Wichita City Council Agenda Review February 6, 2026
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for the agenda review. Can we please stand for the
pledge of allegiance? [cough] [clears throat] I pledge algiance to the flag of the United
States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Play on your own. Today is wear red for women
and heart health month. So, thank you for those who are wearing some red today. Um, the number one
killer of women is heart disease and so that's the reason why we're wearing red today. Great face.
City Manager Dennis. Thank you, Mayor. As uh we look at our February 10th agenda today, the bulk
of the items, it is a night meeting. Want to make sure that we highlight it is at 6 pm here at city
hall. Um we do have um the focus of the meeting is on what we call the guard rails or parameters
around the sales tax initiative where city council can clarify some of the specific items on how you
would see implementation for the overall sales tax and then the individual buckets. I did want to
walk through a couple the summary memo with the is it basically you have two resolutions for each
of the five initiatives. We've heard different discussions from council members on some things
you would like. I don't know if there's consensus one way or the other. So that's why you have two
resolutions basically for each initiative so that you all can give us guidance and direction should
the sales tax pass on March 3rd. What we have for you in the um summary memo, the green sheet is
that we do talk about the revenues and one of the um overall questions that you all presented
about prioritization of funding. And so we had talked during our last presentation at the end
of January that the money as it came in would be um distributed to each of the five initiatives if
it passes based upon the percentage overall. There is a discussion about prioritizing the first
300 million of the 850 to be raised over the seven years. And so that is what the second kind
of option is is to prioritize property tax relief, public safety, and the housing initiatives first.
So we'd fill those three initiatives first over the first um money coming in. So that's one
of the first options that you will have to um give us feedback or if you want to adopt those
resolution. Either way, that's what's in there. Um, but then if you look on the performing arts
center, there's also the question about when would uh private dollars be utilized and when would
public dollars be utilized. Is there a fundraising goal of a dollar amount that council wants to see
achieved before the sales tax proceeds are used for that project? So, you have two resolutions
that outline two strategies to do that. The same thing with public safety is there are
two resolutions for your consideration and again um one of them is to clarify that the proceeds are
not to be used for staffing or operating issues. Just to clarify that it's generally obvious in how
we do that with our capital but just to clarify for a voter. Um but also you will see there's
some other interest under the public safety uh capital improvement initiative is about giving
maintenance projects funding priority within the subset of CIP items for fire and police and
public safety. So that's another nuance to the language that we just need guidance and for
voter clarity for you all to weigh in on. And then um you will see um also there is a a resolution
just pertaining to century 2. It does give some of the clarification about policy 38 reference which
requires that advisory election to be held before century 2 could be demolished or substantially
remodeled. just to give safeguards again that if anything is passed with the sales tax, the
Century 2 still has the policy 38 safeguard in there that it would not be used to demolish or
alter substantially alter Century 2. So that's just reaffirming that. Um then property tax
relief. You do have two resolutions in there um about one just doing the tax relief on
the property tax side based upon however much money is generated from the sales tax. The second
resolution stipulates that you would do a four a minimum of a 4 mil reduction if 20 million comes
in. So it gives a little bit more clarity about how much money's contributed from the sales tax
and how much would be offset on the property tax with specific mill. So we need your guidance on
that. And then um we do get into the housing and homeless assistant funds. Again, two options for
you to give um staff direction and voter clarity should it pass is how much money would come
out of the corpus or the um principal amount of funding. the um sales tax proposals for 150 for
housing and homeless services. Um within that, some of that money is scheduled to go to Second
Light or our low barrier shelter, whoever is operating it. Um but you'll see the distinguishing
point on here is the second resolution highlights that no more than 5 million of the fund principle
would be expended for priority expenditure. So you all can look through the language there again
in the um different resolutions and then um we do talk about establishing some tax relief programs.
Um one would be what we call the witchah well one of them is the low for those who qualify for the
lowinccome energy assistance program to make that a city program if you qualify at the state level.
Um, but again, we want to highlight any offsetting property tax or tax relief that council may be
interested in would have an impact on the general fund. And so if you do a tax relief, it would
come out of general fund revenue. And then lastly, the homestead, the Wishaw Homestead property tax
is specific as well. That would be a consideration for you to establish if you want to implement that
or not. And then um we do have other guard rails in there um specific to the oversight committee.
We have that established in the ordinance to have up to 15 members. And then if you want to talk
about subcommittees or anything else related to the oversight committee, we do have it established
that there is one annual financial report required as part of the ordinance to be provided. If you
want to change, expand that to more meetings, more oversight, more reports, more audits, you can
give us that guidance and direction as well. And so the resolutions are the vehicle to do that.
So you have these in front of you and you can digest those over the weekend. If you have any
other followup or questions, um, let us know. And then we do have um for other business within
the um February 10th agenda, we've gone I'm doing some things about a community improvement district
is one of the agenda items on there that you may see. Sorry, before we move on to one of the other
items, the these proposed resolutions and with the options, could we put draft on it or something and
then get that off on witchaw.gov/vallot question? So, so when I'm directing people, I don't have
to direct them to the agenda to find this. If we can just get it up on like the the ballot question
page, that would be helpful leading up to Tuesday. And we will have a um PowerPoint. We'll try to get
a draft um out to you so you can see a little bit more I think concisely the different uh resolution
components and try to give you all some a little bit more how to digest all this. Um just with a
quick PowerPoint overview as well. Resolution 49 regarding option one and option two. For option
one, it's the prioritization. And I think it would be helpful if we can show a very similar
graph like the one above that shows the first 300 million would go towards homeless, public
safety, and property tax relief. So having it in a graph form would be helpful for people to
see. And if we can put that in the PowerPoint, would that be helpful? Yes, but I think
it would be also helpful. Yeah. On any other questions or
comments for the resolutions? All right. And then again you see the agenda
items for the other some of the consent items. We have some speakers lined up I see for February
10th. Um so you have that agenda in front of you. If you have any questions certainly let us know.
We'll be glad to address those for you. And then um if you want to look quickly at the
um 17th agenda, we can do that. I have three things to highlight from the 17th
agenda. Anything else though for the 10th? Just the three things to highlight from the 17th
and let you digest if we have time. Just make sure council's aware. We will have a conversation
about moving forward as we're talking about um public safety investments, the fire station
construction, land acquisition. Give a little update on there and we're looking for some bond
resolution authorization so we can start moving on station 23. So you'll see some information
about that. Also want to call to your attention that we do have the storm water annual utility
rate um updates. There are three options for you on how we might proceed with the storm water
utility rate increases. And so that is presented for your information as well. And then as always
we want to highlight we do have a loan agreement amendment related to Witchaw Waterworks and the
financing that we've done. it's actually fairly preunctery or some things we've done just to match
our current payments with existing schedules. Um, so but anything involving that project I want to
make sure to call to your attention. So those are three of the many items and I know there are
three more economic development related items that we'll be adding to the February 17th agenda,
but that's what we have for you. City manager. Um, I know that you and I have had an opportunity to
discuss this, but I do think it would be helpful at next council meeting to discuss that there's
a highlevel plan in place should the sales tax fail for us to come together and just discuss
some options. And I think sharing that with the public would be helpful because I know that that's
been a lot of question from the from the community um especially given the articles that have
been coming out about Second Light and um what's to happen if if this sales tax fails. I
just think showcasing that we are being proactive and thinking of a plan B though it's not ironed
out is is helpful for the public to be aware of. Are you are you suggesting that um as we do the
presentation on the sales tax and maybe to talk about that during the agenda item? I don't
know if it necessarily needs to be spelled out. I think just hearing you name it um that
you know we're coming together potentially in the retreat to be able to discuss next steps.
Yes. So yes. So we'll say it now that we do have a meeting scheduled as a retreat for March
12th and 13th for half a day and that is where we will talk about no matter the outcome talk
about the uh sales tax referendum. Just one correction uh on the 17th item number 25 it's not
in district five. I think it's in district six. No no it's just a vacation. 25. Yeah, right there. Okay. Yeah. City manager,
did you say that our planning retreat is going to be March 12th and 13th? Uh, all day on Thursday
the 12th and half day on the 13th. Can we get that added to our calendar? [cough and clears throat]
Yes. Thank you. What is all day described as 85? 8 to 5. You get lunch. Okay. Not 10 hours. Okay.
You get lunch. It's shorter than a meeting. Uh we will probably say though uh some light breakfast
at 7:30 to 8, start the uh retreat agenda at 8. Okay. So yeah, so you can munch while you
want to or come a little early and we'll have a little something. So and just a reminder to
anyone who's watching online or sees this later, it will be open to the public. Yes, absolutely.
We'll have location. It'll be agenda noticed as every other meeting. Anything else we can address?
We do have a presentation. Um, I do have one additional item before the department meeting.
Um, I would like to get a report regarding uh the paid parking plan, not just at city
hall, but what has been implemented so far. Um, I asked this via email already, but I just
want to make sure that everyone knows that I'm asking about this. Um there have been
multiple emails I've received regarding um the system and maybe some discrepancies. So I'd
like to know um what has been happening regarding citations uh the revenue that has been collected
and making sure that the website is reflective of the paid parking statistics up to date um
as of today. All right. Thank you. Otherwise, we have airport lined up for today. Jesse was
on social media highlighting great news from the airport that he'll reiterate this morning. So,
I'd like to recognize Jesse Romo. What do you say? I don't know if you're giving upate. Oh, the
legislative update. Yeah. Where's uhim Kimberly's on? Is she on there? Kim, do you want to get
Kimberly give us an update on legislation first? Go ahead. floor is yours, Kimberly. Oh, you're
unmuted. Okay. Sorry, I wasn't sure. I'm happy to go either way. Red or accessory are all
scheduled. And I do just have to highlight it is women's heart health month. So, I do wear
red most of the month. My aunt is the longest surviving female heart transplant survivor. So,
we um do a tremendous amount to support uh women's heart health and men's heart health. It is really
important. So I appreciate what the city is um what the city wish is doing to help make sure
that both men and women very healthy and well. So that's wonderful. Um sometimes the legislature
can do damage to your heart just by way of getting your blood pressure up high. Anyway, so it has
been a very very full week and we have another very full week ahead. I won't spend a ton of
time going through everything. You'll have a full report that will come out to you all um here
in just a bit, but a couple of key points. Um one, the there's afford an affordable housing bill,
Senate Bill 418, that had a hearing in the Senate Commerce Committee this week and the city of
Witchah did weigh in with it with a decent amount of concerns. Um the city of Oklahoma
Park worked with with Americans for Prosperity and others to to draft the bill and while the
bill is very loudable in its overall goals. It does have pretty significant impact on cities
in that it impacts our zonings and um our our zoning provisions and allows for um single family
residences to be built any anywhere in the county uh including in industrial areas. And so that can
kind of have an impact on developing planning. So, actually I did work um with the um author
of the bill and with AFP and and gave them an update that the United States Senate passed
a package of affordable housing bills several months ago and the House just this week agreed
to take those five bills up this coming week. And um one of the provisions in that bill is a
national uniform building code as it relates to housing. Um and the president signal that he
would sign the bills assuming not much changes from the Senate version of the bills that were
passed. So I did recommend that the authors of the Kansas bill reach out to various parties in
DC to make sure that there isn't anything that we would seek to do in 418 that would conflict with
the legislation at the national level because of course anything that they would do would supersede
whatever we would enact. So that that is an issue. um legislation that the city of Witchaw also
weighed in on related to util attachments and law enforcement. That bill came out of the
Senate Judiciary Committee uh with a couple of amendments. Law enforcement is is not a huge
fan of the piece of legislation. Um although the KBI does generally support the bill, there are
some cities that have some concern as well about you know clarifying the definition of what um law
enforcement surveillance equipment is. So I think a compromise bill did come out of committee. We'll
see how far and if at all it moves beyond that. um legislation related to golf carts
and the city of Richtown's ability to um to allow for golf carts on sidewalks did come
out of the Senate Transportation Committee this this week with one amendment related to um kind
of a onem restriction. So we'll see where that heads but of course it's always very helpful
when a member of the leadership um does help support that piece of legislation. Um there there
is a litany of other bills that are going to have hearings this coming week. Uh we are preparing
testimony and going to weigh in on many of them. But there is one bill that I do want to flag for
everyone's attention that that we don't know all of the X's and O's that are going to be involved
in this piece of legislation, but uh we were told that um it's one that local government probably
isn't going to like. and it does um have a real impact on property taxes, film making annexation
um and and several other components. So, we've not seen that bill. It's being introduced by House and
Senate leadership. Um we're hopeful to continue to have dialogue with them to make sure that uh local
control and and and home rule is heard and upheld. So, as that is revealed, we will um provide
additional information to you all about that. And with that, I'm happy to answer any questions.
Just looking my Hey, Kimberly. Um what are the prospects on the 3% cap uh property tax cap? Yes.
So, thank you for the question. That piece of legislation um has passed out of the committee.
I anticipate that will be held for a period of time. Uh this mega bill that is being proposed
by leadership is to also address certain property taxes. I expect there will be a component of of
that in there which would potentially negate the need for that constitutional amendment. Um I know
that the provisions in that big mega bill will get rid of revenue neutral but then also potentially
significantly hamstring local governments with those appraisal caps and valuation tax as well.
So um I think that that's out there and will be held [clears throat] for a period in the future.
See how other things are moving. Okay. Thank you. All right. Let's hear about the airport. Good morning everyone. Happy Friday. I
have a little bit of red now on my health. Don't worry, there's 51 slides in this
presentation. It should only take on average about two to three minutes per slide. So, I'm
glad to see many of you have your cap front. Um, I'm joking, of course. Every year we do
a annual report to our advisory board and so it was just presented to them this
past Monday and once they receive it and uh we then present it to city council. So,
I'm attaching the entire PowerPoint for your file and your reference, but I'm not going to
go through every detail of each of these. So, bear with with me as I fly through
this presentation. Yeah. Thank you. All right. Operating revenues are up 6% over 24.
Our expenses 4% below budget. We make more money than we spend. That's a good thing for us. We're
an enterprise fund. We operate in the black. We do not accept funding from the city. We don't
take taxes and general fund monies. So, I've had that question asked of me quite a bit, but
we operate specifically off of airport revenues. We've had over $70 million in capital
spending over the past uh five years, and we're going to continue to spend mightily as
we move forward. You'll see a couple of projects later and where the money goes. Our landing
weight is up as well over 2024. So 5% that's good. We're showing growth in all the right areas,
including our fuel gallons and staffing trends. We've been pretty stable. We had an anomaly in
24, but otherwise we are pretty stable in how we uh bring in new hires and process people
outgoing. 25's numbers were actually driven mostly by retirements in our staff. And so we
have been doing a lot of secession planning the last couple years and we're still in transition.
Now get into properties and development. Here are some of the stats. We've executed several
agreements um lots of supplemental agreements and options. We've got some that are pending
at the end of the year because we're constantly negotiating. Everything is always ongoing.
And when you look at new tenant activities, this is not just somebody new to the airfield.
It could be a new location for somebody who was already at the airport. So they their business
grows and they want a new building, new facility. We're also seeing a lot of interest in both
airports and uh we get a lot of applications that come through. Some of them actually get
executed into letters of intent and some of them get executed into agreements. four of the six
uh that we had in LOIs were executed by the end of 2025. And so we've got um investments by tenants,
the capital investments over 1.2 million uh at Eisenhower and over 34 million at Jabara. And the
pictures actually tell a great big story. So on the right hand side of the slide you'll see top
right hand corner is a creative project that we did in getting funding from department of commerce
and partnering with WSU tech in order to build out the infrastructure for them to develop their
facility. So they have a ginormous new facility going in which is a lot of the chunk of money for
the development that is occurring at Chabara and that is ongoing. So if you drive up and down
web you will see it continuously progress. Uh to the left top left there's additional hangers
and you'll see on the bottom right side of that picture a new hanger. That hanger's already been
developed. We can't keep up with the development with our pictures. So, we're always behind the
power curve. And just to the north of there, there's another one that's actually going to
start here shortly once the uh ground thaws. On the bottom right, you can see we have east
side development that has occurred. It was a great public private partnership that we uh got
done there. And so, that hanger is already done. And we have taxi way and we have some potential
for additional growth on the east side of Jar. a lot of executed contractual agreements as I
mentioned and all these agreements mean revenue for us and so we measure out what is going to
be the first year revenue increases from new negotiations $671,000 at the full term of each
of those agreements what is it really worth over $21 million now it doesn't adjust for all
the other factors but you can see it's it's quite a bit of money for the long term for us
and this This is just a list of the companies that have been interacting with us and expressing
interest and we've been negotiating with. We have a division that manages capital projects
and development for us and one of those uh projects is the master plan. It's been 20 years
since Eisenhower has completed an master plan for the airport. This should be completed later
this year and about fall. It looks at several different components around the airport. It looks
at your runways, taxiways, all that aeronautical infrastructure as well as the facilities that we
have, the terminal, the park and garage, a little bit of everything. And so as we move forward
with stuff, we get a little bit more refined as we do specific planning studies. I mentioned
pavement and earlier I said we're spending a lot of money in capital investments. This is an aerial
picture or drawing of our runways and the one in green is the taxi way that's parallel to the our
main runway. That's the longest runway we have. That runway was reconstructed about oh three,
four years ago now. Oh, maybe four or five. And this is the adjacent pavement that follows.
So all the tax lane connectors, the taxi way, a little bit of apron. There's going to be a
follow on to this too because once you do a little bit of apron work and pavement work, the
next adjacent pavement needs to be done. And so we just been systematically going through this,
but it's over $20 million in the project. This is more stuff going on at Jabara. And if you look at
the top right hand corner, that's what our fencing used to look like on the east side. And now on the
bottom right corner, you can see after some K do grants and good partnership with them, we got
a new fence. Now we spec it out for wildlife, but it also acts as a security fence as well. And
so we're excited about seeing the developments occur there and additional pictures on the lefth
hand side showing more growth. As I was mentioning earlier for my operating divisions, airport
grounds and fleet actually is the division that has primary responsibility for snow removal. The
Vegas pieces of equipment are the ones that these equipment operators do, but they also get trained
on about seven other pieces of equipment. So, if that interests you, for anybody who's watching
at home, please go to the website for the city HR because we are hiring EOS and so we could
use your help. Airport Buildings and Utilities takes care of several of our facilities across
the campus, including the terminal. And we're starting to incorporate new things like robot
technology to assist us. Of course, we get a lot of compliments on the airport, the cleanliness,
cleanliness of restrooms. It's great to come back in and out of Witchaw because it's always so
clean. Well, that is a tribute to the passion, dedication of our custodial services staff
that reside in airport buildings utilities. But as we continue to have more people utilize
the airport, it means we have more work to do, more cleaning to do. And so we don't want to
eliminate positions by introducing technology. We want to enhance their capabilities and complement
it. So we're incorporating robot things like this and probably some that you're going to start
seeing floor scrubbers on the public side as well. This division has two slides because they've grown
quite a bit. We had a rework of structure. And so Arrow is the airport emergency response and
operations. Emergency response includes police, fire, also includes medical responses that these
guys do. The ones that are pictured are trained not only to do aircraft firefighting as they're
doing. They're also certified law enforcement offers off officers and certified EMTs. And they
get a lot of medical calls that they go out on. Um there's some fun facts on all the different
calls that they responded to throughout the year. Arrow also takes care of airport operations.
Airport operations includes a lot of federal compliance. We have FA compliance for aeronautical
side. We also have air FA compliance for safety management systems and how we do business ADA
compliance as well as TSA compliance and a little bit of customs. So, uh, everything that goes on
air side as well as anything that hits us from a federal compliance standpoint is run through
operations. They do one heck of a job. Here's some fun stuff for you. As I mentioned, we had a lot
of turnover due to retirements and so we do have a new marketing or service development manager,
Rachel Mayberry. She's not here with us now, but she's taken over for Valerie Wise and helped put
these slides together. Has [clears throat] been about 90 days in and uh I think she's still
drinking from the fire hose, but doing a fantastic job and going to continue to move us forward as
we look at developing air service. So in 2025 we had another record year 3.13% over 24 935,000
passengers total of over 1.8 million. Those are comingings and going and payments and deployments.
So we got a lot of people walking in and out, a lot of people using restrooms, which is why we
got to keep the floors clean as best as possible, right? But they're also spending money on our
concessions. Food and gift is up 13.32%. And with food and gift, we also have incorporated new
technologies there, enhanced customer experience. We're 247 markets. And so now we don't have
to increase the overhead for our vendors that are managing those operations. They can now have
offerings all day long. And so if there's a delay, if there's a diverted flight, there's an issue
and it's off hours from normal operating for our concessions, now they have an opportunity just to
go selfch checkckout. Car rentals are also up as well as parking and parking revenues. across the
board. You'll see we're uh doing really well for load factors. These are the number of seats that
are filled aboard an aircraft. Uh for American Airlines, you see 75% is the average. Phoenix is
the high at 83. DCA is low at 63%. And so we were all tracking DC very closely. Obviously 2025 was
a bit of a rough year. Not only did we have an aircraft accident towards the beginning of the
year, we also saw a federal government shutdown towards the end of the year. And so despite that,
we still ended up with 63%. So for a first year being a new into a market, it's not bad. Not
terribly bad. We we would like to see it do better. So we hope that you consider some flights,
especially as we have big uh birthday celebration of the nation this year. Our average airfare
is $443 right now and you can see we've pretty much stabilized and I'll show you though the
interesting part is how we relate to others. So on the far left hand side you'll see the na national
average of 385 and that red line is carried across. We are a little bit above the national
average. Yes, not too far above. But what's fun to see is how close we are to our neighbors of Kansas
City and Tulsa. Those are two of the airports that we lose some of our cachment area to our leakage
and we are getting much more competitive with both of those airports. In fact, first quarter of last
year, we were cheaper than Kansas City fairs by $2, but we were cheaper than Kansas City for that
first quarter. And so, not only are you adding time and your own personal money, but you're also
now not saving a whole lot of difference. And if you went for the quoteunquote direct flight, you
now just drove to your connection. Great sign. Great market. And speaking of great marketing
signs, uh we still have good marketing partners with us and we're doing some great campaigns.
You'll see uh throughout the year. We have some uh good outlooks. Bleisure travel, by the
way, the the bleure market is the blending of business and leisure. And we've seen that trend
occur postcoid where people who are traveling and it's it's impacting like our our parking garage
the demand there. So if you're traveling for a business for three days and your business is
going to pay for the expense you park in the garage but now I'm going to go to some place
nice and sunny and I want to spend a couple extra days there. So I'm going to add a little
bit of personal time. So the personal time along with business is now you're a leisure traveler.
You go well I get five days in the parking garage but I really only have to pay for two of them.
And so we're seeing a lot of demand shifts from the bleure traveler. That's just one example
of them. So we're trying to adapt to them as much as possible. Here are some new uh campaigns
that we'll be hitting later on this year. And I mentioned about DCA and we'll have a focus there
to try to get more uh more seats on that aircraft. Now I am not an IT guy and the airport IT manager
Kevin rear is here with me but he does fantastic work for us partners with city hall Mike M has
been a good partner with us in helping us get high level design and lowle design projects lined
up and so we are wfully behind the curve as we always are everybody always is with technology.
Soon as you walk out the door of a store, your technology is already aging. And so we are doing
a lot of behind the scenes background on improving things like the UPS and back, you know, the backup
power. So UPS unlimited power supply. We're also doing security upgrades on the back end. And we
have complete infrastructure rehauls that we're doing on the back end. And so none of this may
seem very exciting until you think about how does it impact the actual customer on the front end.
Well, our FIDS monitors, the flight information display screens rely upon that infrastructure, and
some of our monitors have been going out and going bad because the infrastructure is failing. We're
going to take out all the back walls, which we already have. If you walk through the terminal
right now, you'll see some plywood up there, and we're going to install video walls behind all
the ticket counter spaces. So, not only are we adding ticket counters, we're improving technology
behind the scenes to also have more common use equipment. So, common use equipment allows us to
flex airlines in and out. So that way it improves our capacity for the future. So without having to
build additional by technology, you can just gain efficiencies. So we're doing a lot of those things
behind the scenes to really help out. And that is a wrap. I'm not done with my presentation.
That's a wrap for 2025. But the job's not finished. So for those of you who know Yeah. The
Mamba mentality, right? Of course, you know this LA kid. I can't shake the liquor in me. But um you
know Kobe was asked going up two games to nothing in the NBA finals and he looked upset and said
Kobe why are you so mad cuz what am I going to celebrate? Child's not done. And so my staff knows
this look very well for me because we just keep pushing forward. And so I can't help myself but
talk about goals. Even though we're accomplishing, you know, celebrating the accomplishments of 2025,
we got more work to do. So we better keep the ball rolling because everybody's watching this. We need
to keep it uh rolling smooth. So, we're going to reinitiate the air uh project. I mentioned the
terminal modifications which will be done this year. We've hopefully we'll get a grant to help us
out for a phase two. We've got roadway and parking lot rehab repairs that we need to do across
the board that are getting contracted out now, including parking garage rehab and repairs because
that parking garage is about 11 years old and so it's already showing signs of wear. So, we got to
take care of the that garage as well. Uh and we've got more things going on for development at both
airports. We're getting a lot of interest. So, we're continuing to ride that wave and put
ourselves in a position to be competitive and we're improving a lot of the technology. As
I mentioned, it has a lot of customer experience uh impacts to it. And we can't forget about the
people. We got a lot of workforce development goals as well. And this is a picture of us all
coming together as mo as much of us as possible. We got about 150 employees at the airport and
they're all It's 24/7. You can't get everybody all at the same time, but this represents about
90 of them that we get together annually and we do kickoff um right around football season. So, we
talk through the the year and then how we're going to move towards winter. So, we try to get a good
fun work environment. This is also some of the goals that we have for uh air service development.
And we know we're not taking the eyes off the prize. We know where our business community wants
to go. We're going to continue to work with that air service community through the chamber. We
want to listen to the community because our growth is a reflection of the communities and the
region's growth. We need to know where they need to go and so we're going to try and continue to
pursue that. LA, New York, our top markets. LA is our top market that we don't actually serve with
daily service or we had seasonal service and that just stopped and New York is another one that we
need to get into. So, we're trying. Any questions? Thank you very much. Mayor and council, we don't have any other
items for today. Thank you. Council members, any breakfastes that you guys want to let
people know about? District 6 breakfast tomorrow. Evergreen 9:00 and then we have
a town hall on water. Uh same place at 11. District 4 breakfast. Well, it's really just
donuts. We don't do breakfast. Um, town hall at Auburn at 9:30. And the best breakfast,
District 1, Saturday 9:30. Council member Ballard, you should come. I know you do. Uh it's featuring
the city manager, Greater Witchtop Partnership, and we'll have breakfast from a local
entrepreneur uh and local business, Haven Restaurant and Lounge, which is actually
in District 6. It's blackowned. Happy Black History Month. I I think we've already
decided on the best breakfast in Witchah, but we'll we'll see what the city manager
thinks about. We're going to treat him real real well. Thank you. Can we have one photo for
American Heart Health Month? [clears throat]