I was just looking at the August minutes. Take a look at page two and the BOLD section which basically says that the Aiirport Commission took a vote to rescind the imposition of taxes on the sale of aircraft fuel that started in 1989. Keep in mind that this was merely a recommendation, like the name change, to the City Manager and the City Council and that they should vote on it at the next City Council meeting to make it a reality...
Couple thoughts.
First, I have read all the minutes or airport meetings for almost two years and I have never seen a section printed in BOLD like this.. Why this in BOLD??? Why would the airport decide to do something drastic like this??? Obviously Allegiant must have indicated that they were losing money and needed help, so the Airport Commission approved this measure. I have no problem but how can a measure like this be approved with no explanation as to why?
Second, the measure did not benefit Allegiant, who announced the end of service 8 days later on August 23 with the last flight departing from ORH on September 3rd. If this had been done 6 months ago, would it have helped Allegiant to stay at ORH. Had Allegiant asked for this previously???
Third, the airport commission board minutes in January of 2005, when nobody was reading them, consisted of 9 pages full of information detailing a 58 minute long meeting . Now that the Airport Minutes are readily available on http://www.flyorh.com or the City of Worcester website, the 41 minute August Airport Board minutes was summarized in two pages and leave a reader with more questions then answers when they began.
Fourth- photo shoots?? Can the board please pass a measure that leaves the discretion as to whether or not we allow photo shoots at ORH up to the Airport Director and/or Airport Liaison??
Lastly it is pretty hard to believe that on August 14th, 8 days before Allegiant announces ending service to ORH, that there is no documentation in the Airport Board Minutes that Allegiant has been expressing grave concern and may pull out of ORH.
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6 months ago
4 comments:
1. RFP's what are they for,when, and how many?
2. Alleg/Worc advertising agreement? Anyone ever see this document or has anyone ever see the Worc/Alleg initial agreeement?
3. What is the Energy task force report?
4. Is it unusual that the Airport Dir. is also the clerk who records & reports the Comm. minutes?
1) 2 RFP's for two parcels of land alongside the runway... What are they for?? no idea...
2) No..
3) Again no idea
4) Not sure
Maybe Allegiant didn't make their problems with Worcester aware to the City?
Alec:
Allegiant are good businessmen, the last thing they wanted to do was to spend their time, money and energies opening a new market just to shut it down in 9 months.
There is no way that they did alert the airpor adminstration that they were losing monies and were comtemplating ending service before it was announed on August 22nd.
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