Board reviews hanger‑lease revisions, drainage design and race logistics

Board members reviewed a proposed revision to the hanger lease and discussed related fees, runway drainage needs, equipment maintenance and community event logistics.

Bill presented the hanger lease revisions (prepared with staff edits) and asked whether the board should forward them to city council for approval. The draft includes a $100 monthly charge for tenants not meeting terms of the flyable‑aircraft agreement and a $25 daily liquidated‑damages provision for aircraft that remain in hangars without meeting the agreement. Bill said one tenant sold his aircraft and staff reclaimed the hanger, and asked that the fee changes be moved forward to the city council so the board can ratify them later.

Bill also described local drainage problems along the south side of the runway where grates and concrete ducts do not drain and vegetation has established; staff said a drainage improvement design can be funded with FAA funds but physical work is likely a year out. He reported that a recent state inspection passed and taxiway inspection notes will be passed to the Michigan contractor for corrective grading work.

On operations and revenue, Bill said May produced the airport’s second‑largest jet fuel sales month, driven largely by a helicopter based at the airport doing power‑line work and some transient traffic; staff arranged a last‑minute fuel delivery to meet demand.

Finally, staff described logistics for the Plymouth Runway event: roughly 140 registered participants so far, use of Plymouth school buses to shuttle attendees from the high‑school parking, food trucks on site, and a planned runway closure roughly between 7 a.m. and 1 p.m. for the event. No formal action was taken at the meeting.