While presenting Plymouth City Council with an ordinance to amend the fee schedule for the Department of Aviation, City Attorney Sean Surrisi recommended that members consider suspending the rules and adopting the ordinance on all three readings.
When members met last Monday, Surrisi explained that the Aviation Board recently approved a few changes to the fee schedule that had to come before the city council before they could be officially implemented. A $10 increase to hangar rent was proposed, shifting the rent from $85 to $95.
Surrisi said the only other major change was that with the amended fee schedule, hangars M and B can now be rented out individually. Under the existing schedule, anyone interested in renting those had to rent the entire hangar. He said that option still exists but with the amendment, they’d have the ability to rent it out individually as well.
Surrisi used Culver Academies as an example, “The M hangar is going to be utilized by Culver Academies. They’re renting an office space by not the entire hangar. They’re just going to have individual planes in there.”
Mayor Mark Senter made a motion to suspend the rules and consider the ordinance to amend the fee schedule for the Department of Aviation on all three readings. His motion passed. The ordinance then received unanimous approval from the city council members.
Surrisi added that by adopting the ordinance during their final meeting in April, it allowed enough time for the amendments to be published and hangar tenants to be notified so the changes could be implemented into May’s rent.
