Economic impact report from the year 2000.*
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Letters of support
After presenting the letter of support from Noble Popcorn, Mr. Lines reminded the council that the Sac Sun recently published a story highlighting a customer's use of the airport.
What a coincidence.
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At this point a hand written document was presented which on the surface seemed to document aviation gas sales. I say on the surface, because the figures on it are apparently somewhat speculative and seemed to be discredited my Milo Lines himself directly during the presentation. As a result, the city council was left with no clear idea of how much fuel was sold, or how much money the airport made from it.
Mr. Lines did admit that the fuel that is sold goes to pay back the city for a fuel tank that was put in, but that he didn't know how much more was owed.
Apparently, on the assumption that the above document is in the ballpark, the following conversation did ensue:
In all cases where the speaker stammered, I replaced is with “…”
In all cases where I was not able to make out the video, I replaced the words with [UNINTELLIGIBLE]
In all cases where a speaker was cut off I inserted a “-“
Everything inside brackets, “[]” is inserted by the editor.
Adam Ledford: Milo, if you don't mind, ...do you have any type of comment about the fluctuation? I notice that it seems to go up and down and up and down. I was wondering if there was some kind of specific impact that causes that type of fluctuation.
Milo Lines: This, I don't know. ...You can see it growing each time, and then all of a sudden it went back in 2006. ...Julie [HOWES, MANAGER OF THE AIRPORT,] could [UNINTELLIGLIBLE] I imagine.
Brian Muska: I believe the bulk of it, Milo, is probably because of the crop planes that were coming in at one time were utilizing the avgas, but now they went to jets using jet fuel and we do not have jet fuel out there. Is that a fair statement?
Julie Howes: That's right, yep.
Mr. Lines pointed out that the airport keeps records of airport use that are turned over to the city, but that those records are not very accurate because the manager is unable to be there at all times.
Mr. Lines reminded the council and those gathered that the city pays 2.5% of all FAA mandated projects and that the airport pays 2.5%.
QUESTIONS:
Q Does the county put in money into the airport?
A Yes, $6,000 per year.
Q Are there adequate precautions for the chemicals that the spray planes use?
A Yes. So far there have been no problems, and they are monitored by state inspectors.
Q Is an Airport Commission report sent to the city every month?
A Yes, the minutes are sent every month.
Related to the report question; the council further requested that a usage report and the manager's report be included with the minutes.
Q Does the city pay $15,000 for Julie Howe’s salary?
A Yes.
Q Does the city take care of the snow removal at the airport?
A Yes.
Q What other things does the city do for the airport?
A The city takes care of the airport’s capitol fund up to $2,000
A Gives them a $9,000 allotment for operating costs.
Q What does the airport do for the city?
A They allow the city to house the bucket truck there.
Q Are the hangers all full right now? (March 8, 2010)
A Yes.
Q How much do you charge for hanger rent?
A About $500 per year.
This following conversation took place in an attempt to find out what the markup on a gallon of aviation fuel or "avgas" is.
In all cases where the speaker stammered, I replaced it with “…”
In all cases where I was not able to make out the video, I replaced the words with [UNINTELLIGIBLE]
In all cases where a speaker was cut off I inserted a “-“
Everything inside brackets, “[]” is inserted by the editor.
Nick Frohardt: You don't know what the city makes off the gas per gallon out here?
Milo Lines: Yeah ...I think maybe...
Nick Frohardt: Roughly...
Milo Lines: The city makes the money, we don’t.
Nick Frohardt: I know, that's what I'm getting at.
Milo Lines: I don’t think we've got that, Julie, do we?
Julie Howes: No.
Adam Ledford: [UNINTELLIGIBLE]
Milo Lines: It's paid back because of the way that they had put in the ...fuel tank out there.
Nick Frohardt: I realize that, I'm just curious, is it five cents a gallon or...?
Milo Lines: It sells for four dollars and a half per gallon right now, [TURNS TO JULIE HOWES] isn't it?
Julie Howes: Four forty-eight.
Milo Lines: And ...it's not gas that you buy off the street.
Nick Frohardt: I realize that, I was just curious as to what kind of mark-up you're getting out of that.
Milo Lines: It depends, we buy gasoline, that avgas, through a person and they, we buy maybe half a tank and Storm Lake will buy the other half or vice versa when they ...bring in a tank, they usually call Julie and ask if we need gas out there and usually one of the other airports buys half and we buy half so it doesn’t cost us quite as much and we don't have to buy a whole tanker full.
Jim Frederick: [UNINTELLIGIBLE] mark up, like, twenty, thirty cents a gallon?
UNKNOWN: I would imagine so.
Milo Lines: I'm not too sure on that right now. It varies, of course like your gas downtown, too.
Nick Frohardt: But the mark-up would be the same.
Milo Lines: No.
UNKNOWN: It’s not.
Milo Lines: no. ...we shop around and see what Storm Lake's buying it for and selling it for, and we also look at the buying and selling it-
Jim Frederick: ...The price between what you pay and what you charge.
Milo Lines: Yeah, ok, you want the markup? I don’t know what it is.
UNKNOWN: Roughly seventy five cents right now.
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