Public Forum, Thursday, June 16 @ 5 - 6:30 PM, Pepito's Parkway Theater, 48th &
Chicago
South Mpls. neighbors,
It has been far longer than a year since I've interrupted your blissfully
peaceful lives with an appeal to step up and attend a seriously important
public forum on airport issues. Congressman Rick Nolan, our right hand man in
Congress on airport issues, will be speaking and answering questions and taking
public input on MSP's expansion plans, noise and related issues. That said, I
have been asked by Jim Spensley, President, South Minneapolis Airport Action
Council (SMAAC) to post the following message:
"Congressman Rick Nolan, MN-8 will be the main speaker at the SMAAC 2016 Spring
Forum June 16th. Mr. Nolan's speech kicks off discussions of locally
controversial FAA plans and policies. The Forum begins at 5 PM, Thursday June
16, Pepito's Parkway Theater, 48th and Chicago. The 90 minute meeting will be
video-graphed and the discussions "continued online" for at least two weeks.
Mr. Nolan will speak about the quirks and politics delaying FAA
Re-Authorization and separate bills forward which otherwise would have been
posed as amendments, such as using private-sector for-profit firms to train and
supply air traffic controllers, or furnishing NextGen avionics or upgrades to
the airlines.
SMAAC has long argued that the Twin Cities are caught in a great pincher
movement: the FAA is spending trillions to safely increase US flight capacity
and the airlines are fortifying their hubs and concentrating schedules making
the airport system goals nearly impossible to attain. Expensive, risky, stuff
for any hub -- and MSP is a small airport site."
There are two attachments with this note which elaborate on the above message.
So, neighbors, you don't get called on very often to step up and add your
presence and voice to the efforts to have citizen input into airport matters.
This is one of the rare times that we ask you to come forward. Please mark your
calendar for this important forum.
Note that this meeting also serves as an opportunity to support Congressman
Nolan's efforts in Washington with an optional financial donation.
Public Forum, Thursday, June 16 @ 5 - 6:30 PM, Pepito's Parkway Theater, 48th &
Chicago
Michael Kehoe
South Minneapolis
Chicago
South Mpls. neighbors,
It has been far longer than a year since I've interrupted your blissfully
peaceful lives with an appeal to step up and attend a seriously important
public forum on airport issues. Congressman Rick Nolan, our right hand man in
Congress on airport issues, will be speaking and answering questions and taking
public input on MSP's expansion plans, noise and related issues. That said, I
have been asked by Jim Spensley, President, South Minneapolis Airport Action
Council (SMAAC) to post the following message:
"Congressman Rick Nolan, MN-8 will be the main speaker at the SMAAC 2016 Spring
Forum June 16th. Mr. Nolan's speech kicks off discussions of locally
controversial FAA plans and policies. The Forum begins at 5 PM, Thursday June
16, Pepito's Parkway Theater, 48th and Chicago. The 90 minute meeting will be
video-graphed and the discussions "continued online" for at least two weeks.
Mr. Nolan will speak about the quirks and politics delaying FAA
Re-Authorization and separate bills forward which otherwise would have been
posed as amendments, such as using private-sector for-profit firms to train and
supply air traffic controllers, or furnishing NextGen avionics or upgrades to
the airlines.
SMAAC has long argued that the Twin Cities are caught in a great pincher
movement: the FAA is spending trillions to safely increase US flight capacity
and the airlines are fortifying their hubs and concentrating schedules making
the airport system goals nearly impossible to attain. Expensive, risky, stuff
for any hub -- and MSP is a small airport site."
There are two attachments with this note which elaborate on the above message.
So, neighbors, you don't get called on very often to step up and add your
presence and voice to the efforts to have citizen input into airport matters.
This is one of the rare times that we ask you to come forward. Please mark your
calendar for this important forum.
Note that this meeting also serves as an opportunity to support Congressman
Nolan's efforts in Washington with an optional financial donation.
Public Forum, Thursday, June 16 @ 5 - 6:30 PM, Pepito's Parkway Theater, 48th &
Chicago
Michael Kehoe
South Minneapolis
