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COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION DIVISION OF AERONAUTICS

Sustainability Plan for Colorado General Aviation Airports

Agenda

• Introduction
• Background on Sustainability
• Financial and Operational Sustainability
• Project Overview
• Implementation
• Summary & Questions

National Initiative

• Project being prepared through assistance of FAA grant
• FAA has funded 45 sustainability planning projects to date
• Five GA airport plans - Virginia also preparing a GA airport plan
• FAA has issued guidance and lessons learned
• Sustainability likely to be further incorporated into airport

master planning

Goals

• Sustainability for Colorado GA airports means remaining viable
• Goal is to make a plan APPLICABLE and USEFUL to all sizes
• f GA airports
• Provide easy-to-use tools for GA airports to survive and thrive
• Educating Colorado’s GA community on on how sustainability

can BENEFIT your Airport

• Success will be defined by airports finding value in this plan

If you can’t USE it – It’s not SUSTAINABLE!!

Benefits

• Protect our GA airports and keep them open
• Recommended goals and initiatives to increase viability
• Financial
• Community relations
• Operations
• Customized Sustainability Plan for each Colorado GA Airport
• Scalable and flexible
• Useful in enhancing efficiency and sustainability at airport

What is Sustainability? Triple Bottom Line:

• Economic: Implementing practices that

enhance achievable cost savings, increased revenues, and improved viability.

• Social: Ensuring the health and safety of

airport users and neighbors and improving relations with the community

• Environmental: Reducing damage to

and reliance on natural resources

Sustainability for Colorado’s GA Airports

What is most important to this sector?

VIABILITY: Adaptability to a changing financial environment SUCCESSFUL RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE COMMUNITY: Communication with neighbors and local governing bodies; awareness of airport’s and community’s needs. EFFICIENT OPERATIONS: Improve effectiveness and performance

Financial and Operational Sustainability

Sustainability “It’s about the Green ( ) and the Green ( )”

Financial and Operational Sustainability

• Reasons for Financial and Operational Sustainability

– Helps realize the Mission and Vision for the Airport – Helps achieve the Airport’s Goals and Objectives – Maintains compliance with Airport Assurance #24, the

FAA requires that any obligated airport be as financially self-sustaining as possible given the circumstances that exist at the Airport

– NPIAS, Airports should be permanent with assurance

that they will remain open for aeronautical use for the long term

Financial Sustainability

• Steps toward Financial Sustainability

– Measurement of existing internal and external

financial resources

– Measurement of existing operating and capital

expenditures

– Identification of future internal and external financial

resources

– Identification of future operating and capital

expenditures

Financial Sustainability

• Airport’s Mission, Vision, Goals, and Objectives

– Are the existing internal and external financial resources

sufficient?

– How do the existing operating and capital expenditures

contribute?

– Will the future internal and external financial resources be

sufficient?

– What will be the contribution of the future operating and

capital expenditures?

Financial Sustainability

• The three legs of the stool of Financial Sustainability

– Financial Planning

• By Department (Administration, Airside, Landside, Real Estate)

– Financial Resource Diversification

• Federal, State, Local, Internal, Aviation, Non-Aviation,

Operationally, Etc.

– Accounting Principals and Systems

• Financial Statements (Statement of: Net Assets, Financial

Activities, and Cash Flows)

Operational Sustainability

• The three legs of the stool of Operational Sustainability

– Operational Planning

• Airport Functions (Based Aircraft, Transient Aircraft, Tenants,

Subtenants, Aviation, Non-Aviation, Etc.)

– Operational Management

• Inspections and Reporting; Safety and Security; Maintenance and

Repair

• Staffing; Vehicles and Equipment; Vendors and Suppliers

– Operational Systems

• Tracking and Measuring (Operations, Fuel Volumes, Based

Aircraft, Vehicles, Etc.)

Financial and Operational Sustainability

• In essence:

– Where is the airport today?

Point A

– Where do you want the airport be tomorrow?

Point B

– How is the airport going to get there?

From Point A to Point B “If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.” Yogi Berra

Sustainability Tool Kit

Project Scope & Process

Stakeholder Engagement & Project Committee Establishment Sustainability Mission Statement/Policy Development Sustainability Goal & Metric Identification Sustainability Management Plan Template Creation Tool Kit Development Guidance Document Preparation Case Studies/Proof of Concept Roll-Out and Implementation

Stakeholder Committee

• CDOT Staff
• Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
• Colorado Airport Operators Association (CAOA)
• Case Study Airports
• Centennial Airport
• Rifle Garfield County Airport
• Fremont County Airport
• Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA)
• Denver International Airport
• Signature Flight Support (fixed base operator)

Main Elements of a Sustainability Plan

• Definition of Sustainability and

Mission/Vision Statement

• Inventory of Existing Conditions
• Categories of Focus
• Goals/Metrics
• Initiatives
• Outreach

CDOT Sustainability Definition/Mission Statement

Sustainability is to maintain and enhance the long-term viability

• f general aviation airports across Colorado in a way that

properly balances economic, social, and environmental pressures while still meeting the operational needs of an airport.

Sustainability Focus Categories and Goals

• Goals are meant to help meet the
• verall objectives of an airport
• Selection of Goals for each airport

depends on:

• 1) the characteristics of the airport
• 2) the sustainability focus of the

airport

Sustainability Focus Categories: Financial Planning/Building Design Operations Social/Community Energy Water Climate/Air Quality Natural Resources Waste Noise

Sustainability Goals

Financial Operations

Generalized Goals

• Enhance airport economic vitality by maximizing

aeronautical and non-aeronautical revenue

• pportunities.
• Reduce expenses.

Specific Goals

• Reduce dependence on subsidies by increasing

existing revenue streams by ____% by 20XX.

• Reduce dependence on subsidies by decreasing
• perating expenses by ___% by 20XX.

Planning/Building Design

Generalized Goals

• Develop and maintain facilities and infrastructure at

the airport to support long-term, efficient, flexible growth.

• Set the standard for sustainable practices for similar

airports across the state by integrating sustainable approaches and practices into day-to-day operations Specific Goals

• Develop environmental guidelines for future

development.

• Integrate sustainability into all major airport planning

documents and contracts, where applicable.

Goals will be provided for different levels of effort: Generalized Goals: less measurable; difficult to confirm attainment Specific Goals: measureable; easy to track

DRAFT Template for the Sustainability Tool Kit

Online Guide

• Introduces the purpose of the

Sustainability Tool Kit

• Provides background on

Sustainability related to Airports (including references)

• Explains the process of working

through the Tool Kit to develop a Sustainability Plan

Baseline Checklist

• Baseline Inventory:
• Defines characteristics of an

airport

• Provides benchmark for

progress

• Baseline Data Sources:
• Aviation System Plan
• CDOT Airport Directory
• Economic Impact Study
• Manually input data

Plan Type Selection

Streamlined option:

• Draw-down menus; limited entry

fields

• Mostly Automatic Selection
• Focus Categories/Goals

standardized by baseline data

• Populated Plan

Complex option:

• Draw-down menus; detailed

entry fields; manual inputs

• Mostly Self-Selection
• Choices for automated options
• r customized options
• Semi-automatic Populated Plan
• The Sustainability Tool will allow for two different Plan Types:

Integration of Sustainability Tool Kit Template into WIMS Program

Template WIMS Program

Next Step

Case Studies/Proof of Concept

• Implement at three representative airports
• Refine tool kit
• Provide reference for others
• Demonstrate benefits and ease of use

Roll-Out and Implementation

• Establish a “final” project deliverable
• Refine (beta test) through case studies
• Conduct regional workshops/webinars
• Share successes among airports
• We want your help!

Summary of Project Goals

• Protect our GA airports and keep them open
• Get education and buy-in by the airports
• Better buy in and involvement means better end results
• Direct benefit to airports
• Scalable and flexible
• Colorado airports and nationally
• Easy to use
• Strategic project rollout
• Education
• Interactive community

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