Um the quarterly report for the third quarter 2025 is included in the meeting packet. And I will just point out that um we did have five complaints for Air Lake Airport in the third quarter and that is an increase.

So, uh, we get some complaints that maybe are not justified for our area, but we still have to report them. That's right. They get tagged to the airport based on uh where the aircraft either operated to or from.

He was able to get a list of all of the addresses for the hangers um that Excel Energy needed to review the request for consideration of the meter designations regarding franchise fee. They have that now. um he the Excel Energy folks admitted or you know accepted that and is um trying to determine if a rate classification change is warranted.

I just want to state I really appreciate Lakeville get involved in this. It was kind of a item we weren't sure uh something that was assumed when we were now part of Lakeville that things were the same and we found out they weren't because of Lakeville taking over. We appreciate that, but I appreciate the city staff really jumping on this and try to get us a resolution.

Uh good afternoon, commission members. Again, Ryan Anderson, manager of community relations for the MAC. Uh regarding the roadway, we've made um some great progress since we've last met. uh we most notably cleared a major hurdle with the FAA and we were able to uh decouple the road from any federal review requirement.

But that that roadway again is um going to be fully funded by the MAC to be paved. Um and our hope is that we'll get that done next year.

We are still in conversations with the FAA on the environmental review process for that runway extension. Um, because that process is taking so long with the FAA, uh, the MAC is uh, looking at interim um, things that we can do to the airfield um, to um, help with improvements and on the airfield.

Uh given the fact this this has been stalled for I don't know five or seven years would it be possible to get a mediator involved

Unfortunately, we have a regulator and they have their processes and we're beholden to them. Um, and you know, we're trying to work within those processes. It's just unfortunately not on I think the timeline us here locally would like.

Our beacon, it's a civilian beacon, so it's uh green and white just rotating continuously during nighttime hours. Um it's been continuously inop, we we've probably put enough money in repairs to replace it already. So this last time that it went down about a month and a half ago, uh we just made the decision we're going to replace it now.

We're not allowed to keep a a field condition notm out for more than a 24-hour period. So if we don't update it, it expires. And that's why it's so important that we have somebody out to re-evaluate the conditions and and keep the notices to airmen up to date.

A little background, uh, we're currently on 123.0 zero uh which as a reminder for everybody share with uh New Olm, Albert Lee, uh Redwood Falls, Princeton and then some others that we hear like Mason City and and Alexandria which during times of you know stormy weather. We we we do hear those sometimes but because of atmospheric conditions but you know the the the ALAC came to us with a recommendation. We agreed that a change should be made.

Yeah, basically every when we went through this process at Lake Elmo last year, um yeah, everything you can think of as a means of communicating this to the pilots, we're we're going to do uh newsletter signage uh signage at the entryways of the airport. I don't think I'll be able to put signage out in the taxiways, but um we we def we have the uh automated weather. We can put a message at the end of that.

I just uh thank Sam for doing this because it the old frequency is just is unsafe to be honest and this is an great improvement for uh for safety for everybody around the airport, everybody that uses it.

Um overview is noise abatement programs are a set of recommended practices that are prepared in recognition for the need to make the environment around the airport and uh community surrounding the airport as neighborly as possible and the goal is to reduce the impact of the aircraft noise experienced by the residents near the airports.

We do have a comp noise complaint system that's uh available 24 hours. Um we have a phone line online form and email. We have a former airport advisory board that's the air airport advisory board. We provide uh fly neighborly and noise abatement best practices for our pilots as resources.

I thank Lakeville for making sense and putting industrial out there. Uh, it it maybe give us a little it takes away some of our safety zones, but some of us might be able to land on some of them big roofs. I don't know.

I'll just make a note that I will be reaching out to the current membership and thanking everyone. We certainly appreciate all of your participation for the past two years. We do have a two-year terms set up um for this group. And so anyone that I reach out to if they are interested in continuing on, that would be a good time to respond.