07 - Agreement with Hayter Engineering to Extend Taxiway at Cox Airport

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Item No. 7 Memorandum TO: Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem & City Council FROM: Grayson Path, City Manager SUBJECT: Cox Airport Taxiway Extension Design Engineering Agreement Hayter Engineering DATE: September 13, 2021 BACKGROUND: Earlier in 2021, City Staff met with developers interested in building new corporate -sized hangars at the Cox Airport. The issue is the Cox Airport is nearly maxed out for available space for hangars, especially of corporate size. The developers were interested in adding their hangars along the primary taxiway, but per FAA regulations you cannot access your hangar with your vehicle from the primary taxiway. In addition, our master plan has smaller access taxiways being built parallel to the primary taxiway for hangar and vehicular access. The developers were told that the City does not have the financial means of extending taxiways, therefore extension would be at their expense. We offered a reimbursement agreement in case others were to attach future hangars to the extension, but they have all decided to back out of this arrangement. STATUS OF ISSUE: Even though the developers all backed out, given the momentum we had during this process and having already engaged our Interim City Engineer, Hayter Engineering, in the process of planning this out for purposes of working with these developers, the City Manager would like to follow through and proceed with designing the taxiway extension in preparation for future development. We would like to design the access taxiway extension shown in the agreement document, which falls in line with our master plan (the exact location is not correct, but our master plan had the access taxiway too close to the primary taxiway anyways, so this is a better option). This way, whenever the City or future developers are ready to build, we will already have bid -ready design and specifications ready to go. Our drawing has been shown to TxDOT-Aviation and they are