r-10744City Council Meeting: April 30, 2013 Santa Monica, California
RESOLUTION NUMBERi �4 ,(CCS)
(City Council Series)
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SANTA MONICA SETTING FEES FOR LANDING AT THE
SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL AIRPORT
WHEREAS, it is the general policy of the City of Santa Monica to charge for the
full costs of services provided by the City when such services benefit individual users
rather than members of the community as a whole; and
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 1754 (CCS), adopted July 12, 1994, establishes this
policy; and
WHEREAS, the City of Santa Monica owns and operates the Santa Monica
Municipal Airport ( "Airport ") and does so to the particular benefit of Airport users; and
WHEREAS, the Airport's operating and capital costs are consistent with its status
as a high- traffic, general aviation airport; and
WHEREAS, Airport operating and maintenance costs currently exceed Airport
revenues and so are subsidized by the City's General Fund; and
WHEREAS, the increased demands on the General Fund, exacerbated by the
recent dissolution of the City's redevelopment agency, require that all City enterprises,
including the Airport fund, become financially self - supporting; and
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WHEREAS, the City is obligated under federal law to maintain an Airport user fee
structure that makes the Airport as financially self- sustaining as possible; and
WHEREAS, at the direction of the City Council, the existing landing fee program
has been reviewed; and
WHEREAS, it has been determined that the current fee, with its exemption for
aircraft based at the Airport, does not provide for adequate cost recovery to allow the
Airport to operate financially without additional subsidies from the City's General Fund;
and
WHEREAS, aircraft based at the Airport account for a significant portion of the
operations at the Airport; and
WHEREAS, in order to develop a landing fee that is fair and reasonable to all
Airport users and allows the Airport to recover its operating and capital costs for existing
public -use airfield facilities and services, a comprehensive landing fee study was
conducted in accordance with the methodology stated in the Rates and Charges Policy
promulgated by the Office of the Secretary of Transportation and by the Federal
Aviation Administration ( "FAA "); and
WHEREAS, the landing fee study concluded that in order for the Airport to
generate sufficient revenue to recover its costs and ensure that costs are borne by all
users, and for it to achieve financial self - sustainability apart from the City's General
Fund, the current fee needs to be increased and applied equally to all Airport users,
whether they utilize itinerant or based aircraft; and
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WHEREAS, staff conducted extensive research into the landing fee programs
and the rates charged to general aviation aircraft at 58 other airports located throughout
the United States and identified at least seven airports that charge a fee to both itinerant
and based aircraft; and
WHEREAS, the methodology and data supporting the landing fee study and
staffs research on other airports' landing fee programs have been shared and
discussed with the general public, regional representatives of the FAA, Airport users,
and other members of the aviation community; and
WHEREAS, Section 10.04.06.100 of the Santa Monica Municipal Code provides
that the City Council shall establish and may amend from time to time landing fees for
Santa Monica Municipal Airport and that the City Council may set Airport landing fees
by resolution or by any other means authorized by law.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Resolution No. 10047 (CCS) is hereby repealed in its entirety.
SECTION 2. The landing fee for all aircraft landing at the Santa Monica
Municipal Airport, including all of those aircraft which are based at the Airport, is hereby
established at the rate of $5.48 per 1,000 pounds of the maximum certificated gross
landing weight of the aircraft as published by the aircraft manufacturer.
SECTION 3. The landing fee provided for by this Resolution shall become
effective as of August 1, 2013.
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SECTION 4. Pursuant to Santa Monica Municipal Code §10.04.02.030(d), the
Airport Director is authorized to adopt such regulations as may be necessary to carry
out the purposes of this Resolution.
SECTION 5. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Resolution, and
thenceforth and thereafter the same shall be in full force and effect.
APPROVED AS TO FORM
Mar, ha Jo Moutri
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Adopted and approved this 30th day of April, 2013.
Pam O'Connor, Mayor
1, Sarah P. Gorman, City Clerk of the C4 of Santa Monica, do hereby certify that
the foregoing Resolution No. 10744 (CCS) was duly adopted at a meeting of the Santa
Monica City Council held on the 30th day of April, 2013, by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers: Davis, Holbrook, McKeown, Vazquez, Winterer
Mayor O'Connor
NOES: Councilmembers: None
ABSENT: Councilmembers: Mayor Pro Tern O'Day
ATTEST:
Sarah P. Gorman, City Clerk