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City Council Regular Meeting <br />November 11, 2002 <br />Page 7 <br /> <br />the certification, he visited with the Jim Collier, Airport Manager at Cox <br />Field Airport, and was informed by him that he needed to get a commercial <br /> <br />operator's permit from the City of Paris to operate out of the airport. Mr. <br />Jones said when he applied for the permit, it referenced requirements <br />under city ordinances, and upon reviewing those requirements, he asked <br />the City Council to consider waiving two of those requirements. Mr. Jones <br />told the City Council that his official base of operation is at Powderly, and <br />the name of his company is Air Direct, LLC. The requirement that he was <br />asking to be waived is the one that requires him to be a part of the <br />volunteer fire department and rescue crew to answer all emergencies and <br />to take annual recurrent training related to that. He said he was not a <br />firefighter nor does he have a desire be one at this point in his life, and <br />asked that this requirement be waived. The next requirement was one that <br />requires a twelve- hour dispatch. Mr. Jones said that if someone called him <br />and wanted to take a charter flight, he would have to be available and <br />ready for dispatch within twelve hours. He said that contradicts the FAA <br />Rules and Regulations that he is regulated by. Mr. Jones advised that there <br />are times that he is required to have a fourteen-hour rest period before he <br />is available for dispatch. Also, with having only one aircraft and one pilot, <br />if he is on a trip, he may be gone for two to three days and it would be <br />impossible for him to be available for dispatch within the confines of the <br />twelve-hour notice. For these reasons, Mr. Jones requested that these <br />requirements be waived. <br /> <br />City Attorney Schenk advised the City Council that he has talked to <br />Tommy Haynes and Mr. Collier, and explained that these ordinances have <br />historical significance, and advised that there are no provisions for waiver <br />under the ordinance but Sec 6-22(d) does not have a practical application <br />any more and he felt that came up when an older fire vehicle was located <br />at the airport, and that is no longer the practice. City Attorney Schenk <br />said that next month is when the city will be doing the renewal on all of the <br />permits for operation out of the airport. City Attorney Schenk said he <br />would like to come back and amend the Code of Ordinances by removing <br />the requirements that are no longer needed. Mr. Schenk felt that the same <br /> <br /> <br />