[JYO] Who's in charge at the Leesburg Airport? It's a SECRET!
- From: "Ed Levine" <FlyboyEd@xxxxxxx>
- To: "jyo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx " <jyo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:06:05 -0500
For the past 4-5 months are the Leesburg airport commission meeting
there has been an obvious power struggle for who holds the reigns
between the airport commission and the Airport Administration. The
decisions that are made at these meetings affect us all. Now, and long
after the people in the positions are gone. At the suggestion of some
of the pilots on my e-mail list (over 300 now), I wrote to the town
manager, Robert Noe, to clear up the issue. He declined.
He gave me the parameters in which he would disclose the answer, so I
met the parameters and he declined again. I then wrote him a third
time (shown below) and for a third time he declined to tell me. His
"final answer" was that if the commission saw a benefit to his coming
and addressing this situation, he would do so.
Don't you want to know who makes the final decision on things that
affect you at YOUR airport? I sure do.
I urge pilots to attend Airport Commission Meetings. The next meeting
is Thurdsay Night, 12/12/02, 7:30PM in the Leesburg Airport Lobby.
Ed
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-----Original Message-----12/06/2002
From: FlyboyEd@xxxxxxx [mailto:FlyboyEd@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 9:28 AM
To: Robert Noe
Cc: Douglas McNeeley; Steve_Axeman@xxxxxxx; Robert Zoldos; Kristen Umstattd; Sidney L. Lissner; andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Phil.Boyer@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Your Invitation to the December Airport Commission Meeting
Mr. Robert S. Noe
Town of Leesburg - Town Manager
25 West Market Street - P.O. Box 88
Leesburg, VA 20178
Dear Mr. Noe:
As you may recall, I wrote you on 10/25/02 telling you about an ongoing situation at the airport commission meetings where both the town Airport Commission and the Airport Director publicly show confusion as to which one of them is "in charge" regarding airport decisions. They have emotionally discussed this publicly at meetings on more than one occasion, quoting codes and trying to decipher "intent" of codes and rules.
In my letter, I asked you to simply clear the situation and you wrote back to me declining my request. You said in your letter that a request like that had to come from either the Airport Commission, the Council Liaison to the Airport Commission or the Town Council.
At the next meeting I did two things. I publicly expressed my concern (which is a concern shared by other pilots) to the Commission and asked the Commission chairman to invite you to come to the next meeting. I also explained the issues shared by me and other pilots to the Councilmatic liaison, Mr. Bob Zoldos, and asked him to invite you as well to make sure you were "invited" according to the parameters you had set forth in your communication to me.
It is my understanding that you still do not plan to address this issue. Since the Airport Commission themselves are a party to the issue, it would not behoove them to unanimously invite you.
I have been flying at the Leesburg Airport for over 25 years and hopefully will continue to fly there for 25 more. The direction the airport takes is very important to me. The decisions that are made at meetings affect the airport years from now. In those years, commission members and airport directors come and go, but many of the pilots remain.
We have a right to know who's in charge. Please reconsider your decision to not tell us.
Thank you,
Ed M. Levine
Private Pilot
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