IN PARTICULAR, WHEN WE COMPARE, UH, SEPTEMBER 23 TO 22, WE'RE UP 3% WITH NONSTOP DESTINATIONS.
WE HAVE 4% MORE DEPARTURES, 4% MORE SEATS.
OUR CURRENT AIR SERVICE IS LISTED.
ONE NEW CHART I DO WANNA POINT OUT IS ON THE LAST PAGE AND IT'S CONCERNING FARES.
SO WE PULLED THE MEDIUM AND LARGE HUB AIRPORTS, AND THIS IS FEDERAL DATA.
AND THE YELLOW LINE IN THE MIDDLE IS US AVERAGE, AND AUSTIN IS TO THE RIGHT OF THE MIDDLE.
THIS IS WHERE WE LIKE TO BE ON THE LOWER END OF, UH, LOW FARE, LOWER FARE SERVICE.
SO VERY PLEASED TO TO REPORT THAT THIS COMES OUT EVERY QUARTER, AND I'LL CONTINUE TO UPDATE THIS EACH QUARTER.
OUR CONNECTING TRAFFIC IS 18% WITH OUR LATEST DATA AVAILABLE.
THAT'S SUED NEARLY ONE OUT OF FIVE FOLKS.
NOT MANY CHANGES FROM THE PREVIOUS MONTH.
I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS FOR YOU AND COMMISSIONERS.
UM, FOR THE RECORD, I'D LIKE TO RECORD THAT COMMISSIONER VALDEZ IS HERE.
UM, I DID NOTICE A SLIGHT CHANGE IN ALLEGIANCE AND AND FRONTIER.
IS THAT W SHOULD WE BE EXPECTING THAT MOVING FORWARD BECAUSE OF THE SOUTH TERMINAL, OR IS THAT THEIR CHOICE? WELL, UM, FRONTIER IS GOING
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TO BE FLYING JUST, UH, DENVER IN THE FUTURE.THEY'VE SLOWLY BEEN INCHING OUT WITH, UH, LESS CAPACITY IN AUSTIN OVER THE YEARS ACTUALLY.
AND, UH, THAT'S PARTLY BECAUSE OF THE COMPETITION AND THEIR BUSINESS MODEL.
AS FAR AS ALLEGIANT, WE ARE A BASE FOR ALLEGIANT AND THEY HAVE ROBUST SERVICE FROM HERE.
THEY DO HAVE A LOT OF SEASONALITY TOO.
SO SOME OF THE SERVICE THAT WE SEE FROM ALLEGIANT THAT PULLS OUT, WE EXPECT TO SEE BACK.
AND THEN, UM, COMMISSIONER MEDO ISS NOT HERE, BUT I KNOW HE'LL ASK YOU ABOUT THE CONNECTING FLIGHTS.
AND I DID NOTICE THAT THERE SEEMED TO BE EQUAL NUMBER OF DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL CONNECTING FLIGHTS THROUGH AUSTIN PREVIOUSLY.
I THINK THE, THE DOMESTIC CONNECTIONS WERE GREATER THAN THE ONES TO CENTRAL AMERICA AND SOUTH AND MEXICO TO MEXICO, COSTA RICA, ET CETERA.
AND IT LOOKS LIKE THERE, THOSE ARE PICKING UP.
IS THAT A CORRECT TREND? WELL, THESE, THESE LISTINGS ARE THE TOP 10.
SO THERE'S EVEN MORE CONNECTING FLIGHTS THAN THESE TOP 10.
TOP 10 DOMESTIC AND TOP 10 ARE INTERNATIONAL.
BUT IT'S ABOUT ALMOST, IT'S INCHING UP TOWARDS A FIFTH OF THE FLIGHTS.
INBOUND ARE CONNECTING FLIGHTS NOW.
AND WE MAY SEE SOME FLUCTUATION WITH THAT, THAT'S DEPENDENT ON HOW THE CARRIERS FILL THE FLIGHTS.
UM, BUT IT'S NOT UNUSUAL THESE DAYS TO BE IN THE TERMINAL WITH SOMEONE WHO'S CONNECTING THAT DID NOT PARK THERE, THAT CAME FROM MIAMI, GOT OFF IN AUSTIN ON THEIR WAY TO SEATTLE.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU.
UM, YOU'D THINK I WOULD KNOW HOW VIDEO CALLS WORK BY NOW.
UH, I JUST HAD ONE QUESTION ON THE, WHEN WE'RE SHOWING STUFF, UM, FOLKS KNOW I'VE ASKED ABOUT ACRONYMS BEFORE THAT CHART.
THE, THE PAGE, UM, AND THE BOARD PACK, I THINK IT'S 17, UH, WHERE IT SHOWS LIKE THE, THE CONNECTING FLIGHTS AND THE MARKETS.
UM, COULD IT, CAN WE HAVE JUST KIND OF A, WITHOUT HAVING, HAVING THE LITTLE LEGEND THAT WE HAVE TO GO LOOK AT, JUST HAVE THE ACTUAL SPELL THEM OUT.
I'LL SPELL THEM OUT FOR YOU FOR SURE.
SO LIKE, IT SAYS SAN FRANCISCO OR LAS VEGAS OR WHATEVER.
UH, SOME OF 'EM, YOU KNOW, I, I MAY ADMIT I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW ALL OF 'EM.
M I A TO P H X, THAT'S PROBABLY MIAMI TO PHOENIX.
THAT ONE'S EASY, BUT THERE'S OTHER ONES THAT I'M NOT SURE WHAT THEY, WHAT THEY ARE.
YEAH, SORRY, IT'S A MINOR THING.
I WAS JUST THINKING IF OTHER PEOPLE ARE LOOKING AT IT, IT WOULD, IT WOULD HELP.
[4. Journey with AUS (AUS AEDP/Capital Improvement Program) Active Projects Update provided by Lyn Estabrook, Division Manager, Planning and Development.]
TO, UM, TO THE JOURNEY WITH OS THE AIR, UH, HERE'S SOME, HERE'S SOME ACRONYMS.MAY I INTERRUPT FOR JUST A SECOND? YES.
I, YOU'RE THE, AFTER YOU WERE HAVING A PRESENTATION FROM THE FINANCIAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT THAT RELATES TO A NUMBER OF THE PROJECTS THAT YOU'RE GONNA DIS MAY OR MAY NOT DISCUSS WITH US.
SO IF YOU COULD TAILOR YOUR COMMENTS, HIGHLIGHT WHAT YOU NEED TO TELL US, BUT ALSO TAILOR THEM TO THE NEXT PRESENTATION IF YOU'RE, IF YOU'VE SEEN IT.
UM, I DIDN'T KNOW IF EVERY, EVERYONE HAS HAD A CHANCE TO LOOK AT THE, UH, BACKUP IN THE PRESENTATION ON THE EXISTING PROJECTS THAT ARE GOING ON, AND IF THERE ARE ANY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS.
UM, I DID WANNA SAY THAT, UM, ON PAGE 27, IT DOES SHOW THE B J T OPTIMIZATION.
THERE'S SOME NEW GREAT PICTURES OF THAT, INCLUDING THE GROUNDBREAKING PICTURE.
AND THEN THE BAGGAGE HANDLING SYSTEM PROJECT IS ALSO, UM, SOMETHING THAT WE, THAT IS IN, IN THE RECOMMENDATION.
WE HAD A PROJECT DESCRIPTION LAST MONTH ON THAT.
BUT IF THERE WERE ANY ADDITIONAL SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ABOUT, UM, THE B J T, UM, THE BAGGAGE HANDLING PROJECT AND INFILL, THAT'S PART OF THAT PROJECT, I CAN ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS.
COMMISSIONERS, DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR MS. ESTABROOK? THAT IS A LOT TO KEEP TRACK OF.
AND, UM, THANK YOU FOR ALL THIS INFORMATION.
I WILL VISIT WITH THE COMMISSIONERS TO SEE IF MOVING FORWARD THERE MAY BE A WAY TO MAKE THIS LESS BURDENSOME ON YOU.
I MEAN, I'M COMFORTABLE NOW WITH THE PROJECTS, THEIR NAMES, THEIR SCHEDULES.
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NOT GONNA BE HERE FOREVER.AND IF THERE ARE OTHERS WHO WOULD LIKE TO START TRACKING THIS AS CLOSELY, THAT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL TO ME AND TO THE BOARD.
BUT ALSO, UM, WHETHER THERE'S INFORMATION THAT'S INCLUDED ON HERE OR THAT, THAT YOU DON'T THINK YOU NEED, THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL.
LOOKS LIKE THE CARGO FACILITY WILL BE THE FIRST TO GO ONLINE.
IS THERE A TENANT? UM, PROPERTIES HAS A NUMBER OF TENANTS THAT THEY'RE WORKING THROUGH, UM, IN ORDER TO ASSIGN THAT SORT OF BEST TENANT AND BEST VALUE FOR THE AIRPORT.
AND I NOTED FROM, UM, RAJEEV'S REPORT THAT CARGO IS DOWN, BUT THAT DOESN'T AFFECT THE CARGO FACILITY'S ABILITY TO FIND TENANTS.
THEY HAVE A NUMBER OF, UM, PEOPLE WHO'VE ASKED FOR THE SPACE.
SO IT'S, THAT'S A BENEFIT TO THE AIRPORT.
ALRIGHT, UM, AND THANK YOU AGAIN FOR ALL THIS INFORMATION.
[5. Briefing on the procurement process related to the upcoming Airport Expansion and Development Program presented by Matthew Duree, Division Chief 1, Financial Services Department.]
AGENDA ITEM IS A, WE HAVE A GUEST TODAY AND IT'S A BRIEFING ON THE PROCUREMENT PROCESS RELATED TO THE UPCOMING AIRPORT EXPANSION DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.AND IT'S PRESENTED BY MATTHEW DERE, I HOPE I'M PRONOUNCING THAT CORRECTLY.
MATT DERE, DIVISION ONE, DIVISION CHIEF FINANCIAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT.
AND I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE OUR NEW ROLANDO FERNANDEZ, IS THAT CORRECT? I AM.
SO TO SPEAK, WE'RE GONNA, WE'RE GONNA GO THROUGH KIND OF THE, THE REORG THAT HAS HAPPENED AND EVERYTHING LIKE THAT AS WELL.
SO, UH, I WAS ASKED TO KEEP THIS PRESENTATION TO ABOUT FIVE TO 10 MINUTES, SO I HOPE THAT'S OKAY, BUT WE'VE GOT TIME FOR QUESTIONS AT THE END AS WELL.
SO ONCE AGAIN, UM, MY NAME IS MATTHEW DOREE.
I'M A DIVISION CHIEF WITH THE CAPITAL CONTRACTING DIVISION WITHIN F S D.
UM, THE AGENDA TODAY, WE'RE GONNA GO OVER OUR GENERAL ORGANIZATION PROCUREMENT METHODS, UM, HIGH LEVEL CONTRACT REQUIREMENTS THAT SOME OF YOU MAY BE FAMILIAR WITH OR MAY NOT BE FAMILIAR WITH.
I THINK, YOU KNOW, LENNON STAFF HAVE KEPT YOU, UH, WELL AWARE OF THE SPECIFICS ON SOME OF THOSE UPCOMING PROJECTS.
BUT, UH, BEFORE WE GET GOING, SO THERE HAS BEEN SOME ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES, NOT ONLY WITHIN THE PREVIOUS CAPITAL CONTRACTING OFFICE, BUT WITHIN THE CENTRAL PROCUREMENT OFFICE AND F S D AS A WHOLE.
I DON'T, ON SLIDE FOUR, PLEASE.
THANK YOU FOR THE NICE IN, UH, SO THIS IS OVERALL F SS D THE, UH, EXECUTIVE HIERARCHY HERE.
SO WE HAVE OBVIOUSLY ED VAN ENO.
HE IS THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER FOR THE CITY OF AUSTIN.
AND THEN JAMES SCARBOROUGH, THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER, THE CITY OF AUSTIN, MYSELF, SEAN WILLETT AND YOLANDA MILLER.
UH, TWO DEPUTY PROCUREMENT OFFICIALS, AND THEN MYSELF, UH, DIVISION CHIEF, UH, THAT CAPITAL CONTRACTING, WHAT I'M NOW IN CHARGE OF WAS A SEPARATE ENTITY.
AND OVER THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF HAS COMBINED WITH PURCHASING TO FORM CENTRAL PROCUREMENT.
AND NOW THAT UNIT HAS INTEGRATED MORE SO WITH FINANCIAL SERVICES THAN THE PRIOR, UH, UH, PURCHASING OFFICE HAS MYSELF.
WHAT THE CC DIVISION ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE IS, UH, I HAVE THREE MANAGERS.
I'VE GOT RICK, RICK WILSON, BEVERLY MENDEZ, AND, UM, GARRETT COX.
UM, 29 DIRECT REPORTS REPORTING TO THOSE THREE MANAGERS.
AND THOSE THREE DIVISIONS ARE CONSTRUCTION, PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, AND THE ALTERNATE DELIVERY DIVISION.
SO REAL QUICK, I'M JUST GONNA GO OVER, I WAS, I WAS TOLD YOU WERE GIVEN, UH, A BRIEFING ON THIS.
SO I'M GONNA KIND OF GO THROUGH THESE A LITTLE BIT QUICKLY.
BUT, UH, THE OBVIOUS ONE THAT EVERYONE'S FAMILIAR WITH, WITH OUR CONTRACTING TOOLS AND METHODOLOGIES, DESIGN BID BUILD, WE HAVE A CONTRACT WITH AN ARCHITECT OR ENGINEER, AND THEN WE GO AND WE CONTRACT OUT FOR THAT LOW BID PRICE.
UH, THE MOST RESPONSIVE AND MOST RESPONSIBLE BIDDER RESPONSIBLE IS GONNA COME INTO PLAY LATER ON WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR CONSULTANT AND CONTRACTOR PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS GETS THE WORK.
THE NEXT METHOD IS OUR COMPETITIVE SEALED PROPOSAL.
UH, WE HAVE A CONTRACT WITH ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS, AND THEN WE GO OUT AND WE GET ANOTHER GENERAL CONTRACTOR, WHOEVER THIS IS CONSIDERED A BEST VALUE.
WE ARE, WE ARE ALLOWED TO TAKE PRICE INTO THE EVALUATION FACTOR, AND SO IT'S CONSIDERED A BEST VALUE.
WE CAN ALSO CLARIFY AND DO SOME NEGOTIATIONS SLASH CLARIFICATIONS OF THE PRICING, UM, OF THE SCOPE OF WORK.
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IS NOT A PUT IT OUT ON THE STREET AND THEN JUST AWARD.AS WE GET BACK, WE'RE ALLOWED TO GO BACK AND FORTH WITH THE CONTRACTOR A LITTLE BIT AND CLARIFY SOME ITEMS THERE AS WELL.
THE NEXT TWO WE GET INTO ARE HEAVILY USED, UM, ALTERNATE DELIVERY METHODOLOGIES.
UH, CONSTRUCTION MANAGER AT RISK.
SO THIS IS ONE THAT IS, IS OBVIOUSLY USED FOR LARGE COMPLEX PROJECTS.
AND ONCE AGAIN, THIS IS A BEST VALUE.
THIS IS NOT A LOW BID, OR THIS IS NOT JUST AN EVALUATION BASED ON QUALIFICATIONS.
SO ALL THOSE FACTORS ARE TAKEN INTO PLACE.
UM, BENEFIT HERE, CONSTRUCTION MANAGER, ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT, THEY'RE ON BOARD TOGETHER.
THEY'RE COLLABORATING, THEY'RE PREVENTING ISSUES PRIOR TO THEIR HAPPENING.
AND THE CONSTRUCTION MANAGER IS OBVIOUSLY RESPONSIBLE FOR CONSTRUCTION AND COST OVERRUNS DURING CONSTRUCTION AS WE GET INTO THAT PHASE OF THE CONTRACT.
EVERYTHING'S UNDER ONE SHOP HERE.
UM, YOU HAVE THE DESIGN BUILD ALL INTO ONE FIRM.
SO THIS IS GONNA SAVE TIME ON YOUR SCHEDULE.
UM, OBVIOUSLY WITH IN HOUSE, THEY'RE GONNA COLLABORATE AND GO BACK AND FORTH MUCH QUICKER THAN MULTIPLE FIRMS WOULD, UM, ONE AT A TIME.
ONCE AGAIN, ANOTHER BEST VALUE.
WE'RE NOT LOOKING AT JUST QUALIFICATIONS, JUST THEIR EXPERIENCE OR JUST THEIR PRICE.
AND, UM, THE PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER REPRESENTS THE OWNER IN THIS ONE AS WELL.
LAST ONE IS THE JOB ORDER CONTRACTING.
UM, WE'VE BEEN DOING JOB ORDER CONTRACTS AT THE CITY OF AUSTIN, I WANNA SAY, FOR ABOUT 10 YEARS.
UM, THEY GET MORE POPULAR WITH EVERY CONTRACT WE DO, BUT OUR JOB ORDER CONTRACTORS ARE SELECTED WITH BEST VALUE.
WE USE RS MEANS OR UNIT PRICES TO BREAK DOWN THE PRICE OF INDIVIDUAL JOB ORDER ASSIGNMENTS.
THEY'RE USED FOR MINOR CONSTRUCTION.
UM, IF THEY'RE ABOVE HALF A MILLION DOLLARS, WE DO HAVE TO GO BACK TO COUNSEL TO REQUEST, UH, APPROVAL TO $300,000.
ONCE AGAIN, THAT MINOR CONSTRUCTION LANGUAGE IS IN STATUTE, SO, SO WE TRY TO KEEP IT AROUND THAT AMOUNT OF MONEY.
UH, MULTIPLE JOB ORDER CONTRACTORS ON ONE PRO OR ON ONE CONTRACT.
SO IT'S USED SIMILAR TO A ROTATION LIST, IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH THAT.
UM, WE'RE, WE'RE ALLOWED TO, TO TAKE DIFFERENT PROJECTS TO DIFFERENT CONTRACTORS.
AND AS WE GO THROUGH THAT, THAT, THAT RANKING ORDER AS WELL.
SO A FEW HIGH LEVEL CONTRACT REQUIREMENTS, IF YOU'LL GO FORWARD.
A SLIDE OR TWO FOR ME, PLEASE.
SO WAGE COMPLIANCE IS INCLUDED IN ALL OF OUR, UM, CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS.
SO, UH, PREVAILING WAGE AND LIVING WAGE, UM, BOTH HEAVY HIGHWAY AND BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION.
UM, THESE WEIGHTS, THESE WAGES, EXCUSE ME, ARE DETERMINED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.
THEY GET UPDATED ROUGHLY ON A QUARTERLY BASIS, AND WE'LL REPLACE THOSE WAGES IN OUR DOCUMENTS.
UM, LIVING WAGE IS ALSO INCLUDED IN THIS.
SO WE STATE HERE 20, OBVIOUSLY, I THINK EVERYONE KNOWS.
UM, THE NEW LIVING WAGE RATE CHANGES OCTOBER 1ST HERE IN A COUPLE WEEKS TO $20 AND 80 CENTS.
I BELIEVE PREVAILING WAGES INCLUDE FRINGE BENEFITS AS WELL.
IT'S NOT JUST THE RAW RATE THAT IS PAID TO THE WORKER.
UH, OUR STAFF GOES OUT AND THEY PERFORM AUDITS.
THEY PERFORM SITE VISITS, SURPRISE SITE VISITS.
THEY LOOK AT CERTIFIED PAYROLL.
THEY PERFORM INTERVIEWS WITH STAFF THAT ARE ONSITE TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE BEING COMPLIANT AND THEY'RE BEING COMPLIANT WITH THE CONTRACT, AND WE ARE BEING COMPLIANT WITH FEDERAL REGULATIONS WHEN IT COMES TO, UH, PREVAILING WAGE AND LIVING WAGE.
SO WE HAVE A CONSTRUCTION TRAINING PROGRAM, UM, AS A REQUIREMENT IN OUR SOLICITATION DOCUMENTS AND OUR CONTRACTS.
AND, AND REALLY THIS IS TO HELP BUILD THE POOL OF SKILLED LABOR THAT IS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, AND ALSO ENSURE THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE SPREADING OUT THAT ECONOMIC BENEFIT OF A PROJECT.
SO YOU CAN SEE THERE, IT'S A LITTLE SMALL ON YOUR SCREEN, BUT, UM, THAT CHART SHOWS THE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS REQUIRED BASED ON THE DOLLAR VALUE FOR A A CONTRACT.
SO 500,000 TO TWO AND A HALF MILLION.
THE REQUIREMENT OF, OF A CERTIFIED, UM, YOU KNOW, TRAINEE IS, IS TWO, AND THEN IT GOES UP, UH, TO FOUR WHEN WE'RE AT TWO AND A HALF MILLION TO, UH, 5 MILLION GOES UP TO SIX WHEN WE'RE UP TO 10 MILLION.
AND THEN OVER 10 MILLION IS 15% OF THE TOTAL.
UM, WHAT HAPPENS HERE IS PRIOR TO AN N T P OR THE NOTICE TO PROCEED BEING ISSUED, THE, THE CONTRACTOR GIVES US THEIR PLAN FOR THE TRAINING, THE LIST OF, OF WHO THOSE INDIVIDUALS ARE AND, AND THE ORGANIZATIONS, BE IT A PIPELINE ORGANIZATION, A DEPARTMENT OF LABOR ORGANIZATION THAT THEY'RE GONNA BE USING THAT GETS APPROVED AND THEN THEY MOVE FORWARD WITH THE N T P IDEALLY.
SO IF A CONTRACTOR DOES HAPPEN TO FORGET, WE'RE ALWAYS, YOU KNOW, HAPPY TO REMIND 'EM AFTER THE FACT AND THEY'VE ALWAYS BEEN WILLING TO WORK WITH US.
OUR LAST ONE HERE, AND I MENTIONED THIS EARLIER ON,
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BUT THIS IS OUR CONSULTANT AND CONTRACTOR PERFORMANCE EVALUATION.UH, IT PROVIDES A METHOD FOR OUR PROJECT MANAGERS TO RATE OUR CONTRACTORS OR CONSULTANTS AFTER A PROJECT IS DONE, THEY RATE THEM ON A A 30 POINT SCALE.
THERE'S, UM, NINE TO 10 DIFFERENT FACTORS THEY'RE RATED ON, DEPENDING UPON WHETHER IT'S A CONSULTANT EVALUATION OR A CONTRACTOR EVALUATION.
UH, THE TOTAL POINTS IS 30 POINTS, AND THEN WE FACTOR THAT DOWN TO A 10 POINT RANGE.
UH, THE WAY IT WORKS IS WE TAKE AVERAGES OVER A FIVE YEAR PERIOD, AND THAT NUMBER WILL THEN FACTOR INTO YOUR EVALUATION IF IT'S A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT FOR A CONSULTANT, OR WE LOOK AT THAT AS FAR AS BEING A RESPONSIVE, UH, RESPONSIBLE OR RESPONSIVE CONTRACTOR WHEN IT COMES TO CONTRACTORS.
SO YOUR DESIGN BID BUILD AS WELL.
UM, 8.66 ON THAT SCALE OF 10 IS CONSIDERED SUCCESSFUL.
UM, AND THEN BELOW 8.66, YOU START TO GET INTO THE UNSUCCESSFUL, UH, AND AND ABOVE IS IS OBVIOUSLY BETTER THAN SUCCESSFUL.
SO I DO HAVE A LIST IF YOU'LL GO FORWARD, TWO SLIDES PLEASE OF SOME CURRENT PROJECTS AND THEN SOME UPCOMING PROJECTS.
UM, THESE ARE TAKEN FROM, WE POST A FORECAST ON THE CAPITAL CONTRACTING WEBSITE, AND REALLY IT'S JUST FOR VENDORS TO KIND OF SEE WHAT'S COMING UP AND GET A GENERAL TIMEFRAME AND A GENERAL DOLLAR AMOUNT, UM, THAT ARE TAKEN FROM OUR PROJECT MANAGEMENT REPORTING SYSTEM E CAPRI.
BUT AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, WE'RE CURRENTLY, WE'VE GOT, UH, SEVERAL IFPS THERE, FIVE JOCK PROJECTS.
UM, THERE'S SOME, SOME BASIC BADGING O OFFICE REMODEL AND VERTICAL CIRCULATION.
JOCK HAS BECOME A POPULAR TOOL FOR, UH, HVAC, UM, WORK DONE AROUND THE CITY.
THEN WE'VE GOT, UH, THE A D P AIRFIELD INFRASTRUCTURE, CMAR, THE P S A AND DB FOR THE BAGGAGE HANDLING SYSTEM AND THE CMAR FOR THE B J T OPTIMIZATION.
AND THEN ON THE NEXT SLIDE, I'LL COVER SOME UPCOMING PROJECTS THAT ARE EXPECTED.
SO AS YOU CAN SEE, MULTIPLE PROCUREMENT METHODS.
UM, WE, WE RUN THE GAMUT OF I F B AND CMAR AND P SS A AND DB.
UM, BUT REALISTICALLY HERE WE'VE GOT, UH, QUITE A BIT OF WORK GOING ON.
I'M SURE THAT LYNN AND HER STAFF HAVE, HAVE WORKED WITH YOU ON TOO, THAT WE'VE BEEN LOOKING FORWARD TO.
ARE THE ARCHITECTURAL AND ENGINEERING SERVICES ROTATION LISTS? UH, BOTH ONE FOR CIVIL AND ONE FOR ARCHITECTURE, UH, FOR A B I A.
WE THINK THOSE ARE GONNA BE POPULAR.
AND THEN WE HAVE THE NEW CENTRAL UTILITY PLANT DESIGN BUILD, THE PURPLE PARKING GARAGE DESIGN BUILD CONCOURSE, UH, CONCOURSE B, EXCUSE ME, TUNNEL AND APRON AS WELL.
AND, UH, VARIOUS OTHER PROJECTS THERE THAT ARE UPCOMING AND IN VARIOUS STAGES OF PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND ISSUANCE.
AND I THINK THAT'S ALL I'VE GOT FOR YOU.
SO I'M HAPPY TO TAKE SOME QUESTIONS THOUGH.
DID I PRONOUNCE THAT CORRECTLY? DERI? YES, MA'AM.
UM, COMMISSIONERS, DO WE HAVE QUESTIONS? RAYMOND YOUNG, COMMISSIONER YOUNG.
UH, WHEN YOU SAID THAT YOU DO CHECKUPS ON THE CONTRACTORS, HOW OFTEN ARE THOSE CHECKUPS? SO WE TRY TO, WITH PREVAILING WAGE CONTRACTS, OUR GOAL IS TO HIT EVERY CONTRACT ANNUALLY.
UM, AND BUT OUR, I CAN GET BACK TO YOU ON SPECIFICALLY THE NUMBER, BUT I THINK JUST THIS YEAR WE HAD, UM, 250 SITE VISITS PERFORMED.
UH, AND IT MAY BE CLOSER TO 300 SITE VISITS PER PERFORM.
SO ONCE TO TWICE A WEEK, OUR STAFF GOES OUT UNANNOUNCED TO SITE VISITS AND, UH, WITH THE CONTRACT AND PREVAILING WAGES IN HAND AND TALKS TO THE EMPLOYEES OUT THERE AND INTERVIEWS THEM BASED ON, UH, OR INTERVIEWS THEM WITH QUESTIONS ABOUT, UH, THEIR PAY.
AND I'M SORRY, RAYMOND YOUNG? YES, I CAN, I'LL GET THE SPECIFIC NUMBER TO YOU.
OKAY, LET, WHY, WHY DON'T WE GO IN ORDER? THERE'S A LOT TO DIGEST HERE.
WE'LL, WE'LL GO IN ORDER, UM, AROUND THE TABLE.
HI, UH, GOOD AFTERNOON, MR. URI.
UH, I WAS CURIOUS ABOUT THE TRAINEES.
ARE THEY INDIVIDUALS OR ARE THEY COMPANIES? ARE THEY CERTIFIED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND HOW ARE THEY INVOLVED IN THIS? FOR OUR TRAINING PROGRAM? YES.
IF, ACTUALLY, I'LL GO AHEAD AND PULL THAT SLIDE BACK UP FOR EVERYBODY AS WELL, BECAUSE THERE'S A LITTLE BIT MORE INFORMATION ON THAT SLIDE.
SO IF YOU WILL PLEASE GO TO SLIDE 14.
WE, THERE'S EITHER PIPELINE ORGANIZATIONS OR THERE'S DEPARTMENT OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS.
SO YOU'LL SEE THERE ON, UH, BULLET THREE.
WE CURRENTLY PARTNER, OH, I'M SORRY, I JUMPED AHEAD.
WE CURRENTLY PARTNER WITH 19 PIPELINE ORGANIZATIONS AND 13
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS, UM, FOR THOSE CERTIFIED TRAINEES.SO THE NUMBER OF STAFF BASED ON THE DOLLAR VALUE OF THE PROJECT WILL HAVE TO BE CERTIFIED THROUGH ONE OF THOSE ORGANIZATIONS TO COUNT AS A TRAINEE TOWARDS THIS PROGRAM.
ARE THOSE, UM, ORGANIZATIONS LISTED ONLINE ON THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT'S WEBSITE, OR CAN YOU PRO BE HELPFUL? JUST DON'T GO OVERBOARD, BUT IF YOU CAN GIVE US A NAME OF ALL THOSE ORGANIZATIONS IN PARTICULAR, I'D BE INTERESTED IN THE LOCAL ONES.
AND I BELIEVE THEY ARE LISTED, BUT I'LL FOLLOW UP.
UM, PERHAPS THIS IS A MULTI-PART QUESTION, BUT, UM, FOR I GUESS FOUR OF THE, THE FIVE STRUCTURES, UH, HERE DESCRIBED WHICH ENTITY IS, IS ACTUALLY BEING EVALUATED.
IS IT THE GENERAL CONTRACTOR AND THE SUBS, OR WITH ANOTHER METHODOLOGY? IS IT SORT OF THE DESIGN BUILDER? HOW DOES THAT WORK? PLEASE? SO YEAH, THAT'S, THAT'S A GOOD QUE.
SO FOR EVALUATION PURPOSES, UM, ALL OF THEM OUTSIDE OF THAT FIRST ONE, THE DESIGN BID BUILD, HAVE EVALUATIONS, UM, IN INCLUDED IN THE SOLICITATION PROCESS OF, OF THE CONTRACTOR BUT NOT THE SUBS, RIGHT? ALL OF CORRECT.
THEY, THEY COME TOGETHER AS A PACKAGE, THE PRIME, THE PRIME CONSULTANT WILL PUT TOGETHER THEIR TEAM OKAY.
SUBMIT THAT TO THE CITY, AND THEN THE CITY'S EVALUATORS WILL EVALUATE THAT TEAM AS A WHOLE.
AND, AND THEN SAY, I BELIEVE YOU, YOU PROVIDED US NUMBER 8.66.
IF I'M TRYING TO NEWLY CONTRACT WITH THE CITY AND I DON'T HAVE A PREVIOUS EVALUATION, UH, HOW AM I ASSESSED? 8.66
SO WE AUTOMATICALLY SET THAT NUMBER AND THAT IS WHAT THAT NUMBER IS.
THAT'S THE AVERAGE SUCCESSFUL RATING OF ALL THE CONSULTANT AND CONTRACTOR EVALUATIONS.
SO IF YOU'RE BRAND NEW TO THE CITY AND YOU DON'T HAVE A A SCORE, WE START YOU AT SUCCESSFUL AT THAT 8.66 NUMBER.
COMMISSIONER VALDEZ, ANY QUESTIONS? COMMISSIONER KON? UH, YEAH, I JUST WANTED TO ASK WHAT DO WE THINK OUR BORROWING NEEDS ARE GONNA BE IN THE NEXT COUPLE YEARS AHEAD AND WHAT RATES ARE WE EXPECTING TO PAY? WHEN WE FIRST STARTED LOOKING AT ALL THIS EXPANSION, YOU KNOW, RATES WERE A LOT LOWER, WHAT DO WE THINK OUR RATES ARE GONNA BE? NOW,
UH, MAYBE A LITTLE LOWER BETWEEN 4.75 AND 5%.
UH, THE LAST BOND ISSUANCE THAT WE DID IN 2022 WAS ABOUT 4.2 ROUGHLY PERCENT.
UM, AND SO YES, THEY HAVE MOVED UP A LITTLE BIT, BUT NOT BY A LOT.
IS IT LIKE 30 YEAR DEBT THAT WE'RE YEAH.
AND, AND THE SIZING OF THE ISSUANCE? YOU KNOW, WE WILL HAVE TO, AS WE ARE GOING THROUGH THE PROGRAM, UM, WE WILL HAVE TO LOOK AT THE SPEND PLANS AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN THAT IS SCHEDULED TO APPEAR, UH, WE CAN, FOR, YOU KNOW, BASED ON I R S REGULATIONS, WE, WE CANNOT, UH, GO TOO SOON TO THE DEBT MARKETS.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO SPEND, UM, OUR PROCEEDS 85% OF OUR PROCEEDS WITHIN THE FIRST THREE YEARS OF THAT DEBT ISSUE.
I'M GONNA JUMP IN HERE AND, AND THANK YOU FOR THAT ANSWER.
AND, BUT ALSO SAY THAT I THINK THIS IS A DIFFERENT AGENDA ITEM THAN THE PRESENTATION THAT WE HAVE.
AND, UM, COMMISSIONER KUHN, IF YOU WOULD, IF YOU COULD, IF THE ACCELERATION WORKING GROUP OR IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A LIST OF QUESTIONS AND SEND IT THROUGH, UH, STAFF TO RAJIV, THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
AND WE WOULD, WE ALL WANNA KNOW THE ANSWERS TO THOSE, BUT I WANT TO STICK TO WHAT THE EXPERTISE OF THE PERSON WHO'S PRESENTING IS RIGHT NOW.
AND, UM, BUT I DO WANNA MAYBE LET'S HOLD THAT FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. 'CAUSE THOSE ARE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS AND I THINK WE ALL HAVE THEM.
UM, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW, UM, UNLESS, IS THERE ANOTHER QUESTION COMMISSIONER KUHN RELATED TO YEAH, THAT IT, THAT WAS IT.
UM, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHERE THE COMMISSION AND THE PUBLIC CAN VIEW THE DOCUMENTS.
I KNOW THAT THERE IS A DASHBOARD, I KNOW THAT CONTRACTORS KNOW HOW TO USE IT.
I'D LIKE TO BE ABLE TO GO A LITTLE BIT DEEPER AND UNDERSTAND WHAT WE'RE APPROVING AND WHAT WE'RE BEING ASKED TO APPROVE, UM, ONLINE QUICKLY, BECAUSE IT'S NOT IN OUR DOCUMENTATION, AND I KNOW THAT THERE ARE PROJECT NUMBERS, YOU CAN SEE THE BID PACKAGES, WE CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SCOPE OF THE WORK, THEN A, A SIMPLE AGENDA WILL NOT, OR A SIMPLE LINE ITEM WILL NOT EXPLAIN.
SO, UM, COULD YOU HELP US DO THAT? YES, I CAN ACTUALLY FOLLOW UP WITH A LINK AS WELL.
BUT, SO THE SOLICITATION PACKAGE THAT INCLUDES SCOPE OF WORK AND TYPICALLY PROJECT ESTIMATES IS AVAILABLE ONLINE TO THE PUBLIC AT AUSTIN FINANCE ONLINE,
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UM, UNDER OUR OPEN PROCUREMENTS TAB.UM, AND IF THE SOLICITATION ITSELF IS CLOSED, YOU CAN FIND IT UNDER THE CLOSED PROCUREMENTS TAB, UM, RIGHT BELOW THAT.
SO, AND THAT, THAT SOLICITATION LINK WILL INCLUDE ALL THE DOCUMENTS THAT HAS BEEN ISSUED TO THE PUBLIC OR ISSUED TO THE VENDORS IN ORDER TO PROVIDE A RESPONSE.
CAN YOU PLEASE WORK WITH STAFF OR STAFF, PLEASE WORK WITH THIS GENTLEMAN TO MAKE SURE THAT WHEN WE HAVE A REQUEST THAT THAT DOC, THAT FILE NUMBER IS A HOT, HOT LINK AND WE CAN FIND IT QUICKLY.
AND THEN I GUESS MY, MY LAST QUESTION, UNLESS ANOTHER QUESTION HAS COME UP FROM YOU ALL IS THAT, UM, SOME OF THESE ON THE LIST WE HAVE SEEN, SOME OF THEM WE HAVE NOT.
AND, UM, ARE SOME PROJECTS, DO THEY, DO SOME PROJECTS JUST SIMPLY GO THROUGH WITHOUT COMING TO THE, UM, AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION? AND WHICH ONES DO, WHICH ONES COME TO THE AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION? YOU WANT ME TO ANSWER
SO WHAT COMES TO THE AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION IS ANYTHING THAT NEEDS TO GO TO COUNCIL.
SO, FOR EXAMPLE, JOCK PROJECTS DO NOT NEED TO GO BECAUSE, OKAY, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO SAY WHAT JAY JO THE JOCK IS A JOB ORDER CONTRACT.
JOB ORDER CONTRACT, AND IT'S ON HIS LIST, UM, ON PAGE 17.
AND THOSE CONTRACTS, UM, ARE ONE-TIME ASSIGNMENTS, BUT THE CONTRACTING OFFICE GOES OUT EVERY SO OFTEN TO GET A NEW JOB ORDER CONTRACT.
AND SO ANYONE IN THE CITY COULD THEN REQUEST A CONTRACTOR FROM THAT LIST.
'CAUSE IT HAS PREVIOUSLY GONE TO COUNCIL.
SO A LOT OF THE JOCK, THE JOB ORDER CONTRACT PROJECTS ARE, ARE SMALLER C I P PROJECTS THAT ARE WITHIN THAT DOLLAR THRESHOLDS.
A LOT OF, UM, REHABS AND RENEW AND, UM, FIXES TO OUR EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE.
UM, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? UM, A QUESTION FROM, UM, COMMISSIONER VALEZ, UH, WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE, THERE'S A THRESHOLD ON THE DOLLAR AMOUNT, WHAT IS THAT DOLLAR AMOUNT? YEAH.
FOR A JOB ORDER CONTRACTING, UH, STATUTE SETS THE THRESHOLD AT $500,000 TO RETURN TO COUNSEL ONCE YOU HAVE A JOB ORDER CONTRACT.
I THINK WE'LL BE SEEING, UH, MORE OF YOU OR HEARING A LOT MORE ABOUT YOU.
WE, WE KNOW WE SEE BEVERLY MENDEZ'S NAME MM-HMM.
I DON'T WHO ARE THE OTHER PEOPLE UNDER THAT, THAT YOU, THAT WORK ON YOUR TEAM? THAT DEREK COX COX, RICK WILSON, UM, AND BEVERLY MENDEZ ARE MY THREE PROCUREMENT MANAGERS.
AND, AND THEY WORK WITH YOUR TEAM? MM-HMM.
YEAH, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
UM, COMMISSIONERS, I'D LIKE TO MOVE ON TO,
[6. Briefing on the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report (published May 2023) presented by Somer Shindler, Chief Officer, Planning and Development.]
UH, AGENDA ITEM NUMBER SIX, WHICH IS A BRIEFING ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIAL AND GOVERNMENT GOVERNANCE REPORT THAT WAS PUBLISHED IN MAY OF 2023, PRESENTED BY SUMMER SCHINDLER CHIEF OFFICER OF PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT.UM, I FIRST JUST WANNA TAKE THIS TIME TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND CONGRATULATE LYNN ESTHER BROOKS.
SHE'S BEEN PROMOTED TO DEPUTY CHIEF OF DEVELOPMENT, AND SHE WILL BE THE LEADING THE A E D P.
SO CONGRATULATIONS, LYNN, ON YOUR PROMOTION.
UM, SO I WANTED TO JUST GIVE AN UPDATE ON OUR VERY FIRST E S G REPORT, UM, THAT THE, THE AIRPORT IS DOING.
GO TO THE, THE FIRST SLIDE HERE.
THIS REPORT IS ALSO ON THE FLY AUSTIN, UM, WEBSITE.
AND SO YOU CAN GO AND DOWNLOAD IT, READ IT.
IT'S, UH, NOT A VERY LONG READ, BUT, UM, UH, IT ALMOST READS A LITTLE BIT LIKE A GAP ANALYSIS, UM, UM, AND IT TELLS REALLY THE STATE, UM, UH, OF THE AIRPORT.
AS YOU KNOW, E S G IS A FRAMEWORK USED TO ASSESS AN ORGANIZATION'S IMPACT AND PERFORMANCE IN AREAS RELATED TO ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE.
E S G FACTORS ARE INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT FOR BUSINESSES, INCLUDING AIRPORTS, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE GO FOR BONDS.
THIS IS A, UM, A AN IMPORTANT REPORT THAT INVESTORS ASK ABOUT, UM, AS WE TRY TO ACHIEVE SUSTAINABILITY, ETHICAL PRACTICES, AND LONG TERM VALUE CREATION FOR ALL OF OUR STAKEHOLDERS.
UM, WE TOOK A, UH, OUR RISK-BASED APPROACH HERE.
UM, WE FOLLOWED BEST PRACTICES, UM, UM, AND MATERIALITY, STAKEHOLDER WITH STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS, SURVEY, LOTS OF BENCHMARKING, AND A VERY THOROUGH GAP ANALYSIS OF ALL THREE OF THESE AREAS.
ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL FRONT, THE REPORT COVERS CLIMATE RESILIENCE AND ADAPTATION, ENERGY CONSUMPTION, GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS, WATER RESOURCES, WASTE AND RECYCLING MANAGEMENT, PROCUREMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, AS WELL AS WILDLIFE PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY.
THE REPORT OUTLINES A S'S DEDICATION TO REDUCING ITS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT, MITIGATING CLIMATE CHANGE RISK, AND ADAPTING TO CHANGE CONDITIONS.
IT HIGHLIGHTS THE AIRPORT'S ALIGNMENT WITH F A A AND THE AIRPORT COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE
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ACTION GOALS, AS WELL AS THE CITY OF AUSTIN'S WASTE DIVERSION GOALS.THE GOVERNMENT SECTION OF THE E S G HIGHLIGHTS, THE COMPLEX HIGHLIGHTS, THE COMPLEX OVERSIGHT, UM, STRUCTURE OF A U S, UM, INVOLVING VARIOUS FEDERAL AND LOCAL ENTITIES.
F A A, THE D O D E P A STATE OF TEXAS CITY OF AUSTIN.
THE MULTI-LAYERED OVERSIGHT ENSURES COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATIONS AND FOSTERS EFFECTIVE DECISION MAKING.
A U S ACTIVELY COLLABORATES WITH THE CITY OF AUSTIN'S OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY AND OTHER CITY DEPARTMENTS INTEGRATING SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES THROUGHOUT ITS OPERATIONS, AND MAINTAINING A STRONG CYCLE OF TRANSPARENCY THROUGH ANNUAL SUSTAINABILITY REPORTS.
ENGAGEMENT WITH EXTERNAL, UM, UH, ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS THE AIRPORT CARBON ACCREDITATION PROGRAM.
IN THE SOCIAL CATEGORY, THE REPORT UNDERSCORES THE AIRPORT'S COMMITMENT TO EMPLOYEE WELLBEING, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, AND PASSENGER SATISFACTION.
IT HIGHLIGHTS THE AIRPORT'S FOCUS ON ITS PEOPLE EMPHASIZING THE IMPORTANCE OF LONG-TERM SUCCESS AND RESILIENCE.
HEALTH WELLNESS AND SAFETY INITIATIVES ARE KEY COMPONENTS OF THE A'S EMPLOYEE RETENTION AND RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES WITH PROACTIVE PROGRAMS AND, AND EDUCATION AIMED AT KEEPING EMPLOYEES HEALTHY, ENGAGED, AND SAFE.
THE REPORT ALSO EMPHASIZES A S'S COMMITMENT TO STAKEHOLDER AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH THROUGH INITIATIVES WITH DELL VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, THE HONOR, HONOR FLIGHTS, A S FOOD RESCUE PROGRAM, AND MORE THE SECTION FOCUSES ON A'S COMMITMENTS TO ENHANCING THE OVERALL PASSENGER EXPERIENCE THROUGH SURVEYS AND VARIOUS PROGRAMS PROMOTING DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION, SUCH AS THE LANGUAGE ACCESS PROGRAM, THE AMBASSADOR PROGRAM, AND THE SUNFLOWER LANYARD PROGRAM.
UM, I ALSO HAVE WITH ME HERE TODAY, BJ CARPENTER, WHO HAS LED THIS EFFORT FOR US, UM, THE, UM, FOR THIS FIRST REPORT AND IS ALSO OVER OUR SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAMS. AND BJ'S HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE AS WELL.
CONGRATULATIONS ON PUBLISHING THIS REPORT.
UM, OF COURSE, FROM MY BACKGROUND, I WILL ALWAYS WANT MORE.
I'M VERY, UM, SUSPECT AND I'M USED TO REVIEWING REPORTS LIKE THIS.
UM, THERE ARE THINGS THAT I'M WAS LOOKING FOR THAT I DID NOT SEE.
AND, BUT I'M GLAD THAT IT EXISTS.
UM, I DID HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT F A A PROGRAMS IN THE REPORT THAT, UM, DOES THE, THE PREVIOUS 2012 THROUGH 2019 SUSTAINABILITY REPORTS, ARE THEY, UM, WELL, LET ME BACK UP.
DOES, DOES THE AUSTIN BERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT HAVE A SUSTAINABILITY MASTER PLAN? UM, WE DON'T CURRENTLY HAVE A SUSTAINABILITY MASTER PLAN, AND BJ CAN, UM, ANSWER FOR ME.
WE ARE REEVALUATING OUR SUSTAINABILITY GOALS RIGHT NOW.
UM, WE'RE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT AND HOW WE WILL IMPLEMENT THOSE GOALS INTO THE A E D P.
IT WAS TIME TO REFRESH WHAT THOSE, THAT STRATEGY WAS, UM, AND THE SUCCESS OF THAT, AND THEN, UM, REEVALUATE AND REFINE FOR THE, FOR THE NEW PROGRAM.
BJ, DO YOU WANNA GIVE AN UPDATE ON THAT? I JUST, WELL, I, I JUST, AND A LITTLE BIT OF RESEARCH I DID PRIOR TO THE MEETING TODAY, I LEARNED THAT YOU, THERE ARE GRANTS AVAILABLE MM-HMM.
AND THAT, UM, DALLAS, D F W AND INTERCONTINENTAL, WELL, WHATEVER IT'S CALLED NOW, GE, THE HOUSTON, THE BIG HOUSTON AIRPORT.
THEY HAVE THOSE THINGS AND THEN THEY, THEN THEREFORE THEY QUALIFY FOR SOME FEDERAL FUNDING THROUGH F A A GRANTS.
BUT YOU ARE THE EXPERTS ON THIS.
ARE YOU RELATED TO KAY KANE CARPENTER?
UM, I, UM, I WORKED UNDER KANE FOR THE LAST SEVEN YEARS, UH, SEVEN YEARS.
THAT IS A GOOD QUESTION ABOUT THE, UH, SUSTAINABILITY MASTER PLAN.
WE HAVE BEEN WORKING TO, TO BUILD ONE THE NU, A NUMBER OF THE AIRPORTS THAT HAVE THOSE ALREADY, WHERE BASICALLY LARGER AIRPORTS THAN US AND HAD MAYBE MORE RESOURCES TO PUSH FORWARD ON A, ON THE SUSTAINABILITY PLANS.
DALLAS IS PRETTY MUCH LEADS THE WORLD IN SUSTAINABILITY AS ANY AIRPORT, UH, OVER THE WHOLE WORLD.
SO, UM, BUT WE ARE ACTIVELY WORKING ON PUTTING ONE TOGETHER.
WE'VE KIND OF HAD TO PUT THAT DOWN TEMPORARILY TO FOCUS ON SUSTAINABILITY GOALS FOR OUR DEVELOPMENT PROJECT.
AND TO GET GOALS PUT INTO THE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS MANUALS MM-HMM.
UH, MASTER PLANS GENERALLY, UM, ARE A HIGHER LEVEL AND ARE KIND OF COMPARED TO THE CLIMATE EQUITY ACTION PLAN OF THE CITY WHERE YOU HAVE GOALS LIKE, YOU KNOW, CARBON, UH, NET, NET ZERO BY 2040 AND, UH, AND ZERO WASTE BY 2040.
WE'RE FOCUSING RIGHT NOW ON DEVELOPMENT AND TRYING TO GET THE CONCRETE GOALS INSIDE THE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, WHICH ARE VERY WIDELY RIGHT NOW IN THE PROCESS.
SO GENERALLY SPEAKING, I, I DID SEE THAT, THAT THE NEW PROJECTS WILL BE A AUSTIN GREEN BUILDER THREE STAR, WHICH IS THE, WHICH IS REQUIRED.
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NOT MORE OR BETTER THAN WHAT IS ALREADY REQUIRED.IS THAT CORRECT? YEAH, SO THE ORDINANCE THAT THE CITY HAS HAS, UH, A G B AUSTIN ENERGY GREEN BUILD, UM, A LEVEL THREE OR LEAD SILVER MM-HMM.
WE HAVE, UM, SUCCEEDED TO GO HIGHER AND ABOVE, BUT WE SHOOT, UM, FOR THAT AS THE MINIMUM STANDARD.
BUT MANY TIMES WE DO EXCEED THAT.
WELL, WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU.
ARE THERE ANY OTHER PERSONNEL CHANGES WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT? AND LYNN, CONGRATULATIONS.
UM, COMMISSIONERS, DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR BJ? UH, JEFF ELLER.
COMMISSIONER ELLER, YOU SAID IN DEVELOPMENT YOU USE A RISK BASED BASED APPROACH.
WHAT ARE THE THREE THINGS COMING OUT OF THIS THAT KEEP YOU UP AT NIGHT? UM, WELL, AND, UM, BJ AND I MAY DIFFER, BUT I THINK ONE OF OURS IS THIS, UH, ONE OF MINE WOULD BE ON THE, UM, SOCIAL SIDE OF EQUITY, UH, OF DIVERSITY, EQUITY INCLUSION, ESPECIALLY WHEN I THINK ABOUT THE A E D P AND MAKING SURE, UM, HOW WE INCLUDE THOSE SMALL BUSINESSES IN HAVING THAT CAPACITY HERE.
UM, THAT IS, THAT'S, THAT'S PROBABLY THAT ONE.
AND THEN ALSO MAKING SURE ALSO ON THE SOCIAL SIDE, UM, IS MAKING SURE WE HAVE THE, THE RIGHT ENGAGEMENT ON THE STAKEHOLDER AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH.
UM, AND, AND DEFINING WHAT THAT GOOD NEIGHBOR MEANS FOR AN AIRPORT, WHICH CAN BE AT TIMES IN CONFLICT WITH A LOT OF, A LOT OF THINGS, UM, JUST BY, BY NATURE OF BEING AN AIRPORT.
UM, SO THOSE ARE TWO ON MY LIST.
I DON'T KNOW IF, UH, BJ HAS, I KNOW HE SPENT, UH, A YEAR, UM, SETTING THIS UP SO THAT WE COULD DO THIS.
UM, HE MAY HAVE SOME OTHER THINGS THAT KEEP HIM UP AT NIGHT.
ONE OF THE INTERESTING THINGS ABOUT THAT QUESTION, UM, IS AS, AS PART OF THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING THE E S G REPORT, WE ACTUALLY ASKED THAT EXACT SAME QUESTION
AND ZACH BALMER AND SOME OTHER PEOPLE WERE INVOLVED IN THE INTERVIEW PROCESS AS WELL AS A QUESTIONNAIRE PROCESS.
AND THAT QUESTION WENT OUT TO ALL, THROUGHOUT ALL DIFFERENT LEVELS OF THE ORGANIZATION, OF EXACTLY WHAT DOES IT KEEP YOU UP AT NIGHT.
AND WE DID RECEIVE DIFFERENT ANSWERS ACROSS THE, THE GROUP, UH, OF INDIVIDUALS.
UM, THOSE WERE ALL COMBINED WITH A GAP ANALYSIS TO FOCUS, UH, THIS FIRST REPORT, UH, FROM A BASIC SUSTAINABILITY REPORTS, WHICH WE DID BACK TO 2012.
BUT I WOULD AGREE WITH, UH, WITH SUMMER.
UH, THOSE ARE, UM, SEVERAL OF THE THINGS THAT KEEP ME UP AT NIGHT.
I THINK ONE OF THE CHALLENGES WE'VE SEEN OVER COVID WAS EMPLOYEE RETENTION MM-HMM.
UM, UH, I THINK THAT'S A KEY ONE.
AND I THINK ANOTHER ONE THAT WE'VE SEEN THAT, UH, THAT, THAT CAME OUT WAS RESILIENCY, UM, CHALLENGES.
WHETHER IT BE WE LOSE, UH, KEY UTILITIES LIKE WATER FOR A PERIOD OF TIME, OR WHETHER WE LOSE ELECTRICITY FOR A PERIOD OF TIME, AND HOW WE CAN INCLUDE RESILIENCY IN OUR DEVELOPMENTS AS WE MOVE FORWARD, AS WELL AS FOCUS ON THE, UH, SOCIAL SIDE, UH, THAT ARE THE TWO THINGS THAT, THAT LYNN MENTIONED.
BUT IN THE VERY BACK PAGE OF THE REPORT, YOU'LL FIND, UM, THAT IS A RECOMMENDED PATHWAY FORWARD AND THINGS THAT KIND OF WHERE THE, THE GAP ANALYSIS AND THE INTERVIEWS AND THE PROCESS ALL CULMINATED, AND THAT'S KIND OF A PATH FORWARD.
IS, IS THE ITEMS LISTED ON THE VERY BACK PAGE, ARE YOU A HUNDRED PERCENT RELIABLE ON AUSTIN ELECTRIC TODAY? YES.
AUSTIN ENERGY IS OUR POWER SOURCE, UH, COMPANY.
DO YOU HAVE, DO YOU HAVE NO ONSITE GENERATION? WE DO HAVE SOLAR.
UM, IT'S A COMMUNITY BENEFIT THOUGH.
WE DO HAVE BACKUP GENERAT, WE DO HAVE BACKUP GENERATORS ALSO.
ALSO ON KEY, UM, BUILDINGS AND INFRASTRUCTURE.
AND, UM, LET'S HAVE, LET'S KEEP THIS CONVERSATION GOING.
I'M PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN THIS AND, AND SUPPORTING, UM, THE GOALS WHEN THEY'RE DEVELOPED
UM, WE'RE ON TO AGENDA ITEM SEVEN,
[7. Update on contractor outreach efforts, in coordination with the Small and Minority Business Resources Department, in support of the Airport Expansion and Development Program presented by Somer Shindler, Chief Officer, Planning and Development.]
WHICH IS AN UPDATE ON OUTREACH EFFORTS AND COORDINATION WITH THE SMALL MINORITY BUSINESS RESOURCE DEPARTMENT IN SUPPORT OF THE AIRPORT EXPANSION AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM PRESENTED BY SUMMER SCHINDLER.UM, WHAT I INCLUDED IN YOUR PACKET WAS THE PRESENTATION THAT, UM, I PRESENTED TO THE SS M B R COMMISSION AT THE BEGINNING OF AUGUST.
UM, SO THAT YOU WOULD SEE WHAT WE SHARED WITH THAT TEAM, UM, AS WELL.
BUT WE CAN, WE CAN START ON THE SLIDE THAT SAYS CONTRACTOR COMMUNITY AND SUPPORT SERVICES PROGRAM.
AND I JUST WANNA KIND OF HIGHLIGHT SOME THINGS HERE.
UM, IT'S A LITTLE BIT MORE INTO THE, THERE WAS A LOT OF BACKUP THAT WE, WE CAUGHT, CAUGHT UP THE COMMISSION ON, UM, THAT YOU GUYS ALREADY KNOW.
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THOSE ARE CURRENT PAGE 70 IN THE BIG PACKET.YEAH, YOU CAN KEEP GOING TO THE NEXT ONE.
AND WE CAN GO TO THE, THE FIRST SLIDE IN THIS SECTION HERE.
UM, REALLY, UH, WE HAVE WORKED WITH, UH, THE S M B R TEAM TO COME UP WITH A CO STRATEGY, UM, TO SUPPORT, UM, THIS PROGRAM.
SO WE'VE DEFINED OUR C C T S S PROGRAM, UM, WITH SS M B R FOUR PILLARS CON CONTRACT OUTREACH.
UM, THIS IS WHERE WE ARE REALLY TAKING A MUCH BIGGER INITIATIVE THAN WE HAVE EVER DONE BEFORE AS AN AIRPORT.
UM, AND, UM, OUR M W B E ENGAGEMENT, WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, UM, THAT'S WHAT THE, UM, ED DEPARTMENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, UM, AND THEN COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AS THE, AND THIS IS COMMUNITY OF VENDORS THAT'S WITHIN THAT COMMUNITY.
THAT'S WHAT THIS PILLAR IS FOR.
UM, WE'VE SET SOME, OH, WE GO TO A LOT OF EVENTS.
UH, WE HAVE A SMALL TEAM AND WE'RE BUILDING THAT TEAM, BUT ALL OF OUR, UH, MEMBERS IN THE PROGRAM PARTICIPATE.
UM, WE HA WE TRY TO GO TO AT LEAST FOUR EVENTS A MONTH, UM, EITHER IN THE STATE OR NATIONAL TO GET OUT THE WORD TO ACTUALLY, UM, RECRUIT BUSINESSES TO COME AND DO WORK ON OUR PROGRAM.
SO WE DO A LOT OF EDUCATION ON THE SCOPE TRADES, THOSE SORTS OF THINGS.
UM, AND THEN WORK WITH SS M B R TO GET THOSE BUSINESSES REGISTERED HERE.
UM, SO OUR GOAL IS TO GO TO, UM, AT, AT LEAST FOR A MONTH, WE GO TO WAY MORE, WE DO A LOT MORE SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT, WHETHER IT'S AT, UM, THE ONE THAT WAS PICTURED WAS AT AMAC, THE AIRPORT MINORITY ADVISORY COUNCIL, NATIONAL CONVENTION IN SAN ANTONIO, OR LOCAL D B I A, THE DESIGN BUILD INSTITUTE, UM, UH, STATE CONFERENCES.
AND WE, WE HAVE A, WE ALWAYS HAVE A TABLE THERE, WE GO THROUGH THE PROGRAM.
UM, WE ALSO HAVE MADE AN EFFORT TO AT LEAST SAY EVERY QUARTER TO HAVE A FOCUSED OUTREACH THAT WE PUT ON.
WE'VE ACTUALLY HAD FOUR SINCE APRIL.
WE HAD A HUGE INDUSTRY DAY WITH OVER 400 ATTENDEES THIS SUMMER.
WE'VE HAD A BUILDUP WHERE WE'VE HAD THREE DIFFERENT VIRTUAL OUTREACH WITH S N B R PARTICIPATES WITH US.
AND THEN NEXT WEEK WE'LL BE HAVING AN IN-PERSON CO-HOSTED WITH AMAC, UM, HERE OUT BY THE AIRPORT, UM, WHERE WE'LL HAVE MAP MA MATCH MATCHMAKING, UM, WHERE WE HAVE ALMOST 50 PRIME SI SI SIGNED UP TO HAVE TABLES WHERE THE SMALL BUSINESSES CAN MEET AND, UM, ALL THESE DIFFERENT BUSINESSES THAT THEY CAN PARTNER FOR OUR PROGRAM.
AND SO WE'VE ALREADY SEEN A SMALL INCREASE IN REGISTERED FIRMS, UM, FROM THIS EFFORT.
AND WE ARE LOOKING TO SEE OVER THE LIFE OF THE PROGRAM, WE, OUR GOAL IS A VERY LOFTY GOAL WITH 30% INCREASE OF THOSE CERTIFIED FIRMS. UM, I THINK THE NEXT SLIDE JUST GOES OVER SOME OF THE FUTURE EVENTS THAT WE ARE HAVING, LIKE I SAID, SEPTEMBER 20TH.
UM, WE HAVE ON, UM, FLY AUSTIN, IF YOU GO TO THE JOURNEY WITH A U S, THERE IS LIKE UPCOMING OPPORTUNITIES YOU GO THERE.
WE LIST ALL, UM, OUR FUTURE SESSIONS TO SIGN UP FOR EVEN THE FUTURE ONE ON NOVEMBER 9TH, WHICH WILL BE A FOCUSED INDUSTRY DAY, ESPECIALLY ON, UH, THE PROCUREMENTS FOR AN ESSENTIAL UTILITY PLANT AND CONCOURSE B.
AND WE, AND AS WE HAVE OUR DESIGN CRITERIA MANUALS, UM, UM, WRAPPING UP, WE'LL HAVE MUCH MORE SCOPE IN THOSE, UM, AS WELL.
PLUS WE ALSO POST UP EVERY, UM, ALL PRESENTATIONS, ALL HANDOUTS SO THAT IF YOU CANNOT ATTEND THESE EVENTS, YOU CAN GET ALL THAT INFORMATION.
UH, THEY'RE VERY TEXT-HEAVY PRESENTATIONS BECAUSE WE WANT YOU TO HAVE EVERYTHING THAT AN ATTENDEE HAS.
WE WANNA MAKE SURE IT'S FAIR AND EQUITABLE AND THAT WE, UM, WE GET BUSINESSES REGISTERED HERE THAT HAVEN'T DONE WORK AT THE AIRPORT BEFORE.
UM, THAT'S ALL I HAVE ON THIS, BUT I JUST WANTED TO GIVE Y'ALL AN UPDATE OF OUR EFFORTS AND I'M REALLY PROUD OF THE TEAM OF THE PROGRESS WE'VE MADE.
THANK YOU FOR ALL THE EFFORT AND WE HOPE THAT IT YIELDS SOME, UM, SOME STRONG TEAMS. UM, COMMISSIONERS, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS? UH, JUST ONE QUICK ONE.
REALLY APPRECIATE THE, THE EFFORTS HERE.
UM, WHEN YOU NOTED THAT THERE'S A 3% IN INCREASE, HOW MANY FIRMS DOES THAT REPRESENT? MAYBE I MISSED IT.
UM, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW RIGHT OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD THE NUMBERS OF FIRMS AND THEN IN WHAT AREA? I'LL GET THAT FOR YOU.
UM, BUT YOU KNOW, WE ARE MEASURING EXACTLY IN THE AREAS THAT WOULD BE RELATED TO OUR SCOPE, NOT IN ALL AREAS.
SO I WANT GET THAT NUMBER FOR YOU.
AND WE MAY ACTUALLY INCREASE SINCE WE'VE HAD A COUPLE MORE EVENTS SINCE THAT METRIC WAS TAKEN PLACE, FINGERS CROSSED FOR US.
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THANK YOU FOR EVEN THINKING YOUR DREAM ABOUT THE ECONOMIC EQUITY.UM, SO I, THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS ABOUT AREA THAT I JUST WANTED TO GAIN MORE CLARITY.
UM, SO THE, THESE ARE ANECDOTAL STORIES.
UM, FOR EXAMPLE, THE, UH, MINORITY OWNED BUSINESSES ARE, UM, EITHER TOO LATE, YOU KNOW, TO BE REACHED TO RECEIVE THIS R F P INQUIRY FROM THE PRIME.
UM, OR WHEN THEY ARE REACHED OUT, USUALLY THEY'RE, THERE ARE, UM, IT'S CLOSING DAY IS LIKE THE NEXT DAY OR WITHIN 24 HOURS, RIGHT? MM-HMM.
SO IT'S, UH, UNREALISTIC FOR THEM TO RESPOND MM-HMM.
UM, AND, UH, UM, SO SOME SAYS THE ATTEMPT OF TRYING ALSO IS COUNTED AS, YOU KNOW, THE CRITERIA FOR THE PRIME.
YOU KNOW, EVEN TRYING WITHOUT THE RESULT, BEING, GETTING IT THE SUB SUBCONTRACTOR OR NOT, NOT SURE IF IT'S TRUE OR NOT, BUT I HEARD SOME STORIES FROM THE MINORITY SIDE OF THE VENDORS.
UM, SO, UH, AND MAYBE THERE ARE SOME OBSTACLES THAT, UH, UH, SOME MINORITY, UH, BUSINESS ARE FACING THAT I'M NOT AWARE.
AND I DUNNO IF, UM, OUR COMMISSIONERS, UH, FELLOW COMMISSIONERS ARE AWARE OR YOUR STAFF IS AWARE, MAYBE THIS IS AREA THAT, UH, UM, IF YOU HAVE MORE INFORMATION TO GIVE A LITTLE, YOU KNOW, OVERVIEW, WALKTHROUGH LATER IF NOT TODAY.
AND I THINK THOSE ARE REALLY VALID CONCERNS, ESPECIALLY REGARDING THAT OPPORTUNITY TO MATCH WITH THE PRIME AND UNDERSTAND WHICH ONES ARE ACTUALLY INTERESTED.
UM, THAT WAS REALLY THE BIG PUSH FOR US IN APRIL, KNOWING THAT WE WERE 12 MONTHS AWAY FROM SOME OF THE BIGGEST PROCUREMENTS THAT WE WOULD HAVE IS TO JUST TO GET THAT OUT THERE, START TALKING ABOUT IT, AND THEN THOSE, THE VIRTUAL ONES OVER THE SUMMER WAS REALLY FOCUSED AT THE SMALL BUSINESSES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SS AND B R, TALKING THEM THROUGH HOW TO GET REGISTERED, WHAT THEY WOULD NEED TO DO.
AND THEN WE HAVE TO TAKE OUR PART, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T JUST PUT IT ON THE PRIME.
IT IS OUR PART AS THE CITY, UM, OUR, OUR, YOU KNOW, OUR DUTY AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE HOSTING THAT MATCHMAKING EVENT, RIGHT.
YOU KNOW, THOSE PRIMES WANNA SPEAK TO US, SO IF THEY WANNA SPEAK TO US, YOU'LL SHOW UP AND YOU'LL SPEAK TO THE SMALL BUSINESSES AS WELL AND GIVING THEM ALL THAT OPPORTUNITY TO MEET EVERYBODY.
AND NOW THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT ALL THESE OPPORTUNITIES AND WE HAVE 'EM POSTED ON FINANCE'S WEBSITE, THOSE THINGS LIKE THAT, THE PRIMES DO KNOW WHAT THEY'RE MAKING THEIR BUSINESS PLANS FOR 2024 AND 2025, AND THEY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO GO AFTER.
SO NOW THEY HAVE, UM, WE WANNA HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO MEET.
SO THAT WAS A REALLY BIG DEAL FOR US ON THE 20TH.
UM, AND IN PARTNERING WITH AMAC TO DO THAT, THEY HAVE THESE TYPES OF EVENTS THAT WE CAN REACH OUT INTO THEIR NETWORK.
UM, SO THAT'S, IT IS A VERY VALID POINT AND SOMETHING THAT I HEARD WHEN I STARTED HERE AS WELL.
AND THOSE, THESE ARE THE STEPS WE'RE TRYING TO DO.
WE CAN'T CORRECT IT OVERNIGHT, BUT WE CAN START TO DO THE RIGHT THING.
WE HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION FROM COMMISSIONER BROCK.
BASED ON WHAT I UNDERSTOOD FROM THE PRESENTATION FROM MR. DRE, IT SEEMS AS IF THE CITY IS EVALUATING, UH, THE PRIME PACKAGE SORT OF ALL UP, UM, INCLUDING THE, THE SUBS.
SO IF I WERE SAY A PRIME THAT, YOU KNOW, FAILED TO, TO MEET THE BAR OF 8.66, WOULD IT BE IN MY BEST INTEREST TO PARTNER WITH MBES EVEN IF THEY DON'T HAVE PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE WITH THE CITY? BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE THEY ARE GOING TO BE EVALUATED AT 8.66 TO RAISE MY AVERAGE SCORE FOR MY BID.
UM, I KNOW THAT'S A, I'M, I'M GONNA BET I CAN'T ANSWER SOME OF THESE QUESTIONS, BUT THAT IS A STRATEGY ONE CAN TAKE AND HOW THEY PARTNER, ESPECIALLY A PRIME THAT HASN'T DONE BUSINESS HERE BEFORE, IS TO HOW TO PARTNER WITH OTHER FIRMS HERE, LYNN.
WHAT WE, WE HOPE IS THAT WE ARE, WHEN WE'RE BRINGING IN BIG AVIATION FIRMS, THAT THEY LOOKED AT THIS LOCAL MARKET SO THAT AUSTIN CAN BUILD AUSTIN, YOU KNOW, AND, BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T HAVE THAT AIRPORT EXPERIENCE, SO YOU WANT THAT, THAT MAGIC OF AVIATION PLUS AUSTIN TO COME TOGETHER.
I, I, I GUESS MY, MY POINT IS, YOU KNOW, PERHAPS ONE AVENUE TO PURSUE IT IF, IF WE HAVE NOT ALREADY, IS TO INVESTIGATE THOSE, THOSE PRIMES THAT MIGHT NOT HAVE FOR HOPEFULLY APPROPRIATE REASONS, BUT UH, MIGHT NOT HAVE THE SAME TRACK RECORD AS OTHERS, BUT THEN WHO ARE WILLING TO GO ABOVE AND BEYOND TO PARTNER WITH MBES AT OR ABOVE THE BAR.
TO WE, WE ARE ENHANCING, UM, A LOT OF, WE ARE LOOKING AT HOW WE'RE SCORING OUR CRITERIA.
SO ONE OF THE KEY PERSONNELS THAT WE'LL HAVE ON ALL OF OUR TEAM IS TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE A, UH, A D B E OR M W B E COORDIN THAT WAS NOT A KEY PERSONNEL BEFORE.
THAT'S ONE OF THE KEY PERSONNELS THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR.
AND THEN ALSO HOW THEY INCORPORATE INTO THEIR OVERALL APPROACH.
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BOX, ARE YOU COMPLIANT OR NOT, BUT HOW IS THE WHOLE TEAM INTEGRATED AND HOW ARE YOU DOING THAT TOGETHER TO GET TO SOLVING THE PROBLEMS? THANK YOU.THIS IS GONNA BE AN ONGOING CONVERSATION.
AND THANK YOU COMMISSIONERS, FANG FONG AND, AND BROCK FOR THAT INPUT.
UM, WE'RE GONNA MOVE ON, ALTHOUGH I, I NEGLECTED TO MENTION SOMETHING EARLIER, WHICH IS THAT, UM, ON AGENDA ITEM FOR PRESENTED BY LYNN ESTERBROOK.
WE HAD A GROUNDBREAKING, UH, RECENTLY FOR THE THREE GATE EXPANSION THAT WAS ATTENDED BY TWO OF OUR UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVES AND A AND A MEMBER OF THE OFFICE OF A, OF A STATE SENATOR, I MEAN, EXCUSE ME, A, A UNITED STATES SENATOR, AS WELL AS, UM, A LOT OF, UH, CONTRACTORS AND DESIGNERS, ET CETERA.
[8. Overview of Airport Overlay Zones including boundaries, land uses and required noise reduction measures for A0-1, A0-2, and A0-3 presented by Jennifer Williams, Project Manager, Planning and Development.]
UH, AGENDA ITEM EIGHT, WHICH IS AN OVERVIEW OF THE AIRPORT OVERLAY ZONES, INCLUDING THE BOUNDARIES, LAND USES, AND REQUIRED NOISE REDUCTION MEASURES FOR AIRPORT OVERLAY ONE, TWO, AND THREE.PRESENTED BY JENNIFER WILLIAMS, PROJECT MANAGER PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT.
THANK YOU FOR, FOR BEING HERE.
JENNIFER WILLIAMS. I'M THE PLANNING MANAGER FOR THE, UM, WAS ASKED TO GIVE A BRIEF PRESENTATION.
I THINK I ONLY HAVE LIKE THREE SLIDES TO OVER THE OVERLAY ZONES AND COMPATIBLE CONTROLLED COMPATIBLE LAND USE AREA.
SO ON THAT FIRST SLIDE, THAT'S THE LINK.
I THINK THERE'S A REQUEST ON LIKE WHERE EVERYTHING IS LOCATED IN THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE.
UM, WE DO HAVE CODE AS PART OF THE ORDINANCE IN THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE THAT GOES THROUGH AND, UM, PROVIDES GUIDANCE TO DEVELOPERS THAT WANT TO DEVELOP IN AUSTIN WITHIN THESE KIND OF AREAS.
SO, UH, THE REASON FOR A LOT OF THESE AREAS, AND THE REASON THAT WE HAVE THE CODE IS TO REALLY PROTECT THE AIRSPACE AND ALLOW THE AIRPORT TO GROW IN A, UM, I GUESS IN THE WAY THAT WE NEED TO OVER THE, THE FUTURE YEARS.
SO A LOT OF THIS, THIS CODE ORDINANCE WAS PUT INTO PLACE AROUND 2001.
UM, HASN'T REALLY CHANGED SINCE THEN.
SO THERE'S DIFFERENT AREAS OF THE CODE AND THE OVERLAY ZONE.
SO THE FIRST IS THE CONTROLLED COMPATIBLE LAND USE AREA.
THAT'S THE AREA THAT'S IN PURPLE.
UM, IT'S ROUGHLY AROUND TWO MILES, UM, AROUND THE AIRPORT.
AND ANY DEVELOPMENT, REGARDLESS OF NEW DEVELOPMENT OR RECONSTRUCTION ADDITIONS, ALL THAT.
UM, THE AIRPORT IS ACTUALLY PART OF THE DEVELOPMENT, UM, PERMIT.
SO WE REVIEW ALL THESE DEVELOPMENTS THAT COME IN.
THE REASON FOR THAT IS WE'RE REALLY MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE TRYING TO PROTECT THAT AIRSPACE.
WE LOOK AT THINGS FOR HEIGHT HAZARDS, GLARE ISSUES, PEOPLE WANNA PUT A SOLAR FARM IN.
UM, WE LOOK AT WHAT THE GLARE COULD HAPPEN TO THE APPROACH, UM, APPROACHES IN THE RUNWAY, WILDLIFE ATTRACT ATTRACTANTS.
AND THEN, UM, WE DO GET FOLKS THAT WANNA DO UPLIGHTING AND WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE UPLIGHTING ISN'T REFLECTING OR IN THE WAY OF THOSE APPROACHES AS WELL.
AND SO, UM, WE ARE ACTUALLY A SIGN OFF ON THE PERMIT IF IT'S WITHIN THAT PURPLE AREA.
THAT ALSO INCLUDES, UM, THE AIRPORT AND THE OVERLAY ZONES.
UM, THE GREEN AREAS, AIRPORT OVERLAY ZONE THREE, WE WILL GET UP, WE WILL GET INTO THAT HERE IN A MINUTE.
IT'S A RESTRICTED RESIDENTIAL HALF MILE BUFFER AROUND THE, UH, A O TWO.
AND, UM, REALLY JUST ALLOWS FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE AIRPORT TO GROW IN REGARDS TO OPERATIONS FOR NOISE, UM, AND MAKING SURE OUR NOISE CONTOURS AS THEY GROW WITH MORE OPERATIONS HAPPENING AT THE AIRPORT.
BUT WE TRY AND KEEP THEM WITHIN THAT BUFFER AREA.
AND WE WILL, WE'LL GET INTO THOSE HERE IN A MINUTE.
UM, AIRPORT OVERLAY ZONE TOO THAT PROHIBITS RESIDENTIAL AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
UM, REALLY THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ONE AND TWO IS JUST THE DECAL LEVEL AND MORE OF AN F A, A GUIDANCE, UH, REGULATION.
SO THE A O TWO AND THE A O ONE DO HAVE GRANT ASSURANCES ASSOCIATED WITH THOSE.
SO WE HAVE TO REALLY PROTECT THOSE AREAS.
UM, AND WE DID DO BUYOUTS WHEN THE AIRPORT WAS MOVED OVER INTO THE FACILITY WE'RE IN TODAY.
SO WE'VE INVESTED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, UM, AND RELOCATED TO SCHOOLS TO HELP PROTECT, UM, THE AIRSPACE AND MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE LAND USES THAT ARE COMPATIBLE AROUND THE AIRPORT.
UM, WE CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
UM, SO THE AIRPORT OVERLAY ZONE THREE.
JUST WANNA KIND OF CONCENTRATE ON THIS ONE RIGHT NOW.
WE DO GET QUITE A BIT OF DEVELOPMENT OUT NEAR THE AIRPORT.
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MAYBE TWO PERMITS.IT'S PROBABLY ABOUT ONE A WEEK.
UM, AND THEN TESLA CAME IN AND WE'RE REVIEWING A LOT MORE RESIDENTIAL PERMITS AND JUST PERMITS IN GENERAL, WAREHOUSING, INDUSTRIAL, UM, YOU KNOW, AS THE CENTER CORE OF AUSTIN STARTS TO GROW, IT'S STARTING TO GROW OUT, OBVIOUSLY INTO OUR AREA OF TOWN AS WELL.
AND SO, UM, WE'VE GOT A LOT MORE OF THE REQUESTS COMING IN.
WE WORK WITH THOSE DEVELOPERS AND OWNERS, UM, UH, VERY CONSISTENTLY.
IF ANYBODY WANTS TO DO DUE DILIGENCE ON THEIR PROPERTY, WE'RE HAPPY TO REVIEW THAT BEFORE THEY ACTUALLY GO DOWN FOR A PERMIT.
UM, WE DO RESTRICT THE LAND USES, UH, OF RESIDENTIAL AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS WITHIN THAT GREEN AREA THAT YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN.
AGAIN, THAT IS JUST TO ALLOW FOR THE AIRPORTS OPERATIONS, OUR FLIGHT OPERATIONS AS THEY INCREASE OVER THE YEARS, WE WANNA TRY AND STAY WITHIN THAT HALF MILE BUFFER.
UM, SO WE'RE PROTECTING THAT AREA AND ALLOWING US TO GROW WITHOUT PUTTING THE PUBLIC INTO, UM, A HAZARDOUS AREA IN REGARDS TO NOISE.
UM, AND JUST IN INCOMPATIBLE LAND USES AROUND THE AIRPORT.
UM, SO ONE OF THE OTHER REQUESTS THAT WE HAD WAS, UH, THE REDUCTION IN NOISE ATTENUATION METRICS.
SO IF THERE ARE FOLKS THAT HAVE RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES WITHIN THE GREEN AREA AND THEY DO EXIST, UM, WE DIDN'T GO IN AND BUY OUT ANYTHING IN THAT GREEN AREA WHEN WE BUILT THE AIRPORT.
IT WAS MORE JUST, AGAIN, A BUFFER.
UM, SO WE RESTRICT ANY NEW RESIDENTIAL THAT COMES INTO THAT AREA AND, UM, IF ANYBODY WANTS TO DO AN ADDITION ON THEIR HOME, ADD ANOTHER BEDROOM, WE'VE, WE'RE ABLE TO DO, UM, UH, WE'RE ABLE TO DO THAT.
SO THEY STILL HAVE THE ABILITY TO DO THAT.
WE JUST REQUIRE REDUCTION IN NOISE, UM, BY PUTTING IN THESE, THESE MEASURES.
UM, AND THAT INCLUDES HOTELS, HOSPITALS, NURSING HOMES, CHURCHES, AUDITORIUMS, CONCERT HALLS, AND AGAIN, ANY OF THAT EXISTING RESIDENTIAL.
AND THAT'S WITHIN THE GREEN AREA THERE.
SO, AND THEN THE, UM, NOISE ATTENUATION REQUIREMENTS, WE PUT THE TWO, UM, CODE REFERENCES ON THE SLIDE AS WELL.
THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD.
UM, I THINK THAT THERE ARE TWO, AS YOU MENTIONED, TWO SIDES OF THIS.
ONE IS TO ALLOW THE AIRPORT OPERATIONS TO MOVE ALONG UNIMPEDED BY WILDLIFE ATTRACTED GLARE AND BUT ALSO TO PROTECT THE COMMUNITY FROM NOISE.
AND I'M CURIOUS WITH THE INCREASE THE, I KNOW THAT FROM WHEN THIS, THE AIRPORT WAS BUILT UNTIL TODAY, THE AIRCRAFT IS LARGER.
WE HAVE A, WE HAVE MORE NUMEROUS AND MORE AND LARGER AIRCRAFT AND ALSO MORE FLIGHTS.
SO HAS THE, I I DON'T, AND I THINK THERE ARE TWO MEASURES.
THERE'S LIKE THE DECIBEL LEVEL, JUST LIKE WHAT YOU HEAR.
AND THEN THERE'S ALSO THIS DAY AND NIGHT NUMBER.
HAS THAT APPRECIABLY CHANGED WITHIN THE, THE RE ALL THE DIFFERENT ZONES, THE A ONE, TWO AND THREE? UM, SURE.
SO WHEN WE PUT THE CODE TOGETHER, WE'VE DONE NOISE CONTOURS FOR YEARS.
SO ANYTIME YOU GO IN AND DO AN ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT, LIKE WE JUST COMPLETED, UH, LAST YEAR, WE DID NOISE CONTOURS FOR THAT.
YOU DO IT FOR EXISTING CONDITIONS AND THEN YOU ALSO PROJECT OUT WHAT YOUR FUTURE OPERATIONS COULD BE.
SO WE'VE GOT PROJECTIONS FOR WHAT THE OPERATIONS COULD BE AT THE AIRPORT 10 YEARS FROM NOW, AND THEY STILL ARE ALL WITHIN THE BUFFER.
AND THAT'S REALLY THE FOREFRONT OF THE FOLKS BEFORE US IN 2001, REALLY ANTICIPATING THE GROWTH OF THE AIRPORT TO ALLOW FOR THAT BUFFER TO HAPPEN, UM, AND TO GET THAT INTO THE CODE WHEN IT DID.
THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER AIRPORTS THAT DON'T HAVE THAT FLEXIBILITY, AND IT'S DEFINITELY, UM, BECOMING MORE AND MORE OF AN ISSUE OF, AGAIN, LIKE YOU WERE SAYING, THOSE TWO MEASURES, HAVING THOSE NON-COMPATIBLE LAND USES AND, UM, TRYING TO PROTECT THAT AIRSPACE AS WELL AS THE HAZARD OF HAVING THE PUBLIC BEING CLOSE TO THAT SPACE FROM A NOISE PERSPECTIVE AS WELL.
SO WE DO, UM, LOOK AT THOSE NOISE CONTOURS, UM, OVER THE YEARS, AND THEY HAVE GOTTEN SLIGHTLY BIGGER THAN WHAT THE A O TWO IS SHOWING, UM, IT'S MORE LENGTH.
AND WHILE WE MAY HAVE LARGER AIRCRAFT, THEY HAVE GOTTEN QUIETER.
SO IT'S MORE JUST THE FREQUENCY OF, UH, OPERATIONS HAPPENING.
THANK YOU FOR THAT, THAT, UH, ANSWER.
AND, UH, COMMISSIONER, COMMISSIONER, UH, SECRETARY, UM, ROSE HAS A QUESTION.
JENNIFER, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
UH, UM, QUICK QUESTION, ACKNOWLEDGING THAT THE 2001 DRAWING OF THESE BUFFERS WAS, UM, FORWARD THINKING MM-HMM.
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REALLY HELPFUL FOR THE COMMUNITY.UM, I THINK THERE'S SOME QUESTION IN, IN OUR COMMUNITY THAT DOES QUOTE UNQUOTE AIRPORT EXPANSION MEAN PERHAPS INCREASING BUFFER ZONE SIZE.
UH, AND I THINK I'VE UNDERSTOOD YOU AND AND OTHERS TO SAY THAT FREQUENCY OF FLIGHTS AND THE GROWTH OF TERMINALS DOES NOT NECESSARILY MEAN THAT THERE WOULD BE ANY CHANGES TO THESE BUFFER BUFFER ZONES.
IN FACT, THESE BUFFER ZONES ARE SORT OF FUTURE-PROOFED IN THAT WAY.
THE A O THREE IS THE BUFFER, AND WE DON'T ANTICIPATE THAT TO GET ANY LARGER ANYTIME SOON.
IT'S MORE THE A O TWO IS ACTUALLY BASED OFF THE DECIMAL LEVEL MM-HMM.
AND SOMEDAY, MANY YEARS FROM NOW AS A, PERHAPS A THIRD RUNWAY IS ADDED ON THE WEST SIDE, UM, THAT WOULD LIKELY NOT AFFECT THE BUFFER EITHER.
I'M NOT QUITE SURE ABOUT THAT.
I THINK THAT THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY WHERE, UM, IT IS WITHIN THE BUFFER AREA, BUT WE'D HAVE TO VERIFY THAT WITH THE NOISE CONTOURS THAT DONE, THAT WOULD BE DONE WHEN WE DID THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT TO CLEAR FOR THE THIRD RUNWAY MM-HMM.
SO THERE'S A LOT OF PUBLIC INPUT THAT WOULD GO INTO THAT.
AND THEN IF ANYTHING, IF RESIDENTIAL WAS WITHIN THE 65 DECIBEL, WE WOULD BE OPENING BACK UP, UM, THE OPPORTUNITY FOR, UM, UH, BUYOUTS TO HAPPEN WITHIN MM-HMM.
AND THAT WOULD, AGAIN, THAT'D BE ON THE WEST SIDE, NOT THE EAST SIDE, I GUESS, HUH? YEAH, THAT'S CORRECT.
AND IT'S IN BETWEEN THE TWO RUNWAYS, SO NOT, UH, A LITTLE, HOPEFULLY A LITTLE LESS IMPACTFUL CENTER WEST.
COMMISSIONER, UH, COMMISSIONER ALLER, DO YOU HAVE ANY STAGE TWO REGULAR SCHEDULED FLIGHTS, ANY STAGE TWO AIRCRAFT ON REGULAR SCHEDULED FLIGHTS? I DON'T REALLY, OR ARE Y'ALL STAGE THREE? NO, IT'S EVERYBODY'S STAGE THREE AND FOUR.
WE NEED COMMISSIONER DULE HERE.
WHAT IS STAGE, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOSE AIRCRAFT? COULD YOU CLARIFY THAT PLEASE? WIDER ENGINE NOISE.
AND THE ONE THAT YOU'RE ASKING ABOUT IS THE, ARE THE, THE OLDER ONES LIKE A, LIKE A BACH ONE 11, WHICH NOBODY FLIES ANYMORE? NO, NO.
UM, I WOULD APPRECIATE A CLEARER DRAWING OF THE EXTENT OF THE, UM, THE CONTROLLED COMPATIBLE LAND USE AREA.
I THINK THAT WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL FOR, FOR MY UNDERSTANDING MOVING FORWARD.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? OKAY, WELL THAT ENDS THE STAFF BRIEFINGS FOR TODAY.
WE ARE ON TO DISCUSSION AND ACTION ITEMS. ITEM NUMBER NINE IS
[9. Discussion and possible action on a recommendation by the Airport Advisory Commission regarding the 2023 update to the Airport Master Development Plan Ordinance – requested and presented by Airport Advisory Commission Secretary Patrick Rose.]
THE DISCUSSION OF POSSIBLE ACTION ON A RECOMMENDATION BY THE AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION REGARDING THE 2023 UPDATE TO THE AIRPORT MASTER PLAN, DEVELOP AIRPORT MASTER DEVELOPMENT PLAN ORDINANCE, ISN'T IT THE OTHER WAY AROUND AS DEVELOPMENT MASTER PLAN ORDINANCE.REQUESTED AND PRESENTED BY THE AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION.
UM, WE HAVE A RECOMMENDATION AS PART OF OUR PACKET TODAY.
AND, UM, DO WE HAVE A MOTION? UH, SO MOVED.
THE MOTION IS BY, UM, COMMISSIONER, UH, SECRETARY ROSE.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO, UM, READ THE RECOMMENDATION? JUST THE RECOMMENDATION PORTION? YEAH, SURE.
UM, SO IT'S THE LOOSE, IT'S THE LOOSE PAGE, UH, NOT IN YOUR PACKET.
UH, IT'S LOOSE BECAUSE IT'S SORT OF HOT OFF THE PRESS FROM YESTERDAY.
WE, I JUST, WELL, LET, LET ME INTERRUPT.
JUST SAY, UHHUH, WE HAVE A RECOMMENDATION TO RECOMMEND THE MASTER DEVELOPMENT PLAN ORDINANCE WITH AN UPDATE WITH ADDITIONAL CONDITIONS.
NOW, ARE THERE ANY, UM, I'M GONNA ASK YOU TO READ THE RECOMMENDATION THROUGH OKAY.
UNLESS THERE ARE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS REGARDING RECOMMENDING THIS AT THIS TIME.
SO, MADAM CHAIR, YOU WANT ME TO READ THE WHOLE THING THROUGH? UM, YEAH, I THINK SO.
UH, RECOMMEND THE MASTER DEVELOPMENT PLAN ORDINANCE UPDATE WITH ADDITIONAL CONDITIONS.
UH, THE DESCRIPTION OF THE RECOMMENDATION TO COUNCIL IS THIS, THIS TENURE ORDINANCE WILL APPLY TO NEAR AND SHORT TERM PROJECTS, AIRPORT PROJECTS ON THE 4,200 ACRE CAMPUS IN ORDER TO EXPEDITE THE REVIEW AND PERMITTING OF THE AIRPORT EXPANSION DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM TO ADD A TUNNEL ADDITIONAL CONCOURSE, NEW TAXIWAY, AND OTHER PROJECTS UNDER ONE SITE PLAN.
CONDITIONS TO APPROVAL INCLUDE INVOLVEMENT OF THE EQUITY OFFICE AND WATERSHED PROTECTION, STAKEHOLDER AND NEIGHBORHOOD NOTIFICATION AND ENGAGEMENT FOR COMMUNITY INPUT, WATER QUALITY MONITORING AND REPORTING, AND AN ANNUAL REPORT AND FORECAST FOR VARIANCES USED, PUBLIC OUTREACH
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CONDUCTED, AND WATER QUALITY MONITORING.THE RATIONALE TIMING FOR ADOPTION OF THE M D P ORDINANCE UPDATE IS CRITICAL IN ORDER TO KEEP THE AIRPORT EXPANSION PROGRAM ON SCHEDULE.
AND I'LL JUST EDITORIAL NOTE, THAT'S WHY THIS IS SO IMPORTANT TODAY AND TOMORROW AT COUNCIL, AS THIS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT GOAL OF ON-TIME DELIVERY IS PURSUED IS ALSO IMPORTANT TO ENSURE THAT A U S COMPLIES WITH THE CITY OF AUSTIN CODE WITH RESPECT TO CLIMATE RESI AND RESILIENCY GOALS.
THE A A C REQUEST ACCOUNTABILITY, THE UPDATED AIRPORT MASTER DEVELOPMENT PLAN ORDINANCE WILL REPLACE ORDINANCE.
YOU CAN SEE THE NUMBER WITH VARIANCES TO OR EXCEPTIONS FROM SECTION 25 OF THE CITY CODE RELATED TO DESIGN STANDARDS, SITE PLANS, EASEMENTS, WATER QUALITY, WATER CONSERVATION, FLOOD PLAIN PROTECTION, TREE PROTECTIONS, AND CUT AND FILL REQUIREMENTS.
IN SUMMARY, IT'S IMPORTANT TO KEEP THIS GOOD PROJECT ON TRACK.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, COMMISSIONERS.
DO WE HAVE ANY, UM, QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FOR SECRETARY ROSE ABOUT THIS? OKAY.
I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY WE'VE HAD A CITIZEN, WE HAD A PUBLIC COMMUNICATION EARLIER THAT REQUESTED THE KIND OF REPORTING THAT WE'RE ASKING FOR IN THIS RECOMMENDATION.
SO I THINK THAT WE'RE HEARING THE PUBLIC, I KNOW THAT WE'VE HEARD COMMITMENTS FROM, UM, SUMMER AND LYNN AND THEIR TEAM TO, UM, TO DO THIS.
AND, AND NOW WE'VE MET, UM, BJ CARPENTER, AND HE, HE KNOWS THAT WE'RE INTERESTED IN, IN ALL KINDS OF REPORTING ABOUT, UH, WATER QUALITY AND AIR QUALITY AND UM, ET CETERA.
SO WITH THAT, UM, ALL IN FAVOR OF THE RECOMMENDATION, A OKAY.
THAT YOU ALL, ALL MEMBERS PRESENT.
KUHN VALDEZ, ER, BROCK, TODD, K ROSE, AND YOUNG.
UM, I SHOULD MENTION THAT THIS IS GOING TO CITY COUNCIL ON, UH, THURSDAY, I BELIEVE IT'S AGENDA ITEM 1 0 1, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO FOLLOW ALONG FROM HOME.
[10.Authorize a professional services agreement for engineering services for Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS) Environmental and Engineering Services, with CDM Smith, Inc., for a total contract amount not to exceed $5,000,000.]
ITEM NUMBER 10, AUTHORIZE A PROFESSIONAL, AUTHORIZE A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT FOR ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR AUSTIN BERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SERVICES WITH C D M SMITH FOR A TOTAL CONTRACT AMOUNT, NOT TO EXCEED 5 MILLION.UM, DO WE HAVE A MOTION? SO, MOVE, UH, COMMISSIONER ELLER.
DO WE HAVE A SECOND? COMMISSIONER YOUNG, UM, STAFF.
CAN WE WHO CAN SPEAK TO THIS ITEM PRESENT TODAY? CARRIE ELLIS HERE.
CARRIE'S OUR ACTING DIVISION MANAGER FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS TEAM.
WE'RE SAYING GOODBYE TO ONE COMMISSIONER.
COMMISSIONER ROSE IS OFF FOR TODAY OFF THE DIOCESE, AND COMMISSIONER MEDU IS NOW PRESENT.
WE ARE UP TO, DO YOU HAVE A, WE ARE UP TO AGENDA ITEM 10.
AND THIS IS FOR A $5 MILLION NOT TO EXCEED CONTRACT WITH C D M SMITH.
I'VE BEEN WITH THE AIRPORT SINCE 2011, UM, WORKED FOR KING CARPENTER AND AS Y'ALL DO, HE RETIRED RECENTLY AND I'M SERVING AS THE INTERIM ACTING MANAGER FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS DIVISION.
UH, SO WE HAVE THIS, UH, CONTRACT, UH, WITH C D M SMITH AS THE, UM, RECOMMENDED FIRM.
UH, THE POINT OF THE CONTRACT, ACTUALLY, THIS IS A GOOD TIME TO FOLLOW UP AS WE JUST TALKED ABOUT THE ORDINANCE.
UH, THIS CONTRACT SERVES TO PROVIDE THE AIRPORT WITH ENGINEERING AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTING SERVICES.
UH, THIS CONTRACT WILL HELP WITH THE EXPANSION AND OPERATIONS OF THE AIRPORT AND ENSURE THAT WE'RE MEETING OUR ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE, OUR ORDINANCE COMMITMENTS, UH, TO WATER QUALITY AND ALL THE OTHER, UH, COMMITMENTS THAT WE'VE MADE IN THE ORDINANCE.
UH, IT WILL ALSO HELP US, UH, WITH THE SUSTAINABILITY MASTER PLAN DEVELOPMENT IN REACHING OUR SUSTAINABILITY GOALS.
UH, SO THE MAJOR SCOPES OF WORK AND CALL, UH, INCLUDE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTING AND, UH, COMPLIANCE, CIVIL AND DRAINAGE ENGINEERING, PLANNING AND DESIGN, SUSTAINABILITY PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT, AND THEN ALSO ASSISTANCE WITH LOCAL, STATE AND FEDERAL PERMITTING.
UH, SOME OF THE TYPES OF PROJECTS THAT WE'VE DONE UNDER THE EXISTING CONTRACT.
AND THEN IN THIS NEW CONTRACT WILL CARRY FORWARD WITH SOME ADDITIONAL TYPES OF FOCUS AREAS INCLUDE, UH, NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT CLEARANCES, UH, STORM WATER MONITORING, UH, MANAGEMENT PLANS, PERMITTING, UH, AIR QUALITY STUDIES AND PROJECTS, AND, UH, PROPERTY DUE DILIGENCE STUDIES, UH, DRAINAGE
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ENGINEERING AND CIVIL DESIGN, LOCAL SITE DEVELOPMENT, PERMITTING, WATER QUALITY TYPE PROJECTS.AND THEN, AS I MENTIONED, A SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT PLAN.
UH, AND THEN HELPING US MEET OUR SUSTAINABILITY GOALS, UH, RELATED TO RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCE CONSERVATION, ENERGY, WATER, NATURAL GAS, FOR EXAMPLE, WASTE AVERSION CARBON MANAGEMENT, AND VEHICLE ELECTRIFICATION.
AND I THINK THAT, UM, HAD WE HAD THE FINANCE ONLINE CONTRACT NUMBER AVAILABLE, PERHAPS IT WOULD'VE BEEN EASIER TO RESEARCH ON THE AGENDA.
LIKE WHEN, WHEN WE HAVE THESE AGENDA ITEMS, THIS IS LIKE A BOOKKEEPING THING, BUT WE HAVEN'T, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
AND THAT IS A, I HOPE THAT COVERS IT.
HOW LONG OF A TERM IS THIS TILL YOU SPEND OUT, OR IS THIS FOR ONE YEAR OR TWO YEARS? YEAH, IT'S, UH, FOR 5 MILLION.
UM, AND I THINK, UH, IT'S FIVE YEARS WITH, UM, AN EXTENSION OF, SORRY, I CAN'T REMEMBER THE EXACT TIME.
UM, I THINK IT'S TWO EXTENSIONS OF ONE YEAR.
AND THIS IS THE CONTRACTOR THAT PREVIOUSLY HELD THIS CONTRACT.
THIS IS A, LIKE A RENEWAL OF A EXISTING CONTRACT.
IT, WE WENT OUT TO, UH, FOR A NEW R F Q, UH, AND IT IS THE EXISTING CONTRACTOR THAT WAS, UM, THE TOP CANDIDATE.
SO IT WAS EVALUATED, AND THEY HAVE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT TEAM, UH, AS THEIR SUB CONSULTANTS THIS TIME.
UH, BUT IT IS THE SAME, UH, PRIME FIRM.
AND I SEE THAT THE, UM, SMALL MINORITY BUSINESS GOALS ARE, HAVE BEEN BENCHMARKED AND MET.
SO WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND.
UM, ALL IN FAVOR OF THIS ITEM.
OH, DID YOU HAVE A QUESTION? NO.
IT'S RECOMMENDED BY KON VALDEZ, ER, BROCK, TODD FONG, YOUNG AND MEDU.
I THINK WE HAVE TWO BAGGAGE HANDLING ITEMS HERE.
[11.Authorize an amendment to a contract for a technical baggage handling system advisor for the AustinBergstrom International Airport Terminal Centralized Baggage Handling System Design Criteria Manual Reissue with AECOM Technical Services Inc., to increase the amount by $2,432,259 for a revised total contract amount not to exceed $5,966,845.]
UM, FOR THE AUTHOR TO AUTHORIZE AN AMENDMENT TO A CONTRACT FOR A TECHNICAL BAGGAGE HANDLING SYSTEM ADVISOR, UM, FOR THE AIRPORT, CENTRALIZED BAGGAGE HANDLING SYSTEM DESIGN CRITERIA MANUAL REISSUE WITH AECOM TECHNICAL SERVICES TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT BY 2,432,259 FOR A TOTAL REVISED CONTRACT AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $5,000,966 AND 88 8 840 $5.UM, COMMISSIONERS, WE, AT THE PREVIOUS MEETING, WE APPROVED SORT OF PARTS FOR THE OLD BAGGAGE CHANNELING SYSTEM.
THIS IS FOR A MANUAL REISSUE FOR THE NEW SYSTEM.
SO THIS, UM, REQUEST IS FOR OVERSIGHT.
UM, AECOM IS LISTED AS OUR SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT.
UM, THE BAGGAGE HANDLING PROJECT THAT IS UNDERWAY IS A DESIGN BUILD PROJECT.
AND AS PART OF STATE LAW, YOU NEED A, UM, AN OVERSIGHT TO THAT DESIGN BUILDER.
AND AECOM IS OUR SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT, AND THEY'RE THE ONES ON THAT.
UM, BECAUSE THE PROJECT IS INCREASING, UM, DUE TO OUR GROWTH AND WE'VE ADDED ADDITIONAL SCOPE, WE HAVE TO ADD A SERVICE TO COVER THEIR FEES.
DO WE HAVE A MOTION COMMISSIONER? YOUNG? DO WE HAVE A SECOND? ELLER.
UM, ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ON THIS CONTRACT? COMMISSIONER MEDU? SORRY, I HAD, I HAD ONE.
WHAT PERCENTAGE OF COMPLETION DOES THE CURRENT, UH, DOES THE NEW BAGGAGE SYSTEM HAVE? RIGHT NOW? THE PROJECT IS IN TWO PHASES, AND PHASE ONE WAS, IS ON SCHEDULE TO BE COMPLETE.
AND THAT PHASE ONE WILL, UM, ENSURE THAT WE CAN, UM, SHUT DOWN THE OLD PIECES AND TEAR THEM DOWN AND STILL BE ABLE TO FUNCTION.
AND SO THAT PHASE IS ON SCHEDULE.
I DON'T KNOW IF I HAVE A PERCENTAGE.
I CAN SEE IF I CAN GET THAT FOR YOU.
UH, WILL TERMINAL B HAVE ITS OWN SEPARATE DISTINCT BAGGAGE? OR YOU GONNA LINK THESE LIKE THEY DO AT DULLES? SO YOU HAVE TO LINK DIFFERENT BAGGAGE SYSTEMS. SO, UM, IF WHEN WE BUILD THE NEW, UM, FRONT OF THE HOUSE, RIGHT, AND YOU GO TO TICKETING, YOU TURN IN YOUR BAG, THAT BAG'S JOURNEY, IF YOU THINK OF IT THAT WAY, STARTS THERE AND GOES ALL THE WAY TO GET ON THE PLANE.
AND SO WHEN WE PICKED A LOCATION FOR THE NEW CENTRAL CENTRALIZED BAGGAGE SYSTEM, WE ENSURED THAT THERE'S GROWTH THERE SO THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO EXPAND AS THE AIRPORT EXPANDS, WE CAN PUSH OUT AND ADD MORE SECURITY LANES.
THERE IS, UM, YOU CAN CALL IT A HIGHWAY FOR BAGS.
IT'S A CONVEYOR BELT SYSTEM, UM, WHERE THE BAG'S JOURNEY WOULD
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GO FROM THOSE TICKET COUNTERS ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE EXISTING, UM, B J T THROUGH THE TUNNEL AND INTO THE NEW CONCOURSE, AND THEN GET ON A TUG AND GET ON YOUR PLANE.SO FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS, THIS MANUAL WILL BE VALID FOR BOTH? CORRECT? THIS SYSTEM WILL BE ABLE TO CONNECT TO ANY FUTURE SYSTEM.
I'M, I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THE SYSTEM, I'M TALKING ABOUT THE ITEM THAT WE'RE APPROVING AT THE MOMENT.
THEY'RE JUST PROVIDING THE OVERSIGHT ON THE EXISTING DE CENTRALIZATION OF OUR NEW BAGGAGE HANDLING SYSTEM.
WE HAVE, AND THE OPTIMIZATION TO GET US TO 30 MILLION ANNUAL PASSENGERS IS THAT THROUGHPUT IS WHAT, UM, THIS CONTRACT IS TASKED WITH.
SO I LAND AT B I GOTTA, I GOTTA WAIT.
COMMISSIONER, WE HAVE, WE HAVE A BIG AGENDA TO FINISH UP HERE.
BUT I WANT YOU TO BE ABLE TO STUDY THIS AND LYNN IS ACTUALLY ROHINI CAM'S HERE.
RO ARE YOU SPEAKING TO ANY OF THESE TODAY? OKAY.
SHE'S HERE TO HELP WITH ANY TECHNICAL QUESTIONS THAT I DON'T KNOW THE ANSWERS TO ABOUT, ABOUT THE BAGGAGE HANDLING SYSTEM.
UM, COMMISSIONER ER, I'D LIKE YOU TO, UM, WAIVE TO RAHINI MGI AND SHE WILL BE ABLE TO ANSWER ALL OF YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BAGGAGE HANDLING SYSTEM.
UM, DO WE, UM, DO WE HAVE, WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR THIS ITEM ALL IN.
ARE THERE ANY MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PARTICULARS OF THE AECOM CONTRACT? I DO HAVE ONE QUICK ONE.
UH, QUICKLY, UH, FOR THE SAKE OF TIME, I NOTICED WITH THIS, UH, CONTRACT, IT SATISFIES THE, THE FEDERAL REGULATION FOR 12.66 D B E, BUT THERE'S NO MENTION OF OUR, YOU KNOW, THE CITY OF AUSTIN, UH, D B E PROGRAM.
IS THERE A REASON FOR THAT? SO WHEN WE DECIDE TO USE GRANT MONEY ON A PROJECT, AND THIS PROJECT DOES HAVE GRANT MONEY FROM, UM, F A A, WE HAVE TO USE THE D B E GOALS AND NOT THE W M B E GOALS, BUT THE S M B R OFFICE IS THE ONE THAT CREATES THOSE D B E GOALS, UH, IN COLLABORATION WITH US.
AND SO THIS PROJECT, 'CAUSE IT'S FEDERALLY HELP, SOME OF THE DOLLARS ARE FEDERALLY FUNDED.
AGAIN, UM, THE YOUNG FONG, TODD B ROCK, ELLER, VALEZ KON.
UM, COMMISSIONER ELLER, WE'VE BEEN ASKING A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS BAGGAGE CHANNELING SYSTEM FOR A WHILE NOW, AND HOW IT WILL RELATE TO THE, UM, EXPANSION AND, AND I GUESS MORE WILL BE, UM, REVEALED.
[12.Authorize an amendment to a contract for the Existing Terminal Centralized Baggage Handling 3 System Upgrades Project with The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company, to increase the amount by $83,808,109 for a total revised contract amount not to exceed $256,863,723.]
TO AUTHORIZE AN AMENDMENT TO A CONTRACT FOR THE EXISTING TERMINAL CENTRALIZED BAGGAGE HANDLING SYSTEM UPGRADES PROJECT WITH WHITING TURNER CONTRACTING COMPANY TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT BY 83,000,808, UM, THOUSAND 109 FOR A TOTAL REVISED CONTRACT AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 256 MILLION MILLION 863,723.UM, DO I HAVE A MOTION? NO APPROVAL.
DO I HAVE A SECOND? COMMISSIONER FONG FONG.
UM, COMMISSIONERS, ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS, UM, UPGRADE, UH, STAFF? IS THERE ANYTHING YOU NEED TO TELL US ABOUT THIS, UM, INCREASE AMOUNT? OH, THERE IS A QUESTION FROM COMMISSIONER KUHN.
YEAH, IT'S A, IT'S A SIMPLE ONE.
I, I THINK IF I UNDERSTAND THIS CORRECTLY, WE'RE INCREASING THE CAPACITY BY ROUGHLY 50% AND THEN INCREASING THE COST BY ROUGHLY THE SAME PERCENT.
IS THAT PRETTY CLOSE TO ACCURATE? I HAVEN'T CALCULATED IT THAT WAY.
UM, THIS IS A DESIGN BUILD CONTRACT AGAIN.
SO IT COVERS BOTH THOSE SERVICES.
WE ARE INCREASING THE SQUARE FOOTAGE OF THE FACILITY.
UM, WE'RE ALSO INCREASING SCREENING LANES, UM, INCLUDING, UH, BAGGAGE SCREENING LANES.
SO, UH, WE WILL HAVE, UM, A MUCH ENHANCED, UM, PASSENGER JOURNEY AND, UM, HOPEFULLY A QUICKER JOURNEY.
UH, COMMISSIONERS, UM, COMMISSIONERS, ALL IN FAVOR OF THIS REQUEST AGAIN, UNANIMOUS, UM, STAFF, SHOULD I READ THE NAMES OR ARE YOU OKAY RECORDING THEM WITHOUT OUR, ME CALLING THEM OUT? OKAY, I'LL JUST DO IT ONE MORE TIME.
VALEZ, ER, BROCK, TODD BONK YOUNG, ME AND KON.
[13.Approve a resolution finding that the use of the design-build method of contracting, as authorized by Subchapter G, Chapter 2269 of the Texas Government Code, is the project delivery method that provides the best value to the City for the following three Airport Expansion Development Program projects: AUS Central Utility Plant Relocation, West Garage – Lot B, Concourse B- Phase 1, and Tunnel System.]
13.I APOLOGIZE FOR NOT LOOKING MORE CLOSELY AT THE BACKUP OF THESE LAST AGENDA ITEMS. I WAS STUDYING THE AGENDA VERY CLOSELY IN THE BEGINNING AND I DID NOT REALLY GET TO THE VERY END.
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SO, UM, ITEM NUMBER 13 IS TO APPROVE A RESOLUTION FINDING.THE USE OF DESIGN BUILD METHOD OF CONTRACTING IS AUTHORIZED BY SUB CHAPTER G, CHAPTER 2, 2 69 OF THE TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE IS THE PROJECT DELIVERY METHOD THAT PROVIDES THE BEST VALUE TO THE CITY FOR THE FOLLOWING THREE AIRPORT EXPANSION DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM PROJECTS.
ONE IS THE OS, THE A U S CENTRAL UTILITY PLANT RELOCATION.
THE SECOND IS THE WEST GARAGE LOT, B CONCOURSE, B PHASE ONE, AND THE TUNNEL SYSTEM.
UM, DO I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE COMMISSIONER YOUNG? DO I HAVE A SECOND? SECOND.
COMMISSIONER BRA, UH, VICE CHAIR BROCK.
UM, WE ARE ESSENTIALLY, UH, SELECTING OR APPROVING THE STAFF RECOMMENDATION OF THE, THE TYPE OF CONTRACTING.
UM, I DON'T KNOW IN PARTICULAR WHAT EXACTLY IS THE WEST GARAGE LOT B CONCOURSE, B PHASE ONE AT THIS TIME.
UM, CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT? YES.
UM, IN ORDER TO BUILD THE NEW FRONT DOOR OF THE AIRPORT, WE HAVE TO TAKE DOWN WHAT WE CALL THE RED GARAGE, WHICH IS THE GARAGE THAT IS CLOSEST TO THE EXISTING TERMINAL.
BUT IN ORDER TO TEAR DOWN THAT GARAGE, WE'VE GOTTA REPLACE THE ANOTHER GARAGE WITHIN.
SO THAT'S WHAT THAT GARAGE PROJECT, IT'S FOUR, AND WE'RE LOOKING AT PUTTING IT BEHIND THE EXISTING BLUE GARAGE CURRENTLY.
SO IN THE, IN THE ECONOMY PARKING LOT BEHIND THE CONRAD, UM, THE ECONOMY'S A LITTLE FURTHER BACK, BUT YES, IN THAT LOT B I THINK IS WHAT IT'S CALLED NOW.
UM, COMMISSIONER KUHN, I'M SORRY, I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS.
UM, I JUST WANTED TO ASK, AND I KNOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE DESIGN BUILD, UH, AND NOT THIS PARTICULAR QUESTION, BUT ON THE CENTRAL UTILITY PLANT IT SAYS IT'S DESIGNED TO HANDLE 27 MILLION PASSENGERS, BUT WHY ISN'T IT DESIGNED FOR MORE GROWTH THAN, THAN THAT? MAYBE THAT'S A LONGER QUESTION.
WE COULD JUST TABLE IT, BUT IT IT'S INTERESTING THAT WE'RE, WHATEVER THE METHOD IS, IT'S LIKE, WHY IS IT ONLY DESIGNED TO HANDLE 27 MILLION PASSENGERS WHEN WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA BE THERE WITHIN PROBABLY JUST ANOTHER TWO OR THREE YEARS.
WE ARE LOOKING AT ENSURING THAT IT, UM, DOES ALL OF CONCOURSE B AND THEN POTENTIALLY CONCOURSE HAS ROOM FOR CONCOURSE C.
IS THAT GONNA BE CORRECTED AT COMMISSIONER YOUNG? SO THE NEW GARAGE, WOULD THAT HAVE MORE SPACE? WE'RE LOOKING AT, UM, ANALYZING ALL OF OUR PARKING NEEDS TO ENSURE THAT WE NOT ONLY REPLACE WHAT WE'RE TEARING DOWN, BUT PROVIDING SOME ADDITIONAL PARKING.
SO WE HAVEN'T DECIDED YET, IS IT HOW MANY FLOORS OR SPOTS IT IS, BUT WE ARE LOOKING AT THAT.
UM, AND AS MANY PEOPLE KNOW, PARKING IS A, IS A LOT OF HOW WE GET OUR REVENUE, SO IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO US.
AND SO WE'RE LOOKING AT IT CLOSELY.
SO WE HAVE A MOTION, WE HAVE A SECOND.
UM, THERE'S AN ERROR IN THE LANGUAGE AND THERE'S A PROJECT THAT WE HAVEN'T SEEN OR REALLY HEARD ABOUT BEFORE.
UM, BUT WE'RE JUST APPROVING THE STYLE OF CONTRACTING.
SO, UM, I WOULD LIKE TO, WELL, UH, LET'S VOTE ON THIS TODAY.
ALL IN FAVOR OF THIS PARTICULAR, UM, ITEM, THIS DESIGN BUILD METHOD.
AND, UM, I WILL SAVE AN I A QUESTION FOR FUTURE ADD AGENDA ITEMS. AND WE HAVE ONE MORE, UM,
[14.Approve a resolution declaring the City of Austin’s official intent to reimburse itself from revenue bonds in an amount not to exceed $544,788,638 for Austin-Bergstrom International Airport capital improvements.]
ACTION ITEM TODAY, WHICH IS TO APPROVE A RESOLUTION DECLARING THE CITY OF AUSTIN'S OFFICIAL INTENT TO REIMBURSE ITSELF FROM REVENUE BONDS IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 544,788,638 FOR AUSTIN BERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS.DO I HAVE A MOTION? UH, VICE CHAIR.
BROCK, DO I HAVE A SECOND? COMMISSIONER, MADDO COMMISSIONERS, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS ITEM? I HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS ITEM BECAUSE I DON'T DO, UM, WE'RE AN ADVISORY BODY AND WE DON'T DO, UH, FINANCE DAY TO DAY AT THIS LEVEL.
AND, UM, WE'RE NOT SUBJECT AREA EXPERTS ON THIS.
IS DOES THIS MEAN THAT THERE ARE, IS CURRENTLY WHAT, WHAT WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? ARE ARE, DOES, IS THIS A THIS IS NOT A REFINANCE.
AND I SHOULD JUST SAY THAT I DID READ THE BACKUP AND I UNDERSTAND THAT IN 2026, IT'S 16 MIL, IT'S 16 MILLION, 20, 20 SEVENS, 44 MILLION, 2028 IS ANOTHER $44 MILLION.
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UM, IS THIS, EXPLAIN TO US WHAT THIS MEANS.YEAH, SO THIS IS A REIMBURSEMENT RE RESOLUTION SINCE WE GO FOR TAX EXEMPT BONDS.
UM, WHAT IT IS, IS, UM, WE PAY FOR SOME PROJECTS USING OUR CASH.
WE JUST WANTED TO BE ABLE TO REIMBURSE OURSELVES WHEN WE GO OUT FOR FUTURE BONDS WITH IT.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, YOU MAY NOT BE AT A CONSTRUCTION PHASE ON A PROJECT, AND WE WANT TO FINANCE THE DESIGN OR THE, THE PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING REPORT RELATED TO THAT PROJECT.
WE WOULD CASH FUND IT, WE WOULD GO OUT FOR BONDS LATER ON, AND THEN WE WILL REIMBURSE OURSELVES WITH IT.
THAT'S JUST THE ABILITY TO DO THAT.
SO YOU'RE, SO THIS ITEM IS SAYING THAT IN THERE'S, IN 2024, NOTHING'S GONNA HAPPEN, BUT IN 2025 YOU WOULD LIKE THE, EXCUSE ME, IN 2024, THAT IS NEXT 2026 RATHER 14 MILLION, YOU WILL REIMBURSE YOURSELF FROM A PREVIOUS BOND ISSUE FOR 14 MILLION? NO, NO FUTURE BOND ISSUE.
WE'RE NOT, WE CAN'T GO BACK AND REIMBURSE OURSELVES FROM PREVIOUS BOND ISSUES.
SO THIS IS FROM FUTURE BOND ISSUANCES THAT WE WOULD, I UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS LIKE A NORMAL LANGUAGE, BUT, BUT FOR THE PURPOSES OF, UM, MY KNOWLEDGE AND MY COMFORT WITH THIS ITEM, I WANNA UNDERSTAND THAT.
SO WE SHOULD EXPECT BONDS GOING OUT IN 2020, NOT NOTHING UNTIL 2026.
SO YOU HAVEN'T BEEN NO, NO, NO.
THERE'S NOTHING RELATED TO 2026.
I DON'T KNOW WHERE THAT THAT NUMBER IS COMING FROM.
I MEAN, THE YEAR IS COMING FROM, UM, THERE WAS A FISCAL NOTE ATTACHED TO THE CITY COUNCIL, UM, AGENDA.
BUT THE, THE FISCAL NOTE IS REALLY RELATED TO APPROPRIATION THAT WE MIGHT FUND IN 2024 AND THROUGH 2026.
SO, OR PROJECTS THAT MIGHT TAKE PLACE THROUGH 2026.
THIS MAY BE AN ITEM THAT WE NEED TO, UM, LEARN ABOUT.
AND I'LL, I'LL, UM, MAYBE ASK IF THERE ARE OTHER COMMISSIONERS WHO ARE INTERESTED IN UNDERSTANDING THIS BECAUSE I SUSPECT THAT THERE ARE GONNA BE OTHER BIG NUMBER ITEMS COMING FORWARD AND UM, I KNOW THIS IS A MATTER OF PROTOCOL, THIS IS HOW IT'S DONE AT THE CITY.
UM, COMMISSIONER YOUNG AND COMMISSIONER FOND, DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION? ONE QUICK QUESTION.
IN THE EVENT THE BONDS DOES, DOES NOT GET ALL PAID OUT WHAT HAPPENS? NO, WE ARE, WE ARE NOT PAYING OUT THE BONDS.
WE ARE, IT, IT'S JUST A MECHANISM FOR US TO PAY OR REPLENISH OUR CASH BACK WITH FUTURE BOND ISSUANCES, IF THAT MAKES SENSE.
SO IT'S, YOU KNOW, LET'S SAY WE PAY FOR A PROJECT $50 MILLION OUT OF MY CASH ACCOUNT.
SO IF I ISSUE THE BONDS IN 2024 FOR LET'S SAY $300 MILLION, I GET TO REPLENISH MY CASH ACCOUNT WITH PROCEEDS FROM THAT BOND, THE 50 MILLION.
IT IS JUST AN ABILITY TO DO THAT.
AND THE REASON WHY IT IS SET UP THIS WAY IS BECAUSE, BECAUSE THESE ARE TAX EXEMPT BONDS, I R S DOESN'T DOES, OR, UH, FEDERAL REGULATIONS DOES NOT WANT YOU TO ISSUE BONDS AND CREATE AN ARBITRAGE THAT IS USING TAX EXEMPT BONDS, YOU KNOW, SITTING ON THE MONEY AND EARNING HIGHER INTEREST RATES ON IT.
AND THEN IT'S, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE MAKING A LITTLE BIT OF INTEREST INCOME OFF OF IT.
SO THESE ARE JUST RULES THAT PREVENTS PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES FROM DOING THAT.
SO THERE'S NO CHANCE OF YOU BEING SHORTCHANGE? NO.
IS THERE A PLAN FOR FUTURE BOND YET? OH YEAH.
I MEAN, MULTIPLE ISSUANCES IN THE FUTURE.
BUT YOU KNOW, WHEN WE ISSUED THE 2022 BONDS, WE DID THAT FOR B J T OPTIMIZATION PROJECTS LIKE THE THREE GATE EXPANSION, THE WEST INFIELD, THE B H SS, SO THOSE ARE FULLY FUNDED PROJECTS FROM 2022.
SO WE STILL HAVE CASH PROCEEDS FROM THOSE THAT BOND ISSUANCES, UHHUH.
BUT THESE ARE PROJECTS THAT WE WOULD START IN, LET'S SAY IN 24, 20 24 FOR CONCOURSE B.
LET'S SAY WE WERE TO SPEND A FEW TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ON DESIGN ON CONCOURSE B RATHER THAN ISSUING THE BONDS.
RIGHT NOW, IF I CAN PAY FOR THAT WITH CASH UPFRONT MM-HMM.
SO THE SIZE OF THE FUTURE BOND WILL BE DECIDED BY THE, IT'LL, IT'LL BE DECIDED BY THE, THE, THE SPENDING PLANS IN THE FUTURE.
WE WOULD LOOK AT THE NEXT THREE YEARS.
UM, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT DI'S RULES ALLOWS YOU TO JUST TO SPEND IT WITHIN THE THREE YEARS, 85% OF THE, THE BOND ISSUANCE PROCEEDS AS WE SPEND WITHIN THE THREE YEARS MM-HMM.
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AT THAT SPEND PLAN ON A THREE YEAR BASIS AND SEE HOW MUCH WE NEED TO ISSUE.SO THE SIZING OF THE BONDS IS GONNA BE A DIFFERENT EXERCISE TO THIS, BUT THIS IS JUST TO COVER OURSELVES SO THAT, YOU KNOW, ONCE I OUTLAY THE CASH, I'M NOT OUT THAT CASH COMPLETELY, I CAN REIMBURSE MYSELF FROM THE BOND PROCEEDS.
I GUESS FOR OUR PURPOSES IT WOULD'VE BEEN MORE HELP, I GUESS.
WELL, DOES IT HAVE THE, LIKE THE PREVIOUS RESOLUTION MENTIONED WHAT YOU NEEDED THE DESIGN BILL FOR? THIS DOESN'T REALLY MENTION WHICH PROJECTS AND AS A BOARD YEAH, I MEAN IT IS MULTIPLE PROJECTS.
IT'S LIKE 30 DIFFERENT PROJECTS.
SO WE LOOK AT OUR SPEND PLAN, HUH.
AS A BOARD, WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IT'S NOT JUST MONEY FLOW FLOWING.
I THINK THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHERE, AT WHAT SORT OF PROJECTS WE UNDERSTAND THERE WOULD BE TAX EXEMPT BONDS.
SO THERE'LL BE FOR, TO, FOR THE AIRPORT, BUT WHAT SORTS OF PROJECTS THAT THEY ARE.
I THINK IF YOU COULD HELP US IN THE MOVING FORWARD IN THE FUTURE WITH A LITTLE MORE DESCRIPTION FOR SOMEONE THAT DOESN'T DO THIS ALL THE TIME.
YEAH, I CAN SEND YOU THE LIST OF THE PROJECTS AND THE AMOUNTS THAT WE HAVE IN THAT 544.
IF YOU, UH, COMMISSIONER MEDO, UH, THE MADAM CHAIRMAN, ONE OF THE THINGS I WOULD ASK IS I THINK WE NEED A PLAN OF PRESENT HOW YOU'RE, WE'RE GONNA GO TO THE COUNCIL WITH THE WHAT YOU, YOU KNOW, THE PLAN FOR THE MONEY.
'CAUSE IF WE HERE AT THIS LEVEL ARE NOT QUITE UNDERSTANDING WHAT'S HAPPENING, I, I, I UNDERSTAND IT AND I AGREE WITH IT MM-HMM.
AND I THINK IT'D BE WISE FOR US TO APPROACH THE ISSUE EARLIER AND MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY'S HAPPY.
I MEAN, I MEAN THERE WE ARE NOT THE ONLY DEPARTMENT GOING TO THE COUNCIL WITH THE REIMBURSEMENT RESOLUTION.
I THINK AUSTIN ENERGY AND AUSTIN WATER ARE ALSO GOING WITH THEIR OWN REIMBURSEMENT RESOLUTIONS ON THIS.
SO WE ARE JUST GOING AT THE SAME TIME WITH THEM.
SO WE HAVE, WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND.
ALL IN FAVOR OF THIS, UH, REIMBURSEMENT, UH, BOND ISSUE.
ABOUT THE ITEM 11 BACK, THE AECOM OVERSIGHT OVERSEEING THE BAGGAGE LY.
SO IT SEEMS LIKE THERE WAS INCREASE, RIGHT? DUE TO THE EXPANSION.
WAS THERE A BIDDING AND WINNING PROCESS FOR THIS INCREASE OR IT'S AUTOMATICALLY GIVEN TO THE EXISTING CONTRACT? HOW DOES THAT PROCESS GO? SO WHEN WE ISSUE, UM, A SOLICITATION, UM, IT'S FOR A SPECIFIC SCOPE.
AND BECAUSE THEY ARE THE SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS FOR THIS SPECIFIC, UM, BAGGAGE HANDLING SYSTEM, IT WE'RE ASKING FOR MORE AUTHORITY TO ALLOW THEM TO STAY WITHIN THAT SCOPE.
BUT THE NUMBER OF THINGS WITHIN THAT SCOPE HAS GROWN.
SO, FOR EXAMPLE, THE NUMBER OF SCREENING MACHINES HAS GROWN.
AND SO THEREFORE TO PROVIDE THEIR OVERSIGHT TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE SCREENING MACHINES ARE LAID OUT AND MET TO T SS A STANDARDS, WE HAVE TO INCREASE THEIR AUTHORITY TO DO THAT, IF THAT MAKES ANY SENSE.
SO COULD ANY WINNING, UM, VENDOR, UH, WANT THE PROJECT AND THEN KEEP EXPANDING? THERE IS A LIMIT IN STATE LAW AND IT'S 25%.
UM, WE ARE UP TO DISCUSSION ITEMS. NUMBER 15,
[15.Review City Council action at the August 31, 2023 meeting – [Item 94] Set a public hearing to consider an ordinance adopting an updated Austin-Bergstrom International Airport Master Development Plan. (Suggested date: September 14, 2023, at Austin City Hall, 301 W. Second Street, Austin, Texas). Approved on consent.]
UM, THE CITY COUNCIL ACTION ON AUGUST 31ST, UH, AT THEIR MEETING, ITEM 94 WAS THEY SET A PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE AUSTIN BERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MASTER DEVELOPMENT PLAN ORDINANCE, WHICH WE, UM, SO THEY SET THE HEARING, THE HEARING'S GONNA HAPPEN TOMORROW.UH, IT'S AGENDA ITEM 1 0 1 ON THE CITY AGENDA TOMORROW.
UM, ARE THERE ANY OTHER ITEMS OF STAFF THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH US AT THIS TIME? OKAY, SO, UM, WORKING GROUP UPDATES, UM,
[16.Update from the Acceleration Working Group]
COMMISSIONER KUHN, ANY UPDATE FROM THE ACCELERATION WORKING GROUP YOU'D LIKE TO SHARE WITH US.AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK ON THE RECOMMENDATION FOR THE MASTER DEVELOPMENT PLAN ORDINANCE FROM YOU AND, UM, SECRETARY ROSE.
UH, YEAH, I COULD PROVIDE AN UPDATE, MAKE IT REALLY QUICK.
UM, WE, WE MET AS A WORKING GROUP.
UM, A COUPLE THINGS THAT WE, WE DIDN'T PASS, LIKE OFFICIAL RESOLUTIONS WERE JUST A WORKING GROUP, UH, BUT WE AGREED AS A GROUP THAT WE WANT TO BE VIEWED BY THE TEAM AT THE AIRPORT AS A RESOURCE.
UM, AND ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS ON THE LIST WAS, UM, YOU UNDERSTAND THERE'S THREE ITEMS.
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I THINK IT'S ON THE COUNCIL AGENDA FOR SEPTEMBER 21ST.COMMISSIONER ROSE COULD MAYBE CORRECT ME ON THAT.
I THINK THERE'S THREE IMPORTANT ITEMS ON THERE.
WE'RE JUST WONDERING IS THERE ANYTHING THAT WE CAN DO TO HELP, UH, WITH THAT? AND, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, HOW IMPORTANT IS IT THAT THE COUNCIL VOTE, UH, FAVORABLY ON THOSE THREE ITEMS? SORT OF LEAVE THAT OUT THERE AS A QUESTION FIRST.
WELL, I'LL ANSWER IN GE I'LL ANSWER IN GENERAL, THIS IS TRACY THOMPSON.
I'LL ANSWER IN GENERAL REGARDING THE, UM, ITEMS ON COUNCIL, ONE OF WHICH IS THE MASTER DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE.
UM, I THINK WE HAVE IT WELL IN HAND.
I, YOU KNOW, APPRECIATE THE ASSISTANCE.
WHAT I HEAR YOU SAYING, COMMISSIONER KUHN, AND MAYBE WHAT WE'LL DO IN THE FUTURE IS RATHER THAN THE DAY BEFORE THE MEETING, WE CAN SIT DOWN WITH WHOEVER YOU WOULD LIKE TO DELEGATE AND GO OVER COUNSEL ITEMS. AND IF WE HAVE ANY ISSUES, YOU KNOW, REACH OUT IT, WOULD THAT BE SOMETHING THAT WORKS OUT WELL? YEAH, THAT SOUNDS GREAT.
AND IT'S PROBABLY OBVIOUSLY MORE THAN JUST OUR LITTLE, UH, WORKING GROUP.
UM, THE, THE SECOND QUESTION WE HAD, WHICH IS KIND OF BROAD, WAS, YOU KNOW, I SAW THE, YOU KNOW, WE'VE SEEN THE MATERIALS WHEN CONSTRUCTION'S EXPECTED TO START, BUT AS THE SORT OF ACCELERATION WORKING GROUP, WE REALIZE WHEN WE LOOK AROUND AND MAYBE WE JUST AREN'T PAYING ATTENTION, IT'S NOT CLEAR TO US WHAT THE, THE GOAL DATE IS.
MEANING LIKE, DO WE HAVE A DATE WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS BY WHICH WE BELIEVE WE WILL BE BOARDING OUR FIRST PASSENGERS AT THE NEW CONCOURSE? LIKE IS THERE A GOAL DATE THAT WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS AND DO WE JUST, WE JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS.
RIGHT NOW WE'RE WORKING ON A GOAL TO MEET A CERTAIN PASSENGER DEMAND AND NOT A YEAR.
AND SO IT'S BASED ON A FORECAST.
AND THAT FORECAST IS BASED ON WHAT THE AIRLINES, UM, ARE TELLING US THEY'RE GONNA FLY.
AND SO WE'RE AGREEING TO, UM, HIT A SPECIFIC PASSENGER LEVEL DEMAND MANNED.
IT MAY COME SOONER, BUT THAT'S THE GOAL THAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACHIEVE.
WE, IF MAYBE IT'D BE GREAT IF WE COULD MEET OFFLINE.
IT SEEMS LIKE WE ALREADY NEED THE FIRST 10 GATES.
BECAUSE WE'RE, WE'RE, THE CURRENT AIRPORT WAS DESIGNED TO HANDLE 15 MILLION PASSENGERS AND I THINK WE DID LIKE 22 LAST YEAR.
AND WE'RE GONNA DO MORE THAN THAT THIS YEAR.
IS THERE, ARE WE GONNA HIT LIKE 23 OR 24? LIKE WE'RE ALREADY 30% PLUS OVER THE DESIGNED CAPACITY AND THE FIRST 10 GATES WOULD ONLY INCREASE OUR CAPACITY BY A LITTLE OVER 30%.
COMMISSIONER KON, I HAVE A SUGGESTION THAT, UM, YEAH, THAT, THAT THE ACCELERATION WORKING GROUP, PUT THE QUESTIONS IN WRITING, SEND IT TO STAFF AND COME BACK AT THE, WE ARE IN SEPTEMBER AT THE OCTOBER MEETING WITH THE ANSWERS YOU CAN TELL US AND WHAT YOU'VE LEARNED.
BUT WHAT IS THE THIRD QUESTION? I'M JUST CURIOUS.
WHAT'S THE THIRD QUESTION? NO, THAT WAS IT
I WAS JUST THE, THERE WERE THREE THINGS ON THE AGENDA.
THIS WAS JUST, THAT WAS THE OVERALL QUESTION WAS JUST LIKE, DO WE HAVE A DATE UHHUH, UH, WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS, UM, 'CAUSE WE GET ASKED, RIGHT? I THINK ALL OF US AS YES, UH, PARTICIPANTS IN THIS, WE GET ASKED LIKE WHEN, WHEN DO WE THINK WE'RE GONNA BE, YOU KNOW, BOARDING OUR FIRST PASSENGERS IN THE NEW CONCOURSE? AND IT'S UNCLEAR HOW TO ANSWER THAT.
UM, ALRIGHT, WELL THAT'S A GOOD POINT AND I'M GONNA MOVE ON TO THE FUTURE
[FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS]
AGENDA ITEMS. I HAVE UH, A COUPLE HERE.ONE, ONE IS A REQUEST THAT STAFF PLEASE PROVIDE ALL CITY COUNCIL, UM, AGENDA ITEMS TO US IN ONCE POSTED.
SO THE SEPTEMBER 21ST MEETING IS POSTED.
IF YOU COULD SHARE AN EMAIL WITH ALL THE COMMISSIONERS WITH THOSE AGENDA ITEMS, THE NUMBERS AND THE LINKS TO THOSE, THAT'D BE GREAT AND HELPFUL FOR US FOR THE OCTOBER MEETING.
UM, I HAVE, I THINK WE'VE ALL BEEN FIELDING A LOT OF QUESTIONS, EMAILS, CALLS ABOUT AIR TRAFFIC SAFETY AND UM, I KNOW THAT THE AIRPORT ITSELF AS AN ENTITY IS NOT THE, YOU KNOW, TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD AND IT'S NOT THE F A A, BUT THEY ARE YOUR PARTNERS AND WE ARE STAKEHOLDERS AND UM, IF WE COULD GET A REPORT ABOUT, UH, AIR TRAFFIC SAFETY CAPACITY STAFFING, SUPER HELPFUL.
UM, THE THIRD QUESTION, I MEAN A THIRD ITEM DOWN THE ROAD, I THINK BASED ON AGENDA ITEM 14 TODAY, I THINK, WE'LL WE PROBABLY WOULD LIKE SOME SORT OF FINANCIAL FORECAST THAT COULD BE DONE THROUGH THE ACCELERATION WORKING GROUP OR ANOTHER WORKING GROUP THAT WANTS TO STUDY THE, THE NUMBERS WITH YOU AND UNDERSTAND BETTER WHERE WE'RE HEADING.
SO THE UM, COMMISSION CAN COME AND I DON'T HAVE TO ASK A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH THE REIMBURSEMENT BOND OR WHAT,
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YOU KNOW, WHAT LEVEL DEBT WE HAVE AND WHAT I UNDERSTAND THAT WE HAVE ALL THE DEBT IS AT FIXED RATE RIGHT NOW AND UM, BUT IT USED TO BE VARIABLE RATE.IS THAT CORRECT? VARIABLE? YEAH, THAT WAS TAKEN OUT AND, AND CHANGED TO A FIXED RATE, BUT OKAY.
UM, SO JUST SOME, A LITTLE UPDATE ON THAT.
AND THEN COMMISSIONERS, UH, DO WE HAVE OTHER ITEMS THAT WE WOULD LIKE FOR ON THE AGENDA MOVING FORWARD? COMMISSIONER BROCK? SURE.
UM, JUST BASED ON, ON THE SORT OF COURSE OF MY QUESTIONS, HIS, UH, TODAY SO FAR IT WOULD BE, IT WOULD BE GREAT TO SEE JUST A SIMPLE PIE CHART OF SORT OF COMMITTED CONTRACT DOLLARS TO PRIMES AGAINST EITHER M B E OR UH, D B E UNDER THE, THE FEDERAL REGS.
I SAY THAT BECAUSE I THINK WE, WE PASSED THREE TODAY, UH, TWO OF WHICH FOR THE SUM TOTAL OF ROUGHLY $11 MILLION HAD REALLY HIGH RATIOS.
AND THEN WE PASSED THE LAST ONE THAT WAS THE, YOU KNOW, THE RECOMMENDATION FOR THE LAST ONE OF CLOSELY A QUARTER BILLION DOLLARS THAT HAD ROUGHLY 5% OR ALMOST HALF OF THE, YOU KNOW, 6 MILLION, $6 MILLION ONE THAT WE PASSED.
COMMISSIONER FONG AND ON THE RELATED NOTES THAT I MENTIONED EARLIER ABOUT HOW MBS ARE INVOLVED AS A SUB, UM, AND WHAT OBSTACLES THEY'RE FACING FOR BOTH PRIME MEN AND SUB, UM, I MAY SUGGEST THAT WE HAVE SOME OTHER WORKING GROUPS.
UM, MAYBE A, UH, SMALL MINORITY BUSINESS, WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESS, WHATEVER THE, THE SORT OF FEDERAL AND LOCAL TITLES ARE WORKING GROUP.
I THINK FANG FANG AND UM, BAKARI, I THINK THAT YOU WOULD HAVE A LOT OF KNOWLEDGE TO SHARE WITH US.
I DON'T THINK WE NEED A WORKING GROUP FOR YOU TWO TO MEET AND COME FORWARD WITH SOME AGENDA ITEMS OR SOME REPORTS.
SO THAT WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL TO ME.
UM, COMMISSIONERS, ANYTHING ELSE? AL YOUNG? WELL DOES KUHN OKAY, WELL SEEING NONE, THANK YOU ALL.
[NEXT REGULAR MEETING]
SCHEDULED MEETING WILL BE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11TH, 10 11, 20 23.UM, THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE TODAY AND UM, LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU NEXT TIME.
UM, IS THERE ANY OBJECTION? THIS MEETING IS ADJOURNED.