Don Paggeot called the meeting to order at 6:05 PM and asked if there were any modifications to the minutes of the May 11, 1999 Community Council meeting. There were no modifications and the minutes were approved.

Review of Noise Monitoring and Operations Summaries

Katie Servis reviewed Paine Field’s noise monitoring system; calls made to the noise hotline and summarized the monthly Noise Reports. She also pointed out that the DNL data is missing from the reports. The data that the office has needs to be broken up into community and aircraft noise so that the information will be comparable to previous reports.

Katie notified the council that the noise monitors have been renamed to put them in numerical order.

Herb O’Bryant mentioned that there seemed to be increased EA6B activity in the last two weeks. Dave Waggoner mentioned that Whidbey Islands runway was under construction and that an EA6B had been invited to the field to train fire fighters and refuelers in the case of a divert to Paine Field.

Airport Construction Projects

Bill Dolan spoke to the council about current construction projects.

Runway Safety Area Project: This year’s south safety area construction project has been reduced from a 3 million-dollar project to around 600,000 dollars. This years work will include the construction of another retaining wall directly to the east of the current retaining wall, drainage work along wall, installation of new electrical conduit at the end of the safety area, and some dirt work in a very small section of the NW Territories.

Next years work will include the construction of a freeze wall through a wetland just east of the current safety area and dirt work in the NW Territories. There is also a possibility of upgrading the sewer system to a gravity system.

Bill also mentioned zoning 12 acres of the NW territories.

Herb O’Bryant asked if the airport needed to do a Salmon EIS. Bill responded that the airport is working on a biological study for the South Safety Area and is planning on another ALP update in the beginning of 1999.

Lorrie Ellis asked about the airport's status on Y2K. Bill mentioned that Bruce Goetz and Bryan Johnson have been working on that issue and that the airport is prepared for Y2K.

Narbeck Wetland Bank

Andrew Rardin gave a presentation about the wetland banking compensation program and Narbeck. He mentioned that 48 acres were enhanced with 8 acres of wetland. The project started in August 1998 with the park opening July 31, 1999. The airport paid for all mitigation while private donors, grants and volunteers funded the park aspects.

Council Comments

Don Paggeot adjourned the meeting at 7:00 p.m. and guided tours of Narbeck were offered.