Brookings Flying Club
Meeting minutes June 28, 2025
Start: 2:23 PM
End: 2:59 PM
Board Members Present: Doug Hanson, Noah Hergenrader, Chris Sargent, Kyle Rice
Agenda
Previous meeting minutes read and accepted
Old business
- Board actions
- Increased Non-Flying Member annual fee
- Increased Flying Member monthly fee
- Increase Flying Member deposit cost
- Voted to increase rental ratio factor from 8 GPH to 9 GPH once the new engine is installed
- Updated commercial fuel discount rate
- Ban check payments without board approval
- Established committees for the club
- Updated By-laws to show existing board member benefits.
- Board gave approval to
- Airport Day Cancellation
- Insurance update
- The Club Airplane is far more insured
- The fuel farm is insured
- Insurance rates have increased
New business
- Airport day cancellation. Why didn’t it work this year?
- We did not have enough volunteers.
- Multiple emails were sent out, closer to the event date
- Admittance about a late start, although even if you’re not going to volunteer you still need to be telling us that you’re not going to volunteer. We ended up getting the most amount of replies very close to the deadline cancellation date.
- Next year’s planning starts now.
Fuel Farm update:
- Jet A: We got a load of jet fuel recently 7615G
- 7551G is the current level.
- approx. 1200 used in past 30 days
- Approx. 4 months we will need a new load
- 100LL: 2174G current gallons
- 500g per month used were going to need a purchase in about 2 months
- A few days have been missed on the fuel check.
- Bill Sibner, Bill Bacca have requested to join the Fuel Committee
General club happenings
- There have been a number of upgrades to the security system, including better cameras, and internet redundancy.
Emphasis on joining the committees.
Aircraft maintenance
- Aircraft maintenance delay, estimate of 180 days.
Committee’s
- Meeting committee: Megan Kirchart, Fabian Villa, Noah Hergenrader
- Fuel Committee: Noah Hergernader, Alan Nidiffer, Dan Hays, Fabian Villa, Brad Baum
- Youth Committee: George Thompson, Rosie Hoxieng, Becky Ross.
- Aircraft Maintenance: Kyle Rice
- Facilities maintained, welcoming warming and appealing:
- Safety/Security, observe and investigate security matters and talk with club board members to increase safety and insure: Kyle Rice
- Airport Day, help plan and execute airport day going about business separate and report to board:
Financial Update is being sent out via email.
Meeting Minutes recorded and reported by Noah Hergenrader