Melissa, interim airport manager, updated the Airport Advisory Board on the airport master plan and said the city started the project in late 2023 and that most planning elements are finished. She said five or six of the eight plan elements are complete and that staff and the consultant have discussed the zero‑to‑five year and five‑to‑10‑year capital improvement components with the FAA. Melissa said the city hopes to present the plan in final form to the board in October and to commission thereafter.

Melissa told the board the aeronautical obstruction survey identified clusters of trees on the far western property line — described on maps as an oxbow lake area — that penetrate imaginary approach/obstruction surfaces and will likely need action. She said staff expect that tree‑removal or trimming work will be a fall project because of scale and ease of vegetation work in that season, and that those changes will also be reflected in updated aeronautical mapping and pilot information for the airport.

Board members asked why the master plan timeline extended beyond initial expectations. Melissa said earlier slides in the briefing were not updated but that the consultant has completed the inventory, forecasts, facility requirements and alternatives and that final mapping and the capital improvement plan were being edited and expected within a few weeks. She said FAA regional staff have reviewed materials and provided favorable feedback.

Melissa also reminded the board that the master plan is typically a 10‑year document and will serve as a roadmap for the airport’s capital program going forward; staff will circulate drafts and will call a special meeting if the board wishes an earlier review prior to the October submission to the city commission.