AIRPORT'S PLAN TO BE STUDIED AUTHORITY SETS REVIEW.Byline: Jennifer Klein Staff Writer VENTURA - The Oxnard Airport Oxnard Airport (IATA: OXR, ICAO: KOXR, FAA LID: OXR) is a public airport located one mile (1.6 km) west of the central business district (CBD) of Oxnard, a city in Ventura County, California, USA. Authority will take the next few months - and will schedule a retreat - to review a proposed mission statement that calls for closing the airport by Aug. 1, 2005. The review of the statement, which also calls for limiting new services, comes as out-of-state flights were approved for the regional facility and amid escalating debate over the airport some say no longer fits the area. Earlier this month, the county's airports director stepped down. ``I've never seen a mission statement like this, but we have to remember they were charged with a mission-vision statement,'' Interim Director of Airports Scott Smith Scott Smith is the name of:
A security that is no longer included on a specified market. Sometimes referred to as "delisted". Notes: Reasons for delisting include violating regulations, failing to meet financial specifications set out by the stock exchange and going bankrupt. and may be put over into a list of items for the airport to look at.'' The mission statement committee of 10 community members and airport users has been meeting since February on the document, the first one separate from the neighboring neigh·bor n. 1. One who lives near or next to another. 2. A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another. 3. A fellow human. 4. Used as a form of familiar address. v. Camarillo Airport Camarillo Airport (ICAO: KCMA, FAA LID: CMA) is a public airport located three miles (5 km) west of the central business district of Camarillo, a city in Ventura County, California, United States. . It was approved on a split 5-3 vote, with the airport users opposed and two absent. The airport authority is expected to forward the final version to the Board of Supervisors. Supervisor Judy Mikels criticized the committee for the recommendations she said are not under its authority. ``That is not a mission statement,'' Mikels said. ``That is an operations policy, and only the Board of Supervisors can do that. The committee far overstepped its bounds.'' Mikels said as a facility receiving federal funds Federal Funds Funds deposited to regional Federal Reserve Banks by commercial banks, including funds in excess of reserve requirements. Notes: These non-interest bearing deposits are lent out at the Fed funds rate to other banks unable to meet overnight reserve , the public airport cannot be closed without Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control approval. This week, the Board of Supervisors approved a lease with Mesa Airlines Mesa Airlines is an American airline based in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. It is a FAA Part 121 certificated air carrier operating under air carrier certificate number MASA036A issued on June 29 1979. It is a subsidiary of Mesa Air Group. to provide out-of-state flights at the airport that previously offered only service locally. Two round-trip flights a day from Oxnard to Phoenix are expected to be offered in December. The board on Tuesday will consider approving a federal grant to fund facility improvements such as access for the disabled and infrastructure. Alan Wingo, chairman of the committee and one of those representing the community, said he wants the entire document reviewed. The statement also includes a proposal for no new capital improvements. ``My No. 1 concern is that the entire mission statement be considered,'' Wingo said. ``There's been so much attention over the less than 10 percent that calls for the closure of the airport. I want the other 90 percent taken very seriously.'' |
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