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HomeMy WebLinkAboutApplication to Impose Passenger Facility Charges Augusta Richmond GA DOCUMENT NAME: P ppl.-IC ATio.:J -fo :r-",pOSc;; ip~ s s 15""';\ E62- I-I'1C j l-i 1'1 C-.l--\ A CZ ~ e.. S DOCUMENT TYPE: .~ €SOLU'TIOo-J YEAR: ) ~C1 ~ BOX NUMBER: ~ FILE NUMBER: }Lt 0 Y 3 NUMBER OF PAGES: 3 . '" RESOLUTION JOINT RESOLUTION OF THE AUGUST A- RICHMOND COUNTY COMMISSION AND THE AUGUSTA AVIATION COMMISSION AUTHORIZING THE FILING OF AN APPLICATION TO IMPOSE AND USE PASSENGER FACILITY CHARGES WHEREAS, the Bush Field Airport ("Airport") is owned and operated by Augusta, Georgia, a political subdivision of the State of Georgia ("Augusta"), by and through the Augusta-Richmond County Commission ("ARCC") and the Augusta Aviation Commission, an instrumentality of Augusta ("Commission"); and WHEREAS, Augusta approves and from time to time amends the Capital Improvement Program for the Airport ("CIP") for the purposes of, among other things, preserving or enhancing safety, security or capacity of the Airport and the national air transportation reducing or mitigating noise impacts at the Airport and furnishing opportunities for enhanced competition between or among air carriers operating at the Airport; and WHEREAS, the Congress of the United States has empowered the Federal Aviation Administration ("FAA") to promulgate and the FAA has promulgated a Federal Air Regulation ("Regulation") allowing owners or operators of commercial airports such as the Airport to impose a Passenger Facility Charge ("PFC") upon application to and approval by the FAA and to use the proceeds thereofto fund the Allowable Costs of Eligible Projects as provided and described in the Regulation; and WHEREAS, Augusta has included as part of its current five-year erp a program to expand, reconstruct, enlarge and renovate the current passenger terminal facility at the Airport (the "Project") and believes certain costs of the Project would be so allowable and eligible; and WHEREAS, Augusta believes a PFC would be an equitable means to raise revenues to fund some or all of the said Allowable Costs of Eligible Projects of the CIP; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the Regulations it will be necessary from time to time to make reports to the FAA, and it may be desirable from time to time for Augusta to amend PFC authority and to seek approval for new PFC projects at the Airport; NOW, THEREFORE, the Augusta Aviation Commission and the Augusta-Richmond County Commission hereby resolve that: 1. Upon adoption of this Resolution by the Commission and ARCC, the Airport Director of the Airport is hereby authorized and directed to: -. (a) apply forthwith to the FAA, for and in the name of Augusta, for approval to impose a $3,00 PFC at the Airport and use the resulting net revenues to pay the Allowable Costs of the Eligible Projects of the Airport's CIP; (b) make and file such reports as may be required by the Regulation; (c) make recommendations to the ARCC and the Commission for future applications to impose and use PFCs at the Airport; (d) make recommendations to ARCC and the Commission to amend PFC applications and projects at the Airport; ( e) use PFC revenues to pay the costs of approved projects; (f) use PFC revenues to pay the debt service on debt incurred by Augusta with respect to approved projects; (g) reimburse to Commission from PFC revenues the Allowable Costs of approved projects funded by Commission from prior capital expenditures for which such reimbursement from PFC revenues is authorized by FAA Rules and Regulations; and (h) take all such other reasonable actions as necessary or desirable to obtain approval of said PFC applications and amendments thereto, 2, The said PFCs shall be collected for so long as proceeds may be necessary to pay directly the Allowable Cost of approved projects and make those debt service payments, or portions of debt service payments, on debt incurred by Augusta to finance the Allowable Costs of approved projects, or for such shorter period as may be required by the Regulation, 3, Augusta hereby finds that: (a) under the Regulation, Augusta is entitled to exclude certain classes of carriers if the number of passengers enplaned by the carriers in that class constitutes no more than one percent (1%) of the total number of passengers enplaned at the airport at which the PFC is imposed; (b) the class of air carriers comprising those air carriers operating under FAR Part 135 and which provide only on-demand non-scheduled service and which do not sell tickets to individual passengers enplaning their aircraft at the Airport ("Air Taxis") enplane less than one percent (1%) of all passengers enplaned at the Airport and may be exempted from the PFC; (c) the administrative and accounting expense for PFCs required for the Air Taxis would be more costly than the PFCs collected by the Air Taxis and ,.. .... it would not be cost effective for Augusta to include the Air Taxis within Augusta's PFC program; (d) the carriers serving the Airport have been notified of Augusta's intention to impose and use PFCs at the Airport and Augusta's intention to exempt Air Taxis from the PFC requirement and no air carrier has objected to such exemption; said Air Taxis, therefore, should be and hereby are exempted from the requirement of collection the PFCs at the Airport and the Airport Director is hereby directed to include in said application a request that Air Taxis be so exempted. 4 so RESOLVED this ~ - day of (e) ;ltr~ ' 1999. / 1\ GUST A A VIA nON COMMISSION rJY:~b ~ l1 Wi~e:=~n'~ cretary ,/- /~~ 9') Date: Date: ;( / /0/97 I '