Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
STAFF WRITER
Thursday’s Clovis city commission special meeting regarding property and concession at the Clovis Municipal Airport never got off the ground.
The special session, which was slated to begin at 5:15 p.m., was preceded by an executive session that began at 4:30 p.m., with the topic being threatened litigation.
At approximately 5:45 p.m. City Manager Larry Fry entered the north annex of the Clovis-Carver Library and announced to those in attendance there would be no meeting — with the vast majority of attendees dispersing upon hearing Fry’s announcement.
The commission emerged from closed session at 6:04 p.m. and city attorney David Richards offered the following regarding meeting cancellation.
“There have been discussions about operations at the airport,” he said. “We scheduled an executive session so the commission could discuss the issues and went ahead and scheduled a special meeting just in case there was some sort of resolution that they could vote on — and that didn’t happen. The meeting was canceled because it hadn’t gotten to a point where a decision would be made. It’s still just in a discussion mode at this point and hopefully we can advance a resolution soon.”
The next regular commission meeting is scheduled 5:15 p.m. Aug. 18.
“There may well be something (resolved) at the next meeting,” Richards said. “I can’t say that that will happen, but it may.”
Monday was the final day of a 60-day notice to terminate fuel services for Blue Sky Aviation, which operates out of the airport. The city, according to a June 9 letter sent to Blue Sky, notes out-of-compliance equipment plus “service issues, and achievement of self-sustainabiilty for the airport.” The city, according to the letter, plans to take over fueling operations, and had expressed interest in purchasing Blue Sky’s building and some of its equipment. Pilots who house planes and do business at the airport have expressed concerns the city is shutting down a private business without adequate cause.
