e uh GRE evening uh welcome to the person and committee uh today is March 24 20125 and it's 7 707 uh this meeting is also been conducted
as hybrid uh please follow the instruction if you want to see it uh via uh Facebook uh now please yes thank you thank you councelor Le uh pursu to chapter 20 of the act of
2022 this meeting of personal committee is been conducted both in person and be a remote participation a reminder that person like to listen to view this meeting while all in progress May either
attend in person at a location at 200 Comm Street or use any the following access uh to access this meeting via online you can do it via Facebook or YouTube uh boarding members uh to my
right I have counselor infant and to my left counselor Anna Levy uh Madame chair uh councelor thank you thank you councelor uh fidelina Santiago to my right councelor fidelina Santiago and to
my left counselor Anna Levy um Madame chair counselor infant is not with us tonight she's uh conducting interviews for the chief of police uh search so please now join me uh Us in the pledge
of the legion unites good evening counselors and um such it's a pleasure to be here so as the airport commission there's nine members um we have Willam Collins who is uh managing the controls and I'm sure he's going to join us here shortly has been serving
for some time he is an Air Force veteran resident of Lawrence has been in good standings with the commissions an active participants and so the as you notice there the uh City attorney uh has submitted this as he has vetted the application and vetted the requirements
so that you all know that this candidate is in in good standings for reappointment uh thank you uh director Ura is uh Mr Collins here tonight yes yes he is
oh a familiar face thank you for your service thank you thank you madam chair members of the Personnel committee Bill cin one plat Court that's right ma'am how many years uh before I open it to the other counselors
can you uh for the people that are listening uh watching the the committee online can you explain a little bit about your commitment and your history with the City of Lawrence especially with the airport sure as far as the airport goes I've been uh fortunate I
was appointed first by May Antigua about 15 years ago and uh all the previous uh May past mayors have reappointed us and uh we're a good cohesive unit I always like to point out we're the only city
Department that is in the black that means we don't come asking for money we we didn't even take a penny of oura money how's that we are self-sufficient and uh very healthy Revenue there and uh
you know our job as airport Commissioners is the care custody and management of the airport we meet once a month and uh we've been very fortunate to have two fabulous managers during my tenure we never thought we'd get through the chair of manager that would match
Mike Miller but we have one that's as equal I would say so we're very fortunate in that respect anything I can uh ask me any questions or anything you'd like to know conselor do you have any any comments or
suggestions questions yes councelor Santiago first time I I have to say thank you for serve our community for your PA for your vocation you have to take
care our community our city and the second one I would like to ask you about how your experience like pilot certainly yeah certainly I uh
was always fascinated with Aviation I don't know how I could talk for three hours about this but when I was a kid you could walk to the airport in the summer or during vacation week or we would hang out there there were no fences you could bum a ride off a pilot it was you were right there on the
runway things have times have changed obviously so I uh got into Aviation and I soloed at the Lawrence airport at 1978 I uh haven't flown in probably uh 15 or 20 years but I was pretty active I
flew out of the hail airport which is no longer there but I sold Odin Lawrence and I've taken a ground School commercial pilot course with Emy riddle and uh as far as Aviation goes it's my number one passion and very uh
privileged to be able to still continue in the aviation Community even though I don't fly and I have to say thank you for your service because I know you are veteran as well thank you and and I would like to have more people
like you working in this city thank you a lot thank you I'm I'm almost speechless thank you Council appreciate it thank you councelor Santiago uh counselor Levy thank you Madame chair um first let
me say thank you it's a pleasure to work with you I hope that you can hear me yes okay because uh my microphone work okay green light is on I think so you're good right now it's no
signal it's no signal on the TV I hope that everything is fine over there oh it's running but John's working on the running's doing some work with the PowerPoint right now okay so thank you for your serving I know that you've been in here for many many years right now
just for how long have you been working with the with the Channel with the TV for how long here in the city yes uh probably almost 25 years since uh 25 years 2000 yeah and actually before that
when Continental cable vision had a studio in Glen Street I produced and we had some local shows like Dalia had a show I had a show and then Comcast said no more cable service there they made nonprofits running so I've been doing it
maybe 30 years so you've been working in many different places like with the TV uh now with the airport so for how long are you at the airport you say right now pardon at the airport for how long are
you been there 15 years 15 year at the airport k k 15 years now this is great Bill I'm a pleasure to work with you and I know that you love this city of lawence and
that's why you still are here and I appreciate everything that you've been doing for us thank you so much for all your comments appreciate that um now I'm going to I'm looking for aemotion to send this to the committee we can send it to the full council with
favor recommendation okay uh motion has been made made by Council Levy and second by fidelina Santiago all those in favor say I eyes have it thank you very much Council
welome yes um counselors sure 97 625 sure Burell yes Sharon Burell is a very active person uh here in the City of Lawrence um residing in the city methan
the uh board allows for three uh out of uh Lawrence residents to serve and she currently represents the city of uh methan she um is a very active person uh just as well as Bill Collins which you
uh just uh met or connected with uh she currently serves as the airport commission chair without further Ado I'm going to pass it to her to uh join me up here good evening counselors and thank you for your service you um I've been on
the airport for 17 18 years now Michael Sullivan appointed me um I was born and raised in Lawrence I now live in methan so I represent the town of methu um I am the chairwoman and I greatly appreciate
being part of the community to serve on the airport commission so cons Levy thank you so all the time that you've been sing to the airport is
uh for the city U or just City allance I just mov um like maybe six seven years ago okay after my husband died I bought a house there okay so you've been
serving to the airport commission since uh from since for about 17 years and always uh the city through the city of Lawrence yes okay I have a question for you yes
okay so is sing okay so she can S at the airport that is belong to the LA is belong to Lawrence okay and she's leaving in met you say how many people
can Ser from another town so out of the nine members that we have by the city charter three of them have the ability to live outside the city okay so they don't so they don't have to be appointed by the own
City it is the city of lawence Municipal Airport essentially the mayor's appointment the mayor's recommendation that's how these names came to you tonight and so no there's no other city or town with the exception of lawr which has the authority to appoint to okay
thank you so much I'm sorry just you have the floor celor Ley okay for how long is the ter that you been appointed right now I'm sorry for how long how long have I been serving no for how long you been appointed right now so the
termes for three years two two twoe term the recommendation is that this expires on July 15th 2027 27 27 okay I saw somebody who so you are
reappointed okay so you are reappoint and the other two that are coming is the new the new one all right thank you I have a question good evening sh hello thank you for service thank you and the question
that I have is not really question but it's like to explain your experience in serving in the board the previous years in the previous years on the aviation on the um
the airport commissioner well um policy and procedures um safety um education for the students um just to let everybody know that it's Community Based everybody's welcome to come to the airport and now
we have educational programs coming to the airport thank you you're welcome yes cons l so the Ed ational program that is coming to the airport is the one from the greater laen Technic
school yes so this is going to be like a join yes it's an aviation program that the great allance Technical High School is starting okay thank you you welcome any other questions or comment thank you for serving the city
of lawence I know about the commitment and how much you love the city it's great to haveone thank you Us in the airport bying that I'm looking for motion motion to send the item
9625 for for cons for favor of recommendation thank you councilor see you then thank you for your serving um I don't item 9725 yes councelor item 9725 is the
appointment new candidate of savel Ortiz and saviel has a background in banking not everyone at the airport commission has a background on Aviation nor do they have to but I think they bring us an opportunity of rounding out the values of the airport placing a focus on policies and
future planning and with that savel is a Lawrence resident uh he as I mentioned has has a a background in banking and finance and we're looking to tap into him to continue to Shepherd the airport commission AB board and so without further Ado I'd like to invite savel
Ortiz up here to this Podium good evening Council ready do you not have the application okay I think that's all we submitted was application yes correct yes unless you want
something else counselors we could be bring them to the next meeting sure okay okay press the mic thank you thank you for for that uh no it it's just for a future reference uh and I don't know it's
something that we can add but it will be good to see a actual resume and and the application okay uh but I see you have great candidates people that are willing to serve looking for reappointments and people that are willing to start serving
so it means good for the city and it's great for the airport uh and by saying that uh can we have Mr Ortiz uh to tell us a little bit of his why he plans why
he wants to serve in his connection to the Lawrence Community I know I'm assuming you are one of the residents yeah absolutely yes um I'm Lawrence native uh I I've been here since I was 8 years old um I attended the Arlington Middle School where then I transferred to Greater Lawrence Tech uh which is
amazing because the the the Lawrence municipal airport now has a program which I would love to oversee um and take action in um I also have a degree in finance from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and um after that
I worked in commercial lending where um you know especially with the projects coming up with the Lawrence airport it would be great to oversee um certain certain things like the the new building that's being built built um which I've been involved in in a lot of um the
construction that has gone around this city um and it'll be great um to be a part of I have a question uh councelor Santiago okay good good evening savier good
and that's you are my constituent do you know that oh yeah District a yes yes and the question that I have how you
plan to separate your regular job with the airport schedule absolutely yeah so right now I'm currently working in Boston and um it's a different Market I I I deal with um different companies that I used to work with when I was working in
Lawrence um so yeah um based on time management um today I worked and I was able to make it to this meeting um in time and um I'll have well beyond time and I'll definitely speak with um my my the leaders at the bank about my my
commitments here in Lawrence hi this is the first time that you serve in this commission yes this is the first time yes and that the first time also that you Ser in any Commission on the City of Lawrence well I'm also part of the the the board of directors for topn
Scholars they're based out of Lawrence and I'm also part of the uh Board of Directors for the the Red Cross the northeastern chapter the northeaster in ch yes okay what are you expect absolutely um you know I don't
have no experience in in aviations but I do have experience when it comes to construction budgets I have experience in financial analysis and that that's what I bring to the table um and and I hope to to to make the commission and the airport uh a better place and and
and and be better for the community any other question for how long you be here in Lawrence I I've been here since I was eight years old so way more than than you know 14 years of my life so you graduated at he yeah I I went to Greater Lawrence Tech yeah the
V yes oh are the book yes yes yes okay and H yes yes yes correct is great okay well thank you for your commitment to come here and to s in this commission I know that this is a very very important commission I know
that this commission is taking a lot of uh interesting in the community I don't know see if my uh he's doing a great you know
that he's been doing a lot of Chang in D in in the airport he's getting after he came I know a lot of comments a lot of good comments you know of people uh regarding and so and I know that this is
a a coup of construction that is coming very very soon that is going to change thank you motion to send the item 9725 for for Cel in favor of recommendation oh thank you
celor Santiago second like look from um motion has been made by councelor Santiago and second by councel Laur Levy all in favors their ey and the eyes have it congratulations thank you Council
dionio dionio Cruz yes so yesp sure uh Dynamic uh candidate he will serve as the uh pilot with Aviation experience he currently holds an active
fa license he is a part owner of a plane at sure director sure pressed it go ahead go ahead so as was mentioning um I'm honored to and very excited to introduce to you all dionio Cruz who is a active
pilot holds an FAA license from the Federal Aviation Administration he is a Private Pilot a part owner of an aircraft in Lawrence a part of an aviation club uh very active in the aviation Community Works a at a an
airport managing an aviation office um when it comes to Services of Aviation I think he's going to bring some uh great ideas but also uh continue to move the airport's Mission uh forward here in the city of Lauren so uh without further Ado I'd like to bring dionio Cruz to the
podium please good even welcome Mr Cruz um and you have the floor good evening thank you for your time can you tell us something about yourself why is uh would you like uh to start serving
in the municipal airport commission well I learned how to fly out of Lawrence um like um oh sorry please yeah I learned how to fly out of Lawrence and um I currently have a I'm a co-owner of a plane there so I'm there often and any part that I could be to further the the
growth of the airport is very important to me I sat in on the commission uh last week on their meeting and uh very excited about the the youth um programs that are developing I recently my nie is uh getting into flying and so I'm very passionate about bringing the youth into
it especially women because uh there's only 5% of women in aviation and less so as Pilots That's overall in the industry so anything that I can do to further kids getting into the uh Aviation and furthering the airport which is my local airport I'm all for so thank you for
mentioning those numbers so I'm assuming that at some point uh the director of the airport is going to uh is going to do something to um invite more uh young ladies uh uh to take
classes and to get involved in those uh educational programs absolutely I think in the next upcoming months you'll hear some uh some developments when it comes to that when it comes to opportunities for Lawrence uh youth to be able to participate so especially females
especially females thank you any question counselors have a question for the Cruz celor Santiago good evening can you explain how you imig from Virginia to Lawrence uh no so they
have um I've been I've lived in Lawrence and hael all my life I currently live in hail though I went to the Oliver and I did um I was in Lawrence until my sophomore year then I moved to uh hail but um they have satellite programs all over so um there's a satellite program
in Waterville Maine where I do the training and there's also one the other closest one is in uh White Plains so it's uh the coursework is online but the actual flight training is at those satellite satellite programs and I actually just finished my cour work I just have a couple practicals to take
and then my my bachelor is completely done in aviation and I also have a Associates in business out of uh Northern Essex that's wonderful how they the technology came to help us absolutely thank you councelor Santiago councelor
leevy yeah Mr Ura yes so he is the second one for the people who can leave outside yes he's the second appointment that we are recommending out of the three members that could be outside the city are you
or are you completed right now your board or this would be a completion of the board this will bring us up to to a full full compliment I do foresee possibly um in the future we we'll see
you know assess the the the commission members but right now we're complete you are complete yes so he is taking the position on Mr Bob Irving he's
taking although his position is the one that was speaking right now for the the purpose of this yes it'll be the vacant position but essentially he will be the third person that's uh from out of town okay um and he's only appointed for one year for one year is the way the the
appointments are being that that one's vacant uh the appointments rotate according to the Charter U three years there's three sets of of of appointments and so he's not part of the three sets he will be part of the 2026 set of
appointments and we have two other me members who also would terms would expire on the 26th until reappointment um had you been Mr yo yes okay have you been Cate before in a commiss I have not no this is your first
sign no but I yes it is but um I do have um experience can you get to the microphone please no but I do have experience with airports I've been working for the last three years um so I'm familiar with TSA procedures and Airport management yeah I see that in your application that you
have are very a knowled on Aviation and than you coun and that's is great so I think so that you're going to be um an add to the commission thank you councel okay so thank you thank you Mr Ura for
the presentation of all of these four candidat actually thank you counselor for your trust and confidence and looking forward to there I have a question before we get a motion uh to send this to the full uh council do you uh offer private classes
uh uh so no not yet um one of the practicals that I will be taking in the next few months is to finish my certification as a flight instructor and then I will be able to but uh I have been helping people out but in unofficial capacity okay will that be any conflict
director ARA in the future uh if we have a member that's serving in the commission and I'm assuming at some point he's going to be uh offering classes I mean he again not that I have
anything against no well I don't I don't plan on offering classes as far as like for for money it's just for capacity to help to help the students and stuff um I plan on going professionally and not actually just being a a flight instructor it's just part of the certifications that you need in order to
to help your career well and as long as we in case that in the future we can always do a conflict of interest uh I'm assuming yes and absolutely they will go undergo the route of doing their conflict of
interest uh yes you know yearly test that everybody in in public service uh does um what interesting with Aviation is when they're teaching someone that counts towards their time exct and and and hours on the plane so many of them do it
again as long as they're not doing it for charge is where the conflict uh is minimized and they're not competing with the two Aviation schools that we have at the airport well thank you for the clarification I I um I think uh and I'm
going to uh say this again I think that what he planning to do is great I think to have an initiative to promote Aviation among the youth it's it's great uh and we know that some of the counselors that are that formerly serve
at at The Vocational School are in favor of that and most of us are so just keep in mind once again to uh promote this among the uh the females uh of of you know we want more girls involved absolutely I think it's needed and thank
you for sharing the data at the beginning and now I'm I'm looking for a motion for one of my uh motion to send the item 25 for four Cel for favor of recommendation second any second second uh motion made by councelor Santiago and
second by counselor Anna Levy all those in favor say I um and the eyes haveit thank you thank you thank thank you for your time you welcome congratulations just a reminder that this is the first part you're going to
have to come again in front of the full Council and and looking forward to see all of you there thank you so much for serving in the city of lawence the when is council meeting
cons April 1 April 1 April 1il it's April 1 thank you thank you so much and thank you director Ura for uh the wonderful work that you do uh at the
airport at the municipal you very much counselors and now you're as I mentioned to all of you are more than welcome to give you a tour or an update anytime you are available please uh let me know looking forward to do that when the weather gets better absolutely director send send the in send the invitation
just send the invitation and say okay I had this and this and day and we can sit out or so that's you know at the cafeteria we can have the coffe yes thank you so much and enjoy the view thank you very much appreciate thank you so much
good councelors Mo good night good night motion to aour Second meeting aour