2018-11-27 Council Airport Committee Minutes
City CouncilAirportCommittee
Tuesday,November 27, 2018
Meeting Minutes
After determining that a quorum was present, the City of Denton Council Airport Committee
convenedin a meeting on Tuesday, November 27, 2018, at 10:04 a.m., at Main City Hall in the
City Hall Conference Room, 215E. McKinneySt., Denton, Texas.
PRESENT: Mayor ChrisWattsand Council Member Don Duff.
REGRETS: Council Member and Committee Chair, John Ryan.
STAFF PRESENT: Trey Lansford, Deputy City Attorney, Scott Gray, Airport Manager, and
Theresa Jaworski, Recording Secretary.
OTHERS PRESENT: Orian Johnson, University of North Texas student.
Scott Gray, Airport Manager brought the meeting to order.
Council Member Don Duff nominated Mayor Chris Watts as acting Chair, in the absence of
Council Member John Ryan.
Watts advised that the Committee would go into Closed Session at 10:05 a.m.
1. CLOSED MEETING
Deliberate regarding Real Property - Under Texas Government Code
A. CAC18-025
551.072; Consultation with Attorneys - Under Texas Government Code Section 551.071.
Discuss, deliberate, and receive information from staffand provide staff with direction
pertaining to Airportlease and permit policies, procedures,terms and rates where the
deliberation of samein an openmeeting would have a detrimental effect on the position of
the governmental body in negotiations with a third person or potential litigation.
Consultation with City attorneysregarding legal issuesassociated with Airport leases
and permits where a public discussion of these legal matters would conflict with the duty
of the City attorneys to the City of Denton, the Denton City Council, and the Council
Airport Committee under the Texas Rules of Disciplinary Conduct of the State Bar of
Texas, or would jeopardize the Cityegal position in negotiations or potentiallitigation.
Following the completion of the Closed Meeting, the Council Airport Committee convenedin a
Regular Meeting at 10:11 a.m. to consider the following items:
2. REGULAR MEETING
A.CAC18-030 - Consider approval of the City CouncilAirport Committee Meeting
Minutes of October 23, 2018.
Council Member Duff made amotionto approve the minutes as presented. Mayor Chris
Watts seconded the motion. The motion wasapproved unanimously with a vote of(2-0).
B. CAC18-029 - Receive a report, hold a discussion and provide staff direction on a
comparison of other area Airport Boards and Committees.
Gray explained the item as a follow-up to one of the requests from the last meeting
regarding the Airport Board and Committee makeup.
In 2011, the City Council adopted several ordinances establishing three entities, two boards
and a committee: he Airport Advisory Board, the Economic Development Partnership
Board, and the City Council Airport Committee.
information provided for this item,
comparing some of ommittees to the City of
Arlington, McKinney and Meacham. Of these entities the only one that has a board is
Addison. They have
The only exception is the Ft. Worth system that meets monthly.
Gray continued with nsideration. The option chosen
will assist the Legal and Airport staff to draft guiding documents moving forward.
Option 1: Keep the existing boards and committee structure and purview.
Option 2: Revise existing boards and committee structure and the purview with the
guiding documents coming forward. This could include addressing some
of the past concerns, specifically regarding lease approval and
recommendations for the leasing and development policy document that
will be coming forward. That will be helpful in curtailing some of the
issues taking place in the 2010 time frame. The Airport Advisory Board
will return to making recommendations to the City Council on all items,
moving them from an advisory board to a decision-making board or what
is called a quasi-judicial board.
Watts commented that these decisions need to be made by the full Council. Decisions on
these options should not be made by just two Council Members. The full Council made
these decisions in the beginning and it would be more appropriate to have this discussion
with the full Council as it is a whole different City Council.
Watts noted the absence of staff recommendation included in the information and advised
that when it is presented to full Council, point out the pros and cons of each option, offering
a fresh start with details on each of these options to make an informed choice on policy.
Duff agreed that the information needs to be presented to full Council to make the decisions
on the options.
Gray stated that it ion to take the options to full Council, as they are
recommend that all be presented at the same time.
Watts directed staff to include all items in the presentation to the City Council.
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3. CONCLUDING ITEMS
Watts asked for any concluding items.
, since the date
would be Christmas Day, unless pressing items arise that should be addressed by the
Committee.
Duff suggested that if that is the case, the meeting should be scheduled after Christmas not
before.
Gray stated that the next meeting would be around the third week in January.
With no more items to address, the meeting was adjourned at 10:19 a.m.
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