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Home My WebLink About10/17/2011 - MinutesUlf opened up meeting at 5:45pm Ryan Zulauf introduced Brad Rolf and Mary Vigilante from Barnard Dunkelberg and Company, the consultant doing the Airport Sustainability Study Kevin Wilhelm and Burr Stewart of Sustainable Business Consulting were introduced by Brad Rolf. Remainder of RAAC members introduction Ulf passed off to Brad to begin his presentation Sustainability Presentation Brad talked about Agenda Brad defined the project – provided a project overview Brad explained how sustainability applies to the airport Triple bottom line – Economics Society and Environment Customer Community and Organization Overview of where we are at in the process – Information collection and baseline inventory collection Finances, water quality, Defining goals and metrics Collection of information already being done Items being evaluated in the sustainability plan Operations, Finances, energy consumpetion, noise, water quality, community outreach and education Aircraft operations – summarization Airport finance slide – Total expenses vs total revenue – Money carrying over from year to year Grants are not reflected in the chart Remains financially sustainable Greenhouse gas emissions Pie chart Av fuel is 76% Jet A is 22%Remainder is the balance Based on fuel sales not on actual burn rate of the aircraft Fuel efficiency is Water quality Imperviousness of airport breakdown via acreage Stormwater runoff quality and quanitity mentioned Data is scarce What metrics can we use? Municipal water use – one year snapshot Irrigation is a large water consumption point Community outreach and education Tours RAAC Web, Tours, Female pilot friendly Comprehensive plan update Measuring and monitoring memorializing What goals are important? Available staff and funding Specific and measurable Timeframes Provide greatest gains with least amount of effort Low hanging fruit Most value for the expenditure Airport Operations Goals Become more attractive to aircraft oepraitons More attractive to Boeing for mfg Diversity of tenants Metrics – number of ops (boeing vs GA) based aircraft fuel sales runway closures Tenant diversitification Chuck asked how do airport operations apply to sustainability B Brad replied that our boundaries apply to direct things that the airport controls Mary said that we should look at what factors should guide airport decision making Three legged stool, understanding of financial environment and social issues. “Are we making progress?” Mary V How do we measure attractiveness? Mary V Chuck said that seing the CIP would be helpful Ryan responded that we are doing this to manage costs and keep infrastructure together. Operations costs vs spending on capital projects. 40% increase on tenants. Cant do it again. Not viable to bsuisiness Focus over the long haul on our costs. Report it and track it. Lights on in building of Quonset is inefficient as an example. Mat Devine said that this is pure business sense. How does it improve sustainability? Kevin responded that sustaibabilty stuff is usually at odds with financial sense. And responded to Chuck that something/// Tracking it and making sure that what we are reporting Mat D is not interested in a PR effort. What does the GHG emission have anything to do with anything Brad responded that GHG emission is just a part of that ‐ Long term and near term Ryan responded that we need a framework to hang sustainable decisions on. Marcie added that we tried hard with MI Good management is difficult – good people and RAAC peoples Matt D said we did a good job Deepa added that this is a model for other airports to use. Bettering thesystem as a whole Mary added that NW people are more in tune with this, though across the industry it is not so 75% of the cost of the project applies after the project is done ‐ Value engineering out May be normal day to day things – need reporting mechanisms to make sound decisions Deepa added that there is an amenable mentaility here at Renton Kevin said that this has been used as PR at other places– But it should be a business model KC Jones asked how we tracked this in years past Ryan said no tracking until 2007 – year by year basis in the past – now we have spreadsheets,data but no information Tremendous amount of work to collect KC – better to track it? Yes it is Framework allows for a better decision making model Burr added that Sust is doing theobvious – If it were we would all be sustaibable Conflicts exist among obsjectives. End up with worse ecisions. Devil is in the details. Balancing objectives Transparency in how decisions affect each of the six goals – Burr Value of the framework – burr – Execution is tough Burr – like consumer reports what you buy is what you care the most about Chuck – Is this the thing of the day? Will it disappear? Ryan – gives the next guy a thing to work off of Marcie – come so far, will give council some framework in the future. Ryan – Continuous improvement Chuck – better visibility over the long term Ryan – 30% increase – why do we have this increase – tell me why? Brad – Documentation and accountability Mary – How doe we improve upon this process – Changes and susbseuent initiatives, etc. Whole concept is to be sustainable – A Zen riddle – Chuck – why does FAA want it? Deepa – Not sure when it came up Mary – FAA has seen airports doeing it around the country – FAA like to see standardizing If they inact a process then a funding mechanism will develop Marcie – Emergin issues – what is coming up? Keep 737 here and get the max here 35 planes per month. How will the max affect us CHUCK – lease rates keep going up – this is the last of the large rate increases. Ulf – When we finish the plan – annual report, how is it presented. Brad – spreadsheet to gather info print out one sheet Bob Ingersoll – Airport is only a small part of a larger set of systems Fuel costs are going up. Affordability of learngin and mainteianing pilots – embarking on toehr efforst. Strategic direction. Compiling the affects of tenants actions vs just airport actions Burr replied – that is the point of the pilot project. To learn how to best set this direction Burr – walmart example – “reduc the energy consumption of end use by 25% to suppliers” Bob Ingersoll – AOPA and the electric airplane will become a reality someday when gas prices and electric plane costs cross Burr – how can we position the airport to attrat innviateive tenants. Chuck – Part a and Part B of the plan – What we are doing, what we can be doing Lee – Don’t we have a gorilla in the room. New engine to revolutionalize the business. How will that affect the airport Maryh – Sustainabilyt Is about the journey not the destination . It is a living document Kevin – Economy’s affect on programs. Other programs that are out there and ticking Brad – measure of success is something that can be used by the tenants – integrated with tenants information Mary – parking lot example – Rolldown Marcie – Sending out notice for raac meeting – add: Here is what we are looking for. Here is what to read. This is what we hope to accomplish by the end of the meeting. Ulf – discussion on next meeting Ryan doesn’t want to lose momentum Ryan 13th of December for next meeting Jennifer Ann – Dec 13 is the next one Brad – 13th is fine Ulf – seed us ahead of time. Adjourned at 720pm by Ulf