Okaloosa County BOCC — September 6, 2016 — 2016.01.26 Destin.ACAC.Meeting.Minutes

MINUTES AIRPORT COMPATIBILITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE (ACAC) MEETING JANUARY 26, 2016 10:00 AM DESTIN CITY HALL ANNEX 1. CALL TO ORDER: Committee Chair Pati Stapleton called the meeting to order at 10:00 a.m. on January 26, 2016. 2. ROLL CALL: City of Destin Representatives City of Destin Staff Toni Diez City Clerk Rey Bailey Pati Stapleton Planning Manager Ashley Grana Okaloosa County Representatives Okaloosa County Staff Present Armand Izzo Mike Stenson David Barrett Tracy Stage William Phillips Absent Jan Barr, City of Destin Representative Major Brooke Kelly, Eglin AFB Representative 3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: October 27, 2015 Motion by Committee member Izzo, seconded by Committee member Barrett, to approve the minutes of the October 27, 2015 meeting passed 5-0. 4. NEW BUSINESS: A. New Entrance Sign to the Destin Executive Airport – Progress Report Interim Airports Director Tracy Stage showed a photo of the new entrance sign to the Destin Executive Airport. He stated the new sign replacement was a result of a partnership between Okaloosa County Airports System and Destin Jet; adding it was a 70-30 split, with the County paying almost $6,000 of the total cost. B. Noise Wall Progress Report According to Mr. Stage, the airport engineer designed the noise wall to be about 28 feet high and 280 feet long, with a cost estimate of about $500,000. There is a funding in place from the FDOT with an airport match of 20 percent. He stated the project was put out to bid, and that the lowest bid came in at $830,000; which is completely outside of the airport’s budget for the year. They returned to the planning stage to figure out what to do to bring the project back into budget. The airport engineer redesigned the project, lowering the wall to 15 feet with a 3 foot grate addition, and with a new cost estimate of about $334,000. He continued the entire wall will be 18 feet high and about 275 feet long. He noted that from a noise attenuation standpoint, the height of the wall is not really the determining factor from what it can do to keep the noise from going over the wall into the residential area. He also stated this project had been placed into the County’s procurement process for internal coordination and will again be advertised for bid; adding that the Board of County Commission had already approved to reject the previous design and low bid before rebidding. C. Destin Executive Airport Air Traffic Control Tower – Progress Report Mr. Stage noted that the first item in the project list was to build the actual roadway from Airport Road in Destin back to the airport air traffic control tower location on the east side of the airfield. He stated the installation of asphalt for the roadway will begin soon. The major foundation for the tower will start in late March 2016; and that they could possibly see some vertical construction taking place either late March or early April 2016. He added that weather permitting the final estimated completion schedule for the tower is late October or early November 2016. D. Plane Noise Contract Mr. Stage reported a total of 64 complaints received in 2015 from 16 different households. He stated that 50 percent of the complaints came from three specific households, with 31 percent coming from one household. He continued this system gives the locations of the calls and where the issues are coming from so that the airport authority can address them; however, they already had this information befo