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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[April 10

Amendment to Agreement with Midstate Aviation Center, Wiilard Airport

(16) I n June 1979, the Board of Trustees approved an agreement with Midstate Aviation Center, Inc., of Savoy, Illinois, allowing the company to conduct business at Wiilard Airport as a "fixed base operation." T h e agreement was amended in 1980, 1982, and 1984, and currently provides for the lease of Hanger # 3 and auto parking for an annual rental of $17,400. In addition, an annual payment of $12,600 is received for concession rights granted the operator, increasing each year of the agreement by 5 percent, plus an annual payment of .375 percent of gross receipts. T h e current expiration date is June 30, 1989. An additional amendment is now proposed to become effective July 1, 1986.' I t will extend the current agreement for an additional two years, t o June 30, 1991, and will provide Midstate Aviation the nonexclusive right to sell aviation fuels to transient general aviation aircraft. T h e University will continue to provide fuel to commercial air carriers, military aircraft, and University aircraft. For the additional right, Midstate will pay the University a flowage fee of $.06 per gallon of aviation fuel delivered to its storage tank, an annual fixed apronuse fee of $4,100, and 75 percent of ramp-use fees collected by Midstate from aircraft using the transient general aviation ramp. T h e apron-use fees are guaranteed by Midstate to total at least $25,200 and collections will be reviewed annually to verify if the combined collection meets the minimum amount. In the event the combined amount of $25,200 is not reached, Midstate has agreed in the subsequent year to increase the annual fee of $4,100 by the amount of the deficiency. T h e chancellor at Urbana has recommended that the agreement be amended as described. I concur.

On motion of Mrs. Gravenhorst, this recommendation was approved. University of Illinois—Wiilard Airport Master Plan Update

(17) I n January 1984, the Board of Trustees approved an application for Federal assistance for the 1984 Airport Improvement Program which included an update of the airport master plan and an environmental impact assessment report. In October 1984, Crawford, Murphy and Tilly, Inc., of Springfield, a consulting engineering firm, was retained to prepare the update and the environmental report. Following a review of the 1974 master plan, the consultants compiled airport data in a variety of categories, developed twenty-year forecasts of aircraft and passenger activity, assessed existing facilities and airport capacity, and estimated future demand, based, conservatively, upon a growth rate "of enplanements" of 4 percent per year. They then developed a twenty-year plan, staged in five-year increments, to meet existing and future needs. During the process, the consulting engineers and airport officials have made 34 public presentations of the master plan update. Based on the community response from those presentations, it is apparent that there is strong community support for a new airline passenger terminal complex and for improvements to the airfield. In addition, a public hearing on the environmental impact assessment report was held on January 30, 1986. T h e recorded support for the plan at the hearing was 97 for and 1 against.

1 The amendment Is in accord with the revision of the policy statement concerning private operations at the airport, approved by the board on March 13, 1986.