November 17, 2005
Guests: Bobby Lieb, Durango Chamber of Commerce – Speaker for our meeting today on Small Community Airport Service Development Plan (SCASDP)
Terri Anderson, returning to Durango; Dave Goss, El Dorado, California and new resident of Durango; John Marshall, visiting Rotarian from California; Marcella Arcuri our Rotary Student; and Todd Naccarato, the new Wal-Mart Manager.
Melissa Caskey reported the InterAct group has now grown to over 30 members. She and Angie Beach are both working with the group together. Money has been set aside by the club to cover tee shirts for each member.
Dave Ganevsky announced the Christmas Party will be held
at the
Steve Govreau will present a Fireside Chat on Wednesday November 30, 2005 at the Bank of Colorado beginning at 5:30 pm... New members their spouses or significant others along with Board Members are invited. This will be a potluck. Further details to follow.
Additional information from our illustrious leader – dues have gone up by $10.00 a month. This is to meet the rising cost District expenses. Realize that we have not raised our dues since our inception in 1979.
More good news… The Community Annual Report newspaper insert is set for a March 9th publication date. With the Durango Herald’s support and sponsorship our Scholarship Program is off to a great start!
The top five election nominees were: John Anderson, Angie Beach, Tami Coddington, Chi Lile, and Tim Walsworth. Each member present voted and the results will be announced at the December 1, 2005 meeting.
Bill Anderson announced the final date for
Mark Dold passed out Colorado State Patrol Citizen Ride-Along Release forms. This is a great opportunity to ride along and see what it is really like in the front seat of a patrol car. Contact Mark for additional forms if you would like to participate.
Mark Prouty – Peter Marshall escaped a fine because he brought Chocolate-Chip cookies to Marks place of business (sounds good).
Birthdays were celebrated by Ward Holmes, Pat Burkholder and Sara Olsen
Happy Dollars were contributed by Bill Cartwright and Walt Nowotny both for Ted Robson becoming their new neighbor; Steve Redding because he got to visit with his grandson; Nancy Vanderwal for all the hard work Steve Govreau has done towards our scholarship fund; Ward Holmes for the work his son did on sets for Beauty & Beast Play and Todd Naccarato just for being late.
Question of the
Day: Who coached a women’s basketball
ball team at the
Bobby Lieb gave a presentation related to USDOT pool of money that provides small airports with grants for improvements. Currently the larger industry is seeing lower revenue with higher costs as a result of fuel, labor and serving smaller communities, while locally we are seeing increasing demand of 80% plus loads with no increase in the supply. Higher than average fares and unreliable service plus there being not jet service available here until this summer. The local wages, population and PCPI have all gone up along with enplanements and a general stabilization over 2004 from seasonal to routine flights our of Durango/LaPlata Airport.
In a study done among other regional airports comparable
to
The Air Service Task Force composed of LEAD, DATO and the
Airport Commission was formed to address the concerns surrounding our growing
need for air service. The task force
hired The Boyd Group (Aviation Consulting and Forecasting) out of Golden,
After the proposal was awarded in August of 2005 they met
with Continental Airlines in October of 2005.
The question was asked, why Continental?
The directly connect to Dallas and
Continental has proposed to add year round jet service to