CLEVELAND, Texas — Airport manager Eric Galindo updated the Cleveland Airport Advisory Board on Jan. 6 that consultants have delivered three of seven chapters of the Airport Layout Plan (ALP): introduction, inventory and forecast. Galindo described the ALP as a required FAA planning document and a 20-year development roadmap that supports eligibility for TxDOT and FAA funding.

"Chapter 2 documents existing conditions at the airport," Galindo said, and noted the plan describes Cleveland Municipal Airport as a city-owned public-use general aviation airport with a 5,001-foot runway, parallel taxiway, apron, hangars, a terminal and self-service fuel. He said chapter 3's forecast work confirms the airport will remain a general-aviation facility during the 20-year planning period but that additional design chapters will be aligned with expected growth.

Galindo said the ALP and completed surveys are prerequisites to pursue an RNAV procedure for Runway 34: "once the ALP is done ... and then also all the surveys that we completed earlier ... then that's when we go to TRACON to try to get all those approved." He warned the approval process will be slow.

Board member Greg Modell asked how operations are tracked and whether nearing the 90,000-operations threshold would change the airport's funding classification. Galindo said the airport tracks activity weekly in a system (Aero) and that higher operation counts can shift classification and increase grant eligibility. "It will be more funding," Galindo said, noting classification affects runway-design funding and grant amounts.

No formal decisions were made; the board received the update and will review subsequent ALP chapters when delivered.