October-2006 Board Minutes

I have them on-line click here and hit tab for board minutes. Some interesting things:

1. Chairman Delahunty apologized to Commissioner Nemeth for an exchange that they had at the September Meeting. What was the exchange concerning? No idea I do not see anything in the September minutes. Although my guess is at the end of the meeting there was this "the Chairman provided the opportunity for each member to share their thoughts on the departure (of Allegiant) from the Worcester market."
   
2. Can we please simply have a vote to give the Airport Director the discretion to allow film crews to utilize ORH, versus taking up valuable time at each meeting. Not only was this issue brought up again, but Commissioner Nemeth has requested more information on the film company? Commissioners should be going through every budget line item losing $2,000,000 per year not discussing the merits of Moody Street Pictures.
   
3. Airport budget was discussed, but no numbers were mentioned or budgets printed incorporated into the minutes. How is that possible to exclude the actual budget numbers from the Airport Minutes?
   
4. Again no inquiries as to how IMG is doing on their recruitment efforts. No mention of any negotiations with any commercial airlines. At the same time the City Council meeting last Tuesday said that IMG was preparing packages for two airlines, does this mean the Airport Commissioners do not even know that??
   

In all seriousness the lack of reporting in the minutes is at the point of being ridiculous. An item from the the September meeting where the members discuss why Allegiant may have left ORH is exactly the types of things that they should be doing and private citizens like us be weighing in on. How you can not record what was said, and simply write "ensued".

On the other hand we have paragraphs about how Moody Street Pictures wants to film at ORH. Who cares?? Seriously, we should make it as easy as possible for companies to film ($2,000 per day) and conduct photo-shoots, but leave that up to the discretion of the Airport Director. The Airport Commission they have much more important matters then this!!

You got to love Bob Nemeth, however, asking for more information on the film company? By the way click the link above, they seem like quite reputable company and we should welcome them to use our facilities, at $2,000 per day, at anytime.

Lastly how can the actual budget for ORH not be included in the October minutes?? I will request it.