Mar 11, 2021 Airport Advisory Board on 2021-03-11 1:00 PM

Welcome and good afternoon. This is the meeting of the airport city of Denton Airport advisory board meeting on Thursday, March the 11th, 2021. And the time is 1pm. And so the first thing on our agenda is the pledge of allegiance to the flag. So if you place your hand over your hearts and repeat after me. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. And now the Texas flag. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to the Texas one state under God, one indivisible. All right. So we do have a quorum. We have four members. Welcome in. And so it's the next thing on the agenda is to see if we have any presentations from members of the public that weren't scheduled on the agenda. And I don't know of any staff members. No, are there any waiting to talk with us? No, we do not have any presentations from the public or anybody on the phone or that submitted comments. Okay. All right. So we'll move on to item three items for consideration under item A. Consider approval of the minutes of February the 11th, 2021. And those were provided to you and hope everybody's had a chance to look those over and review them. And so any comments or additions, corrections or anything to those? If not, I'll entertain a motion for approval. Okay. A second. Okay. Dominic's going to second it. So all those in favor, say aye or raise your hand. Okay. Motions approved. So moving on to item B, consider approval of an airport advisory board rules of procedure update and replacement. And Scott or Chase, do you guys want to kind of refresh us on that or introduce us to the details? Yeah, I'll do that. Mr. Chairman, members of the board, as the board may recall at last month's meeting, we brought this item forward. This was an opportunity to replace our outdated rules and procedures, bring them up to date and also follow the new handbook. It was also included in the link in accordance with the old bylaws. The item has to be seen twice by the board. So this is the second time. So with the board's action today of approval, this will replace the old bylaws and it will then reference that handbook. Just so the board is aware, I believe the council is having, I don't know if it's an action or work session for Tuesday, they're going to be doing an update, a little bit of a revision to a couple of provisions in the handbook. One of them has to do with attendance and the other, just forgot what the other one was. Anyway, once they're approved by the council, we will bring that back just to educate the board of what's changed since the ones that are attached here will be modified. So with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions and we would need a vote to move this forward. Okay. Any of the other board members have any comments or questions? Okay. So hearing none, and I guess we're ready to move forward to adopt these new rules of procedure. So I'll entertain a motion that we adopt the, I'm not sure how to express it, the code section 2-29 and replace any of our existing items that we had in place. So if somebody would like to entertain or move to do that, Dominic will do that. A second. Got a second. And Mr. Chair, just for clarification, I heard something you said there that might be somewhat confusing. So what's being adopted is what is included in exhibit 6, which is the proposed replacement. Okay. So just to make that clear, that's the replacement. The handbook, which is in exhibit 4, is referenced in that document and is supplemental. Okay. So we're going to vote to approve item 6, the proposed replacement to these documents. Is that correct? Yes, sir. Okay. All those in favor say aye or raise your hand. Okay. Motion 4-0 carried. So next item on the agenda is item C, ratification of an airport business permit for Nebrig and Associates to conduct aircraft sales and hanger leasing services at the Denton Enterprise Airport. So we've got some documentation backup information, but would you like to speak to that? Yes, Mr. Chair, members of the board, let me kind of give a synopsis of why we're here. And this is the first you've seen one of these and why it took us so long to get here. As you recall, a year ago, we passed regulations that had an airport business permit requirement as part of our minimum operating standards. As part of the language that was in Chapter 3, it stated that these items had to come back before the board for ratification at a regularly scheduled meeting. Well, as you know, we haven't had much of anything regular over the last year. But when we came to the board the last two months, we adopted or excuse me, the board adopted the change to identify our regularly scheduled meeting on Thursdays, second Thursdays of the month. And that's this meeting. So now it's considered a regular meeting. And now we're able to bring this forward. So if you also recall, and some of the board members may not have been here, any existing business at the time that this was passed was was not required to come before the board to make a presentation or introduce themselves. They certainly were all invited if they wish to they could have only new businesses would have to do that, which is item F is the only new business since the since the passage of those rules. So we don't have anybody here from Neyberg and Associates. They are off of Lima, kilo, kilo, sorry, kilo, they're off a kilo, they have the one large hanger as shown in the site plan that was included, and the T hangers that are all theirs as well. So they they submitted all of their information, which includes the business plan and all the stuff that's identified in the minimum operating standards and primarily that includes the insurance requirements, those were reviewed by our risk management folks and have approved. So they have been provided. Remember, this is a ratification. So airport admin already approved their their permit many months ago. And now we're bringing it back for ratification. What will happen as we move forward as as we approve them, they'll be on the next agenda. So they'll be timely. There won't be such a gap. So Neyberg will be doing aircraft sales and hanger leasing is part of their business. I'll be happy to answer any other questions. And we've seen their application with all their information and they have submitted all the required documents. That's correct. Okay. Well, anybody have any questions or comments about the Neyberg and Associates? I guess I'll entertain a motion to approve this. We need a motion for ratification of the permit motion for ratification. Okay. So I'll move I'll move to ratify ratify the number. Okay. Looks like we got a second to enter Dominic want to second that Dominic will. All right. So all those in favor of ratifying this business permit for Neyberg and Associates, say aye or raise your hand. All right. Prove for zero. Moving on to item D, same type of process here ratification of an airport business permit for MedTrans Corporation to conduct flight training and part 135 air ambulance operations at the Denton Enterprise Airport. Scott, do you have some questions? Sure. Mr. Chair, members of the board, the MedTrans helicopter facility is a sub tenant of the Denton MedTrans leasehold on Oscar on the east side of our facility. They typically are doing flight training for their helicopter air ambulance service, but they applied for the training and for the part 135, which generally speaking is what they conduct. It's not generally open to the public. But legal did advise that we should get a permit from them anyway, to do to do their services. So they also have applied for and submitted all necessary documents, insurance and so forth. And airport staff did approve that several months ago. Okay. All right. Any other questions, comments about MedTrans Corporation? I have to move or entertain a motion to approve this ratification. Ann, you want to motion this? Not sure she heard me. I'll move to ratify MedTrans. I heard you. I was just muted. Oh, okay. Yes, I'll second the motion. All right. No other discussion or comments. All those in favor, say aye or raise your hand. Okay. I will move this forward. So, item E is another one of these ratifications airport business permit for TechAero avionics LLC to conduct avionics repair service at the Denton enterprise airport. And Mr. Chairman, members of the board, TechAero is a long standing tenant of ours. They are in one of the need rig hangers on the south, excuse me, on the east end of Lima. And next, excuse me, kilo, keep saying Lima, kilo next to the fuel farm that's down there. They do avionics installation, repair, things of that nature to a lot of the stuff they do down at their hangar is mainly for smaller aircraft, but they can work on any. So sometimes they may go to other hangars and do certain items. Again, it's avionics related. So there's really not hazardous material issues to really deal with. They too have submitted all the necessary paperwork and insurance and were approved a number of months ago as well. And we would ask for ratification of their permit as well. Okay. Any other questions, comments from the board? Not hearing any. Let's go ahead and vote somebody a motion for this and then I'll ask for a second. I'll move that we accept the rat or ratify the permit for TechAero avionics. Okay. So I get a second. Okay. So all those favors say aye. Raise your hand. Okay. Should unplug my phone. I apologize for that. All right. Moving on to item F and this is again another similar one, but this one is one that we haven't been introduced to before a ratification of airport business permit for U.S. Trinity aviation to conduct a fixed base operator services at the Denton airport. And Scott, do you want to speak first or do we introduce Damon at this point? I'll start first if you don't mind Mr. Chair and introduce our guest. This is the first airport business permit that the staff approved following the regulations and the application by U.S. Trinity aviation to conduct fixed base operator services at the facility just across from the terminal building. They provided a number of pieces of information. We've worked with them to get the license agreements and so forth in place for use of apron. We will be doing additional stuff with them regarding their lease in the future. But we are pleased that they were able to submit their permit number 2020-001. So they are first at Denton to get a airport business permit. So we're happy to have them on board and I won't steal any thunder from Mr. Damon Ward who is with us as a new operator as I mentioned earlier to provide some information about their business and their operations at Denton Enterprise Airport. So with that I'll introduce Mr. Damon Ward. Good afternoon everyone. It's a pleasure to be here with you. It's also our pleasure to be on the field and a part of the aviation community here. For many of you may not know about me but I used to be on me and some partners. I was a partner in a business called Business Air that was a long time FBO here on the field where U.S. Jet is now located at the midfield. So I had previously spent about 20 years at the Denton Airport, got the opportunity to come back here, come back home and on behalf of Trinity, U.S. Trinity Aviation start another FBO. Our mission here is to be active on the airport to provide the users of the airport with quality FBO services basically world class and also to grow the airport. It wasn't our mission to come in and just take over existing airframes that are on the airport. We wanted to bring in new people and I'm happy to report that we have a hangar about a third full with aircraft that were previously not based at the Denton Airport. So we've been successful in our mission to invite new traffic here in the air, new base tenants here at the airport. We spent a considerable amount of money on this facility to make it where it's a usable and solid FBO and if you haven't had the opportunity to stop by I would encourage you to do so or I welcome you to come by and see that. It's truly first class. It's something you as an airport board I think can be very proud of. I know Bob has been by and of course the guys there with the city have been by and we appreciate that as well. One kind of exciting thing that we have going on too, starting on March 15th we actually have a Fortune 500 company that you would know and I shall not mention their name in this form that it's actually a Fortune 100 company that is moving their flight department into our facility here at the Denton Airport. So they like what they see, they like the airport and the infrastructure improvements have been were critical for that. So I'm really excited about that. If you guys don't mind I'll share my screen. We have an in-house, we're part of a larger company so we have a lot of resources such as an in-house media company and they've done a series of videos but I'm just going to show you a video that actually kind of it's a sales and marketing tool but it also kind of gives you a little bit of a virtual tool so if that's acceptable to you guys I'll play that at this time. Very good. I don't know if staff has to allow that. Can we get that set up? I'm going to do it now. Okay. Okay. Okay. 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I'll move to ratify the business permit for U.S. Trinity Aviation. Okay. I'll second the motion. Any other comments or questions or discussion? If not, we'll take a vote to approve the ratification of this. Raise your hand. Approve 4-0. Thank you, Damon. We really appreciate that. And then moving on to item G, where we get the month of reports and chase probably as all of this lined up. So would you like to go ahead and start with that with your operations report? Yes, Mr. Chairman, members of the board. I'll quickly go through the operations and construction report as we also have a winter weather overview that might garner some more questions from the board and some more comments. So the operations for this month compared to February, compared to February of 2020, we're quite a bit down. We're down roughly 43%. A lot of that, as you know, due to the four days of pretty rough weather we had in the middle of the month, we did go just to highlight some of those weather days that were nine days that we had under 100 operations for the day. Whereas we usually, we can average anywhere from three to five, even 600 operations a day. And of those nine days, seven of those were under 20 due to the winter weather. So not only the snow and ice, but a lot of crosswind out of the west that really put kind of our small training aircraft, left them grounded with that wind. So we were down roughly 43%, a bulk of that being in our local operations. And then we'll move down to fuel. Again, we did see a dip in fuel, roughly 9.5%. We still are up just over 8% for the year overall for the fuel though. So we're still on track for fuel. Like I said, we just did see a dip with the weather and the lack of aircraft flying around the airport for that fuel. Then I have it broken down for FBO as well for the boards. I'll move down to, we didn't have any alerts this month. We did have an incident. Pilot landed on 36 right in a barren, tried to take off or try to accident Alpha 5, didn't end up veering off the pavement with the weather being wet and everything to get stuck for a brief moment. The aircraft maintenance company was able to come get them out. They did get past the movement line out of the safety area so it didn't cause any closure delays on the runway. It didn't have any damage reported or injuries as well. And then moving down to wildlife, we did have a couple of coyote sightings last month and earlier this month. This happened this time of year. We are getting some holes shored up in our fences and then our well sites as well. So hopefully get those cleared up as soon as we can. Then we have historical operations and historical fuel attached as well. Any questions on operations? I don't think so. Anybody have any comments? Yes, I have one. Regarding the filling of these holes and whatnot, who is it that is, do we have volunteer organizations that do these or is this something that we handle ourselves? We handle it internally. It's our maintenance department. And then we have adjacent well sites that the gas well companies are supposed to shore up those fence lines as well. So we are in contact with them constantly when there's issues with their fence and we try and patch those holes. So it's basically the chain link fence along the perimeter and that we're in charge of that being our two maintenance staff. Okay, okay. Any other questions? No, I'm sure those, of course, all airports in the area took a took a hit over those four days, I'm sure. But I think you have a, if we're ready to move on, I think you have a report for us about how our staff did an excellent job keeping us open as much as they could. I do. And I'll touch back. Construction report, I did not have any updates for the construction report. So if we're ready, we'll move right on to the winter storm overview. Okay. So with the storm beginning on on the 14th, Sunday, the 14th, I did have staff go out on on Saturday night, February 13, and pre treat our our primary surfaces with a DIC liquid that we use that is specific for airports and specific for runways, runways and taxiways. So we came out on February 13, I had two staff members come out and pre treat 75 feet wide from the centerline out on the main runway. And then we treated one past from Alpha one down Bravo to Alpha seven. Those are our primary spots of responsibility that gives landing traffic from either direction on the main runway and exit. And it makes it to where you know we focus on those that Alpha seven and Alpha one exit those final exits on the runway. So no one's trying to get off off of the runway early. They're taking their time making it all the way to the end and exiting at the end. February 14, I did bring staff in about 5am to start working the incident we have four staff members and that includes myself. So I tried to stagger as much as possible to keep keep our staff out there as long as we could. So we did bring another staff member in about 930 on that Sunday, start working those working those areas with our plows and our our large broom. Then we had some equipment issues which I'll go over in the in the PowerPoint. But again, we work from those four days roughly 200 hours total 200 hours with four staff members in those four four four and a half day span to keep the runway open. I'm pleased to say we did not ever close. One of one of very few if not one of one of the only airports in the area to not close. We did monitor all the way up until 10pm. They put our notums out and everything with our our field conditions. We some nights we were able to monitor from 10pm to 6am. But if we weren't able to monitor I put out a field condition note I'm stating that the conditions weren't monitored and put the the status of the pavement and everything out for for pilots to check before they were able to to start flying in. So very pleased to say staff work very hard to keep keep the airport open and keep it open in a safe manner. So very pleased with that. And I do have a presentation if the board's ready for that. Very good. Share that. All right. So just an overview of our responsibilities and our and our snow removal plan. It contains our duties our equipment airfield surfaces like I spoke about before the main the main areas that we focus on on the runway and Bravo taxiway along with those Alpha one and Alpha seven exits. It kind of gives just gives us a point to start and once we get that cleared off we can move over to to some of the other areas. The airfield condition reporting notums that I touched on we updated updated those several times throughout every day. It just gives the tower something to reference as well as any pilots who are thinking about coming into the area. And then we also were able to coordinate with our FBOs and our tenants to make sure that their access was cleared as they needed needed that as well. So it's a list of our equipment a 20 25 foot pull behind anti ice boom sprayer. It's it's an 18 foot sprayer with with a 25 foot spray reach. It reaches 25 feet. So another seven feet total 16 foot tractor mounted snow plow as well as 16 foot pull behind sweeper. They'd have a blown tire on that on the 15th and the spare failed as well. So we did have some lessons learned from that those tires are very odd tires. And when we get to a point where shipping and and tire shops and businesses are are closed due to power issues we were unable to get that tire. So it did put us behind quite a bit 10 foot mounted snow plow. We had a pin snap on that on the 17th. Luckily I mean that was only down for for a half day we were able to get that repaired as well. And then we have a seven foot tractor mounted sweeper. We usually use that that seven foot sweeper for any debris cleanup or anything like that. Not necessarily the best for snow rule just because it is a seven foot sweeper that usually go five to 10 miles per hour while using that. So it's not not the fastest piece of equipment. So just some results we had like I said we pre treated the runway on the 13th late that night. And then four staff members roughly worked 400 or 200 man hours in that four day period. Like I said that includes myself or two maintenance staff and then I have an operations coordinator as well. We were affected by the rolling blackouts. So the control tower our maintenance shop our terminal building all the businesses on the airport. The control tower does have a generator. So it was able to switch from from general power to to over to that generator rather quickly. Just a few things that you had to reset. But they they didn't lose lose operations time or anything like that. What we did find is is not only were we in charge of everything at the airport. Usually we have we have a fuel card that we go and fill up at say like a quick trip or something close to the airport. We will get our fuel from there and it goes goes on to a fuel card that we have with a power outages. We were having to travel all the way across town to fleet services to get our fuel not only for our equipment but for our generator as well. And when you have that many pieces of equipment as well as a generator for the tower one tank of fuel doesn't last very long considering our tanks only 150 gallons. So we were able to adapt and handle that. I know I know the facilities department was dealing with getting getting deliveries of fuel from our contractor and stuff like that. So we were able to take that over for them. So we could we could do that on our own. We did not have any damage to our airport facilities city owned airport facilities. There were several tenants that had burst pipes and some flooding issues but nothing with our our maintenance shop or terminal or the tower. So usually when we'd come in for the day our equipment be ready to go and and we could get started. But with the power outages we weren't able to put any block heaters or anything like that on our equipment that would stay on on a regular basis. So a lot of our time at the beginning of the morning each time was making sure our equipment started. We did put anti anti gel in our in our diesel tanks. But what that doesn't help is your your hose line for your for your pump for your diesel tank and like the back of your shop. So some of that we had some freezing issues with that we had to get that in the shop and warmed up. But but all in all we did it. I feel like I'm very proud of my staff for for what they were able to accomplish. Just some pictures here. This is our 10 foot truck mounted plow. This is over on taxi lane Juliet. We were able to do some plowing on that as the as the main areas were cleared. And then these pictures here the one on the left basically shows you about two passes with that 16 foot broom. And this is in a basically an eight inch rim that was destroyed on our on our plow. And then the one on the right kind of shows you what we had to work with after the fact. This is one pass with our seven foot versus two passes with our 16 foot. So we were able to keep that going. But this is kind of what we were doing going 7000 feet, five to 10 miles an hour at a time. So it was very interesting. But that's kind of what we had to work with. And and there have been many lessons learned definitely from this storm. So I have some videos I want to share some I have to stop sharing and then pop on over to those videos one second. , can everybody see that? All right, I'll play. I'll play it. I'll play it. I'll play this is a this is from our Saturday night spraying before the incident. This is just a short clip of that. And then I have a couple more. Remember, this is this stuff that we spray. It's not doesn't contain any salt or anything like that, like the brine stuff you can see on the road that's not allowed for airports due to its corrosive activity for aircraft parts. So we have to use a special aviation deicing liquid on our on our pavement due to due to the possible corrosive nature of any salt. Everybody see this next video. Then I have another one. This just kind of shows this is one of our larger aircraft that took off. Probably I would say yeah, this would be this would be Thursday. And then one more for you. This one here, if you could, if you have your your your sound on your computer, that makes sure that's turned up. Like I said, we're going to get this these over to you guys after after the meeting sometime. We'll get these links so you can hear them a little better. This one was was actually tough to get, but I'll play it and then I'll kind of explain the whole the whole backstory behind it. This is on on Tuesday, the 14 or the 16th, so right in the middle of the base storm. It's pretty clear. I'm on the news. I'm on the map. I'm pretty much. Well, this is a huge event for this part of the world for this area, but the city invested in quite a bit here. So if you couldn't hear that last one, I know it's it's tough to get those recordings, especially with the power outages. We were unable to get that from our live ATC, so I had to find a new way to get that recording. Basically, some gentlemen in a King Air. Basically, they had to find a place to stop a halfway point to stop for fuel. This was on Tuesday. Like I said, basically said that they tried 10 or 12 airports from from Austin to San Antonio all the way up here. And really, we were the only ones they could find that were open on Tuesday. All of the others were saying they were closed until Wednesday. And and with the the extra snow that came Wednesday, I'm assuming that some of those even stayed closed longer. So we were one of one of few that they were able to even even find remotely close that were that were open. And we're pretty proud of that. So let me jump back on that presentation. Alright, so we went through all of those videos. We got some verbal appreciation from US Trinity Aviation, and they were out several days during the event clearing their own their own ramp space and all of their access for their their tenants, as well as KMK partners, their tenant from US Jet Center. They were able to call and check in with me on a daily basis to see kind of where we were for access. And and they're very appreciative as well. We also did receive an email from the CEO of US Aviation, as well as US Jet Center, thanking us for for our efforts. They were out there multiple days as well during the event clearing their ramp space for their tenants. But their their CEO wanted to express his thanks for us, keeping the access open and and allowing them to fly they were they were unable to, like you said, utilize that as fast as they wanted to due to some flooding issues in their facility. But everything was open from the from the movement in taxi lane areas to him. So we really appreciate that comment as well. All right, and that I'll take any questions anybody might have any excellent, excellent. That's a wonderful report. And and I know we're all proud of you and your guys that kept that airport open. That makes a big difference. And I'm sure the word will spread around in time that maybe we'll see some new some more new business from this. Anybody have any comments or questions? And Mr. Chairman, if I can, I also want to express how proud I am of our team. It was impressive. I met with a number of airports throughout Texas during that week on zoom calls and so forth. To find out that most of them just put a note amount and said, we'll see you when the snow melts every, you know, and they didn't do anything, you know, and some may not have had equipment and that's certainly understandable. But there were some Okay, experienced some similar way backward around 2011. I think it was when we had Super Bowl and we realized at that point that we didn't have very good equipment at any at the time. And, and I know there was an effort made at that. It was it was a part of actual acquisition back, I believe, in 2014 15 timeframe. We did have the large event in 2011, which kind of piqued everyone's interest of, hey, we might need some equipment. I think it was a 2013 timeframe when I came came on the maintenance came on on the maintenance team, that we really started to get some of that equipment. So that that broom came along, I think, around 2014. And so have you been able to get the tires replaced and updated? Or? We actually got the tire in late yesterday afternoon. So the guys are going to be putting that on and, and pulling that back into the shop this week. And I already have there's some pieces, you know, some pieces to some of that equipment, I'm going to going to be ordering some more spares and some things that we kind of ran through with this event that will be will be adding back to our to our stockpiles as well. Okay. I'm sure having to park that thing, most of the time out in the sun doesn't help the tires. That was that what the issue was? We know thing does have a lot of it's on a hitch, but you can't treat it like a trailer. You have to go backwards multiple, you know, it's it's a little different. But I think also it's an older piece of equipment. It was a used piece of equipment when we got it. So it is it is an older piece of equipment and not knowing if those tires have had to be changed. But we're definitely going to add replacing both of those will replace the other one and get a spare as well. So we did have a spare. But when that tire blew, it basically destroyed the rim as well. So we were unable to to utilize the bearings and the old rim when we were putting on or trying to put on the spare tire. So it's been have its own power plant that drives the burn. Yes, it we pull it behind the tractor, but everything that powers is in there itself. And then we have a control box that is able to control everything, start, stop, room. You know, it can even swivel and pivot it has as well as some some blower capabilities on the back. So we're able to control all of that from the cabin. I noticed that. Yeah. Well, that's good. Maybe we need to think about acquiring something new or something better while we got maybe we can keep that on our on our wishlist. Absolutely. And my apologies, Mr. Chairman, I think my internet glitch there when I was giving my praise to staff. So hopefully everybody heard that. Yeah, the first go around. But just in case, I'm very proud. As you know, I came from Pennsylvania. It's a it's it was pretty commonplace back there, not so much here. And with the equipment that we had, how that they didn't enterprise airport. And believe it or not, there was there was a lot of conversation there via via the comments. And I believe the only three airports that did remain open the whole time was DFW Lovefield and ourselves. So pretty impressive. We were we are going to be looking at enhancing our equipment. As we move forward. You know, that stuff's not cheap. But we're going to see if we can figure out a way to get it in a capital replacement program moving forward. So well, it's always good to keep your eye out for surplus equipment, some of the military and having good stuff to hand down sometimes. So, you know, well, very good. Again, we really appreciate all the effort out there. That's what we're there for. That's that's the business we're in is to keep the airport going. So. All right. So nothing else on that. We'll move on to item four, including items. And this is where we get a chance to to basically comment about things we want to see on the next agenda. And one other thing I want to do is I want to kind of welcome Dominic Beecham to our board. We we didn't get a chance to meet and greet with you last time. So maybe this take this opportunity. Can you tell us a little bit about about yourself and how long you've been in Denton and how you kind of what your aviation interests are? Yes, sir. So I have moved 33 times. I've been in Denton County for the past seven years. I've been in the city of Denton for the past two years. I'm a student at the University of North Texas. As far as my aviation knowledge, a lot of it comes from being an ROTC. I was group commander of my ROTC unit. So anything aviation I do know is military grade aviation. So I'm not more on the private or commercial side of things, but more military grade. As far as the advisory board in general, I have a big interest in politics and I have a big interest in the city of Denton. Out of all of those cities I've lived in, Denton has been where I found home at. As a matter of fact, I just got a house here in Denton last year. One of the council members, Deborah Armentar, was actually my professor my first year of college. She was one of my English professors and she let me know that there was an opening on the board and nominated me for the board. Of course, with me being interested in aviation and the city of Denton in general, it was a great way for me to come on, get some name recognition a bit, but also to get an understanding of the way the city works and the people who are working the city. So here I am playing the beer for quite a while and be involved with the city of Denton for quite some time. Well, great. Welcome. We'll try to, once we maybe get back to our in-person meetings, we'll give you a tour, a good tour of the airport. I'm sure you can arrange that anytime with the staff that you would like to, but there's a lot of new things always happening out there. So I think that's the best way to kind of get a good handle on what's happening around the airport for us to be able to provide some input and some advice maybe to the staff. And so we're really glad to have you with us and look forward to working with you. Thank you. Thank you. Any other staff, board members have any comments or anything we want to talk about in the future? All right. Well, as far as you know, Scott and Chase, we're going to continue doing zoom for a little while or are we going to be able to do that? Yes, I believe at least for the next couple of months will still be that way. I do understand our public information office is working with legal and the governor's orders about what that means for us to move forward with these types of video meetings or when we'll go live. I'm guessing sometime after May is when that'll happen. But as soon as we hear, we will let the board know when that happens. Currently, the terminal building is still closed to the public. Okay. Well, I know the city secretary sent out a little survey here recently, I think yesterday or the day before on our meeting times and that kind of stuff. I don't know how some of the others feel. I think that, you know, it looks like we've got at least two members, maybe three that are having trouble getting here during the daytime. So we might have to see if we can get that back in person time early evening, you know, get that going as soon as we are able to do that. I think they're also looking into, you know, that time that's after normal business hours as it's been in the past, even if it is video, you know, we're doing online. So I think they're going to synopsize that to the council and make some decisions. Right. Okay. All right. Well, if there's nothing else, nobody's got any additional comments or questions. We'll call this meeting adjourned at 1 53. So thanks again for your time and we look forward to seeing you next time around. Thank you. See you.