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Home My WebLink AboutVII(I) Discussion/ Action Re: Appointment kof Representative to West Orange Airport Authority Agenda 10-05-99 Item VII I "CENTER OF GOOD LIVING-PRIDE OF WEST ORANGE" MAYOR•COMMISSIONER Ocoee S. SCOTT VANDERGRIFT ° �.. 1:5) CITY OF O C O E E COMMISSIONERS �� a 150 N.LAKESHORE DRIVE DANNY HOWELL - p SCOTT ANDERSON n OCOEE,FLORIDA 34761-2258 RUSTY JOHNSON `s). 4 (407)656-2322 NANCY J.PARKER Of G000 CITY MANAGER ELLIS SHAPIRO MEMORANDUM TO: The Honorable Mayor and City Commissioners �/ FROM: Ellis Shapiro, City Manager £z� I4 61-e/01-- DATE: September 29, 1999 RE: WEST ORANGE AIRPORT AUTHORITY APPOINTMENT The City Commission appointed Mayor Vandergrift to the West Orange Airport Authority as.their representative to the Authority's Board at the July 6, 1999 commission meeting. Mayor Vandergrift has notified staff that he wishes to resign. (see attached) The Mayor recommends that Harold Maguire be appointed to replace him. It is respectfully recommended that the.Commission appoint a replacement to the West• Orange Airport Authority. • PoW .• Protect ecaec°s Water Itcso:lrccs ':' Ocoee o` A� ►. u ° oFST& 2�OF GOO° $•Scoit VaaelypqL t Mayor V 150 N. LAKESHORE DRIVE OCOEE, FLORIDA 34761-2258 (407) 656-2322 Ext. 169 September 30, 1999 FAX (407) 656-5725 Ocoee city Commissioner 150 N. Lakeshore Drive Ocoee, Florida 34761 Commissioners, Please accept this letter as my resignation from the West Orange Airport Authority board. - • I highly recommend that you appoint Harold Maguire as my replacement. Harold is one of the original members.He has over 30 years experience serving the community, and a wealth of experience in the aviation field which can prove invaluable to the board and to us as a representative of our city. Sincerely, S. Scott Vandergrift Mayor THE PR/DE OF WEST ORANGE • • , Westg'Oran• e ' . Airport is slated for Horizon West area airport board build the airport on a 350-acrepar- had wanted toOr- AIRPORT from B-1 . limit the West or cel, valued at $12 million, in the ange authority to seven members. adds members County schools and the city of Win- Horizon West development area of They also had. sought powers of ter Springs. He resigned from the west Orange County. Most of the taxation to help raise the local latter post in April. land would have to be purchased share of the project's cost. The trio of appointments from the Reedy Creek Improve- Backers of the airport relin- ❑ Now the authority can get on with rounds out a nine-member board ment District,the government arm quished some taxing powers in or- plans for an airport near Disney recast by state lawmakers in June of Walt Disney World, board mem- der to secure state support for cre- out of a 1960s authority. hers said. ating the board,which will oversee ByJulie Carr Smyth I Three members were appointed It could take five to 10 years to an independent special district' y by Orange County Chairman Mel get the facility up and running. such as the one that operates Or- OF THE SENTINEL STAFF '. Martinez: District 1 County Corn- Members of the replaced board lando International and Orlando - missioner Bob Freeman, Oakland —the Tri-City Airport Authority— Executive airports. Gov. Jeb Bush appointed the final three members Mayor Jon VanderLey and busi- of the newly created West Orange Airport Authority on nessman Also onn the l Petro. board are one ap- Monday, freeing the board to begin planning.a $17 pointee each by the Orange County million general aviation airport near Walt Disney cities of Ocoee,Winter Garden and World. Apopka.Apopka Mayor John Land The group plans its first meeting for 10 a.m.Friday appointed Bill Morris, a financial at Ocoee City Hall. planner and pilot who served on Two of Bush's appointees —citrus grower William ' ; the transitional board,and the oth- B. Burch of Winter Garden and businesswoman Ann er two cities appointed their may- - ' Blakeley of Ocoee —had already been sitting on an I ors.Ocoee Mayor Scott Vandergrift " old authority revived,last fall to get the 25-year-old said Tuesday that he intends to ides off the'ground. . yield his seat to Harold Maguire, a The"governor's third appointee is Patricia N.Krup- veteran of the airport project. penbacher of Orlando, office manager for the Flank The new agency would seek to Kruppenbacher law firm. Frank Kruppenbacher has rj . represented various public bodies, including Orange 1 Please see AIRPORT, B-4 AVIATION BACKGROUND OF HAROLD MAGUIRE 1. LEARNED TO FLY IN A MILITARY PROGRAM AT THE BEGINING OF WORLD WAR 2. 3. RECEIVED MY COMMERICAL LISCENSE AND FLIGHT INSTRUCTORS RATING IN 1943 AND ALSO GRADUATED FROM THE ARMY FLIGHT INSTRUCTORS SCHOOL LOCATED AT RANDOLPH FIELD, SAN ANTONIO TEXAS. 3. TAUGHT 5 CLASSES OF ARMY AVIATION CADETS AT DORR FIELD ARCADIA FLORIDA.AND WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE AIR TRANSPORT COMMAND. 4. LEARNED TO FLY FIGHTER AIRCRAFT AT MEMPHIS TENN. 5. GRADUATED FROM MULTI-ENGINE AIRCRAFT SCHOOL IN PALMS SPRINGS CALIFORNIA. 6. WAS ASSIGNED TO THE FERRY DIVISION OF THE AIR TRANSPORT COMMAND AND DELIVERED SEVERAL AIRCRAFT TO THE EUROPEAN THEATER. 7. WAS TRANSFERRED TO EUROPE (LONDON & PARIS) TILL THE END OF THE WAR. 8. OWNED AND OPERATED MAGUIRE AIRPORT FOR APPROXIMATELY 10 YEARS DURING WHICH TIME WE OBTAINED A AIR CHARTER CERTIFICAATE FROM THE FAA,OPERATED A FLYING SCHOOL AND A REPAIR FACILITY. 9. SERVED ON THE STATE AVIATION ADVISORY BOARD IN TALLAHASSEE FOR A PERIOD OF APPROX. 10 YEARS. APPOINTED ORIGINALY BY GOV. BURNS. 10. WAS A MEMBER OF THE FLORIDA AIRPORT MANAGERS ASSN AND ATTENDED ALL OF THE MEETINGS FOR 12 YEARS. 11. SERVED ON THE TRI-CITY AIRPORT AUTHORITY AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CITY OF OCOEE.