December Airport Minutes

I have posted the December Airport Commission Board minutes on-line, go to the home page, hit board minutes on the left and then December, 2006. Thanks Pete.. What can you say, except the same thing over and over again:

1. In January, 2005, when nobody was looking on the Airport Commission Board Minutes, they were 9 pages long. Now flash forward 23 months, when they are put on this web site (as well as the city web site), they are less then 2 pages.
2. Although the airport is now losing over $2,000,000 per year, there is nothing on the financials in the monthly meeting.
3. Although there is now 6 months left in the current operating agreement with MassPort, there is nothing on this.
4. Lastly, there is nothing on how IMG is doing on the recruitment efforts for a commercial airline.

Evidently according to the official Airport Commision Minutes, none of the commissioners are concerned with the financial stability of ORH, the future operating agreement effective July 1st of this year or how IMG is doing(after we spent over $100,000 of the DOT grant monies on them) to help recruit a commercial carrier???

My favorite line, however, concerns "problems with the suspended/installation in Swissport Hangar 2 that required removal of that material that due to deterioration of the grid sytem holding it in place." I read something similar to that in a report on a housing inspection report, do you know what it meant??? In essence the runners for the drop ceiling were either rotting or the lag bolts that held the the runners were falliing out and the ceiling was falling done... Are we to assume that this entry in the Official Board Minutes means the ceiling is falling done in Hangar 2?? I do not know...

Per usual every time I read the monthly Airport Commission Minutes, I end up with more questions then answers--the complete opposite of what the Public Open Meeting Laws were intended to do..