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Home My WebLink AboutS16 - City Council Airport Liaison CommitteeCITY OF NEWPORT BEACH CITY MANAGER STAFF REPORT Agenda Item No. S16 January 9, 2007 TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL FROM: Robert Burnham, Contract Attorney; Phone - 644 -3131; e-mail address — rbumham @city.newport- beach.ca.us SUBJECT: Proposed City Council Airport Liaison Committee ISSUE: Should the City Council create a City Council Airport Liaison Committee! RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends the City Council adopt a resolution (copy attached) creating the City Council Airport Liaison Committee (Committee) and establishing the Committee's composition and duties. Staff also recommends the Mayor appoint three members of the Council to the Committee. DISCUSSION: In July 2006, the City Council adopted a comprehensive City Council "Airport Policy" (Policy) designed to protect Newport Beach residents from the adverse impacts resulting from air carrier operations at John Wayne Airport (JWA). The Policy establishes protection of Newport Beach residents from JWA impacts as the primary objective. The Policy also makes it clear that achieving the primary objective requires a full understanding and consideration of the complex factors that influence the level of service at JWA and extensive and ongoing involvement of the City Council, the City Manager, and community groups involved and interested in JWA issues. Staff believes that formation of the Committee would be helpful during the initial stages of Policy implementation. The Committee would, among other things, serve temporarily as the "Corridor Cities" liaison, conduct initial meetings with community groups involved in airport issues and recommend to the City Council any action (including the need for successor committees) necessary or appropriate to implement the Policy and protect Newport Beach residents. Environmental Review: CEQA does not require any environmental documentation. Prepared by: 6W bn�ft A!� Robert Burnham RESOLUTION NO. 2007- A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH CREATING THE CITY COUNCIL AIRPORT LIASION COMMITTEE WHEREAS, in July 2006 the City Council of the City of Newport Beach approved comprehensive revisions to the City Council Airport Policy (Policy) that outlines a comprehensive strategy to protect Newport Beach residents from adverse impacts caused by John Wayne Airport (JWA); and WHEREAS, the Policy states that a full understanding and thorough consideration of numerous factors that are relevant to the supply of and demand for air transportation in the region, the authority of airport proprietors and the impacts of air carrier operations including State and Federal law, the attitudes, philosophy and regulations of the FAA, the state of the national and local economy, regional and sub - regional planning and transportation programs and policies and the decisions, philosophy and opinions of the Board of Supervisors. WHEREAS, the Policy recognizes that support and assistance from community -based groups concerned about JWA is critical to the success of any plan or strategy to control JWA impacts and expects members of the City Council and staff to regularly meet with citizen -based organizations whose members are concerned about JWA impacts. WHEREAS, the Policy commits the City to support the efforts of any group or individual that is striving to achieve the City's primary objective, understands the legal, political and economic factors that are relevant to the control of airport impacts and seeks to achieve the City's primary objective in a manner that reflects full consideration and understanding of those factors. WHEREAS, the Airport Working Group (AWG) has a 25 year history of involvement in efforts to protect Newport Beach residents from JWA impacts, whose members have volunteered thousands of hours of time on airport issues and whose members, because of their profession and involvement in local and/or national airport and aviation issues are well informed of the factors and considerations that are relevant to a strategy to protect residents from JWA. WHEREAS, Airfair is a relatively new organization whose members include persons who, as individuals or members of Stop Polluting Our Newport (SPON), have long been involved in airport issues and that declares itself to be a "Political Action Committee ".:.formed to create a strong and broad citizen force and is premised on the belief that residents throughout the JWA flight path must unite and actively work together" to protect Newport Beach residents from JWA impacts. WHEREAS, the Policy also commits the City to "communicate regularly with its residents" relative to the implementation of the Policy and, as part of this communication, contemplates regular meetings between City Council members, staff and representatives of AWG and Airfair to discuss the Policy, any appropriate. changes to the Policy, the positions of each on relevant issues and the roles that each would play in the ongoing effort to protect Newport Beach residents from JWA impacts. WHEREAS, the Policy recognizes that communication and cooperation between the City, AWG and Airfair is important to achieving various components of the strategy to protect JWA residents — such as establishing and maintaining support for each component of the Policy by other public agencies whose residents are impacted by JWA and providing Newport Beach residents with accurate information about the best ways to protect them from JWA impacts now and in the future. WHEREAS, the City Council supports the creation of an ad hoc City Council Airport Liaison Committee for the purpose of: (a) conducting preliminary meetings with AWG, Airfair and other interested groups or organizations to discuss, among other things, Policy implementation, the roles that each should play in implementation and how to establish and maintain a course of communication; and (b) to report their findings, with recommendations including the need for any successor committee, to the City Council. NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH HEREBY RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS: .SECTION 1. ESTABLISHMENT The City Council Airport Liaison Committee (Committee) shall be established as of the date this Resolution is approved by four members of the Newport Beach City Council. SECTION 2. DUTIES The duties of the Committee are: (a) To conduct preliminary meetings with AWG, Airfair and any other group or organization involved or interested in JWA issues to discuss, among other things, the roles that the City, AWG and Airfair could or should play in Policy implementation and the means by which the parties should establish /maintain a course of communication. (b) To meet with any other organization or group interested in JWA impacts to determine their position on the Policy and the role they may be interested in playing in Policy implementation. (c) To review with the City Manager the means and methods for communicating with Newport Beach residents about the Policy and Policy implementation. (d) To submit a report to the City Council that identifies the respective roles that the City and various groups or organizations, including AWG and Airfair, could or should play in Policy implementation, any proposed recommendations for Policy implementation, any recommendation regarding the best way to communicate with Newport Beach residents on issues related to JWA and the need, if any for the establishment of successor. SECTION 3. COMPOSITION The Committee shall consist of the Mayor and two members of the City Council appointed by, and serving at the pleasure of, the Mayor. SECTION 4. TERM The term of the Committee shall expire six months from the date this Resolution is approved or at such time as the Committee's final recommendations are considered by the City Council at a Study Session or other regular meeting of the City Council, whichever occurs last. SECTION 5. REPEAL Resolution No. 2003 -10 and Resolution No. 2003 -76 are hereby repealed. ADOPTED this 9"' day of January, 2007. Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk