[0:00] [Music] [1:28] e [1:58] e e [2:32] no no [Music] [3:20] we I won't be here again [3:28] again yeah all right we'll take a short break while we get some technology worked [3:37] out all right all right so is it anybody else [3:46] online and we now have a quorum um we'll start with [3:52] um Donovan Palmquist would you like to introduce yourself [4:12] can you hear me uh yes we can hear you uh yes we can hear you uh [4:24] yes so Jennifer be their voice has come through [4:30] the up there yeah they should be coming through I thought I heard it for a second well I yeah I so no you leave you [4:39] you're you're muted it's not coming through here it's these people like they have to unmute and he did okay but we [4:46] couldn't hear him okay Jennifer maybe it would be easier if you just told us Who's online and where they're from [4:54] thank you I will um we do have Donathan Donovan PA Quist from [5:00] Eureka Township Aaron labry from Dakota County we also have Christopher Gardner [5:07] I believe from mot I also see Nick [5:13] mods and Kyle Fisher in thank you very much and then [5:19] we'll go around the deis here and uh let's start down with the distinguished [5:24] gent oh boy I'm Pat moan I'm um uh a [5:30] hanger owner and a pilot and I'm also the rack representative for the airlake [5:35] airport Adam forsberg with the Loft Aviation Steve gter I'm also a pilot and [5:42] hanger owner at Lakeville uh John burmel I'm a Lakeville city council member Tom Fitz Henry I'm a [5:49] user at the airport and represent Civil Air Patrol Tina good road um community [5:54] development director City of Lakeville uh Dan Walbert on a hanger and [6:00] an airplane at [6:05] Lakeville all right you guys don't want to introduce yourselves hi uh Sam sefelt [6:12] Mac AirPort manager at Lakeville or air Lake and I'm Jennifer Lewis I am the max [6:19] community relations coordinator I'm Ryan Ziggler the recording secretary for the meeting [6:24] wonderful thank you welcome everybody and welcome to this meeting uh next item on the agenda [6:30] agenda discussion uh committee members is there are there any agenda items um [6:37] or any other changes that you'd like to propose for your agenda [6:44] today not for me okay I'll make a motion to approve [6:50] the agenda uh do we have a second second all right so we have a motion and a [6:55] second to approve the agenda all in favor say I I I is anyone opposed all right the agenda is good to [7:03] go uh consent agenda items remember these are not individual items we'll [7:08] vote on we'll vote on these as a package um so members is there any of [7:14] the either of these agenda consent items that you would like to pull for further [7:20] discussion okay so hearing none I'll take a motion to approve the consent agenda motion to [7:27] approve second you have a Motion in a second uh any further [7:33] discussion all right everyone in favor say I I anyone [7:39] opposed right now is the time that we open up uh the uh meeting for public [7:44] comment if there chair yes I'm sorry before we proceed who made the motion [7:50] Steve G thank thank you and who [7:55] seconded at more hand did all right good to go good to go all [8:01] right uh so public comment this is the time that we allow uh the public to make a comment uh if you do make a comment [8:08] come on up to the uh the podium here and uh please keep the comment to three minutes or less is there anyone that [8:15] would like to make a comment anyone online and with the anybody online it [8:23] might be a good idea if they type in the chat being that we have some technical difficulties yeah [8:30] right you seen anyone expressing a desire to make a comment [8:36] okay next item information items uh first one airport 101 the value [8:44] of the airport in the community that's Jennifer and [8:52] Sam thank you Mr chair uh once again I'm Jennifer for [8:59] Lewis I am the max community relations coordinator [9:04] and I and Sam seel are here today to [9:09] share with you a some of the some of the core elements of Aviation and airlake [9:16] airport and the many reasons that airlake airport is a valuable piece of [9:22] the community we will T touch on these four [9:27] topics I will cover the Aviation Basics and then Sam will take over with local [9:34] Aviation overview and the anatomy of airlake airport and then I'll be back [9:39] with you to talk about the community engagement [9:45] aspects very first thing is Aviation Basics this is this is foundational [9:51] information that will hopefully be helpful during some of the [9:57] communications and disc discussion items that we have um in these particular [10:03] meetings we already know that there's been a lot of questions and some um [10:09] confusion at times about how things fit together at the airport and and some of [10:14] the just the understood underlying mechanisms and framework that um they're [10:21] not negotiable at the airport and so these Basics are going to help build that Foundation just to hopefully um [10:29] shed a little bit more understanding for folks who really aren't that acquainted with [10:35] Aviation first of all everybody speaks English in aviation it is the universal [10:43] language um across the globe so um we don't have Pilots don't have to um pick [10:51] up a whole bunch of different languages to fly from country to Country everybody has agreed that English will be the the [10:58] language used and there's also a Time clock that's also Universal and it's GMT [11:06] and UTC time um it's what time it is all over the world there are [11:12] adjustments to get to your local time zone but Pilots will always use the [11:19] universal clock um because you can imagine if you say I'm taking up at 9:00 [11:24] a.m. and I'm landing at 10 a.m. is that which time zone so instead of um having [11:31] to convert to time zones Pilots use um what we call the zulu time that's what [11:37] we basically call it the Federal Aviation Administration has sole jurisdiction over aviation in the United [11:46] States other countries of course have their own um rules but in the US [11:53] everything um Pilots airspace flight procedures airplanes airports all all [11:59] regulated by the Federal Aviation Administration and each airport has a [12:05] unique code the code for airlake airport is it starts with a k um airports within [12:12] the contiguous us the code always starts with a K so it's basically understood [12:18] and so we when we're talking locally most of the time we just use the three-letter code and for airlake it's [12:24] LVN so the full code is K LVN and we drop the k for that reason of being [12:30] understood so we just call it LVN and that's why in a lot of our materials that we share about the airport we will [12:38] use that three-letter code LVN airspace is public in the United [12:44] States except where it is protected or [12:49] restricted again um by the FAA you have certain airspaces that are going to be [12:56] protected and and no fly zones for General Aviation but airspace over air Lake [13:03] Airport it is public airspace and it is used by many different aircraft [13:08] operators that come and go to many different airports The Regulators as I said before [13:15] um FAA um in the US the FAA reports to the US Department of [13:22] Transportation and they report to Congress so um in the state of Minnesota [13:28] we also have some rules we have to abide by and um some of those rules have to be [13:35] coordinated with the FAA but also with the mac and the Mac doesn't own all [13:40] airports in the U in the state of Minnesota but the Mac does own seven of [13:46] them even though we own seven airports and they're all within the Twin Cities [13:51] area the Mac has a Board of Commissioners that were appointed by the [13:59] governor of Minnesota to serve and represent the entire state so we have [14:05] seven airports in the Twin Cities area but the the air the actual Mac [14:11] Commissioners their representation goes outstate as well not just the Twin [14:16] Cities area and Sam is the local [14:21] ruler he's the manager of of airlake airport Crystal airport as well but [14:27] we're going to focus on airlake today if we look at the big picture of [14:35] Aviation the number of airports the number of public use airports has been going [14:43] down what you see on the chart here is that we did have 500 or I'm sorry [14:50] 5,589 uh public airports in U [14:56] 1990 and that number is now 5,8 2 we also show in blue the blue columns [15:05] represent the number of private airports and that number um it it's just [15:11] gone down slightly in the past couple of years but um there are actually numbers for every single one of these years but [15:17] we just were focusing on the past couple of years and then the data that we have just goes back to 1990 so this is a [15:24] snapshot of um what the number of airport has been over time general aviation [15:33] aircraft types right now the FAA is reporting [15:39] that there's about 10,000 um registered rotocraft which is a [15:44] helicopter U fixed Wing aircraft 167,000 and light aircraft which [15:51] includes some experimental aircraft and that's 34,200 [16:02] who are the stakeholders at the Mac airports and and aviation in general these are the major [16:09] stakeholders aircraft operators airport tenants communities whether they're [16:16] surrounding the airport or not community means everything including airports and [16:25] businesses on and off the airport are also part of that community Regulators because there's a lot of [16:31] different types of Regulation a lot of layers of Regulation and the process for either [16:39] changing a regulation um or I would say proposing [16:45] new regulation it's a very long process because there are so many different layers and so many different Regulators [16:51] that that get involved in those things Aviation consumers that's basically everyone I [16:57] don't know any body today that can live without aviation in some form or another we've just as a society become so [17:04] dependent upon Aviation and then airport owners like the Mac we are also a [17:12] stakeholder what is the value in 2023 the [17:17] FAA estimates the value of aviation in the US to be represented by 26 million [17:26] flight hours general aviation flight hours I'm not quite sure how they calculate that but the FAA puts out a [17:33] report it's called by the numbers and that report does show that in uh fiscal [17:40] year uh 2024 which basically was you know calculating [17:47] everything that happened in 2023 it totals 26 million flight hours the share [17:53] of GDP that Aviation represents is 5.2% and then annual earning earnings [17:59] from Aviation is $488 billion that was in 2023 us jobs [18:07] generated from Aviation 11 million so these are you know pretty significant [18:13] numbers um we at the Mac also calculate um you know the value of aviation in our [18:20] system which we'll get into a little bit later but this is the big picture for 2023 for o aviation in the US [18:29] now we're going to talk about the local aspect of Aviation and Sam's going to [18:35] take over from [18:40] here thank you Jennifer everybody uh Sam celd again [18:46] Airport Manager and so we're just kind of narrowing down from the big picture down to [18:52] our uh little picture uh so local Aviation [18:57] overview uh there are 132 public airports in [19:03] Minnesota um and the Mac owns and operates Minneapolis International as [19:08] our commercial Aviation airport as well as a system of six general aviation [19:14] airports if you didn't already know that um with air Lake [19:19] included uh we also have a NOA County Blain airport Flying Cloud Airport in [19:25] Eden Prairie Crystal airport Downtown St St Paul and Lake [19:30] Elmo um we all except first an exception of St Paul which had a a Justified need [19:38] for a longer Runway about a 6500t Runway uh we're all mandated to by the state [19:45] law to uh restrict the the length to 5,000 ft for our [19:50] airports um airlake airport is established as a reliever airport to [19:56] enhance and support uh the aviation system and reduce congestion at [20:01] Minneapolis that was a primary reason of the the entire reliever Airport [20:11] System there we go and so uh just an overview of the Metropolitan airports [20:17] commission board uh we do have [20:22] um eight districts each district having a representative on the M commission [20:28] there's four outstate representatives from Thief River Falls duth St Cloud and [20:33] Rochester appointed to the board as well and then Minneapolis and St Paul each [20:39] have a a mayor appointed board member as well as a chair appointed by the [20:44] governor uh that creates the 15 member board that meets once a month uh with a [20:50] couple other committee meetings on off weeks as well [20:58] and then moving on oops so we have an excerpt here from a [21:04] sectional chart and which is an aeronautical chart that Pilots um have [21:09] to use in order to properly and safely navigate the national airspace [21:15] system uh there's a a lot of information on here which um you know Pilots are [21:23] able to read more effectively after they go through the proper training but um [21:28] after a while it becomes second nature to look at a chart and look exactly at what you need and find the information [21:35] you need based off any combination of symbols lines of different colors [21:42] circles you know um and and and different abbreviations of numbers to [21:48] tell you the information that you need um basically the point we wanted to make here is that flying in a congest [21:58] airspace like this is a a difficult thing to do and Pilots have to receive [22:03] the proper training in order to do it and I guess from the surface up to where [22:09] you need to go whatever altitude or whatever Direction you're going You're you have Pilots that are looking up the [22:17] information they need tuning in frequencies and talking to different [22:23] controllers and talking to each other in order to safely navigate the system um [22:28] um they're able to find the airspace that they're in and each airspace has different requirements Jennifer spoke [22:34] about it earlier there's some protected airspaces and there's unprotected airspaces but um you're able to find [22:42] what you need and avoid obstacles Know Field elevations and most of everything [22:48] you need from charts like these there actually is a a more zoomed in chart that Pilots can use uh called the [22:55] terminal area chart in the bigger metropolitan areas around the the country but most Pilots around the [23:00] country come to be familiar with these sectional charts which are wide multi-state [23:07] areas um also on these charts you'll see that there's different uh yellow blobs around the [23:15] area and those are the lit areas that you'd see at night as well as a lot of [23:20] different landmarks and geographical features that help a pilot navigate to [23:27] and from whichever aort they're going [23:34] to okay so we have some uh a couple pictures uh 1970 the airlake industrial [23:43] park and then basically a 2024 picture of the same place showing the um [23:51] increase in industry and the increase in buildings at the airport along with the [23:56] surrounding area so it's just just uh a nice little reminder of where we were to [24:02] where we are [24:07] now here is a just the last couple years [24:13] of development specifically at the airport and maybe uh also important to note on the east side of Cedar [24:20] Avenue a few other industry buildings that went up and if you pay attention to [24:26] the south side of the airport we can see our development going on in [24:32] the South and then here is [24:40] 2022 um moving [24:45] on the rules so uh we've talked about the Federal Aviation regulations and um basically [24:54] the the the fs are there to apply to all flight operations in the [24:59] US and those are mandated enforced by the FAA the Federal Aviation [25:06] Administration U Mac airports are open for public use 24 hours per day um we [25:13] don't always see operations happening in the middle of the night but when we do [25:19] uh they are perfectly legal um Pilots can arrive and depart using any FAA [25:26] certificated aircraft type and the traffic pattern at air lake is 1,000 [25:35] ft above the ground and uh just a note that [25:41] requirement doesn't apply to aircraft uh on approach or to Landing or during the [25:46] takeoff so they'll be lower during those times and there's also minimum safe altitudes published as part of the [25:53] Federal Aviation regulations as well um [25:58] and then noise abatement practices or noise abatement best practices at Mac airports are completely [26:05] voluntary um that's where you see hopefully Pilots around the system are [26:12] uh paying attention to those noise abatement procedures and we may see different [26:17] around the system different complaints but for the most part if they're following the noise abatement practices [26:23] there could still be some homeowners or residents that could be irritated by [26:28] some of the aircraft noise but it's just a common fact around [26:34] airports and then wind direction are used uh to help determine [26:39] which Runway to use aircraft always want to try to take off and land into a headwind or whichever Runway would be [26:47] most suitable for the most amount of headwind there's a picture of our local [26:54] airlake wind sock which we try to replace uh at least once a year so it doesn't [27:01] get faded by the sun okay moving into anatomy of the [27:07] airport and while we're talking about the wind um the the runway designator as well is [27:15] based off the magnetic direction that the aircraft is pointed so for the non-pilots that listen to these in on [27:23] these meetings throughout the year when we're talking about different Runway um it's it's basically talking about the [27:30] direction that they're using for take off or landing and then we have a an automated weather observation system [27:38] that also reports the wind and velocity in a magnetic direction to help Pilots [27:44] choose that suitable Runway [27:50] um and then just for specifically Runway 1230 at air Lake 4,999 ft long by 75 ft [27:58] wide and uh it's that northwest southeast alignment that we see and a lot of times we just talk about north [28:05] and south side of the the runway like that and just the East West flow but um [28:10] it is a Northwest and Southeast alignment and then [28:15] uh moving on the the runway 30 end which as your aircraft pointed in that 3000 [28:21] magnetic heading that is our calm wind designated Runway [28:29] and then some other things about the airlake airport basic features uh most airports do have an FBO ours is the uh [28:37] aoft Aviation um also known as aircraft resource center and they're there to [28:42] provide all the basic common services for for pilots and aircraft owners uh [28:49] things like aircraft Flight Training rental um aircraft maintenance fuel [28:55] provider as well and Pilot Supplies and and sometimes Charter as [29:00] well and then our hanger area we have uh about aund [29:08] and I'm looking it up here about 106 air um building leases at the [29:16] airport with about 130 based aircraft and basically um the Mac is [29:22] there to make sure our aircraft tenants or hanger tenants have access to the [29:28] aircraft at all times and uh aside from this one storm we had at [29:35] the beginning of March we've been able to maintain everything open um as much [29:40] as possible we were however closed for about 14 hours during that last storm just unable to keep up with the inch and [29:47] a half um per hour of snow that we were getting but um most of those aircraft [29:55] hanger storage buildings are um just that they're just for aircraft storage [30:00] and incidentally any else that a hanger owner could put in that hanger without [30:05] impeding the movement of that aircraft in or out um weather monitoring our [30:11] Southside weather station is our awos automated weather observation system and [30:18] uh Pilots usually use that before taking off and When approaching the airport to get the pressure altitude wind wind [30:25] velocity ceiling visibility all the important information and data that you need to safely operate that [30:34] aircraft okay moving on these are some aircraft types that we commonly see most [30:41] commonly see at air Lake um and that's it comes out to be about 95% of just [30:47] small piston propeller aircraft but we do have other aircraft that we [30:55] see um as well including couple jet operations um or a few jet operations [31:02] per week uh as well as some twin engine uh transing aircraft here and [31:07] there and Flight Training some helicopters and some turbo prop [31:15] aircraft moving forward some of the Technical Systems at [31:23] the airlake airport I want to talk about include the lighting and uh navigational [31:30] AIDs that we have as a benefit at the airlake airport um these are information that [31:37] Pilots uh or Pilots need to look up this information they're able to look up in chart supplements uh specifically this [31:44] airport and Facilities directory and they're able to get information they need on how to tune and properly [31:50] navigate to the different nav AES and and what type of lighting we have at the airport [31:58] so first of all uh we'd like to pause here and allow for this video to play which was um provided by Tom fitzen Fitz [32:07] Henry and Al alwin so this is an approach to Runway [32:16] 30 and one thing to pay attention to which I'll talk about here in a little bit you have [32:21] the approach light system there with you can see it's commonly referred to as r [32:28] lights that guide you toward the runway off to the right you see a green and white light that's our airport Beacon [32:34] that is constantly rotating throughout the [32:40] night you can see the green threshold lights to help identify the beginning of [32:46] the runway the white Runway Edge lights which are red as you nearing the end of [32:53] the runway they transition to Red the set of four papy lights which is [32:59] our Precision approach path indicator off to the right side of the runway to help the pilot come in on a nice Glide [33:07] path there's the orange wind sock to the left and you see those blue lights to [33:12] the right and left those are taxiway lights to help the pilots identify which surface they're [33:19] on does anybody want to watch the video again um nice smooth Landing by Captain [33:26] Fitz Henry [33:34] sorry Colonel Fitz [33:39] Henry okay moving forward I mentioned the papy which um you know acronyms in [33:46] aviation are so common that we sometimes forget what what the acronyms stand for but uh [33:55] moving forward Precision approach path indicator lights they're for Runway one2 [34:00] they're off on the left side as the pilots are approaching and for Runway 30 they're off on the right side of the [34:06] runway and uh they're an additional I guess visual navigation [34:12] tool for Pilots to help come in on an an appropriate Glide path all red means you're too low and you can see I'm on [34:18] the ground there so they're all red and if you're too high they're all [34:25] white the real light Swit which we've had an issue with for a long time at air [34:31] Lake for Runway one2 we actually replaced these last summer so they're brand new and now we're going through a [34:36] warranty claim on them uh to try to get those [34:41] working but but yeah real Runway and identifier lights they're in a a [34:47] well-lit area of the city they're there to help assist the pilots find the beginning of the the runway that they're [34:53] wanting to land on okay we have an airport Beacon this [34:59] is uh an older oldfashioned Beacon that's still a big incandescent light up [35:05] there um but yeah it spins all night long when it's dark and one side of it [35:12] has a green lens on it that gives you the green and the white to help Pilots identify initially where the airport is [35:18] that they're looking for and then find the runway environment from there um it's also to help confirm to them that [35:24] they're landing at a um a civilian airport a military airport would have uh [35:32] a second white light in there and then um there's different colors for sea SE [35:39] plane base and uh horts but uh specifically for air Lake if you've ever wondered why there's a green and the [35:45] white light uh spinning around that's to help the pilots navigate to the [35:52] airport so something very nice about the airlake airport is we do have four [35:57] different instrument approach procedures and that those help Pilots uh on a basic [36:03] level just during Flight Training to help keep or Pilots can gain their instrument rating by flying to air Lake [36:10] and uh and flying these approaches and then in periods of inclement weather they can use these instrument approach [36:17] procedure charts to help navigate down to a safe landing when there's low clouds or low [36:22] visibility um it's a benefit to be able to have an airport like air Lake that [36:29] has a what's called an ILS instrument Landing system it's a Precision approach [36:35] and the Precision approaches help the aircraft descend down lower than some of [36:41] the GPS non-precision approaches or I'll talk about I'll show you a picture of a [36:46] VR as well um the those approaches bring you down as well in inclement weather [36:53] but at a higher minimum descent altitude compared to a Precision approach which bring the aircraft down to about [37:00] 200 ft above the ground so here's the ILS uh a couple of components there are [37:07] the localizer which for Runway 3 ILS Runway 30 the localizer is actually on the [37:13] opposite side of the airport pointing down the runway and into the Final Approach path and it just uh the the [37:22] different uh I guess uh radio waves that go out [37:28] those uh balance in the airplane's um instrumentation and the [37:33] pilots are able to line up hopefully right on center line when coming in for the ILS and then there on the left is [37:39] the Glide slope and it's the same concept it's helping Pilots while they're in the clouds with no visual [37:46] visual of the runway come down on a nice Glide path toward the landing [37:52] surface you might hear us talk about maler and those are the approach lights that you saw on Tom's [37:59] flight and uh I Love This Acronym it's the medium intensity approach light [38:06] system with Runway alignment indicator lights but you can just call it a [38:13] Mouser and those are all these ILS components are owned op and maintained [38:20] by the FAA okay about 2 miles east of the [38:25] airlake airport in uh field we have another antenna owned and maintained by [38:31] the fa which is the v a very high frequency Omni directional [38:36] range and that's the main navigational tool used for the VR approach which is a [38:43] non-precision Approach at the airlake [38:50] airport okay and Jennifer will take over from there thank [38:55] you so all of these p pieces are connected they are all important pieces [39:01] of accessibility to the airport the Mac does um take very seriously the [39:09] ownership of the airport and all of the facilities um that we're responsible for to keep it safe and that's you know [39:17] Sam's job is to make sure that the airport is accessible because it is a very important Transportation a asset [39:24] for the community but for the Aviation Network as well it connects airlake [39:31] airport with basically the rest of the world um there's a lot of training that [39:36] takes place at the airport not just flight training but there's other types [39:42] of training um people are learning skills there um maybe they're Aviation [39:48] related skills maybe they're not but their the airport has many different [39:53] types of businesses and education opportunities that take place um there's [40:00] also jobs we talked about some of the the global job um impact of Aviation but [40:06] the local job impact is also important and we'll talk about those numbers in just a [40:12] minute access to services and resources a very important piece of the role of [40:19] airlake airport I don't REM know if you remember as this group but we did [40:26] recognize um an aircraft operator who was able to come in and land at the airport for a [40:32] medical flight in inclement weather um that that flight did rely on the the [40:38] tools the navigation tools and the Lighting systems um that Sam was just talking about but then Mac also um was [40:48] able to keep the runway clear and open for that operator to get to the airport [40:53] and get that patient to where that patient needed to be so we think about [40:58] all of the different services that the airport provides but there's so many different ones that we're even not quite [41:04] aware of we'll talk about a couple of those later and then events I think many [41:11] of you are aware of the events that take place at the airport we have um flying [41:18] breakfasts we have uh pan Prague we have other types of um Gatherings at the [41:25] airport where fol F can use the airport as a gathering space but also they can [41:31] um have a gateway to Aviation and learn about Aviation and have that exposure to the airport and aircraft and all that [41:38] Aviation has to offer so let's talk about a couple of those [41:46] specifically we have an aircraft viewing area that is um a space that is open all [41:52] the time we have folks there that will just hang out and watch Airplanes or [41:57] conduct maybe you know a couple you know personal meetings maybe a picnic or [42:03] lunchtime or something like that but it is a space that is always available it [42:09] is actually on the on the very sort of Northwestern um access area of the [42:16] airport we have events like um what you see in the middle picture on the top row [42:23] that is um pah Prague taking place and um where you can learn about how [42:29] Aviation is used in this particular picture that's the sheriff operating they do um land and take off here at the [42:36] airport but we also have um medical operators we have um mosquito control [42:41] and we have some other um services that are provided by helicopter as well as [42:47] helicopter training um every pilot has to receive training somewhere so um the [42:52] fact that you know this airport does have the opportunities for training is [42:57] is very important not just um for pilot education but as um Community um to [43:03] enhance and strengthen the community opportunities we have some farmland and [43:10] that's what you're you're seeing in the upper right um corner there um the Mac [43:15] owns the airport and the land but we also lease [43:21] it out um in this particular case we're leasing it to a farmer it is a non- aeronautical use but it's still very Val [43:27] valuable land and we are um helping the community benefit from that by letting [43:33] it be farmed um in the background of that picture you'll see hangers um lots [43:38] of different types of activity are taking place but each one of those [43:43] hangers has some um tie to Aviation whether it's a a based aircraft park [43:49] there or whether that's a facility that can be used by a visiting aircraft um [43:55] for some reason in the lower left corner you'll see um another picture of pan [44:01] prag and in the picture you'll see it's kind of a unique looking aircraft um [44:07] Aviation has a very rich history in this area but in the entire Twin Cities and so celebrating that um keeps us [44:14] connected with where we've been um not just in aviation but how Aviation has [44:20] helped us get to where we are right now as a society in the middle picture there [44:26] it's um just an aircraft that is operating um using the airport and um [44:33] it's not significant in any way other than it is a we don't see a lot of twin [44:38] engine activity here at the airport but we do embrace all Aviation any pilot [44:44] that's able to use the airport for whatever purpose they need to use it for um as long as they determine that this [44:50] airport can provide what they need in terms of Landing surface and takeoff surface and parking area um our Airport [44:57] is open to them and the picture in the in the lower right is just just a [45:03] reminder that airplanes come here and they go they come and go from the airport they are coming from somewhere [45:10] and they are going to somewhere and there's a lot uh of value in being able [45:15] to have the freedom uh to come and go wherever you need to because as you know commercial service is not available at [45:22] every airport and it isn't always convenient um for you know getting people to where they need to [45:31] go here are the numbers for airlake airport and I will fully acknowledge [45:37] we're not quite there yet with our updated numbers so the um numbers you're seeing there are about a year old um the [45:45] economic value is 13.2 million for airlake airport we had um this this [45:51] chart says about 38,000 operations but we actually know in 2024 we um we had 20 [45:58] we had 42,000 operations we've got equipment based on the Airfield we've got 139 [46:05] based aircraft and the annual operating revenue is [46:10] 431 uh million, 30 431,000 and um if you're interested in [46:17] the number of Lights we've got on the Airfield there's a count of those there at 212 I will also point out um so some [46:27] services that there it's in small print here and it was you know the logos appeared on the previous chart but I [46:34] can't say enough about sort of the I'll say it's a little obscure but Civil Air [46:40] Patrol is a high service provider that does benefit not just this airport in [46:45] this community but everywhere um they they provide a very valuable service and [46:51] um EAA also provides a very valuable service um flying young people and [46:57] training uh and um sorry networking and mentoring Young Folks they have a young [47:04] um Young Eagles program that introduces people to Aviation if they would you [47:10] know don't have any other opportunity to do so EA welcomes them and Embraces the [47:15] opportunity but they also encourage young people to continue that [47:23] on one more thing that the Mac does to promote general aviation throughout our [47:29] uh System including airlake airport is to show um this is a very high level [47:36] overview of general aviation at Mac airports but we created a video a couple years ago it's about three minutes or so [47:43] long I'm not going to share it with you today but I am going to tell you it is available on YouTube it is also [47:49] available on the max website but it is a a very very broad um explanation of [47:56] generally Aviation and I offer that to you to take back to your communities um [48:01] to you know share that for anyone who has a question about what's the mystery of general aviation this video is a [48:08] great tool of course we are recording this this meeting today and you may also [48:14] share that but we've been talking for about 30 minutes and this is a three minute video so you might want to go for [48:19] the shorter version at this point Sam and I are both [48:24] happy to answer questions wonderful anybody have any questions for Jennifer [48:29] and Sam that was a great report thank you it's uh very [48:35] informative well next on the agenda is the Lakeville seaf frequency change [48:41] update from Sam okay well just as an overview on what [48:49] got us to this point uh it was in I believe September that this group uh [48:57] requested through a vote uh that we look into changing the frequency um due to unsafe conditions [49:04] out there in the traffic pattern with the current frequency that uh airlake shares with about four other airports uh [49:11] within earshot uh FCC applications were submitted in [49:17] October FCC approved a frequency change [49:22] to 22975 on January 1st of this [49:30] year how we came up with 122 975 was based off of a a survey of all the [49:37] airport seats within 100 miles and what we found was [49:44] 12375 was by far the best frequency it didn't share any airports within 100 [49:51] miles um but at the same time Lake Elmo airport was going through the process as well and they [49:58] um the second best frequency I should say this first was the 122 [50:03] 975 so we had a top frequency to pick from which was not shared by anybody and [50:10] then a second best which was shared by only New Richmond in the 75 milei radius [50:15] and uh being that Lake Elmo was by far a lot closer to New Richmond than than [50:21] than air Lake um they they took the one 122 2 97 or the 123 [50:30] 075 and then we went with the the second best option which in our Viewpoint at [50:35] the time was the second best option so we put those applications through FCC [50:41] approved January 1st FAA approved on January 6th the changed on February 20th [50:49] um so following this uh the New Richmond Airport did put [50:54] out a um a request that we revisit and [51:00] re-evaluate in their opinion we would not see an improvement being that both [51:05] airports have a lot of based aircraft and are busy um at that time we our [51:11] evaluations were that yes they they do have a lot of based aircraft they weren't uh by far as busy as as their [51:16] Lake and that we would benefit from a decrease in congestion with this [51:22] frequency um but being that they New Richmond did raise a concern we wanted [51:27] to do our due diligence and and not just make the change just because [51:35] but um satisfy our neighboring airports concern that this could decrease safety [51:40] instead of the overall goal was to make things better and not worse so um that's [51:47] what we've done we've paused we've submitted uh communication to the FAA and the FCC that we' like to hold on on [51:54] moving forward and and that's what we're doing at this point some other options that could be a [52:02] good decision we do have another the third best option was uh [52:09] 123.5 which is shared by Redwing and the helipad at the Mayo [52:15] Clinic um but Redwing is also a busy airport with lots of aircraft so we're [52:22] just trying to make the best decision with all available information before moving forward with this change we know [52:29] it's not a if the option uh for a different frequency comes up in the [52:36] future that we can always make this change again but it we don't want to just do nric reactions and change the [52:42] frequency all the time we want to find the best frequency that we can have for the long term so um that's the update [52:50] the last time I updated this group was just that we were submitting the [52:57] uh application to the FCC but now we've had a lot of updates since then so just [53:03] wanted to keep everybody in the loop on that we are still on 1230 for the time being so if you have [53:11] any questions on the process there I can answer that right thank you Sam any questions for [53:18] Sam all right we are moving through this our next item is a Lakeville housing and [53:26] population growth given by Tina [53:37] goodroad I'm going to go through an annual report that we do every year um based on put together by our Economic [53:44] Development Department um give you a good idea of what's been happening in Lakeville over the past year um we've had a lot of [53:51] activity as you can see as you drive through town um building permit valuation total over over $257 million [53:58] um you can see how that compares to previous years um it has slowed down a little bit our Peak was um definitely [54:04] during the covid years when we had such a huge residential boom um some of our largest projects you can see happen in [54:11] the industrial area with the sweet Harvest Foods building um private sector invested over 75.1 million into [54:18] commercial and Industrial Development alone not including residential um the sweet Harvest Foods building in the [54:25] previous year and then the RL Cold Storage which is just behind the sweet Harvest Foods building came in with the [54:30] largest building permit valuation of 32 million and then you can see the other ones below um each of these are kind of [54:37] scattered around um different areas of the community residential continues to be [54:43] really hot in Lakeville um we were number two in residential permit numbers we had been number one for about 10 [54:51] years in 2023 we finished at number three and in 2024 we B ped back up to [54:57] number two just behind Woodbury um so we remain um consistently high with [55:02] residential development we completed the year with 285 single family permits 100 detached Town Homes 49 attached town [55:10] homes and one apartment um of 89 units and that is um the uh the um Historia um [55:17] condos up by the hosana um Church campus residential building permit valuation [55:23] totaled 155.0 million so so that accounted for 60% of the over overall building permit [55:29] valuation which is good it's good to see a balance um that not all of that revenue is coming from [55:38] residential um and again we rank number two in residential unit totals um so the [55:43] first was um permit totals in unit totals we ranked number two also just [55:48] behind motanka median home value in Lakeville as of 2024 was 41,100 [55:56] number of households um Rose to 2,881 and we have an average household [56:02] size of 2.9 the map behind this box represents where that [56:09] residential activity is happening so all those little red dots um represent permits residential permits that were [56:15] issued across the city and again the airport is to the [56:21] South we' have had a lot of institutional development um antlers Park was the big one in 2023 um in 2024 [56:30] um with it opening um Grand Prairie Park off of 185th um will is under [56:35] construction if you've seen activity as you're driving down Cedar Avenue um this project received multiple building [56:42] permits for different elements um including um the main park building challenge course covered [56:48] grandstand um dugouts for the new baseball stadium and pickle ball court so many of these elements including the [56:54] splash plaid will open this this year with the remaining open um everything being done in [57:01] 2026 we have a lot of business growth happening in Lakeville um this slide I [57:07] like um it just demonstrates all the different types of entities both industrial commercial medical that are [57:15] um have called Lakeville home over the past year medical continues to be a big investment um in Lakeville um there is [57:23] spe several different specialty centers that are listed on the left side of your screen um that includes children's uh [57:29] Minnesota Specialty Center um the Alina health building opened last year um [57:34] we've had several chiropractic offices make Lakeville home and then some expansion um to some of our existing [57:41] uses we also have new dining options and a lot of new retail [57:47] options one of the things that we love to do in our department is celebrate new businesses we do this in conjunction [57:53] with the Lakeville chamber we attended 25 ribbon cutting so that just reflects the amount of activity going on in [57:59] Lakeville and we had three groundbreaking ceremonies Lakeville employs [58:05] 21852 people as of second quarter 2024 when we do our state of the city [58:10] presentation we'll have some updated numbers on this um that equates to a 3.9% increase over 2023 count and a [58:20] 31.4% increase in the last decade so again you can see that addition of all [58:25] of the um both industrial a lot in the medical area that's really driving that [58:31] employment growth and then it lists um on this Slide the top employers um Lakeville Public School District Hive [58:38] heride Food Solutions BT manufacturer some of the top um Levi's unemployment [58:43] is also low um at 2.4% compared to the county at 2.7 and the state at 2.9 and [58:49] again these are numbers from end of 2024 um it's probably one of my my [58:56] favorite slides it really shows and demonstrates where all of that activity is happening um so you can see in Orange [59:03] all the commercial permits so this would be either new construction or additions [59:09] remodels um at existing businesses um as well as new construction um the purple [59:16] represents um City activities so any um public facilities and then the red [59:21] represents any of the residential so there really is activity scattered across the C [59:27] City one of the things that we do in our department is really promote Lakeville [59:32] um when we do that we do promote the airport as well um we really try to do a [59:38] lot of Outreach to um prospective business owners um one way that we do [59:43] that is reaching out to Brokers so we have a lot of activities take place um at attending broker events um we [59:50] participate and plan a Southwest Suburban Summit that happens every May [59:56] um we sponsor real estate Journal activities and just try and get in front of folks um to um you know advertize the [1:00:04] amount of available land that we have um we still have over 600 acres in the industrial park um looking at [1:00:11] opportunities to expand that um so it's something that we spend a lot of time on [1:00:16] um in our positions we did complete an economic development strategic plan you can find this on our website um this [1:00:24] lays out the foundation of activities that we're going to be doing alongside our Economic Development commission over [1:00:29] the next four years and one of the things that we're kicking off with that is a business retention and expansion [1:00:36] program visits which is basically um a partnership with the chamber um and the [1:00:41] city to um complete um business visits and we're going to visit with industrial [1:00:47] businesses as well as all of the non-industrial so our medical commercial our hospitality and so forth and I think [1:00:54] that's probably on this slide so that's really our um focus this year um we'll be also um looking at our downtown plan [1:01:02] and doing some updates to that as well as an industry cluster analysis any questions I know that was [1:01:09] kind of quick thank you any questions look like there's any [1:01:15] questions all right thank you you know it's it's remarkable how [1:01:21] when we saw the uh airport piece we saw the economics of Aviation we see the [1:01:26] growth happening in the community and I I'm grateful that we have an airport um [1:01:31] I think that's a going to be a significant um Factor as as we continue [1:01:37] to grow and then seen it as a community resource too in the events I'm sure if Christa Jack were here she'd be um they [1:01:44] F some chamber events out at the airport and it's been just a valuable partner so [1:01:50] we're grateful thank you for that presentation um a airport manager update [1:01:57] from Sam okay I just have uh about four [1:02:02] things to write an update to um the maintenance building office is uh [1:02:09] starting its renovation on April 14th April 15th sorry um and basically that [1:02:16] that project consists of uh almost an entire gut a demo of the entire inside [1:02:22] they're going to replace three walls and replace the roof [1:02:28] um that's about a 60-day turnaround on that project we don't have because of that [1:02:36] project we don't have an early uh tenant in Airport US of barbecue this year it's [1:02:41] now rescheduled for October uh specifically October 6th at 4:30 [1:02:47] p.m. before the snow flies um airlake [1:02:53] uh Airport is does have the 225th Street Paving on the budget this year uh the [1:03:01] current status is that it's going out for uh an rpz Alternatives analysis to [1:03:07] the fa and that's another acronym it's the runway protection zone so that's basically the first step um to review [1:03:15] before obtaining any approval to do the work and then the planning will start [1:03:21] and we'll talk about bidding after that but that's the current status that we're in [1:03:27] and then the other goals for this summer are just to continue the coordination and and communication with the FAA in [1:03:34] order to in order to get the environmental assessment started we do have [1:03:41] um we we do we we have received some updates from our Mac AirPort Development [1:03:46] Group that uh the team members there and the fa are having um some positive [1:03:52] discussions as well as discussions with all four pipeline companies that have um [1:03:58] the the pipelines underneath the runway so um everything's kind of moving in a a [1:04:04] more positive direction than we've had over the last couple years um but at that point that's the [1:04:10] only update I have for those projects thanks Sam any questions all right um well that uh [1:04:19] takes care of item five item six is member announcements do we have any member announce [1:04:26] hearing none well I guess uh just there' be one um o July 6th is the Lakefield [1:04:33] lions are having the flying breakfast at the airlake airport and um I guess it's going to be very [1:04:40] similar to last year we are still working on the uh uh uh pance aircraft [1:04:45] that come in but um anyway that's coming I know of um the EAA is having a [1:04:52] a flying breakfast at least currently scheduled for Father's Day I don't know any details on that particular one but [1:04:58] um that's best I know they were considering moving it to Mother's Day but I don't I haven't heard any anything [1:05:05] uh definitive on that at the moment but um yeah well today we had a visit um [1:05:15] you're not you're not muted today we had a visit from uh Gary black from Arista [1:05:20] and we're actually in the process of purchasing a Sirus simulator [1:05:26] and uh adding a 10day accelerated instrument course to the airport with a [1:05:31] Sirus simulator so that's uh would be very exciting so it drive airport [1:05:38] operations up maybe we could beat a NOA so and then I do have one question [1:05:43] for you um Sam as you were aware we had a an aircraft uh you know that was had a [1:05:50] flat tire or whatever it was on the runway um my suggestion to the Mac would be to maybe invest in an airplane skate [1:05:58] you know we can possibly maintain it at the FBO but that way when an aircraft is [1:06:04] stranded on the runway we have you know better equipment to actually remove [1:06:10] it okay I can definitely look into the process involved [1:06:17] there any other member updates thank you thanks for those [1:06:23] items uh review the meeting schedule uh we have our next meetings on June 26th [1:06:29] September 11th November 20th uh Jennifer are we to assume that [1:06:35] the location would be here or we GNA yes okay we are planning to have the [1:06:42] meetings here and I'll be coordinating with the city on those all right thank you um well uh that ends the meeting we [1:06:51] are now adjourned [1:07:01] [Music] [1:07:24] [Music] [1:07:32] [Music]