During a meeting Wednesday, the City of Monroe Airport Board of Management:
• Received a financial statement with the yearly results from the recently finished 2006 audit.
• Approved bills for payment.
• Received a fuel sales report. Jet fuel is $3.10 per gallon and 100L is $2.85.
• Re-appointed Kelly Finkenbinder as airport manager.
• Discussed and approved an airport petition package for state improvement aid. The petition package is requested periodically from the state to allow it to budget for future projects that will rely on state aid. This petition includes seal coating airport pavements, constructing a terminal building, conducting an approach survey, upgrading AWOS, clearing and maintaining runway approaches and any necessary related work.
• Discussed a proposed "green" cemetery on the west edge of airport property. The board was informed of a proposed cemetery next to the airport which would not have any grave markers. Grass would be left to grow and trees planted. No embalming fluid would be used, and caskets would be biodegradable. The cemetery would have a chapel and shed and allow for 600 to 800 people per acre for burials.
The airport manager will write a letter to Sylvester Township for its next meeting expressing opposition.
• Confirmed approval of the Salary and Personnel Committee's hiring of part-time seasonal snow removal personnel for the airport. Rob Driver, Jeff Wahl, Curt Updike and Chuck Shuringa were approved by the committee to do snow removal at the airport in 2009.
- Tere Dunlap
• Received a financial statement with the yearly results from the recently finished 2006 audit.
• Approved bills for payment.
• Received a fuel sales report. Jet fuel is $3.10 per gallon and 100L is $2.85.
• Re-appointed Kelly Finkenbinder as airport manager.
• Discussed and approved an airport petition package for state improvement aid. The petition package is requested periodically from the state to allow it to budget for future projects that will rely on state aid. This petition includes seal coating airport pavements, constructing a terminal building, conducting an approach survey, upgrading AWOS, clearing and maintaining runway approaches and any necessary related work.
• Discussed a proposed "green" cemetery on the west edge of airport property. The board was informed of a proposed cemetery next to the airport which would not have any grave markers. Grass would be left to grow and trees planted. No embalming fluid would be used, and caskets would be biodegradable. The cemetery would have a chapel and shed and allow for 600 to 800 people per acre for burials.
The airport manager will write a letter to Sylvester Township for its next meeting expressing opposition.
• Confirmed approval of the Salary and Personnel Committee's hiring of part-time seasonal snow removal personnel for the airport. Rob Driver, Jeff Wahl, Curt Updike and Chuck Shuringa were approved by the committee to do snow removal at the airport in 2009.
- Tere Dunlap