Joint Town Council/Airport Commission Work Session
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What is the purpose and agenda of the Leesburg Town Council work session?
meeting this is a work session, there will be no public comment, but we are delighted to see so many of you here and uh most certainly would uh love to hear uh your input uh after the meeting. Uh the first item that we are going to oh, did you have something you hit it
already. Okay.
Um I uh could we quickly go around the table? By the way, you look like you're like two miles away back here.
This is the kids' table over here.
Would would uh everybody please go around and introduce themselves? And the town has brought some experts. Uh would you make sure that we introduce those people too with your Yeah. So
I'll start. I'm Bugs Forsyth. I'm chairman of the airport commission. I was on council for a year or so. Know the mayor very well and it's uh always a good time working with her. So looking forward to the meeting.
Neil Steinberg, Vice Mayor. Travis Gunnels, been at the airport since twenty sixteen. Uh Ryan Goller, member of the Airport Commission.
Tim Fisher, uh Airport Business Association representative to the commission.
I am Chris Sperra. I'm the town attorney. I have with me our outside counsel from Kathlyn Curtian Rockwell. And I promise not every lawyer at Kathleen Curst and Rockwell is named Eric, but both of the ones we brought tonight are in fact named Eric, Eric Pills and Eric Smith. Keep it simple.
Nice and easy, yeah.
Uh, I'm Scott Conklin, I'm the airport manager. Uh welcome. I'm Keith Markle, the Deputy Town Manager. our beggars are in town council member and I have to apologize in advance. I need to wait here about six forty five.
And Bruce Roberts, the county's uh representative on the airport commission. Dr. Todd Simino Johnson, town council member.
Tim Baker, Commission member. Is that coming town council member?
JC Sylvie, commission member.
And Kelly Burke, the mayor here in Leesburg. So um we are here tonight.
Can we introduce our
outside uh
Um uh Steve uh Peterson is
with Talbert and Bright. He's our air airport engineer, he's worked on this airport at least twelve to fifteen years and with him as the airport planner is did our did our master plan back in two thousand eighteen with Jeff Well.
Thank you. And we have Russell Seymour, who's the economic development director, and of course Eileen Bowen, who's the clerk in keeping the records. So I hope we are speaking loudly enough for you tonight, Eileen. We probably will get emails letting us know if we're not. So the I the reason that we're here tonight is um to discuss the airport's future development and um you know operational strategies. And one of the first things we have to deal with or would like not deal with, we would like to talk about tonight, is that we have forty acres um of undeveloped land here attached to the airport and We need to decide. We need to uh have this discussion so when we can take it back to the council and decide what what do we want to do with those forty acres?
What is the vision that we have? And we on the council, I don't think any of us have any airport experience. None of us are pilots, none of us have. I mean, I spend time here, but I none of us are are really experienced about it. So we wanted um to get some input from the airport commission as to what do you see the usefulness of that 40 acres? Um, we'd like to have some input from our um our um our uh experts and I think we have a presentation, is that correct? Yes. Um so I'd like to go through the presentation. Does anybody do any of the experts have a presentation or are they both combined? Are they
it's all combined
in
one document and we'll kind of start with the West Side and if you want to talk about some of the other topics we can Well
I I'd like to go topic by topic so that we get that cleared and then move on to the next one, if that's okay with you.
At best.
Okay. Um so uh I will turn it over to you and then as we get through with this topic, then we then we'll have a discussion among ourselves.
Um
so we're gonna start uh one of the questions that councils had at previous meetings and talk a little bit about airport economics. So I asked uh Russ and uh and myself work together on updating some of the economics of the airport.
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Agenda
8 items
1
What is the purpose and agenda of the Leesburg Town Council work session?
0:13–18:00
2
What is the proposed use for the 40 undeveloped acres attached to the airport?
18:00–38:31
3
How does the airport’s economic impact study quantify benefits to the town and county?
38:31–49:07
4
What are the considerations for expanding hangar space on the west side of the airport?
49:07–1:00:52
5
How might emerging aviation technologies like electric aircraft and drones influence future airport development?
1:00:52–1:12:51
6
What are the challenges and plans for extending the runway to accommodate larger aircraft?
1:12:51–1:23:42
7
How are noise mitigation and community concerns being addressed by the airport commission?
1:23:42–1:35:28
8
What are the discussions around implementing landing fees and future fuel options?
1:35:28–1:50:49
Speakers
4 identifiedOfficials recognised by voice; public commenters shown as “Speaker N” unless they state their name.