[JYO] Leesburg's Airport Director Resigns

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Leesburg's Airport Director  Resigns
_Molly Novotny_ (mailto:)  

Aug  18, 2005 -- Airport Director Cindi Martin announced her  resignation 
yesterday, hand delivering a letter to Town Manager John Wells. Just  15 months 
into her role as director, Martin is leaving Leesburg and heading to  Wyoming. 
Martin's service to the town began in January 2001 when she filled in as the  
interim director at the airport for three months after Juan Rivera resigned. 
She  was a consultant for Campbell and Paris Engineers and contracted her 
services to  Leesburg, she said.  
The town hired Douglas McNeeley from Montgomery County Airpark as the  
permanent director in April 2001. His tenure with the town was shortlived and  
Martin again filled in as interim director in 2003, at which she served the 
town  
for roughly a year. She was also contracting her services to Stafford and  
Warrenton and helping direct their airports.  
In May of 2004, Martin made her position permanent when she accepted the  
position of director. At this time, she left her position with Campbell and  
Paris and stopped her work with the other regional airports, she said Friday.  
âWe're pretty well devastated by it,â said Steve Axeman, chairman of the  
airport commission, about Martinâs resignation.  
Vice Mayor Fernando "Marty" Martinez, who is the council's representative to  
the airport commission, was surprised at the announcement.  
"It came as a complete surprise. I'm disappointed we're going to be losing  
someone of her quality and expertise," he said Thursday.  
Martin said on Friday that she and her family will move to Casper, WY, where  
she will manage the commercial airport. The airport is larger than 
Leesburg's,  she said, but her duties will be similar.  
"Casper has a different set of challenges," Martin said. "It doesnât have the 
 same land use pressures that Leesburgâs facing.  
"This is a bittersweet decision. I have loved my time at Leesburg. I have an  
excellent staff; Iâve loved working with everyone in the town. ... and 
weâve 
 accomplished an awful lot in the last two years."  
She has nearly 20 years of airport administration and operation experience  
and has worked at general and commercial aviation airports.  
She will leave the town in Sept 13.  
In searching for a new director, Axeman said he wants to get a director who  
knows the Federal Aviation Administration and Virginia Department of Aviation  
regulations âfor grant assurances to make sure we get the funds that we are  
entitled to." The director must also âbe sensitive to the users,â he said, 
while  realizing âthe airport's a business and has to be treated as such."  
Axeman said Martin handled all of these roles with ease.  
âI can't say enough good things about her," he said Thursday.

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